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Automation Anywhere launches AARI assistant to let humans and RPA bots interact
Automation Anywhere Inc. today debuted AARI, a digital assistant that will enable workers to interact with the robotic process automation bots used by their company and give them instructions. AARI was announced during Automation Anywhere’s virtual Innovation Day event. Robotic process automation, or RPA, is a fast-growing category of software products designed to streamline manual ...
Morpheus Data adds self-service features to its cloud orchestration platform
Morpheus Data LLC today debuted the latest version of its namesake cloud orchestration platform, which packs enhancements aimed at simplifying infrastructure provisioning and cost tracking. Morpheus’ platform enables enterprises to manage their public cloud and on-premises environments centrally. The offering started out as an internal tool at private equity firm Bertram Capital, which decided to ...
Nutanix launches Era 2 with eyes on streamlining cloud database operations
Nutanix Inc. today launched a new release of Era, its database management service, with features that it says will enable enterprises to run their cloud database deployments with greater reliability and less manual work. Publicly traded Nutanix is a major provider of software for managing information technology infrastructure. Its Era service provides a console through ...
Commvault launches Metallic Cloud Storage Service to provide air-gapped backup
Data protection and management provider Commvault Systems Inc. today launched Metallic Cloud Storage Service, a service designed to simplify backup operations for enterprises. The typical company’s backup environment consists of several different components. One of those components is the so-called backup target, the infrastructure on which standby copies of data are stored. Metallic Cloud Storage Service provides a ...
Tipalti valued at $2B+ after raising $150M for its accounting automation platform
Startup Tipalti Inc. today said that it has raised $150 million to widen the adoption of its namesake cloud service, which helps companies perform accounting tasks with less manual work. The round values San Mateo, California-based Tipalti at more than $2 billion. It was led by Durable Capital Partners with participation from Greenoaks Capital and ...
Nvidia debuts BlueField-2 data processing unit as it looks beyond graphics cards
Nvidia Corp.’s recurring GPU Technology Conference tends to focus on its hallmark graphics processing units, but during the latest installment of the event that the company held today, GPUs weren’t the only chip category in the limelight. Nvidia announced that it has started sampling a new “data processing unit” or DPU aimed at data centers. The DPU (pictured), which ...
With SuperPod, Nvidia makes supercomputing a bigger focus of its AI strategy
Nvidia Corp. opened its virtual GPU Technology Conference today by introducing a host of new artificial intelligence technologies, including an infrastructure offering that will allow customers to build a supercomputer optimized for deep learning in just a few weeks. The infrastructure offering made its debut alongside a miniature AI development device and a service called Maxine ...
AWS makes open-source CloudFormation Guard compliance tool generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. on Thursday announced the general availability of CloudFormation Guard, an open-source tool that helps companies ensure their cloud environments comply with cybersecurity policies and other internal rules. The tool joins the growing list of open-source technologies offered by AWS. Previously, the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary released Bottlerocket, an operating system for running ...
Uber’s freight unit picks up $500M investment at $3.3B valuation
Uber Technologies Inc.’s Uber Freight unit, one of the few bright spots in its most recent earnings report, has raised $500 million at a $3.3 billion valuation from an outside investor. The company announced the news this morning. The investor is Greenbriar Equity Group, a New York-based private equity firm that is taking a minority ...
GV-backed Pixie Labs exits stealth to ease Kubernetes application monitoring
Pixie Labs Inc. exited stealth mode today with $9.15 million in funding from Benchmark and GV, Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital arm, to change how developers monitor their applications. Application monitoring is an important part of enterprise software projects. Development teams need visibility into the inner workings of their software to ensure that it’s functioning as ...