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Puppet bids to take automation enterprisewide with ‘biggest launch ever’
Puppet Inc. is bidding for a bigger share of the corporate systems management pie this week. The company is offering improved scalability for its enterprise automation platform, an open-source, agentless product — that is, one that doesn’t require installing a software agent — that customers can use to get started with Puppet automation. It’s also ...
Workday adds analytics and anonymous benchmarks to cloud ERP platform
The fruits of Workday Inc.‘s 2016 acquisition of business intelligence startup Platfora Inc. will become clearer to customers today as the financial and human capital management software vendor introduces a suite of analytical features that synch up closely with its core products. Workday is also announcing general availability of a cloud benchmark service that provides customers with metrics collected ...
With new strategy, Dell will invest $1B into the ‘internet of things’
Dell Technologies Inc. may be late to the “internet of things” party, but it has brought plenty of friends. Leveraging the numerous acquisitions, partnerships and investments it has made over the past few years, the company today is outlining an internet of things strategy anchored by what it calls the “distributed core,” in which information ...
Kinetica buffs up GPU-powered database for geospatial and enterprise applications
In a bid to expand the appeal of its graphics processing unit-enhanced relational database management system to large enterprises, Kinetica DB Inc. today is announcing new geospatial capabilities along with a host of enterprise-grade features such as compression, dictionary encoding, enhanced process management and enhanced security. The company said it’s also making the product easier ...
Maker of management platform for ‘internet of things’ gets $30 million infusion
FogHorn Systems Inc. continues to enlist an army of “internet of things” makers as investors in its campaign to build an IoT management platform. The company is announcing today that it has raised a Series B funding round of $30 million led by Intel Capital Corp. with additional investments by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures LLC and Honeywell ...
Datical extends database automation tools to IBM Db2 on mainframes
Seeking to narrow the time gap between DevOps applications and the database management systems that drive them, Datical Inc. is expanding its database automation tools to support the IBM Corp. Db2 platform on the z/OS operating systems. The company already supports Oracle Corp.’s namesake DBMS as well as IBM Db2 for Linux, Unix and Windows; Microsoft Corp.’s SQL ...
Infinidat raises $95 million in its campaign to reinvent disk storage
You might think a storage company that’s placing big bets on spinning disks would be roadkill in the race to flash storage, but Infinidat Inc. has done a good job of defying conventional wisdom since it was founded six years ago. Today, the company is announcing $95 million of new investment in a Series C ...
‘Wait, that was a robot?’ Lending company reels in sales prospects with intelligent email agent
Like many companies that cater to small business, Fundbox Inc.’s website is a primary source of sales leads. The company, which makes short-term loans available to business owners who are having temporary cash flow problems, makes it easy for visitors to create an account with just an email address, phone number and password. But the ...
CA acquires Runscope to round out API testing and monitoring portfolio
Enterprises are API-crazy, and CA Technologies Inc. is attempting to cash in with the acquisition of Runscope Inc., a provider of API monitoring tools delivered as a service. Application program interfaces have exploded in popularity as organizations have sought to expose more internal data and services to employees, customers and business partners. Published APIs can ...
Startup hitches wagon to serverless star with operations console
While acknowledging that enterprise adoption of serverless computing is still in the low single digits, startup Stackery Inc. is hoping take advantage of the concept’s growing momentum by introducing an operations console today that’s specifically tuned to serverless environments. Stackery describes the Serverless Operations Console as a set of software tools that enable developers to control ...