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Startup applies AI to cybersecurity insurance underwriting to improve policy precision
Startup Cowbell Cyber Inc. is applying machine learning to the small but growing market for cybersecurity insurance. It’s doing so with the announcement today of a continuous underwriting platform that it claims brings new levels of precision to risk assessment to enable more insurers to write policies with greater confidence. The company is targeting small ...
Alfresco offers content/process management platform as a cloud-native service
Alfresco Software Inc. today is unveiling a cloud-native version of its Digital Business Platform that it will offer as a fully managed service. The maker of open-source enterprise content management and business process management services pitches its software as a way to create automated workflows involving multiple documents and users. It’s intended for jobs such ...
Splunk adds new pricing options and launches venture capital arm
Splunk Inc. is introducing new pricing options, an assortment of new partner initiatives and the establishment of a venture capital arm to invest in data-focused businesses. The company, which Gartner Inc. ranks as No 2 behind IBM Corp. in the market for searching, monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data, is introducing what it calls Data-to-Everything with three ...
Cloudian spins off subsidiary to build edge AI devices for Japanese market
Object storage appliance maker Cloudian Inc. is taking the unusual step today of spinning off an independent company to build an edge processing platform, initially for the Japanese market. Cloudian, which has raised $173 million for what it calls its infinitely scalable storage platform that’s compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 cloud storage service, ...
Oracle cloud app refresh is all about AI and digital assistants
Oracle Corp. customers can expect to hear a lot about intelligent digital assistants and machine-driven insights as the company kicks off the first full day of its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this morning. Major updates to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Enterprise Performance Management Cloud center on streamlining tasks through artificial intelligence while making it possible ...
Dremio unlocks cloud object stores for use in high-performance analytics
Dremio Corp., a developer of self-service analytics technology, says it has figured out how to unlock data in popular cloud stores for use in performance-sensitive data warehouse applications. The company’s new Data Lake Engines for Amazon Web Services, Azure and hybrid cloud systems enables users to work directly on data in cloud object stores such ...
Trifacta bags $100M to fuel global adoption of its ‘data wrangling’ technology
Trifacta Inc. received a huge endorsement for its “data wrangling” technology this morning, announcing a $100 million series E financing round that includes several new investors with international reach. The company has now raised a total of $224 million. The money will be used to accelerate expansion into new geographies, new verticals and product areas. Trifacta ...
Cloudreach expands migration assessment platform to handle multiple clouds
Cloudreach Ltd., a decade-old cloud consulting and managed service provider, is furthering its push into the software market with a new version of its Cloudamize cloud management software platform. The new version expands dependency assessment capabilities and extends cost optimization and management to multicloud environments. The software, which Cloudreach picked up with the acquisition of ...
HPE containerizes machine learning model development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is expanding its reach into artificial intelligence development with a software platform that supports the full lifecycle of machine learning model construction and deployment using the self-contained software environments called containers. HPE ML Ops provides for the rapid rollout of machine learning workloads across on-premises, public cloud and hybrid cloud environments. ...
Group says its blockchain-based encryption scheme makes passwords all but impossible to crack
The Tide Foundation, a nonprofit organization that’s building an open-source framework for protecting personally identifiable information, has developed a blockchain-based encryption scheme that it claims is vastly more difficult to crack than other methods. Its approach uses a technique called “splintering” in which encrypted username/password pairs are broken up into small pieces and scattered across ...