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Temporal’s microservices orchestrator nets startup $18.75M
Temporal Technologies Inc. said today it has raised $18.75 million in a Series A funding round to develop and sell its open-source microservices orchestration platform. Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, Madrona Venture Group LLC and existing investors Amplify Partners and Addition Ventures LLC provided the Series A round, which brings total funding to $25.5 million. Founded ...
Fossa reels in $23 million to tell more companies how much open-source code they’re using
If your organization develops software, you’re probably using a lot of open-source code — whether you know it or not. Fossa Inc. is betting its business – and $35 million of its investors’ money — on the belief that organizations need to know a lot more about what’s in the software they build. The company makes ...
Acceldata lands $8.5M for data observability platform
Data observability startup Acceldata Inc. today announced that it has raised $8.5 million in a Series A venture capital round, bringing its total funding to $10.5 million. The company, which was founded by four former Hortonworks Inc. engineers, is targeting machine learning and analytics teams with a platform that can find and resolve problems with ...
OpenStack celebrates 10th birthday with more than 20,000 code changes
The OpenStack Foundation, which has governed the development of its namesake open-source cloud infrastructure software since 2012, today released the 22nd round of updates to OpenStack and its component projects. Dubbed Victoria, the new release includes more than 20,000 code changes by nearly 800 developers from 45 countries. Major enhancements include native integration with the Kubernetes ...
Red Hat ties Ansible automation to Kubernetes cluster management
Red Hat Inc. is again demonstrating why it paid $100 million for open-source automation startup Ansible Inc. in 2015. The company today announced it’s integrating its Ansible Automation Platform and Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes product lines to improve automation in cloud-native infrastructure. Red Hat said the move is “intended to help drive application modernization ...
Ujet adds virtual agents to cloud contact center platform
Ujet Inc. today upgraded its cloud contact center platform with intelligent virtual agent capabilities that the company says enable more natural interactions with customers. The five-year-old company, which raised $55 million in venture funding in June, has a platform that combines voice and chat interaction with analytics to help customer service representatives engage more effectively with ...
Catalytic CEO’s advice on using low-code/no-code tools: Follow the app store
Ensuring the successful adoption of any new technology requires governance standards. The fast-growing field of low-code/no-code software, involving tools for regular folks to create business applications, is no exception. “One of the challenges for IT today is upgrading their governance structure to recognize the decentralized model” that low-code/no-code demands, said Arnal Dayaratna, research director for software development ...
Micro virtual machine security is a tried-and-true endpoint protection tactic
When VMware Inc. announced its Project Monterey strategy to redefine the data center last week, executives effused about the potential of the distributed processing model to redefine cybersecurity. Using a combination of software-defined networks and microprocessor-equipped network interface cards running the full vSphere server virtualization stack, security specialists will be able to deploy large numbers ...
Hyland add intelligent data capture, robotic process automation to its expanding content management portfolio
Hyland Software Inc. expanded the scope of its content management portfolio today with the release of Hyland Experience Capture, a web-based scanning, classification and data extraction tool and the announcement of a robotic process automation suite called Hyland RPA. The announcements are part of an aggressive campaign by the company this year to broaden its scope ...
Low-code feeding frenzy continues as Airkit emerges with $28M in funding
Investors continue to pour money into the rapidly growing market for software tools that empower business users to develop robust applications, dubbed “low-code/no-code” platforms. The newest startup to get some love: Airkit Inc., a low-code platform targeted specifically at customer experience management. The company Tuesday announced the general availability of its platform along with $28 million ...