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Expanding its cybersecurity portfolio, VMware launches a firewall
Adding to the flurry of product announcements coming out of the RSA Conference this week in San Francisco, VMware Inc. today introduced a firewall offering designed to provide an added layer of security for enterprise applications. The new Service-defined Firewall builds on two of the company’s existing products. One is the NSX network management and ...
Juniper to buy AI-powered networking startup Mist Systems for $405M
Juniper Networks Inc. is making a big bet on artificial intelligence. The network equipment maker today announced that it has inked a $405 million deal to buy Mist Systems Inc., a heavily funded startup using AI to automate companies’ Wi-Fi infrastructure. Juniper said that it will pay for the acquisition in combination of cash and ...
Scytale raises $5M to simplify authentication for cloud and container apps
Before an enterprise can bring a new cloud or software container-based application online, it must implement mechanisms to ensure that the service will run securely, which takes a great deal of time and effort. San Francisco-based Scytale Inc. is working to streamline the task. The startup today announced that it has closed a $5 million funding ...
IoT security provider Mocana picks up $15M round led by Uber investor
Mocana Corp., a major provider of security software for connected devices, today announced that it has raised $15 million in funding to boost its expansion and product development efforts. San Francisco-based venture capital firm Sway Ventures led the round. The fund, which also counts Uber Technologies Inc. among its investments, was joined by Shasta Ventures ...
Lyft heads for IPO after losing $911M on revenues of $2.2B in 2018
Beating bigger rival Uber Technologies Inc. to the punch, Lyft Inc. today released the prospectus for its upcoming initial public offering, giving the industry the first detailed look at its finances and stock market roadmap. The ride-hailing provider plans to debut on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “LYFT.” The filing lists the value ...
Red Hat partners with cloud giants to launch a hub for Kubernetes Operators
Red Hat Inc. has teamed up with the three biggest names in the cloud market on a new initiative to lower the entry barrier to Kubernetes. The company, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC, on Thursday launched a Kubernetes-focused online marketplace called OperatorHub.io. It will offer a catalog of ...
Facebook’s WhatsApp cryptocurrency could reportedly launch this year
New details have emerged about Facebook Inc.’s rumored effort to develop a cryptocurrency for WhatsApp. The New York Times today reported that the social networking giant is hoping to launch the digital coin in the first half of 2019. The sources who spoke with the publication said the value of the coin, which has been ...
Study: Microsoft’s Azure gaining on AWS as enterprise cloud spending grows
Most enterprises now spend over $1 million a year on cloud computing services and the average company splits its budget between at least three providers, according to a new study. The RightScale State of the Cloud Report, released Wednesday, is an annual survey of information technology professionals now in its eighth edition. This latest issue is ...
With Azure Sentinel, Microsoft seeks bigger slice of cybersecurity market
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its presence in the cybersecurity market with the introduction of Azure Sentinel, a cloud-based threat detection service for enterprises. Azure Sentinel is what’s known as a security information and event management platform, or SIEM for short. SIEM products enable companies to centrally analyze activity data from different systems to look for ...
Veriflow brings its formal verification technology to public cloud networks
Veriflow Systems Inc., a startup harnessing techniques from the industrial engineering world to improve the reliability of enterprise networks, is launching its first software-as-a-service offering to push into the cloud market. Unveiled today, CloudPredict is aimed at facilitating what Veriflow calls “intent-based network verification.” The service enables companies to validate that their off-premises infrastructure operates as ...
