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JFrog, the GitHub of software artifacts, raises $50 million
There is more to software than just code. Modern application projects also incorporate a wide variety of other components ranging from documentation to data models that must be handled with the same priority. JFrog Ltd. raised $50 million in funding this morning to help organizations address this requirement with its artifact management service, which has quietly ...
Investors shower another $48.5M on Big Switch as SDN adoption takes off
Two months after rumors first began to emerge that it’s raising a significant new funding round, Big Switch Networks Inc. has officially announced the completion of a $48.5 million investment that doubles its total external financing to within touching distance of the nine figure mark. The capital infusion caps off an immensely profitable year for ...
Study: Spark tops analytics pros’ wishlists
Less than a month since the industry turned the page on its calendar, organizations already have their analytics priorities mostly figured out for the new year. A new poll of 250 data scientists, business intelligence specialists and other key members of the Hadoop ecosystem from Syncsort Inc. reveals that nearly 70 percent rank Apache Spark ...
What you missed in Big Data: Machine intelligence
Machine-generated data returned to the agenda last week after industrial heavyweight PTC Inc. and ServiceMax Inc. combined forces to give organizations much-needed visibility into the growing number of connected devices finding use throughout their operations. The duo is kicking off the effort with the introduction of a jointly-created tool that enables technicians to monitor for ...
Cloud price wars escalate as Microsoft slashes compute rates
Two weeks into the new year, the public cloud is already witnessing its first major skirmish. Microsoft Corp. this week made a significant price cut to one the most popular virtual machine types on its infrastructure-as-a-service platform in response to a series of similar markdowns that archnemesis Amazon Inc. announced over the preceding days. The first ...
IBM buys German machine learning firm to combat fraud
As the growing use of counterfeit prevention technology in credit cards makes traditional payment fraud increasingly difficult to pull off, hackers are turning to new and more sophisticated methods in order to target their victims. IBM Corp. wants to help the banking industry maintain its edge in this intensifying game of cat-and-mouse with the acquisition ...
VeloCloud snags $27 million from Cisco and friends to take SDN beyond the data center
It’s always notable when a top enterprise vendor invests in an up-and-coming startup, even if that startup doesn’t count more than 100 major global brands among its clientele like VeloCloud Inc. does. The four-year-old outfit announced this morning that it secured a $27 million investment from Cisco Systems Inc. and several leading venture capital firms ...
Amazon launches new time-constrained instance type for sporadic workloads
While its broad selection of capabilities is often the first selling point that comes up during industry discussions, the credit for Amazon Inc.’s massive success in the public cloud is split equally with its accommodative business model. The company has been consciously working to preserve its edge on that front by providing increasingly convenient purchasing ...
App Annie raises a massive $63 million to widen mobile analytics lead
Like practically every other part of the technology world, the mobile application ecosystem is also undergoing major changes thanks to the introduction of data insights into the picture. Much of the credit for the rapid adoption of the trend among developers goes to App Annie Inc., which raised $63 million in new funding this morning ...
Atlassian tackles technical support pains with first post-IPO update
Providing technical support is an unavoidable part of the modern IT professional’s work, but much of the time spent handling service requests nowadays is wasted on unnecessary drudgery that can be automated with the right tooling. Atlassian Inc. hopes to fill the role with the new iteration of its ticketing software that debuted this morning, ...
