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What you missed in Cloud: Acquisitions and APIs
M&A returned to the cloud ecosystem’s agenda last week after Red Hat Inc. bought a low-key outfit called 3scale Inc. that helps companies regulate how their web services are used. Its API management software makes it possible to control who can interact with an application, enforce usage restrictions and scan activity patterns for insights that ...
Facebook’s latest open-source tool will dramatically speed up AI projects
Since becoming actively involved with the artificial intelligence ecosystem in early 2015, Facebook Inc. has made numerous contributions ranging from niche software modules to entire server blueprints. The social networking giant expanded its repertoire yet again this week by open-sourcing a toolkit called Torchnet that provides building blocks for deep learning projects. As the name ...
SecurityScorecard’s security grading service attracts $20M from Alphabet and friends
Modern threat detection tools with machine learning technology under the hood can pick up on even the most subtle signs of malicious activity. But sometimes, a higher level view is needed to effectively identify vulnerabilities, which is where SecurityScorecard Inc. enters the picture. The startup has developed a service for surveying network weaknesses that attracted ...
Dropbox now lets you scan documents with your phone and sync them to the cloud
While consumers and companies store most of their information digitally nowadays, paper is still very much part of day-to-day life, a fact that collaboration providers are finally starting to embrace. Dropbox Inc. is leading the charge by rolling out a scanning feature for its mobile app that provides the ability to directly upload photos of ...
Microsoft’s new security service protects data beyond the firewall
Securing company data that is stored remotely on employee-owned mobile devices or in the cloud is still difficult for IT departments, but it’s becoming a much more manageable problem thanks to tools like Vera. And now Microsoft Corp. is joining the fray too with a competing service called Azure Information Protection that is set to ...
NGINX launches a new Ops tool to make the web more reliable
The over 160 million websites that rely on NGINX Inc.’s reverse proxy to handle requests stand to benefit a great deal from the new monitoring tool that it’s rolling out today. Dubbed Amplify, the software promises to help customers better deal with the performance and reliability issues that hinder user experience online. Its main selling ...
Security startup LightCyber nabs $20M to boost network protection teams
Barely a week seems to pass nowadays without a security startup raising capital. The newest example is LightCyber Ltd., an emerging network protection provider born in Israel that today announced the completion of a $20 million funding round. The investment was led by industrial conglomerate Access Industries Inc. and Shlomo Kramer, a serial entrepreneur best ...
InVision, the startup powering design teams at Twitter and Nike, raises $55M
Though it’s not as well-known in Silicon Valley as Docker Inc. and the other vendors that are making waves among developers nowadays, InVision Inc. is an equally big force on the design side. The New York-based outfit helps support creative operations at web giants such as Twitter Inc. and Uber Inc. along with 70 percent of ...
Nutanix doubles down on containers and automation at .NEXT conference
Like the rest of the vendor ecosystem, hyperconverged infrastructure vendors are scrambling to address the rise of containers in the enterprise. Nutanix Inc., one of the leaders in the segment, hopes to set itself apart from the pack by providing persistent storage functionality for Docker. The feature was introduced at the vendor’s .NEXT conference today as ...
Dell is selling off its software biz for a reported $2BN
Dell Inc. is continuing to sell off assets in a bid to elevate the debt burden from its historic $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. The latest division to go is its software group, which was bought by private equity firm Francisco Partners Management LLC and hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. this morning. The press ...