Category Archives: Computing

SAP launches ‘RISE with SAP,’ a concierge service for digital transformation

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SAP today announced a new offering it calls ‘RISE with SAP,’ a solution that is meant to help the company’s customers go through their respective digital transformations and become what SAP calls ‘intelligent enterprises.’ RISE is a subscription service that combines a set of services and product offerings. SAP’s head of product success Sven Denecken […] Continue reading SAP launches ‘RISE with SAP,’ a concierge service for digital transformation→

Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming

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Datastax, the company best known for commercializing the open-source Apache Cassandra database, is moving beyond databases. As the company announced today, it has acquired Kesque, a cloud messaging service. The Kesque team built its service on top of the Apache Pulsar messaging and streaming project. Datastax has now taken that team’s knowledge in this area […] Continue reading Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming→

Google’s BeyondCorp Enterprise security platform is now generally available

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Google today announced that BeyondCorp Enterprise, the zero trust security platform modeled after how Google itself keeps its network safe without relying on a VPN, is now generally available. BeyondCorp Enterprise builds out Google’s existing BeyondCorp Remote Access offering with additional enterprise features. Google describes it as “a zero trust solution that enables secure access with […] Continue reading Google’s BeyondCorp Enterprise security platform is now generally available→

Run:AI raises $30M Series B for its AI compute platform

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Run:AI, a Tel Aviv-based company that helps businesses orchestrate and optimize their AI compute infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round. The new round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors TLV Partners and S Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to date to $43 […] Continue reading Run:AI raises $30M Series B for its AI compute platform→

Stacklet raises $18M for its cloud governance platform

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Stacklet, a startup that is commercializing the Cloud Custodian open-source cloud governance project, today announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Addition, with participation from Foundation Capital and new individual investor Liam Randall, who is joining the company as VP of business development. Addition and Foundation Capital also […] Continue reading Stacklet raises $18M for its cloud governance platform→

Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses

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Hightouch, a SaaS service that helps businesses sync their customer data across sales and marketing tools, is coming out of stealth and announcing a $2.1 million seed round. The round was led by Afore Capital and Slack Fund, with a number of angel investors also participating. At its core, Hightouch, which participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 […] Continue reading Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses→

AWS expands on SageMaker capabilities with end-to-end features for machine learning

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Nearly three years after it was first launched, Amazon Web Services’ SageMaker platform has gotten a significant upgrade in the form of new features making it easier for developers to automate and scale each step of the process to build new automation and machine learning capabilities, the company said. As machine learning moves into the […] Continue reading AWS expands on SageMaker capabilities with end-to-end features for machine learning→

Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service

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As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog, track and manage how that data is shared are also becoming increasingly important. With Azure Purview, Microsoft is launching a new data governance service into public preview today that brings together all of these capabilities in a new […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service→

Ivanti has acquired security firms MobileIron and Pulse Secure

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IT security software company Ivanti has acquired two security companies: enterprise mobile security firm MobileIron, and corporate virtual network provider Pulse Secure. In a statement on Tuesday, Ivanti said it bought MobileIron for $872 million in stock, with 91% of the shareholders voting in favor of the deal; and acquired Pulse Secure from its parent […] Continue reading Ivanti has acquired security firms MobileIron and Pulse Secure→

AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones

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AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller […] Continue reading AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones→