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When Walmart Inc. commits to something, it tends to think big. Building a supercloud is no exception. For the past two years the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant has been putting in place an abstraction layer that masks the distinctions between its preferred …
Report finds insiders are a bigger data exposure risk than most executives think
A record 47 million Americans quit their jobs voluntarily in 2021, and apparently many took sensitive information with them. That’s the conclusion that emerges from a new report by data detection and response firm Cyberhaven Inc. The company analyzed 372,000 incidents of …
Oracle NetSuite gets slew of new features
Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary is using its SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas today to announce a broad set of enhancements to its suite of financial and human resources applications for midsized businesses. Highlights include improved accounts payable automation, a configure/price/quote or CPQ …
JPMorgan Chase convenes first global conference for its data scientists and software engineers
Large enterprises rarely publicize their internal meetings, but financial services giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. is taking the unusual step of telling the world about its first global conference of software engineers and data scientists that convenes today at the company’s Global …
SAS launches first cloud app with pay-as-you-go pricing
SAS Institute Inc. is making one of its top software applications available on a pay-as-you-go basis for the first time with today’s announcement that its Viya analytics platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The announcement represents an evolution in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …