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Tyk raises $35M for its open-source, open-ended approach to enterprise API management

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APIs are the grease turning the gears and wheels for many organizations’ IT systems today, but as APIs grow in number and use, tracking how they work (or don’t work) together can become complex and potentially critical if something goes awry. Now, a startup that has built an innovative way to help with this is […] Continue reading Tyk raises $35M for its open-source, open-ended approach to enterprise API management→

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→

Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era

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The global trade crisis is a setback, but also an opportunity for logistics startups to show the value of digital platforms in an analog industry. Continue reading Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era→

Suse is once again an independent company

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Open-source infrastructure and application delivery vendor Suse — the company behind one of the oldest Linux distributions — today announced that it is once again an independent company. The company today finalized its $2.5 billion acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus, which itself had acquired it back in 2014. Few companies have changed […] Continue reading Suse is once again an independent company→

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board. That project is etcd, the distributed key-value store that was first developed by CoreOS (now owned by Red Hat, which in turn will soon be […] Continue reading The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable→

Salesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc Benioff

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Salesforce is moving to a two CEO model after it promoted executive Keith Block, who was most recently COO, to the position of co-CEO. Block will work alongside Salesforce’s flamboyant founder, chairman and CEO (now co-CEO) Marc Benioff, with both reporting directly to the company’s board. Block joined Salesforce five years ago after spending 25 […] Continue reading Salesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc Benioff→