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Oracle announced yesterday that it intends to acquire Zenedge, a 4-year old hybrid security startup. They didn’t reveal a purchase price. With Zenedge, Oracle gets a security service to add it to its growing cloud play. In this case, the co… Continue reading Oracle grabs Zenedge as it continues to beef up its cloud security play
We live in world where bots are operating all over the internet. Like Glenda in the Wizard of Oz asking Dorothy if she is a good witch or a bad witch, network admins simply want to determine if a bot is there to help or harm. It’s not alway… Continue reading Stealth Security reels in $8 million investment from Shasta Ventures to root out bad bots
Lots of companies need to understand what CIOs are thinking, but it’s hard to get a group of busy people to give meaningful answers about the products they use or their budget priorities in public forums for obvious reasons. Pulse Q&A i… Continue reading Pulse Q&A wants to transform the way we gather data from CIOs
In a world where sensors are capturing ever-increasing amounts of data, being able to collect that high volume and measure it over time becomes increasingly important. InfluxData, the startup built on top of the open source time series database p… Continue reading InfluxData scores $35 million Series C to expand time series database business
Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason are a couple of seasoned billionaire investors, who know a bad deal when they see it, and they definitely don’t like the $6.1 billion deal announced last month to combine Fuji with Xerox. In a blog post publishe… Continue reading Billionaire investors Icahn and Deason write blog post slamming Xerox-Fuji deal
XebiaLabs, the Boston-based software startup that helps companies automate DevOps functions, announced a healthy $100 million Series B investment led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $121… Continue reading XebiaLabs lands $100 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel
XebiaLabs, the Boston-based software startup that helps companies automate DevOps functions, announced a healthy $100 million Series B investment led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $121… Continue reading XebiaLabs lands $100 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel
Last fall at Oracle OpenWorld, chairman Larry Ellison showed he was a man of the people by comparing the company’s new autonomous database service to auto-pilot on his private plane. Regardless, those autonomous capabilities were pretty adv… Continue reading Oracle to expand automation capabilities across developer cloud services
Sylabs, the commercial company behind the open source Singularity container engine, announced its first commercial product today, Singularity Pro. Sylabs was launched in 2015 to create a container platform specifically designed for scientific and… Continue reading Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for high performance computing
Akamai, the Cambridge Massachusetts content delivery network and network services provider, announced they had laid off 400 people in their earnings call with analysts yesterday. On the call, Akamai CEO Tom Leighton indicated that the 400 people … Continue reading Akamai has laid off 400 workers or 5 percent of global workforce