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Cloud operational intelligence firm SignalFX raises $45M
Operational intelligence for DevOps startup SignalFX Inc., a startup that does operational intelligence for the software development method DevOps, today said it has landed $45 million in a late-stage funding round. The Series D round was led by venture capital firm General Catalyst, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures. It brings ...
Micron and Intel unveil industry’s first quad-level-cell NAND flash chips
Chipmaking rivals and sometime partners Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. said today they’ve begun the production and shipment of the latest generation of their jointly produced NAND flash memory chips for solid-state drives. The companies unveiled what they say are the industry’s first quad-level-cell or QLC NAND flash chips, sporting a 64-layer 3-D structure that ...
Instaclustr delivers Apache Kafka as a managed service
Self-styled open-source-software-as-a-service company Instaclustr Pty Ltd. is adding to its lineup of managed services with the addition of the Apache Kafka publish-subscribe messaging system to its product suite. Apache Kafka is open-source stream-processing software first developed by LinkedIn Corp. that aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. It’s an extremely popular ...
Pavilion Data Systems launches new storage system for rack-scale applications
Data center storage hardware maker Pavilion Data Systems Inc. has just released what it said is the industry’s first high-performance Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabric storage platform for “rack-scale” modern applications. Pavilion Data said it also secured a new $12 million round of funding led by Korea Investment Partners and DAG Ventures, with participation from ...
Facebook to work with think tank Atlantic Council to prevent election meddling
Facebook Inc. is stepping up its efforts to stop its platform being misused in order to influence political elections. The social media giant Thursday announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council think tank, in order to “prevent [its] service from being abused during elections.” That practice came to the world’s attention during the 2016 U.S. ...
China agrees to Toshiba memory business sale after all
China’s government has said it isn’t planning to block the sale of Toshiba Corp.’s memory business to a consortium led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital. The announcement from China’s antitrust authorities means that the sale is all set to be finalized by the end of next month, following clearance from regulatory bodies in ...
Startup Arevo lands $12.5M to bring 3-D printing into the mainstream
3-D printing startup Arevo Inc. aims to kickstart a revolution in manufacturing after signing on a new high-profile chief executive officer and closing a $12.5 million funding round. Arevo offers some pretty advanced 3-D printing capabilities, using a combination of software, robotics and materials to manufacture a range of lightweight products that boast “superior strength and ...
PluralSight raises $310M+ in IPO as shares jump 33% in market debut
Updated: In another of a recent string of enterprise initial stock offerings, online learning platform PluralSight Inc. Thursday sold shares publicly for the first time, and their price jumped more than 30 percent on their debut. The company had priced shares Wednesday for its initial public offering at $15 each, raising $310 million with an option for underwriters to ...
Intel’s OpenVINO toolkit enables computer vision at the network edge
Intel Corp. is stepping up its artificial intelligence play with the release of a new toolkit that will enable developers to deploy computer vision at the network edge for cameras and “internet of things” devices. The chipmaker said that its Open Visual Inference & Neural Network Optimization toolkit is compatible with popular machine learning frameworks ...
New TPG investment values cybersecurity firm Tanium at $5 billion
Cybersecurity firm Tanium Inc. is now valued at a mammoth $5 billion following its latest cash infusion from the investment firm TPG, which has just pumped another $175 million into the company, Reuters reported today. Somewhat unusually for a round of this size, the money won’t be going directly into the company’s coffers, but will instead ...