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In broad update, NetSuite adds data warehouse and targets fintech firms
Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary today announced a wide range of new and enhanced features to its namesake enterprise resource management software for small and midsized businesses and rolled out a version of the suite specific to the financial technology industry. SuiteBanking is aimed at the banking industry. It combines automated accounts payable and accounts receivable ...
Extending its Java modernization suite, vFunction raises $26 million in new funding
Application modernization startup vFunction Inc. today revealed a new $26 million early-stage funding round, coming on top of the $12.2 million in seed funding it raised eight months ago. Along with the Series A round, the company also announced the availability of vFunction Application Transformation Engine, which builds upon the modernization platform it announced in ...
Veritas, Manage Engine beef up ransomware protection for backups and endpoints
Two companies in the backup market are introducing new products intended specifically to address the scourge of ransomware attacks, which increased more than 150% in the first half of this year. Veritas Technologies LLC today said it will release Veritas NetBackup Recovery Vault later this year. It describes the storage-as-a-service offering as a fully-managed data ...
Dell expands edge product line with servers, gateways and laptops for remote deployment
Dell Technologies Inc. today is stepping up its push to gain a place at the edge of corporate networks with a set of new servers and special-purpose platforms designed to capture and process data in remote and extreme environments. Edge computing is a distributed architecture that places content, data and processing closer to the applications, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: GOOGLE CLOUD RISING
After fits and starts, Google’s cloud strategy is finally finding its footing
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC popularized the phrase, “We’re number two. We try harder.” But what do you do when you’re number four? That’s the challenge facing Google LLC in its drive to overcome a late start, a once questionable commitment and two dominant competitors in the market for public cloud services. With a market ...
Startup aims to apply AI to helping people overcome fear of public speaking
Seattle-based startup Yoodli Inc. has raised a $1 million pre-seed funding round to develop a novel application of artificial intelligence: helping people overcome their fear of public speaking. The company’s technology, which is still in development, uses a combination of machine learning and deep learning to analyze video clips of a speaker and call out ...
VMware ups its cross-cloud game and open-sources Tanzu app modernization toolkit
VMware Inc. is stepping up its multicloud game today and intensifying its embrace of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers with a set of announcements at the VMWorld conference opening today. Building on its large base of users of its hypervisor, the company is introducing VMware Cross-Cloud Services, a group of integrated services that let ...
Dell takes its Apex as-a-service across clouds with VMware integration
Looking to wring more value out of its VMware Inc. subsidiary’s multi-cloud strategy while advancing its own APEX composable infrastructure offering, Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a bundle that provides consistent operations across multicloud environments. The company is also adding an object storage option that works with the VMware software stack and rolling out a reference ...
Sigstore aims to close the trust gap in open-source software
One of the great virtues of open-source software – which is that anyone can contribute – is also one of its greatest weaknesses. The issue is that supply-chainlike process by which projects involving multiple contributors come together is based to a large degree on faith that no one will introduce malicious code or backdoors that ...
Amplitude shakes off Wall Street malaise as initial share price jumps 57%
Conventional wisdom says that behavior tracking firm Amplitude Inc. chose a terrible day to go public with the Nasdaq composite index down nearly 2.5% today, but the nearly 57% pop in the company shares indicates that investors are looking beyond the short term. The company, which makes software that tracks and analyzes customer interactions with ...