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Investors continue to throw money at technology aimed at improving collaboration among remote workers. Today, Miro, the business name of RealtimeBoard Inc., said it has closed a $400 million funding. The Series C round brings its total amount raised to $476 million and …
Startup seeks to make energy-hogging air conditioners obsolete
A small clean-technology startup is aiming to rid the world of the growing climatic impact of air conditioning with a new approach that it claims can reduce peak energy demand by more than 80% and greenhouse gas emissions by 85%. Parkland, Florida-based …
Digital twins build a new presence in the construction industry
Commercial construction is an orchestration exercise of almost unimaginable complexity that has nevertheless long been managed mostly on paper. Teams of builders, electricians, plumbers, architects, structural engineers and numerous other professions must come together around a shared task of turning a design …
Inside Lucata’s graph analytics-optimized superserver
The field of graph analytics was virtually unknown outside of the academic realm just a few years ago, but all that has changed with the market’s insatiable hunger for all things big data. The top two companies in the graph database market …
CData bags $140M from a single investor to expand its cloud data connectivity scope
CData Software Inc., a seven-year-old firm that specializes in connecting data from multiple sources, today announced a new $140 million funding round. The Series B round brings its total funding to $160 million, all from a single investor, Updata Management LLC. Chapel …
Secretive security startup Dazz reveals $60M in funding
Dazz Inc., a cloud security remediation startup whose co-founders include two former Microsoft Corp. security executives, today announced it has raised $60 million in initial funding. The funding includes a $50 million Series A round and a $10 million seed round that …
Red Hat launches beta test of automated image-building service for hybrid clouds
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today launched a public beta test of a new hosted service called Image Builder that the company said can streamline the process of assembling customized Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system images for hybrid cloud environments. The …
Aryaka challenges telcos with new managed SD-WAN and SASE offerings
In a bid to shake up what it says is an outmoded model for deploying and managing software-defined wide-area networks, Aryaka Networks Inc. today rolled out new SD-WAN and secure access service edge offerings as managed services. The company says they bypass …
Aruba extends remote-work network support to home offices
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba networking subsidiary is making it easier for enterprises to manage and secure home- and small-office environments with a software upgrade being announced today, The company said it delivers in-office-like services to home workers via a single Wi-Fi …
MongoDB again toasts Wall Street estimates on strong cloud growth
MongoDB Inc. shares rose sharply in extended trading after the database company posted third-quarter revenue growth of better than 50% and a loss that crushed analysts’ expectations for the second straight quarter. In after-hours trading, MongoDB shares soared more than 14%. The …