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Enterprises say big data analytics and AI are their top IT priorities for 2018
Analyst firm 451 Research Inc. has dug up some interesting tidbits about how enterprises are embracing emerging technologies in its inaugural Voice of the Enterprise Digital Pulse survey released late last week. The finding with the biggest potential implications is that 60 percent of enterprises say they’ll be running the majority of their information technology ...
IBM expands AI partnership with Salesforce
IBM Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. are expanding their partnership on all things artificial intelligence by integrating Big Blue’s Cloud and Watson services with the Salesforce’s Quip and Service Cloud Einstein products. The company’s alliance was struck last March, when the pair announced they’d be integrating Watson with Salesforce’s relatively newer Einstein AI tech. At the ...
VMware makes its NSX network virtualization platform more accessible in new release
VMware Inc. updated its NSX network virtualization software platform Thursday to a new version that’s more accessible via one of its core services. The 6.4 release is an important one for VMware, which has previously stated its belief network virtualization has the potential to become even bigger than its bread-and-butter technology, server virtualization. VMware has ...
John Chambers’ new venture firm bets on insects as ‘the lobsters of the future’
John Chambers, the former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., plans to spend his golden years scouting out promising startups after creating a new venture capital firm. The new firm, JC2 Ventures, has been formed with Chambers’ son John J. Chambers and former Cisco executive communications manager Shannon Pina. JC2 Ventures, like many similar ...
Microsoft builds an AI-based bot that draws beautiful images from text
Pictionary is a pretty simple game for humans, who are challenged to draw a picture based on the cue card they receive. Now, thanks to Microsoft Corp., the game is no longer that difficult for computers either. Microsoft said today it has developed a new artificial intelligence-based bot that can draw images based on text ...
Indico raises $4M for its ‘transfer learning’ AI technology, which requires less data
Machine learning startup Indico Data Solutions Inc. has just been handed $4 million for its effort to upend the nascent world of artificial intelligence. The seed funding round was led by Osage Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors .406 Ventures, Boston Seed, and Hyperplane. Boston-based Indico aims to make machine learning more accessible to the masses ...
Baffle lands $6M funding to build out its ‘encryption as a service’
Data protection startup Baffle Inc. said today it has raised $6 million in an early-stage funding round to expand its services for securing cloud-based software applications. Envision Ventures led the Series A round, which also saw participation from ServiceNow Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and Industry Ventures. Baffle offers what is essentially encryption-as-a-service software. It’s called the BaffleManager Application ...
Google adds a new security center for G Suite software users
Google LLC wants to help enterprises using its productivity tools to improve how they protect themselves from cybersecurity threats, and to that end it rolled out a new Security Center today for its G Suite product. G Suite is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools for enterprise customers that’s designed to compete with Microsoft ...
DevOps platform CircleCI raises $31M in new funding
Continuous delivery automation company Circle Internet Services Inc., known as CircleCI, today said it has landed $31 million in a late-stage funding. The Series C round is the company’s largest to date, bringing its total funding to $56.5 million. Top Tier Capital Partners led the round, which also saw the participation of Industry Ventures and Heavybit, as ...
AWS debuts Auto Scaling service to automate the control of application resources
Amazon Web Services Inc. is making it easier for its customers to optimize applications running on its infrastructure with a new service launched Tuesday called AWS Auto Scaling. Amazon users will be aware that the company has already offered automatic scaling services for some time already, but up until now these have been for specific ...