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Instana brings machine learning to microservices performance management
Instana Inc. is bringing artificial intelligence to software container and and microservices management, saying it can automatically discover, model and monitor large-scale container networks while predicting slowdowns and failures at subsecond speed. The company, which said it has raised $14 million and has 80 paying customers, was founded by a group of application performance management ...
Kong hopes to be king of enterprise API management
Application programming interface development manager Kong Inc., formerly called Mashape Inc., today is announcing the availability of its Kong Enterprise Edition microservices API abstraction platform for enterprise development. The company, which recently merged its marketplace with that of API distributor Rapid Software Solutions Ltd. to create what it claims is the world’s largest resource of its kind, said its ...
Tech earnings preview: The good times will keep rolling, at least for now
Tech earnings season kicks off this week with many of the giants set to report third-quarter results, and the tea-leaf readers mostly expect the rich to get richer. IBM Corp. will lead off the enterprise and emerging tech earning parade on Tuesday, and investors and customers both are hoping it can break its more than five-year-long streak ...
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Who owns data from the ‘internet of things’? That’s about to become a very big deal
Teletrac Navman US Ltd. was deeply into the “internet of things” long before it was a hot buzzword. The fleet tracking and management software company gathers detailed information on more than 500,000 vehicles for 40,000 customer organizations across six continents. Black boxes installed in cars, trucks and heavy machinery continually poll embedded sensors to learn ...
Gigamon tightens network security integration with Splunk and Phantom
Gigamon Inc. is offering its customers free integration with Splunk Inc.’s log analysis and Phantom Cyber Corp.’s security platform to reduce the time needed to detect and respond to cyber threats. The Gigamon IPFix Metadata Application for Splunk enables Splunk user to ingest network metadata generated by Gigamon’s GigaSecure network monitoring platform. The Gigamon Adaptive Response Application for Splunk enables ...
Puppet bids to take automation enterprisewide with ‘biggest launch ever’
Puppet Inc. is bidding for a bigger share of the corporate systems management pie this week. The company is offering improved scalability for its enterprise automation platform, an open-source, agentless product — that is, one that doesn’t require installing a software agent — that customers can use to get started with Puppet automation. It’s also ...
Workday adds analytics and anonymous benchmarks to cloud ERP platform
The fruits of Workday Inc.‘s 2016 acquisition of business intelligence startup Platfora Inc. will become clearer to customers today as the financial and human capital management software vendor introduces a suite of analytical features that synch up closely with its core products. Workday is also announcing general availability of a cloud benchmark service that provides customers with metrics collected ...
With new strategy, Dell will invest $1B into the ‘internet of things’
Dell Technologies Inc. may be late to the “internet of things” party, but it has brought plenty of friends. Leveraging the numerous acquisitions, partnerships and investments it has made over the past few years, the company today is outlining an internet of things strategy anchored by what it calls the “distributed core,” in which information ...
Kinetica buffs up GPU-powered database for geospatial and enterprise applications
In a bid to expand the appeal of its graphics processing unit-enhanced relational database management system to large enterprises, Kinetica DB Inc. today is announcing new geospatial capabilities along with a host of enterprise-grade features such as compression, dictionary encoding, enhanced process management and enhanced security. The company said it’s also making the product easier ...
Maker of management platform for ‘internet of things’ gets $30 million infusion
FogHorn Systems Inc. continues to enlist an army of “internet of things” makers as investors in its campaign to build an IoT management platform. The company is announcing today that it has raised a Series B funding round of $30 million led by Intel Capital Corp. with additional investments by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures LLC and Honeywell ...
