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Two-year-old startup Revelstoke Security Inc. today launched itself into the security orchestration, automation and response or SOAR market with a product built on a single data plane that simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing security data. Revelstoke has raised more than …
IBM impresses with strong sales and earnings growth
Updated: IBM Corp. surprised and delighted investors with fourth-quarter revenue and profit that beat analysts’ forecasts on the strength of its Red Hat cloud computing business, increasing annual recurring revenue, and sales to the recently spun-off Kyndryl Holdings Inc. Quarterly sales rose 8.6%, to …
Ambient AI emerges from stealth with sights set on remaking physical security
Ambient AI Inc. is emerging from stealth mode today with $52 million in funding and technology that it hopes will revolutionize physical security. The company, whose founders worked in computer vision and robotics at Stanford University, Apple Inc., Google LLC and Microsoft …
NetSuite begins analytics overhaul with cash and project management dashboards
Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary today added cash flow and project management features to its enterprise resource management software for small and midsized businesses. Cash 360 is the first in a line of redesigned dashboards the company plans to roll out over the …
Dell bids to deliver unified experience across multiple clouds
Citing a goal to deliver “a cloud experience wherever customers have apps and data,” Dell Technologies Inc. today is stepping up its multicloud game with a set of data storage and backup services that span multiple cloud platforms. The company also said it’s …
Rocketlane scores $18M early-stage funding to automate customer onboarding
Rocketlane Corp., maker of a software-as-a-service platform purpose-built for onboarding new customers, today announced that it has closed an $18 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $21 million. The company, which has headquarters in both India and San …
Virtana bags $73M to build its hybrid cloud observability business
Virtana today said it raised $73 million in an unspecified funding round to grow its hybrid cloud operations management business. The company, officially Virtual Instruments Inc., sells tools based on machine learning that help enterprises monitor, manage and optimize hybrid cloud environments, …
Databricks kicks off vertical push with analytics platform for retailers
Distributed data analytics and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. is making its first foray into vertical markets today with the announcement of the Databricks Lakehouse for Retail. The announcement is, at least in part, a formality since Databricks has had a …
WorkStep raises $25M to help businesses improve frontline employee retention
Technology firms that target so-called “deskless” workers continue to reel in investment dollars. San Francisco-based WorkStep Inc., which has a database of more than 1 million frontline workers and software that matches them with prospective employers, today announced it has raised a …
Cloudinary bootstraps its way to a $100M annual revenue run rate
In a current venture funding market that can only be described as giddy, Cloudinary Ltd. is an outlier. The company, which makes a cloud-based media management platform, has never taken outside investment yet today it is announcing its first acquisition and an …