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VMware makes its NSX network virtualization platform more accessible in new release
VMware Inc. updated its NSX network virtualization software platform Thursday to a new version that’s more accessible via one of its core services. The 6.4 release is an important one for VMware, which has previously stated its belief network virtualization has the potential to become even bigger than its bread-and-butter technology, server virtualization. VMware has ...
John Chambers’ new venture firm bets on insects as ‘the lobsters of the future’
John Chambers, the former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., plans to spend his golden years scouting out promising startups after creating a new venture capital firm. The new firm, JC2 Ventures, has been formed with Chambers’ son John J. Chambers and former Cisco executive communications manager Shannon Pina. JC2 Ventures, like many similar ...
Microsoft builds an AI-based bot that draws beautiful images from text
Pictionary is a pretty simple game for humans, who are challenged to draw a picture based on the cue card they receive. Now, thanks to Microsoft Corp., the game is no longer that difficult for computers either. Microsoft said today it has developed a new artificial intelligence-based bot that can draw images based on text ...
Indico raises $4M for its ‘transfer learning’ AI technology, which requires less data
Machine learning startup Indico Data Solutions Inc. has just been handed $4 million for its effort to upend the nascent world of artificial intelligence. The seed funding round was led by Osage Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors .406 Ventures, Boston Seed, and Hyperplane. Boston-based Indico aims to make machine learning more accessible to the masses ...
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, ...