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Vera Lands $17 Million Series B Led By Sutter Hill Ventures
Vera, the cloud service that wants to protect data regardless of where it’s stored or used, announced a $17 million Series B today led by Sutter Hill Ventures. That may not seem unusual, but companies are at least anecdotally finding those B and C rounds increasingly difficult to come by, especially from traditional venture capitalist like Sutter Hill. Vera did not seem to have a… Read More
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IBM Acquiring Truven Health Analytics For $2.6 Billion And Adding It To Watson Health
IBM announced its intent to buy Truven Health Analytics today for a whopping $2.6 billion. It is the fourth major purchase for Watson Health since the unit was established in 2014. Watson Health was formed when IBM purchased Phytel and Explorys in April, 2014. Both companies had the common denominator of being data-driven health companies. The unit added Merge Healthcare for another… Read More
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IBM and SoftBank Launch First Japanese Language APIs for Watson
A year ago, SoftBank teamed up with IBM to bring its supercomputer Watson to Japan. Now Watson has learned enough Japanese for developers to take advantage of its new skills. Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure
Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses. Starting today, you will be able to deploy Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHLE) from the Azure Marketplace and get support for your deployments from both Microsoft and Red Hat. In addition, Microsoft today announced that it is now offering certified Bitnami images in the Azure Marketplace and it now supports Walmart‘s (yes —… Read More
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New Akamai Tool Aims To Bring Bots Under Control
Akamai released a new Bot Manager tool today designed to give companies finely tuned control over Bot traffic on their websites.
The numbers vary, but research has shown that about half of traffic on the web comes from bots. Bots are small programs that interact with a website and can be used for good or ill, depending on your perspective, says Renny Shen, senior marketing manager for the… Read More
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Databricks Launches Free Community Edition As Companion To Free Online Spark Courses
Databricks, the commercial company created from the open source Apache Spark project, announced the release of a free Community Edition today aimed at teaching people how to use Spark — and as an adjunct to the free online courses (MOOCs) it created last year. The free version is a limited edition without all of the advanced features you would find in the enterprise-pay… Read More
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Naritiv, The Ad Network For Snapchat, Raises $3 Million Series A
Naritiv, the platform that connects brands and advertisers with influencers on Snapchat, has today announced the close of a $3 million Series A led by Third Wave Digital.
Investors in the round Disney, Luminari apital, Deluxe Entertainment, Wavemaker Partners, and Matthew Anderson (CMO of Roku. Naritiv launched out of the Disney Accelerator, powered by TechStars, in 2014.
Naritiv works like… Read More
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Zoomdata Snares $25 Million Series C Led By Goldman Sachs
Zoomdata, a company that’s trying to transform business intelligence by connecting to both modern and traditional data sources at scale, announced a $25 million Series C round today. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investments Group. New investor Comcast Ventures also participated along with prior investors Accel, Columbus Nova Technology Partners… Read More
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IBM Launches Quarks Open Source Development Tool To Build Efficient IoT Apps
IBM introduced a new open source development tool today called Quarks, which is supposed to help manufacturers and programmers develop efficient applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data. Quarks is actually based on the IBM Streams product, a proprietary enterprise tool for processing large amounts of live data, but it’s been designed from the ground up to… Read More
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IBM Launches New Mainframe With Focus On Security And Hybrid Cloud
Mainframes aren’t dead yet. IBM is launching a new version of its z13 mainframe for mid-sized enterprises today that introduces a number of new security features. With up to 4 TB of RAM, the z13s also supports 8x as much memory as IBM’s previous single-frame mainframes. IBM also says the z13s offers faster processing speeds than some of its previous mainframes in this price range,… Read More
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