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If Demisto has its way, your company’s data will soon be protected by a chatbot
Hardly a week seems to go by nowadays without some fresh-faced startup introducing a new way of using chatbots in the enterprise. The latest addition to the list is Demisto Inc., which raised $6 million from private equity giant Accel and a number of angel investors this morning to harness the technology for network protection. ...
Report: Nokia to lay off 10,000-15,000 workers
Two years after selling its mobile business to Microsoft Corp., telecom equipment maker Nokia Corp. is reportedly bracing for another major organizational shake-up. Risto Lehtilahti, a union official from the company’s home country of Finland, revealed to Reuters today that between 10,000 and 15,000 employees could go out of work in the foreseeable future. The figure represents ...
Pattern gets $2.5M to help salespeople become more organized
By itself, a chore like writing down client requests or sending a thank-you note after signing a contract doesn’t require too much effort from salespeople. But over the course of a workday, such menial tasks end up consuming a lot of time that could otherwise be used to generate new business. The problem returned to the fore ...
Nutanix brings hyperconverged infrastructure to SMEs
The fact that hyperconverged appliances can be managed centrally makes them immensely appealing to small and midsize businesses with limited IT staff. However, SMEs often struggle to take advantage of the benefits since most systems are geared towards the enterprise crowd and carry a price tag to match. To try and remedy the situation, Nutanix ...
Druva is applying AWS’ on-demand pricing model to cloud backup
Amazon Inc. has built a multi-billion-dollar cloud empire by enabling organizations to spin up virtual machines through a simple web interface and bill them only for the hardware resources that they use. Now, Druva Inc. wants to replicate the company’s success in the data protection space by adopting a similar on-demand pricing model for its ...
Kafka gets a stream processing engine to compete with Spark and Samza
Apache Kafka was originally developed to complement stream processing engines such as Samza and Spark, but it may soon end up displacing them in many organizations if Confluent Inc. has its way. The startup, which was founded in 2014 by the original creators of the message broker, today released a real-time analytics module for the project ...
vArmour raises $41M to cut off malware propagation paths in the enterprise
The continuing rise in corporate data breaches is leading companies to expand their security efforts beyond preempting attacks to ensuring they’re prepared for the possibility of a successful hack. As a result, money once spent on traditional network protection software is now going to startups like vArmour Inc., which just raised $41 million in new ...
JFrog’s new Xray service can see through every layer of your Docker images
One of the main advantages that containers possess over traditional virtualization software is that they’re simpler in design and provide more operational flexibility as a result. But the same can’t necessarily be said for the workload running inside a Docker instance, which is usually some mix of application components, automation processes and various other scaffolding. ...
What you missed in Big Data: Fighting fraud with AI
The investment floodgates opened for the analytics world last week and unleashed a torrent of funding announcements bigger than anything the industry has seen in quite some time. One of the first startups in line was France’s Shift Technology, which closed a $10 million round led by Accel to finance the development of new features ...
What you missed in Cloud: Branching out
Last week saw some of the more traditional players in the public cloud move outside their comfort zone to explore new ways of gaining market share. SAP SA led the charge with the introduction of an enterprise-oriented advertising network that runs on its in-memory HANA database. The service makes it possible to purchase media space ...
