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Postman attracts $7M to build API team development platform
With an average five-star rating across more than 7,000 reviews on the Google Chrome Web store, Postdot Technologies Inc. thinks it has a good thing going with Postman, a tool for building, testing and documenting application program interfaces. Now it has raised $7 million to see how much further it can go. Introduced in 2012, the ...
Live data editor highlights major new Atlassian Confluence release
Atlassian Corp. PLC is using its annual user conference to overhaul its Confluence workflow system with a new live-content feature that enables teams to collaborate on production data. Confluence is a collaboration and wiki platform oriented toward professional development teams. It enables groups to share the many planning documents, schedules, notes and comments that are ...
Shared cloud folders becoming prime malware source, study finds
Enterprises may be embracing the cloud, but they’re not being very careful about doing so, according to a new survey. While cloud usage is on the rise, so are anxieties about the security of public cloud services. The cloud is also becoming a petri dish for malware. The survey of 643 business professionals in the U.S. ...
Elasticsearch seeks big data mainstream with software bundle
Elasticsearch Global BV is continuing its quest to build a business based upon open-source software with a bundle of products anchored by its Elasticsearch search engine and targeted at big data applications. Elastic Stack 5.0 bands together a suite of products that were previously offered separately, including the Kibana visualization engine, Beats data shipper, Logstash log data ...
IBM offers Watson certification
Having defined a vision it calls “cognitive computing,” IBM Corp. is seeking to put some structure around it with a certification program for developers who use the artificial intelligence platform. IBM says its Watson Application Developer Certification is intended to “help developers distinguish and validate their skills as well as connect with companies looking to ...
Hybrid storage unicorn Infinidat embraces compression, iSCSI
Infinidat Inc., which raised $150 million last year to build a hybrid storage array, is today announcing version 3.0 of its InfiniBox storage system, featuring improved scalability, inline data compression, integrated performance analytics and full support for the iSCSI storage transmission protocol. Infinidat said InfiniBox now provides more than one million inputs/outputs per second, with ...
Tibco releases IoT integration toolkit to open source
Integration software vendor Tibco Sofware Inc. is getting into the Internet of Things business with an integration engine designed for edge devices that it’s releasing today under an open source license. Tibco claims Project Flogo’s runtime footprint is 20 times smaller than Node.js and 50 times smaller than Java, but it capable of executing application ...
MariaDB beefs up MaxScale database proxy for the enterprise
Open-source database vendor MariaDB Corp. is strengthening its bid to win enterprise customers with a series of enhancement to its MaxScale database proxy that boost availability and security while improving support for streaming data. A database proxy brokers the connection between the client and the database, managing network connections and balancing workloads. MaxScale has a multi-threaded, ...
UK-based hyper-convergence startup bets on ARM processors
Cambridge, U.K.-based startup Kaleao Ltd. is entering the hyper-converged systems market today with a platform based on the ARM chip architecture that it claims can achieve unparalleled scalability and performance at a fraction of the cost of competing systems. The KMAX platform features an integrated OpenStack cloud environment and miniature hypervisors that dynamically defines physical ...
Promapp’s process manager now handles variations from the script
Auckland, NZ-based process management vendor Promapp Solutions Ltd. is adding new features to its Process Variant Management (PVM) software to give companies the ability to control variations in automated processes. Promapp, which also has offices in San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne and London, sells a cloud service that enables organizations to hard-code repeatable processes into software ...