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VMware shareholder slams proposed reverse merger with Dell
One of VMware Inc.’s largest investors has written an open letter to the company’s independent directors that’s highly critical of its proposed “reverse merger” with parent company Dell Technologies Inc. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. managing member Josh Resnick said in the letter Monday that the rumored merger is part of a strategy that would “effectively ...
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Evident.io in $300M all-cash deal
Security platform provider Palo Alto Networks Inc. today said it will acquire Evident.io, which sells compliance automation software, in a $300 million all-cash deal. Through the acquisition, Palo Alto Networks said, it will be able to extend its application programming interface-based security capabilities. By integrating Evident.io’s technology, the company said, it will be able to help customers ...
Solebit Labs, creator of an ‘evasion-proof’ antimalware platform, lands $11M funding
Cybersecurity startup Solebit Labs Ltd. has raised $11 million in funding after developing what it calls an evasion-proof approach to malware identification and prevention. The Series A round was led by ClearSky Cyber Security, with participation from MassMutual Ventures and Glilot Capital Partners. Solebit said it’s planning to use the funding to accelerate the adoption ...
Luminate Security wins $14M funding to deliver BeyondCorp as a service
Cybersecurity startup Luminate Security is exiting stealth mode today, having secured $14 million in a combined seed and Series A round of funding. U.S. Venture Partners and Aleph Venture Capital led the rounds, which were also backed by Microsoft’s ScaleUp program for startups. Luminate was founded in January 2017 by Israeli cybersecurity experts who previously ...
Salesforce eyes smaller businesses with new Essentials apps
Salesforce.com Inc. is targeting smaller businesses as it looks to dispel the notion that its cloud-hosted customer relationship management tools are only for large enterprises. The company today unveiled Salesforce Essentials, which is a collection of smaller applications that are cheaper and easier to use than its main CRM platform. For starters, there are just two ...
Facebook’s latest open-source tool Profilo aims to ease app performance testing
Facebook Inc. is trying to make the lives of mobile application developers a little easier with the release of a new open-source performance testing tool. The tool is called Profilo, which Facebook describes it as a scalable, mobile-first performance tracing library for Android. Explaining the rationale for the tool, the social media giant pointed out ...
Google gets into multiplayer game server hosting with Agones project
Google LLC is getting into multiplayer game server hosting with a new open-source project called “Agones” that’s based on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform. The internet giant said it’s teaming up with French games publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA on the project, which it describes as a “batteries-included, open-source, dedicated game server hosting and scaling project ...
VMware outlines its cloud ambitions in new product roadmap
Less than a week after VMware Inc. announced the debut of its cloud on-demand service with Amazon Web Services Inc. in Europe, the company has detailed plans to bring the service to more new regions, including Australia and Japan. The plans are noted in a cloud product roadmap posted on VMware’s site that was spied by ...
Twilio targets the contact center with its customizable Flex platform
Cloud communications platform-as-a-service company Twilio Inc. is flexing its muscle in the contact center market with the launch of a service called Twilio Flex. The company said Flex is a platform for contact center operators that covers multiple communication channels, provides a customized user interface and enables functions such as routing and reporting. Flex essentially combines ...
GuardiCore updates its free Infection Monkey tool for deeper penetration testing
Israeli cybersecurity startup GuardiCore Ltd. today announced a significant update to its free, open-source security penetration testing tool Infection Monkey, which is used to simulate attacks on data center infrastructure. Introduced in 2016, Infection Monkey is a “self-propagating” testing tool that information technology teams can use to find weakness in their on-premises and cloud-based data centers. ...