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Baffle lands $6M funding to build out its ‘encryption as a service’
Data protection startup Baffle Inc. said today it has raised $6 million in an early-stage funding round to expand its services for securing cloud-based software applications. Envision Ventures led the Series A round, which also saw participation from ServiceNow Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and Industry Ventures. Baffle offers what is essentially encryption-as-a-service software. It’s called the BaffleManager Application ...
Google adds a new security center for G Suite software users
Google LLC wants to help enterprises using its productivity tools to improve how they protect themselves from cybersecurity threats, and to that end it rolled out a new Security Center today for its G Suite product. G Suite is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools for enterprise customers that’s designed to compete with Microsoft ...
DevOps platform CircleCI raises $31M in new funding
Continuous delivery automation company Circle Internet Services Inc., known as CircleCI, today said it has landed $31 million in a late-stage funding. The Series C round is the company’s largest to date, bringing its total funding to $56.5 million. Top Tier Capital Partners led the round, which also saw the participation of Industry Ventures and Heavybit, as ...
AWS debuts Auto Scaling service to automate the control of application resources
Amazon Web Services Inc. is making it easier for its customers to optimize applications running on its infrastructure with a new service launched Tuesday called AWS Auto Scaling. Amazon users will be aware that the company has already offered automatic scaling services for some time already, but up until now these have been for specific ...
Veeam acquires Amazon cloud backup and disaster recovery firm N2WS
Veeam Software Inc., a company providing backup, disaster recovery and virtualization management services, said today it has acquired N2W Software Inc., which provides a similar set of services specifically for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. Veeam said bought N2WS for $42.5 million in an all-cash deal. The intention is to strengthen its own portfolio ...
Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018
Led by investments in artificial intelligence, blockchain and the “internet of things,” businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, software and services in 2018, up 4.5 percent from the year before, according to Gartner Inc.’s latest research report. Gartner’s report breaks down IT spending into five distinct categories – data center systems, ...
Amazon bags Comcast as its latest marquee customer
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. has bagged itself yet another marquee customer: Comcast Cable, the flagship business subsidiary of cable television provider Comcast Corp. Comcast isn’t exactly a new customer for Amazon, but in its announcement today the company said it chose AWS as its “preferred public cloud infrastructure provider,” which means it’ll ...
Smartsheet acquires UK-based chatbot startup Converse.AI
Collaboration software provider Smartsheet Inc. today said it’s acquiring a British artificial intelligence firm called Converse.AI Inc. that enables its customers to build chatbots to automate business processes. Converse.AI’s secret sauce is its Chatflow technology, which the company describes as a “workflow orchestration engine” that customers can use to build and manage chatbots via a drag-and-drop ...
Network analytics startup Nyansa raises $15M in Intel-led funding round
Network analytics provider Nyansa Inc. is gunning for success after landing a $15 million round of funding from Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel Corp., and previous investor Formation 8. Nyansa’s main product is its Voyance platform, which helps customers to manage and optimize user performance with infrastructure devices, applications and services. The company ...
Report: IBM to combine services units into one business called ‘IBM Services’
IBM Corp. is believed to be planning a rebranding of its Global Technology Services and Global Business Services units, merging them into a single unit to be called “IBM Services,” according to reports. The two businesses are a part of IBM Global Services, which Wikipedia reckons is the world’s largest business and technology services provider, ...