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Nicole Radziwill graduated from Pennsylvania State University at the age of 18 and went on to earn an MBA and a Ph.D. in technology management and quality systems. She taught data science at the university level for 11 years, did a stint …
$110M late-stage funding vaults Redis Labs valuation past $2 billion
Less than eight months after closing a $100 million late-stage funding round that valued the company at more than $1 billion, Redis Labs Inc. is further bulking up its coffers with $110 million in financing led by a new investor, Tiger Global Management …
Doh! Poor password management still rampant in U.S. workplaces, survey finds
Despite years of warnings about the risks of using weak passwords and storing them in easily compromised locations, the majority of American workers still regularly scribble work-related passwords on sticky notes and most admit to having lost those notes at some point. …
Yellowbrick ventures into the cloud with Kubernetes support, distributed data warehouse manager
Data analytics startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today announced a major expansion of its data warehousing platform along with a consolidated management dashboard and a new version of its multiprocessor-based data warehouse appliance. The enhancements for the first time separate the Yellowbrick software …
VMware pitches new pricing plan and services as a multicloud bridge
VMware Inc. failed in its first attempt to establish a public cloud presence, but now it’s back with what it hopes is a better approach. Leveraging its reputation as a consistent layer that operates across multiple clouds and on-premises data centers, the …
Fungible unleashes ‘composable’ data center, claiming high performance and hyperscale efficiency
Well-funded data center startup Fungible Inc. today debuted an ambitious combination of hardware and software components that target a market that has been out of vogue recently: the corporate data center. The company is leveraging capabilities in its F1 data processing unit, …
Ahana adds caching, Apache Ranger integration to its Presto manage cloud service
Ahana Cloud Inc., which curates a commercial version of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today is announcing numerous updates to its recently introduced Presto managed service. Topping the list is an input/output caching capability that executives said increases performance up to …
SANS survey finds firms continue to downplay cybersecurity awareness
More organizations are still faring poorly in addressing the one dimension of cybersecurity over which they have the most control: people’s behavior. That’s according to the sixth annual survey of business adoption of security awareness principles conducted by SANS Institute. The 2021 Security …
Security startup Orca lands $210M Series C round with a $1.2B valuation
Tel Aviv-based cloud security startup Orca Security Ltd. today is announcing that it has raised $210 million in funding, its third round in a little more than a year. The Series C investment brings Orca’s total venture investment to $292 million and …
Startup Model 9 Software aims to unlock mainframe data troves for analytics
Pity the poor mainframe computer. Maligned for years as a costly relic, it has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the information technology world. That’s despite the fact that “big iron” machines run 30 billion transactions per day, handle 90% of all credit …