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Survey highlights AI’s growing importance in tech infrastructure
Digital operations infrastructure company OpsRamp Inc. is highlighting the growing trend toward using artificial intelligence to help monitor information technology operations, a practice that’s often referred to as “AIOps.” The company early Monday posted the findings of a survey showing AIOps has great potential in helping enterprises to cut through the overwhelming amount of “noise,” ...
Intel buys deep learning portability startup Vertex
Intel Corp. made another artificial intelligence acquisition Thursday, buying a company called Vertex.AI that sells tools for developers to add deep learning capabilities to their applications. Vertex, a three-year-old startup based in Seattle, leads the development of the open source PlaidML platform. That’s a “portable deep learning engine” first released in October last year that ...
Western Digital backs software-defined storage startup Excelero
Things are looking up for software-defined storage startup Excelero Inc., which today received a strategic investment from data center giant Western Digital Corp. that brings its total funding to $35 million. The companies didn’t say exactly how much Western Digital is investing, but its previous total funding amounted to $30 million, so its safe to assume ...
Google launches the first of its prepackaged AI services
Google LLC has delivered on one of the promises it made at its recent Cloud Next conference to make its artificial intelligence services easier to implement. The cloud company today launched the first of what it calls “prepackaged AI services,” which as the name suggests bundle prebuilt AI tools for specific business tasks. Google’s thinking ...
Open-source software services company Instaclustr lands $15M funding round
Open-source software-as-a-service provider Instaclustr Pty Ltd. is getting some more financial help with a $15 million “growth equity investment” from New York-based Level Equity. The company said today that the funding round, its biggest to date, will help it expand its platform of managed open-source technologies and double its roster of staff. Instaclustr is a fairly ...
Alibaba Cloud plots massive expansion into Asia-Pacific region
Eyeing an aggressive expansion outside its native Chinese market, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s public cloud computing arm has launched a mass of new products and a new partner program. The new offerings from Alibaba Cloud encompass a wide range of information technology fields, including cloud infrastructure, the “internet of things,” artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, designed to help ...
NetApp beats earnings expectations, but guidance disappoints again
Data storage company NetApp Inc. took a beating in after-hours trading despite posting fiscal first-quarter earnings today that came in above expectations. The company, which said it benefited from strong demand for its all-flash storage arrays, reported a profit of $283 million, or $1.05 per share, on revenue of $1.47 billion. Earnings before certain costs such as stock ...
Container security startup Twistlock raises $33M in biggest-yet funding round
Container security startup Twistlock Ltd. is gaining more traction in the enterprise if the latest news of its new funding round can be seen as a yardstick measuring its success. The company today said it has landed its biggest investment yet in a $33 million Series C round of funding that surpasses all of its ...
SnapLogic moves to automate DevOps software development operations
Data integration company SnapLogic Inc. is stepping up its game for application developers with new capabilities designed to help automate DevOps processes. The updates announced today include integration with GitHub and support for Mesosphere. They’re aimed at automating elements of continuous integration and continuous delivery, which is a development method focused on applying code changes ...
Netifi lands $2M seed funding to help developers build better microservices
Another cloud-native microservices startup emerged from stealth mode today, backed by $2 million in a seed funding round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Netifi Inc. is the startup in question, touting a “next-generation platform” called Proteus that’s designed to enable the development of “reactive” microservices and cloud-native software applications. Microservices are the components of applications ...