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Wasabi vaults to unicorn status with $250M in new funding
When it comes to cloud storage, simplicity apparently sells. Wasabi Technologies Inc., which sells low-cost storage-as-a-service based on a simple pricing model, said today that it has secured $250 million in new funding. The funding includes Series D equity financing of $125 million and a $125 million expansion of its existing debt facility. It brings the ...
Conduktor says it has an easier way for developers to work with Kafka
Conduktor Inc., a startup that focuses on simplifying the use of the popular Apache Kafka data streaming platform, is readying a Sept. 27 launch of its platform and says it already has a long list of pre-production customers. Kafka is an open-source platform used by more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies to manage data ...
CoderPad adds front-end frameworks to aid managers in hiring developers
CoderPad Inc., maker of an assessment platform for candidates for technical jobs, today is rolling out front-end and back-end frameworks to help managers make more informed hiring decisions. The frameworks includes the React JavaScript library for building user interfaces, Angular JavaScript-based framework for developing single-page applications, Vue JavaScript framework for user interface design, Svelte JavaScript ...
Israeli security startup Sentra plants its flag in the US
Israeli cloud security startup Sentra Inc. is entering the U.S. market today with the opening of its North American headquarters in New York City. Founded last year, the firm is tackling the growing problem of organizations losing control of their data as they migrate to the cloud. Claiming that “the vast majority of business leaders ...
Palo Alto Networks adds software supply chain attack protections to its cloud platform
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today introduced what it says is the industry’s first runtime context-aware software composition analysis system that helps developers identify open-source software components that are safe to use. The SCA functions will be integrated with Prisma Cloud, the company’s cloud-native application protection platform. Software supply chain attacks, in which bad actors exploit ...
IBM offers dedicated snapshot protection for SAP HANA and Salesforce environments
IBM Corp. today announced that it has enhanced its Spectrum Sentinel backup system to provide workload-specific data protection for SAP SE’s HANA and Salesforce Inc.’s namesake customer relationship management software. IBM Spectrum Sentinel for SAP HANA performs ransomware anomaly analysis of immutable primary storage snapshots with automated recovery orchestration. A snapshot is a set of ...
IBM and Telos team to automate compliance and cybersecurity risk management
IBM Corp. and enterprise security specialist Telos Corp. are teaming up to help businesses cope with the seemingly unfettered growth of new regulations. The two companies are launching Active Governance Services, a set of information technologies and best practices that help enterprises operationalize and automate both cybersecurity compliance and regulatory risk. There’s no question that ...
Survey finds tool fragmentation frustrates full-stack observability goals
With modern information technology constructs such as microservices, containers and serverless environments proliferating, the task of ensuring that applications are available and running smoothly has never been more challenging. Traditional application performance management tools aren’t up to the task, so a new discipline — “observability” — has emerged that encompasses the myriad factors that make ...
Sumo Logic adds reliability management features to its observability platform
Sumo Logic Inc., maker of an analytics-based platform for application performance management and observability, today introduced a new reliability management feature of its Sumo Logic Observability platform that’s based on a service level objective methodology. Reliability management focuses on the performance and reliability of applications from the end user’s perspective rather than monitoring infrastructure. That’s ...
Oracle adds performance evaluation and listening features to HCM suite
Oracle Corp. today rolled out a series of updates to its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management suite, including a team skills portal, performance evaluation support and a feature that helps managers listen better to employees. Citing a Gallup Inc. survey that found that the top quartile of companies with engaged employees experiences lower turnover and absenteeism ...