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Salesforce.com gives its Trailhead learning service a LinkedIn-style makeover
Almost every enterprise tech company runs some sort of training program to help users familiarize themselves with its products, but few appear to put as much thought into it as Salesforce.com Inc. has. The cloud giant operates a learning portal called Trailhead that is modeled after gamified education sites such as Codecademy. Professionals interested in ...
Siemplify raises $10M to improve corporate security coordination
Cybersecurity professionals usually divide their attention between several different tools, but according to Siemplify Inc., that doesn’t have to mean they should be constantly switching between tabs and shuffling data around. The New York-based startup is pursuing a centralized approach to breach prevention that has attracted a $10 million investment from 83North, G20 Ventures and several ...
Logz.io’s AI-powered IT analytics platform attracts $16M funding
There are numerous cloud-based analytics tools out there that offer to help information technology administrators make better sense of their system data, but Logz.io Inc. is probably the only one that relies on the online programmer community Stack Overflow to do it. The Israeli startup raised $16 million in funding today for its Cognitive Insights ...
App testing startup Sauce Labs lands massive $70M round
A year and a half after securing its last funding round, Sauce Labs Inc. has raised a mammoth $70 million investment from a trio of private equity firms. The biggest name on the list is Institutional Venture Partners, one of the oldest funds on Silicon Valley’s famed Sand Hill Road and an early backer of ...
GE acquires field operations specialist ServiceMax for $915M
Two months after forming a new division to widen the adoption of cloud computing and analytics in the industrial world, General Electric Co. is acquiring ServiceMax Inc. for $915 million to fast-track its efforts. The deal buys the company one of the world’s most widely used platforms for managing field service operations. ServiceMax boasts thousands ...
New Cray supercomputer offers petaflop computing power in one cabinet
More than 30 years after selling its first supercomputer, Cray Inc. continues to push the envelope on processing power. The company unveiled a new data crunching system at the SC16 computing event in Utah today that is the first of its kind to incorporate Nvidia Corp.’s latest-generation P100 accelerators. Based on the chip maker’s 16-nanometer ...
Forward Networks exits stealth with math-based approach to fighting network issues
Three years after banding together to take on the data center market, David Erickson and his team of Stanford Ph.D.s at Forward Networks Inc. are finally ready to reveal what they’ve been working on. The startup is emerging from stealth today with a platform that promises to help companies improve the reliability and security of ...
IBM and Nvidia launch PowerAI, a hardware-optimized deep learning toolkit
IBM Corp. and Nvidia Corp. today revealed the next step in their plan to capitalize on the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. At the annual SC16 supercomputing conference today, the companies are showcasing a jointly developed toolkit dubbed PowerAI that contains custom versions of Torch, Theano and Caffe, three of the most popular open-source deep ...
RiskIQ raises $30.5M to help enterprise security teams find vulnerabilities
As the historic breach of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2014 demonstrated, even one overlooked server or vulnerability can have disastrous consequences. To fill the gaps in their understanding of the threat landscape, companies are turning to security assessment providers such as RiskIQ Inc., which nabbed a $30.5 million investment today led by Canadian venture ...
Adobe acquires TubeMogul for $540M to fill out marketing cloud
With eMarketer predicting that spending on digital video advertisements will increase by double digits annually through 2020, it’s no wonder Adobe Systems Inc. has decided to join the fray. The technology giant today inked an agreement to buy TubeMogul Inc., a publicly traded company that helps brands buy and manage broadcast ad inventory, for about $540 million ...