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Despite big losses and big competition, database firm MongoDB files for an IPO
New York City-based database company MongoDB Inc. today formally announced its plans to launch an initial public offering. MongoDB, which develops open-source database software including its namesake MongoDB NoSQL database, submitted its IPO plans on Thursday, confirming reports that emerged in August that it was planning to do so. Those reports came after the Wall Street ...
Google offers zero-touch enrollment to simplify enterprise Android deployments
Google Inc. wants to help enterprise information technology administrators roll out its Android mobile platform in a more secure fashion with the launch of a new deployment method called Zero-Touch Enrollment. James Nugent, a product manager at Google, said in a blog post that companies all over the world are using Android as their go-to ...
Puppet acquires startup Distelli to bolster its cloud automation platform
Cloud automation provider Puppet Inc. has snapped up a startup called Distelli Inc., which builds software that helps developers deploy their code more efficiently. Puppet is a fairly well-known company that offers a variety of cloud-native software development tools designed to ease enterprises’ transition to cloud computing. The company’s main offering is its Puppet Enterprise ...
SecureAuth merges with Core Security, raises $200M
Identity and access management provider SecureAuth Corp. has announced plans to merge with cybersecurity firm Core Security SDI Corp., as it bids to become a major player in the world of information security. In addition, the company said today that it has just landed a $200 million funding round led by the private equity firm ...
Immuta adds new tools for anonymizing data and personalized access
Hoping to help data scientists speed up their artificial intelligence and machine learning projects, data management startup Immuta Inc. today is updating its platform with new features that deliver personalized data access and automated differential privacy. Immuta, which was founded by former National Security Agency technologists in 2014, only came out of stealth mode in February when ...
Report: Most enterprises ignore “shared responsibility” of public cloud security
Industries across the board are increasingly migrating workloads to public clouds, but security concerns are still holding back much wider adoption, according to a new survey by Barracuda Networks Inc. Barracuda’s survey of 300 information technology decision-makers from various sizes of organizations found that 44 percent of respondents are using public cloud-based infrastructure as a ...
Adobe beats earnings estimates, but its stock falls on muted guidance
Adobe Systems Inc. posted another solid set of financial results that beat out analysts’ expectations and set a new record in terms of quarterly revenue. The maker of creative software provided via cloud services reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of $419 million, or 84 cents per share. Earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation came ...
Smartsheet enhances its collaboration suite with new automation features
Smartsheet.com Inc. is enhancing its collaboration software suite with new capabilities that allow employees to further automate some of the more repetitive, manual tasks they perform on a daily basis. In turn, that should free up employees to focus on more important “high value” work, the company said. Smartsheet today was set to unveil its new automation ...
IBM launches cloud data migration appliance to rival Amazon’s Snowball
Playing catch-up to its main cloud rivals, IBM Corp. Monday launched a competing physical cloud mass data migration service, designed to take on similar offerings from Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. IBM’s Cloud Mass Data Migration service allows customers to physically ship terabytes of data from their on-premises data centers ...
John Chambers says he’ll step down from Cisco’s board in December
Cisco Systems Inc.’s former chief executive officer and current executive chairman, John Chambers, will step down from the company’s board of directors in December. Chambers (pictured), who served as CEO from 1995 to 2015 before handing over the reins to Chuck Robbins, Monday told the company’s board that he will not be standing for re-election ...