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Cybersecurity startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. is cashing in on enterprises’ fears of becoming the next high-profile hacking victim, raising $45 million in a new round of funding. Future Fund led the Series C investment in the Sunnyvale, California-based company, which sells …
Edge infrastructure firm Scale Computing raises $34.8M round
Hyperconverged infrastructure and edge computing startup Scale Computing Inc. today said it has landed $34.8 million in a late-stage round of funding. Scale Computing’s promise is a simple one, helping smaller organizations to identify, correct and mitigate problems with their information technology infrastructure …
Machine learning automation startup DataRobot lands $100M round
Well-funded machine learning startup DataRobot Inc. has just added $100 million more to its war chest via a late-stage round of funding led by Meritech and Sapphire Ventures. DFJ Growth and existing investors NEA, IA Ventures and Intel Capital also participated in …
ServiceNow beats earnings forecast as customer acquisition strategy gathers speed
Updated: ServiceNow Inc. is feeling good about itself after posting solid financial results again in its latest quarter, beating market expectations and seeing its stock price edge upwards in after-hours trading. The company, which sells workflow automation software to enterprises, reported third-quarter …
Former Microsoft Windows boss Terry Myerson becomes a venture capitalist
Former Microsoft Corp. executive Terry Myerson is joining the venture capital business about six months after announcing his departure from the Redmond-based software giant. Myerson, a 21-year company veteran who most recently served as Microsoft’s executive vice president of Windows and Devices, …
NetApp extends its ability to manage data across multiple clouds
NetApp Inc. is taking another key step in its transition from a traditional storage company to one that’s more focused on managing data in the emerging landscape of multicloud environments. At its NetApp Insight conference Tuesday, the company announced a number of new public …
All-flash data warehouse startup Yellowbrick Data raises $48M
Ambitious data warehouse startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today said it has landed a second chunky funding round, barely three months after it emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in financing. This time around it has raised $48 million in a Series B round …
Baidu creates the world’s first simultaneous translation system
Baidu Inc.’s advances in artificial intelligence often go unheralded next to the likes of Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. But the company is actually one of the leaders in the field, having developed its own specialized chip for AI workloads, an operating …
HashiCorp updates its infrastructure automation suite for hybrid clouds
Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp Inc. is using its HashiConf event this week in San Francisco as a launchpad for a number of new products and updates aimed at helping companies better manage their multicloud information technology deployments. HashiCorp specializes in automating the increasingly …
Tableau users can now query their data in natural language
Software makers these days are all about providing tools that can help ordinary business workers make more sense of their company’s data and the insights this can generate. Tableau Software Inc., one of the leading data analytics firms around, is no different in …