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Datical extends database automation tools to IBM Db2 on mainframes
Seeking to narrow the time gap between DevOps applications and the database management systems that drive them, Datical Inc. is expanding its database automation tools to support the IBM Corp. Db2 platform on the z/OS operating systems. The company already supports Oracle Corp.’s namesake DBMS as well as IBM Db2 for Linux, Unix and Windows; Microsoft Corp.’s SQL ...
Infinidat raises $95 million in its campaign to reinvent disk storage
You might think a storage company that’s placing big bets on spinning disks would be roadkill in the race to flash storage, but Infinidat Inc. has done a good job of defying conventional wisdom since it was founded six years ago. Today, the company is announcing $95 million of new investment in a Series C ...
‘Wait, that was a robot?’ Lending company reels in sales prospects with intelligent email agent
Like many companies that cater to small business, Fundbox Inc.’s website is a primary source of sales leads. The company, which makes short-term loans available to business owners who are having temporary cash flow problems, makes it easy for visitors to create an account with just an email address, phone number and password. But the ...
CA acquires Runscope to round out API testing and monitoring portfolio
Enterprises are API-crazy, and CA Technologies Inc. is attempting to cash in with the acquisition of Runscope Inc., a provider of API monitoring tools delivered as a service. Application program interfaces have exploded in popularity as organizations have sought to expose more internal data and services to employees, customers and business partners. Published APIs can ...
Startup hitches wagon to serverless star with operations console
While acknowledging that enterprise adoption of serverless computing is still in the low single digits, startup Stackery Inc. is hoping take advantage of the concept’s growing momentum by introducing an operations console today that’s specifically tuned to serverless environments. Stackery describes the Serverless Operations Console as a set of software tools that enable developers to control ...
Threatcare plants Alexalike interface atop its attack simulation service
For security administrators, cyber attacks are the stuff of nightmares, but some actually invite the intrusion. VThreat Inc. is aiming its Threatcare attack simulation software at that group. The company says its “Violet” service, introduced Tuesday, is the first artificial intelligence-based virtual cybersecurity professional that can respond to voice commands using machine learning and neurolinguistic programming ...
Passage.AI aims to make building chatbots easy
You can hardly visit a commercial website these days without having a bot pop up with an offer to engage in a conversation. Startup Passage.AI is betting that those automated characters can be used to help as much as to annoy. The company is emerging from stealth mode today with $3 million in seed funding and ...
Splunk adds machine learning to simplify explosion of log data
Splunk Inc. is folding machine learning capabilities into its product portfolio in an attempt to address the growing volumes of analytical information that its users are trying to manage. The features are part of Splunk Enterprise 7.0, Splunk IT Service Intelligence 3.0, Splunk User Behavior Analytics 4.0 and updates to Splunk Cloud. The machine learning components ...
Why the new Open Container Initiative standard is a milestone for software
The recent release of the Open Container Initiative version 1.0 specification is a milestone in the development of container technology, setting the stage for innovation to move up the stack. That’s according to Brian Gracely (pictured), director of product strategy at Red Hat Inc. and a former analyst at Wikibon, owned by the same company as ...
SugarCRM boosts intelligent assistants in new release
SugarCRM Inc. is kicking off its annual SugarCon conference in San Francisco this week with significant updates to its Relationship Intelligence product, which gathers data about customers and prospects from a broad range of social and business sources to help sales people more quickly establish relationships. The company is also previewing a new intelligent digital ...
