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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 ...
HPE builds a new supercomputer for renewable energy research
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, has chosen Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. to build a new supercomputer it’s planning to use to power its research in energy efficiency. The “Eagle” supercomputer, announced today, will be installed within one of the NREL’s data centers this summer before coming online in January next year. NREL says ...
IT services company Cloudreach acquires Relus Cloud
Public cloud services providers Cloudreach and Relus Technologies LLC, which does business as Relus Cloud, are looking to join forces in a bid to become more relevant and offer new capabilities to their enterprise customers. Cloudreach today announced its intention to acquire Relus Cloud in order to scale up its business and add the Relus’ ...
Zscaler’s Zero Trust security framework wins U.S. government approval
With remote workers increasingly using cloud networks to access sensitive data, organizations are embracing new security models to ensure that data cannot be leaked. The Zero Trust philosophy is one such model, providing organizations with a way to maintain control of their corporate data, as well as insights into how that data is being used ...
With Azure Stack for Government launch, Microsoft eyes lucrative cloud contracts
Microsoft Corp. today made good on its promise to release a version of its Azure Stack on-premises cloud platform for U.S. government agencies. The initial release of the hardware/software combination stack gives Microsoft an opening into the on-premises government cloud market. That may give it more of a chance at winning some of the highly ...