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Ping Identity enters personal data control market and expands cloud authentication suite
Identity management software provider Ping Identity Holding Corp. has acquired a small maker of software for personal identity control and today is launching new services for multifactor authentication and risk management. The acquired company, ShoCard Inc., has developed a service for so-called “self-sovereign identity,” which permits individual users to control personal details and share them selectively ...
No-code startup Unqork raises massive $207M funding round at $2B valuation
The red-hot low-code/no-code market has given birth to another unicorn. Unqork Inc., developer of a no-code platform targeted at developers, said today that it has raised $207 million in a Series C funding, bringing its total fundraising to more than $365 million and its valuation to $2 billion, or double the amount that qualifies a ...
Low-code and no-code tools may finally usher in the era of ‘citizen developers’
When the U.S. government established the Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses cope with the early stages of the coronavirus crisis, the tech staff at Kansas City-based Academy Bank NA rushed to put a loan-processing system in place to catch an anticipated flood of applications. The application was launched for friends and family members ...
Oracle broadly enhances NetSuite and bridges to Autonomous Data Warehouse
Oracle Corp. today is announcing a broad set of enhancements to its NetSuite software for small and midsized businesses, including customer self-service capabilities, machine learning features that identify transactions and recommend ecommerce site configurations, and new integration with Oracle’s flagship Autonomous Data Warehouse. The company, which was one of the first software-as-a-service providers, said its ...
Cnvrg.io debuts unified resource utilization dashboard for machine learning developers
Accessible Labs Ltd., which does business as cnvrg.io, today released a dashboard that can be used by developers of machine learning models to optimize their use of server resources. The Jerusalem-based startup said its ML Infrastructure Dashboard can initially be used to give development managers a look at utilization of central processing units, graphics processing ...
VMware’s Project Monterey: It’s about a lot more than hardware efficiency
VMware Inc.’s Project Monterey, introduced this week at the company’s virtual VMworld event, will ultimately do a lot more than just make data center hardware more efficient. It’s actually a completely new approach to deploying and securing data center resources. “You can put a whole data center on a chip,” Tom Gillis (pictured), general manager of ...
At VMworld, distributed data center project leads cavalcade of new VMware products
Seeking to underscore its aim to be the nonpartisan mediator of the multicloud, VMware Inc. today opened its virtual VMworld 2020 conference with a cavalcade of announcements and partnerships that blur the line between on-premises and cloud computing. Perhaps the most interesting announcement isn’t a product at all, but a new initiative called Project Monterey ...
Oracle adds digital assistants and boosts AI features in its enterprise cloud suite
Oracle today announced a broad set of updates to its Fusion Cloud enterprise software suite, highlighted by the addition of digital assistants and expanded machine learning capability. In a nod to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Oracle said a principal focus of the enhancements is on enabling “touchless” commerce by automating processes that ...
AWS adds Wavelength Zones in bid to cash in on 5G fever
Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it’s adding three new zones to its Wavelength service for edge computing and 5G networks. With the addition of Atlanta, New York City, and Washington, D.C. AWS now has five Wavelength Zones on Verizon Communications Inc.’s 5G network in the U.S. Zones were previously announced in Boston and the San ...
Oracle bulks up high-performance computing services on its cloud
Pressing what it says is an advantage in the market for high-performance computing cloud services, Oracle Corp. today is rolling out a series of new offerings aimed at customers demanding high horsepower for applications ranging from three-dimensional visualizations to video rendering. The company is also introducing a service that provides cloud instances of the low-power ...