Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Kentik raises $23.5M for its network intelligence platform

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Kentik, the company once known as CloudHelix, today announced that it has raised a $23.5 million growth funding round led by Vistara Capital Partners, with existing investors August Capital, Third Point Ventures, DCVC, and Tahoma Ventures also participating. With this round, Kentik has now raised a total of $61.7 million. The company’s platform allows enterprises […] Continue reading Kentik raises $23.5M for its network intelligence platform→

Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round

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Couchbase. the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round “to expand product development and global go-to-market capabilities.” The oversubscribed round was led by GPI Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Sorenson Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, […] Continue reading Couchbase raises $105M Series G funding round→

Microsoft launches industry-specific cloud solutions, starting with healthcare

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Microsoft today announced the launch of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, an industry-specific cloud solution for healthcare providers. This is the first in what is likely going to be a set of cloud offerings that target specific verticals and extends a trend we’ve seen among large cloud providers (especially Google), who tailor specific offerings to […] Continue reading Microsoft launches industry-specific cloud solutions, starting with healthcare→

Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Link to help enterprises get faster insights from their data

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At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Azure Synapse Link, a new enterprise service that allows businesses to analyze their data faster and more efficiently, using an approach that’s generally called ‘hybrid transaction/analytical processing’ (HTAP). That’s a mouthful, it essentially enables enterprises to use the same database system for analytical and transactional workloads on […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Link to help enterprises get faster insights from their data→

Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, its new machine teaching service for building autonomous systems

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At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Project Bonsai, its new machine teaching service, is now in public preview. If that name sounds familiar, it’s probably because you remember that Microsoft acquired Bonsai, a company that focuses on machine teaching, back in 2018. Bonsai combined simulation tools with different machine learning techniques to […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, its new machine teaching service for building autonomous systems→

Google makes it easier to migrate VMware environments to its cloud

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Google Cloud today announced the next step in its partnership with VMware: the Google Cloud VMware Engine. This fully managed service provides businesses with a full VMware Cloud Foundation stack on Google Cloud to help businesses easily migrate their existing VMware-based environments to Google’s infrastructure. Cloud Foundation is VMware’s stack for hybrid and private cloud […] Continue reading Google makes it easier to migrate VMware environments to its cloud→

Microsoft partners with Redis Labs to improve its Azure Cache for Redis

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For a few years now, Microsoft has offered Azure Cache for Redis, a fully managed caching solution built on top of the open-source Redis project. Today, it is expanding this service by adding Redis Enterprise, Redis Lab’s commercial offering, to its platform. It’s doing so in partnership with Redis Labs and while Microsoft will offer […] Continue reading Microsoft partners with Redis Labs to improve its Azure Cache for Redis→

GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more

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Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn’t stopping the Microsoft-owned company from announcing quite a bit of news this week. The highlight of GitHub’s announcement is surely the launch of GitHub […] Continue reading GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more→

Orca Security raises $20M Series A for its multi-cloud security platform

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Orca Security, an Israeli cloud security firm that focuses on giving enterprises better visibility into their multi-cloud deployments on AWS, Azure and GCP, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round led by GGV Capital. YL Ventures and Silicon Valley CISO Investments also participated in this round. Together with its seed […] Continue reading Orca Security raises $20M Series A for its multi-cloud security platform→

IBM and Red Hat expand their telco, edge and AI enterprise offerings

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At its Think Digital conference, IBM and Red Hat today announced a number of new services that all center around 5G edge and AI. The fact that the company is focusing on these two areas doesn’t come as a surprise, given that both edge and AI are two of the fastest-growing businesses in enterprise computing. […] Continue reading IBM and Red Hat expand their telco, edge and AI enterprise offerings→