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Labelbox raises $40M to automate data labeling in AI model development
Labelbox Inc., which makes software that speeds the labeling of training data in machine and deep learning applications, today said it closed a $40 million Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $79 million. The company declined to release its estimated valuation. Founded in 2018, Labelbox addresses the time-consuming chore of labeling data ...
VMware and Accenture team up on app modernization venture
Accenture Plc and VMware Inc. today said they’re expanding a partnership and launching a new business group focused on accelerating cloud migration to the cloud, modernizing applications and using the cloud as a foundation for new business models. The Accenture VMware Business Group will receive a multimillion-dollar investment from the two companies and employ a ...
Dynatrace fortifies security and automation for cloud-native development
Application performance management company Dynatrace Inc. is already enhancing the Application Security Module it released only in December. Improvements announced today include extending Dynatrace’s machine learning-based risk assessment for applications running on Node.js, which is a popular runtime environment for programs written in JavaScript. Dynatrace is also extending automatic software vulnerability detection in environments managed ...
CYE raises $100M to help spot and close enterprise cybersecurity gaps
Israeli cybersecurity firm CYE Ltd. announced today it has raised $100 million in new financing to expand its business, which combines technology and “white hat” hacking to help enterprises identify their most serious vulnerabilities. The 80-person company uses algorithms and graph modeling to conduct a full assessment of a customer’s cybersecurity landscape by launching attacks conducted ...
Oracle plays for the edge with rentable ruggedized servers
In a play for the rapidly growing market for cloud services at the edge of the network, Oracle Corp. today introduced Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure, a ruggedized, portable and scalable server node that is compatible with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The company said customers can use the new hardware appliance to run cloud workloads wherever they need ...
IBM entry-level flash storage gets update with hybrid cloud and container support
IBM Corp. today updated its entry-level flash storage systems with improved price/performance along with hybrid cloud and container-centric capabilities. The new FlashSystem 5200 is described as offering better performance and capacity than its predecessor, the FlashSystem 5100, at a 20% lower base price. IBM said the unit delivers 66% more maximum input/output operations than its ...
Starburst joins managed service parade with its Presto-based analytics platform
Fresh off a $100 million venture capital infusion that vaulted it to unicorn status, Starburst Data Inc. today announced a managed version of its analytics platform based on the Presto distributed database management system. Starburst Galaxy combines cloud-native features such as rapid deployment and massive scalability with high-powered security features that include multifactor authentication, fine-grained ...
Following successful IPO, Telus International seeks dominance in customer experience
Coming off the biggest initial public offering of a technology company in Canadian history, Telus International Inc. is in a good position to buy its way into new markets. But Chief Financial Officer Vanessa Kanu says the subsidiary of the $11 billion Canadian telecommunications giant Telus Corp. will stick to its knitting of helping clients ...
Ping Identity service uses video facial recognition to verify new customer accounts
Ping Identity Holding Corp., a provider of identity management services, Tuesday launched PingOne Verify, a new cloud service that businesses can use to more quickly verify customer identities for rapid account onboarding, authentication and fraud prevention. The cloud-based service can be embedded into websites and mobile applications and uses facial recognition to confirm identities once ...
Raising $12.2M, vFunction rolls out push-button modernization platform for Java apps
Application modernization startup vFunction Inc. today said it raised $12.2 million in seed funding and unveiled a platform that it said enables organizations to transform software written in the Java programming language into microservices via a scalable and repeatable assembly-line process. The company said its namesake platform combines dynamic analysis, static analysis, data science and ...