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| Xailient Brings Privacy-safe Face Recognition To The Smart Home With Abode Systems | By processing data on edge – locally at the smart home device, Orchestrait protects users’ personal information, minimizing any transmission of data out of the user’s home to the cloud. Xailient has partnered with leading smart home security provider Abode Systems to bring the first Orchestrait integration to market. | Privacy & Security |
| Meta buys 3D-printed lenses startup Luxexcel to improve future AR glasses | Although Luxexcel’s technology does produce high-quality prescription lenses, Meta’s interest in acquiring the company lies in its ability to enable the integration of technology into a lens to produce smart glasses. Luxexcel’s 3D printing technology allows for the integration of almost any device directly into a lens. | AR |
| Microsoft Maintains Open RAN Momentum | “With this technology, together with detailed platform telemetry, operators can achieve better network monitoring and performance optimization for their 5G networks, and enable new [artificial intelligence], analytics, and automation capabilities that were not possible before,” | 5G |
| New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software | The activity makes use of seemingly credible websites with typosquatted domain names that are surfaced on top of Google search results in the form of malicious ads by hijacking searches for specific keywords. | Privacy & Security |
| Netwrix snaps up Remediant to enrich its privileged access management offering | Zero Standing Privilege technology in SecureOne requires users to use multifactor authentication for just-in-time resource access and eliminates blind spots in legacy PAM solutions by preventing administrative access sprawl outside the vault. | Security |
| Redwood Software Accelerates Full Stack Automation with New Release of RunMyJobs | Redwood Software, the industry leader in full stack automation, announced a new release of RunMyJobs, the company’s SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP. Redwood RunMyJobs helps enterprises rapidly achieve end-to-end automation of mission-critical business processes. | Automation & Productivity |
| DataOS company TMDC moves into view, but some details are missing | A startup called The Modern Data Company has appeared with DataOS, a data operating system aimed at unifying data silos, old and new, and giving users a self-service programmable data OS for analytics, AI, ML and applications. | Data Management |
| Infleqtion Unveils SupercheQ, a Quantum Advantage for Distributed Databases | SupercheQ has been integrated into SuperstaQ, Infleqtion’s flagship cloud quantum software platform, and the technical details behind SupercheQ have now been released in an academic paper, “SupercheQ: Quantum Advantage for Distributed Databases.” | Data & Analytics |
| Wobot.ai Offers the Best Video Intelligence Management System | According to the marketing team, “Our AI-powered video analytics aids with the identification, analysis, and dissemination of discerning patterns in data derived from video streams, as well as the subsequent use of those patterns to support efficient decision-making. | Automation & Productivity |
| Data of 400M Twitter users offered for sale on hacking forum | In a twist, the hacker also addresses both Twitter and Elon Musk, claiming that their best option is to purchase the data — which is then claimed to be 533 million users, to avoid the risk of a European Union General Data Protection Regulation fine. | Data Privacy |
| OpenOcean Releases Web3 Cross-chain Swap Aggregation | The cross-chain swap mechanism implemented by OpenOcean features a vastly improved algorithm and the deepest liquidity sources in the market. This gives the platform a competitive edge over other DEX aggregators, especially since the introduction of OpenOceans ‘one-click cross-chain swap function. | Web3 |
| LastPass reveals hacker copied encrypted customer password vaults | As part of its commitment to transparency, LastPass today provided an update on its investigation and that it discovered that the hacker, having gained access to the cloud storage, copied a backup that contained basic customer account information and related metadata. The data included company names, end-user names, billing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers and the IP addresses from which customers were accessing LastPass. | Privacy & Security |
| Sophos Intercept X Detects and Stops Real-World Cyberattacks and Simulated Targeted Attacks with 100% Accuracy in SE Labs Tests | Sophos earned three AAA awards for having perfect scores in every test conducted, including blocking malicious URLs, handling exploits and correctly classifying legitimate applications and websites. | Security |
| VirtuVisit Leverages AI to Address Barriers and Improve Virtual Care Experience for Patients and Providers | Integrating VirtuVisit with electronic health record (EHR) systems, such as Epic, seamlessly automates the documentation effort, giving providers more time to focus on the patient encounter and delivering new analytical insights on patient/provider interactions. The resultant analytical insights produced from the visit interactions are powered by Amazon QuickSight. | MedTech |
| Zerobot botnet upgrade targets unpatched Apache servers | The new version of Zerobot also has additional distributed denial-of-service attack capabilities, including functions that allow the threat actors to target resources and make them inaccessible. Successful Zerobot DDOS attacks can be used to extort ransom payments, distract from other malicious activity, or disrupt operations. | Security |
| Data science and analytics startup Tredence raises $175M to solve AI’s last-mile problem | Tredence claims to have devised unique, vertical AI go-to-market strategies for multiple industries that combine deep data science expertise with business context to solve some of the most daunting challenges its clients face. These vertical AI strategies are primarily focused on ATOM.AI, which is the company’s integrated accelerator ecosystem that guides enterprises from design to experience to value generation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SaaS startup Gynger launches from stealth with $21.7M in funding to change how businesses buy software | Gynger provides startups immediate access to non-dilutive capital to finance their software purchases so that they can secure the best pricing, pay on their terms, and optimize their cash flow. With Gynger, companies are underwritten within minutes, have their vendors paid the next day, and manage all their software contracts and payments in one dashboard. | IT Management |
| Okta’s code repositories reportedly breached in cyberattack | According to BleepingComputer, Okta has issued a confidential security advisory about a data breach that affected some of its GitHub repositories. The repositories hosted parts of the source code for the company’s flagship identity management platform. In the advisory, Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury stated that the hackers didn’t gain access to the company’s infrastructure or customer data. | Security |
| Encrypted messaging tool Mask Network acquires Mastodon server Pawoo.net | The server’s maintenance and operations will be taken over by The Social Coop Limited, an entity affiliated with Mask Network, with no impact on existing users. According to the company, this acquisition is part of the company’s work toward “the building of a decentralized social network and a free, open internet.” | Apps |
| Supermicro targets cloud-native workloads with new Arm-based Mt. Hamilton servers | Customers will be able to choose from a range of servers equipped with either a single Ampere Altra or Altra Max CPU, with a choice of 1U or 2U form factors, with up to four double-width graphics processing units, or alternatively up to 24x 2.5-inch U.2 NVMe hot-swappable drives. | Automation & Productivity |
| HealthBird Brings a Groundbreaking Solution to Health Insurance Needs | “We started HealthBird because we couldn’t understand how come there’s a platform to buy a house within minutes and commit to a 30-year mortgage, but nothing intuitive exists for health insurance for a one-year coverage," | Automation & Productivity |
| PlainID Technology Network offers secure authorization and access control | Network partners work together by leveraging PlainID’s prebuilt and customized authorization integrations supporting technologies across identity and access management, identity governance and administration, data, application programming interfaces, microservices and secure access service edge. | IT Management |
| Tome Puts AI to Work With First-Ever Generative Storytelling Tool | Launching in beta, Tome’s AI enables creators to generate entire narratives from scratch, complete with intelligent titles, outlines, pagination, page layouts and page content supported by GPT-3 and AI-generated images. | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenAI develops AI system capable of generating 3D models | When the AI system receives a user prompt describing an object, it doesn’t generate a 3D model of the object directly. Instead, the AI system first creates a two-dimensional drawing of the specified object. From there, POINT-E turns the two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional point cloud, which is a basic version of a 3D model that functions as an outline. | Artificial Intelligence |
| HPE expands GreenLake private cloud offerings | Among the new services HPE announced is the option to deploy Kubernetes container services through Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere. Customers can now run the same container runtimes on-premises that they use in the public cloud, with a consistent experience across both public and private clouds. | Cloud |
| Flux Creates a Bridge Between Web2 and Web3 with OVHcloud Partnership | The Flux Cloud has seen a surge in adoption over the past year, with an increase of over 10,000% in network usage to date. More and more companies outside of the crypto space are noticing the advantages the Flux Cloud offers and want to get their feet wet in Web3. | Web3 |
| The Linux Foundation’s AgStack Project to Build World’s 1st Global Dataset of Agricultural Field Boundaries | The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced that its AgStack project will host a new open source code base, alongside a fully automated, continuous computation engine, to create, maintain and host a global dataset of boundaries’ “registry” for agricultural fields to aid in such things as food traceability, carbon tracking, crop production, and other field-level analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| Aston Uni developing 5nm surface channel storage technology | The university says that in the next three years the total amount of data in the world – the global datasphere – is predicted to increase by 300 percent. As datacenters account for around 1.5 percent of the world’s annual electricity usage, it has been recognized that building more huge warehouses is not sustainable. | Data Storage |
| AI-powered recruitment platform Perfect raises $13M in seed funding | The company says it wants to break LinkedIn’s monopoly on the talent scouting market, so it relies on generative AI to help companies search for the ideal signals for each available position they’re looking to fill. Perfect scans dozens of public data sources, including social media and other databases, searching for the ideal candidates whose skills match what an employer is looking for. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell's Concept Luna laptop comes apart like building blocks. Is it the future? | Some Dell laptops, like the 2017 Latitude E5270, have a repairability score of 10 out of 10 from right to repair advocate iFixit. Dell's Concept Luna laptop, which it unveiled last December, aims to go further with a design that has just four screws with minimal adhesives and soldering to hold internal components in place. | Automation & Productivity |
| FineShare FineVoice: One-Stop Digital Voice Solution Unleashes the Charm of Voice | FineShare FineVoice is a full-featured digital voice solution for streamers, gamers, podcasters, educators, students, etc. It can be used to change voice, record voice, create voiceovers, transcribe recordings, extract audio from video, and modify the voice of an audio file | Automation & Productivity |
| Tezos’ 12th protocol upgrade Lima delivers a leaner and more secure blockchain | The energy-efficient Tezos is well-known as the “self-amending blockchain” for its ability to seamlessly upgrade through its on-chain governance – a mechanism that allows network participants to propose and vote on upgrades and changes to the protocol. The Lima upgrade marks the fourth protocol upgrade in 2022 alone. | Blockchain |
| Esri Releases 2022 Update of Ready-to-Use US Census Bureau Data for ArcGIS Users | To help meet this need, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has updated ACS layers and maps in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. The newest values for five-year estimates of current data on demographic, housing, and workforce characteristics of the US population are now easily accessible to ArcGIS software users. | Data & Analytics |
| Xpublisher Software-as-a-Service Takes Publishing to a New Level | Updates and enhancements go live automatically. The graphical BPMN editor lets users design their own workflows that will help to digitalize even the most complex work processes and boost collaboration. With a personalized worklist, everyone has an instant overview of all pending tasks, together with the status of the overall process. | Automation & Productivity |
| Safe Security Launches First Cybersecurity MGA to Underwrite Cyber Insurance Based on Continuous “Inside-Out” Cyber Risk Telemetry | “Safe Security is thrilled to become the world’s first MGA for cyber insurance using actual cyber telemetry for underwriting. Our vision is to establish a new, de-facto industry standard for how cyber insurance is underwritten, and to provide more transparency between the investment in cybersecurity and cyber insurance,” | Security |
| Education company McGraw Hill exposes student data on unsecured cloud storage | Discovered by researchers at vpnMentor, McGraw Hill was found to have two AWS S3 buckets exposed to all and sundry. One production bucket was found to have more than 47 million files and 12 terabytes of data, while a second, nonproduction bucket contained more than 69 million files and 10 terabytes of data, bringing the total to in excess of 22 terabytes and 117 million files | Privacy & Security |
| MarkLogic 11 Unlocks Value of Complex Data with Industry’s Most Powerful Multi-Model Data Platform | The MarkLogic Optic API, introduced in MarkLogic 9, has been extended in MarkLogic 11, including added capabilities for the delivery of multi-model data to BI tools like Tableau and improved support for large analytics, reporting, geospatial data/analysis, and/or export queries with external sort and joins. | Data & Analytics |
| CrowdStrike Flies Falcon Surface at Crowded EASM Market | The vendor nabbed EASM provider Reposify in September to help customers identify exposed external assets. The startup’s core technology is to use one of the largest databases of internet-facing assets to help customers quickly view their external attack surface. CrowdStrike integrated this technology into its Falcon Platform as a standalone module, dubbed Falcon Surface. | Security |
| LinkedIn has massively cut the time it takes to detect security threats. Here's how it did it | By using automation as part of this analysis process, Moonbase shifted the SOC towards a new model; a software-defined and cloud-centric security operation. The goal of the software-defined SOC is that much of the initial threat detection is left to automation, which flags potential threats that investigators can examine. | Security |
| CyberCube raises $50M to grow its insurance industry-focused risk analytics platform | CyberCube is the creator of a cyber risk analytics platform that’s used by insurance firms and brokers to provide a better understanding of their customers’ exposure to cybersecurity threats, giving them a better way to protect themselves. Using the software, insurers and underwriters can evaluate individual commercial risks more accurately during the insurance underwriting process. | Data & Analytics |
| Startup says it can reliably detect AI-generated content | “our AI is much heavier on the compute side and looks at the article holistically, not using a linear function.” He noted that a recent test on a small corpus of articles generated by ChatGPT yielded accuracy rates of over 98%. | AI Ethics |
| Google Takes Gmail Security to the Next Level with Client-Side Encryption | "Using client-side encryption in Gmail ensures sensitive data in the email body and attachments are indecipherable to Google servers," the company said in a post. "Customers retain control over encryption keys and the identity service to access those keys." | Privacy & Security |
| Hacker Halts Sale of FBI’s High-Profile InfraGard Database | The database contained contact details of more than 87,000 InfraGard members, while the price for it was set to $50,000 However, Hackread.com can now exclusively confirm that the hacker updated their post yesterday stating that the stolen InfraGard database would ‘no longer be posted for sale’ as it would ‘‘cause more harm to everyone’’ than benefiting the hacker themself. | Data Privacy |
| IBM Private 5G Plans Percolate | The partnership calls for IBM to contribute its Cloud Pak for Network Automation platform. This “Pak” was boosted late last year through a deal with Cisco to infuse Cisco’s Crosswork service to automate and abstract the complexity of virtualizing the radio and network core. The integration will allow operators to orchestrate the management of virtual 5G networks and underlying optical and IP networks using a single cloud framework. | 5G |
| Kyndryl launches Cloud Native Services to aid app modernization | Cloud Native Services, according to the company, will provide a framework that will consist of code assets, workflows with integrated services around automated backup, patching, key performance indicators (KPI) monitoring, security, alerting and incident management. | IT Management |
| Red Hat Expands Visibility Across Hybrid Cloud Workflows with New Red Hat Insights Capabilities | Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced several enhancements to Red Hat Insights, its predictive analytics offering. This includes integrations for ServiceNow and Slack, as well as expanded monitoring capabilities to identify known threats in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. | Data & Analytics |
| Sigma Computing Announces Live Editing for Collaborative Analytics | “Our Live Editing customers are seeing over 90% adoption rate by their users because our spreadsheet interface is accessible and intuitive for most business professionals. Live Editing adds incredible value by enabling those users to work simultaneously in a Sigma Workbook at the same time, backed with power of all the data in the data warehouse.” | Data & Analytics |
| Armorblox Announces Significant Enhancements to its NLU-based Data Protection Platform | The expanded functionality of Armorblox Advanced Data Loss Prevention provides customers with precise protection across all confidential content types and sensitive data. Coupled with Armorblox Custom DLP Policies, organizations now have the ability to set automated encryption actions and exceptions for confidential content and sensitive data per user or per department. | Data Protection |
| Jamf Protect adds powerful telemetry to protect Mac enterprise | Threat hunters will be able to analyze macOS activity logs in near real-time using a single endpoint agent. That’s important, as especially in the event of significant attacks on company systems, professional security operatives will look to such telemetry before locking down against the attack | Security |
| SingleStore claims 100x speed boost for JSON queries | “Real-time has been baked into our foundational design from very early on and the continued innovation with the latest announcement sets us apart as the world’s only unified database that allows you to transact and reason with data in real time in a multi cloud hybrid distributed environment.” | Data & Analytics |
| Dropbox acquires document management startup FormSwift for $95M | “With a similar customer base of small businesses and freelancers, and a library of commonly used forms and agreement templates, we firmly believe that FormSwift is a strong addition to our document workflows product suite, and will help us bring even more value to our customers,” | Automation & Productivity |
| Web3 infrastructure startup Blocknative nabs $15M for Ethereum block building | In addition to providing infrastructure that allows Ethereum validators to create more profitable transaction bundles, Blocknative also provides a number of other services with its blockchain infrastructure solutions. These solutions include transaction preview, a Web3 app integration feature, a mempool explorer, a transaction cost estimator and a high-speed transaction distribution network. | Blockchain |
| Futureverse Announces Merger of Eight Web3 Companies With United Goal of Creating an Open Metaverse Ecosystem | For the metaverse to become a reality, infrastructure is critical. The Futureverse infrastructure consists of four core tools (identity, artificial intelligence, communications and payments) all vertically integrated via The Root Network: a decentralized blockchain network optimized for user experience. | Meteaverse |
| Tiger Technology enters digital pathology cloud file services market | “We are working with different scanning machine vendors and their workflows [for example Phillips]. A module in its scanner talks to our API to access cloud data. We’re middleware vendors and integrate our software with these front-end devices.” | Cloud |
| AI as a Service tech startup Jaid lands £3 million in funding to empower companies and teams | Founded by Dan Kramer, Jaid provides AI as a Service (AIaaS) solutions to businesses to automate a variety of use cases, including client service automation, sales automation, payment exception processing, and claims administration processing. | Automation & Productivity |
| Acceldata Open Sources Data Platform and Data Observability Libraries | Earlier in our careers, we used open source data tools, and subsequently, our team successfully built the world’s most comprehensive data observability platform. Now we are open sourcing a data platform and six data observability tools and sharing them with the community to adopt and advance these innovations to their benefit.” | Data & Analytics |
| Blockchain startup Orbs launches the TON Verifier to verify the ecosystem’s smart contracts code | Through the new tool by Orbs, developers can upload smart contract source code and include a signed proof to ensure it compiles to the on-chain version. Contracts are verified through the app, which compiles and verifies the source. | Blockchain |
| FBI InfraGard database stolen and offered for sale on cybercrime forum | USDoD told Krebs that they had gained access to the InfraGard system by applying for a new account using the name, Social Security number, date of birth and other personal details of a chief executive at a company that was highly likely to be granted InfraGard membership. | Privacy & Security |
| You.com creates an app store-based search experience to take on Google | Looking ahead, You.com said it will also rely on traditional advertising as an additional source of revenue. However, unlike Google’s ads, which are based on users’ histories, You.com’s ads will be based on the current search keywords only, similar to privacy-centric search engines such as Brave or DuckDuckGo. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft calls time out on Apple Watch Authenticator | Microsoft Authenticator makes it easy to sign into Microsoft accounts, supported apps or services using two-step verification. Authenticator also generates one-time use codes, so you needn’t wait for text messages or calls to access your accounts. | Security |
| Red Hat Expands Visibility Across Hybrid Cloud Workflows with New Red Hat Insights Capabilities | With the convenience of bringing Insights’ analytics directly into ticketing and workflow systems, customers can use the tools they are already familiar with while more easily adopting analytics into their existing operations. In addition, enhanced threat visibility in foundational technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables customers to reduce risks in their hybrid cloud operating environments for a more secure IT framework. | Data & Analytics |
| F5 expands security portfolio with App Infrastructure Protection | F5 already has a service called API Security, which helps organizations discover and map APIs, block unwanted connections, and prevent data leakage. AIP goes one step further and provides telemetry collection and intrusion detection for cloud-native workloads. | Security |
| Kyndryl introduces new cloud-native professional service offerings | Kyndryl says that its services are delivered with the help of infrastructure as code, or IaC, tools. IaC is an approach to infrastructure management that involves using automated workflows to perform key maintenance tasks. Such automated workflows can save time for administrators, as well as reduce the risk of errors. | IT Management |
| Linux Foundation Announces Overture Maps Foundation to Build Interoperable Open Map Data | The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced the formation of the Overture Maps Foundation, a new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data as a shared asset that can strengthen mapping services worldwide. The initiative was founded by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom and is open to all communities with a common interest in building open map data. | Data Management |
| Blockchain startup Aztec Network raises $100M round led by Andreessen Horowitz | Aztec Network is developing an encrypted version of the popular Ethereum blockchain. On Ethereum, data about users’ transactions and account balances is publicly accessible. Aztec Network’s encrypted version of Ethereum will render such data inaccessible, which the startup says will make it more suitable for running financial applications and other programs. | Blockchain |
| Infinity AI lands $5M in funding for its synthetic data generation tools | It’s this demand for synthetic data that prompted Infinity AI to create its platform. It makes it possible for users to upload a single, real-world video and transform it into hundreds of similar, perfectly labeled synthetic videos. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cybersecurity startup Protect AI launches with $13.5 million in funding | NB Defense is a free product that’s claimed to be the industry’s first security solution to address vulnerabilities in a core component used at the beginning of the machine learning supply chain: Jupyter Notebooks. | Security |
| SingleStore Announces Key Innovations for World’s Only Unified Database Built for Real Time | “Real time has been baked into our foundational design from very early on, and the continued innovation with the latest announcement sets us apart as the world’s only unified database that allows you to transact and reason with data in real time in a multi-cloud hybrid distributed environment.” | Data & Analytics |
| New Lacework capabilities manage cloud security and compliance at scale | Available for Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, the new CSPM capabilities allow organizations to create fine-grained custom policies to ensure configurations align with specific needs. Users can build custom cross-account reports to measure hygiene and achieve operational excellence with the latest Center for Internet Security benchmarks and industry standards. | Cloud Security |
| New Searchlight Security module automatically collates data from ransomware groups | Ransomware Search and Insights offers a curated view of ransomware groups, including tactics, incidents and victimology that can be observed in real time, helping analysts bolster their threat intelligence and gain the upper hand on ransomware groups. | Security |
| Uber has been hacked yet again with code and employee data released online | The leaked data includes numerous archives claiming to be source code associated with the mobile device management platforms used by Uber, the company’s food delivery service Uber Eats and third-party vendor services. No Uber user information was found in the stolen data versus internal code and Uber corporate data | Data Privacy |
| Azure Storage Mover competes with partners | Microsoft has set up a service to move NFS file data into Azure, competing with its partners Data Dynamics and Komprise, and also Datadobi and WANdisco. | Data Storage |
| Talent management platform maker Beamery vaults to unicorn status with its latest funding round | The principal focus, however, is to help companies manage their existing skill sets more effectively to improve employee satisfaction and retention. Beamery uses machine learning to analyze talent pools and surface skills that may not be evident from people’s education and work experience. | HR Tech |
| New Palo Alto Networks security products assist with data, analytics and automation | The first on the list are enhancements to Cortex XSIAM, an AI-driven extended security intelligence and automation management platform that turns widespread infrastructure telemetry into an intelligent data foundation. Using the data, the company says, Cortex XSIAM delivers best-in-class artificial intelligence and dramatically accelerate threat response. | Security |
| insightsoftware Announces Release of Jet Analytics Cloud | Jet Analytics is an intuitive, no-code data preparation and analysis tool that enables businesses to consolidate multiple data sources in one place, such as budgeting and planning, tax reporting and equity management. | Data & Analytics |
| Catalog demos massively parallel DNA storage search | Catalog is developing DNA storage technologies based on encoding data in sections of synthetically produced DNA molecule groups rather than the slower method of encoding it in DNA molecules directly. The writing and reading of data will be done potentially by using lab-on-a-chip sequencing technology and Catalog is partnering with Seagate to develop this capability. | Data Storage |
| Kubernetes receives new cybersecurity and management features | Two of the new features are designed to ease Kubernetes cluster monitoring. The first feature will make it easier to track hardware usage metrics, such as the amount of memory used by a container. The second new capability, in turn, will reduce the amount of manual work required to create a monitoring dashboard that can track the health of a Kubernetes deployment. | Automation & Productivity |
| ‘Zombinder’ service allows cybercriminals to easily add malware to legitimate apps | Detailed today by researchers at ThreatFabric B.V., “Zombinder” was discovered while researching several cases of threat actors using a form of Android banking malware known as Ermac. As the researchers dug further, they uncovered a campaign that employed several different types of malware targeting Android and Windows users, including Erbium, the Aurora stealer and Laplas “clipper.” | Security |
| TEAM IM Debuts ABBYY Vantage Connector for the M-Files Document Management Platform | The Connector bonds a specific ABBYY Vantage skill to an M-Files document classification and then links data extracted by the skill to properties (metadata) on the content. Once the document is processed, Vantage returns the extracted elements to M-Files where they can be used for metadata or for creating objects or sub-objects. | Document Management |
| Opaque Systems Unveils 1st Multi-Party Confidential AI and Analytics Platform | The platform further accelerates Confidential Computing use cases by enabling data scientists to leverage their existing SQL and Python skills to run analytics and machine learning while working with confidential data, overcoming the data analytics challenges inherent in TEEs due to their strict protection of how data is accessed and used. | Data & Analytics |
| Snapchat complies with the California Privacy Rights Act with a new toggle switch for users | While the CCPA gave residents the right to access and delete personal information held by businesses and opt out of the sale of that data, the new law puts into place further requirements for businesses around their data collection practices and data retention. It also introduces new notification requirements and clarifies that users have the right to opt out of both the sharing and the sale of their personal information, while also adding a new category of “sensitive data.” | Data Privacy |
| VA will use Silicon Valley hiring spree to bring fresh talent into EHR program, CIO DelBene says | New product managers brought in through the hiring scheme will be tasked with overseeing implementation of Oracle Cerner’s Millennium platform. The hiring scheme will use a new special salary rate for Technology workers, which is expected to be rolled out early next year. | Tech Jobs |
| Stolen data of around 5 million people sold on bot markets. Here’s how to check if your data was sold | After stealing data from victims’ devices using bot malware, hackers then turn to the bot markets to sell the stolen data to the highest bidder. NordVPN said the stolen data included user logins, cookies, digital fingerprints, screenshots, and other information, with the average price for the digital identity of a person pegged at 490 Indian rupees($5.95), Reuters reported. | Privacy & Security |
| Microsoft acquires optical networking startup Lumenisity | Lumenisity’s flagship product is a network cabling system called CoreSmart that promises to provide higher performance than traditional fiber optic links. | Network Management |
| Apple’s move to full iCloud data encryption hasn’t impressed the snoops | The move means that all content, chats, photos and videos, will have end-to-end encryption under Apple’s Advanced Data Protection feature. For the average consumer, this is a win, and for the average privacy advocate, it’s a victory in an ongoing fight with the authorities. | Data Privacy |
| Qumulo extends scaleout clusters , hardware support | The 265-node limit for a Qumulo cluster is a 165 percent uplift from the previous 100 limit. It means a clusters can scale to higher capacity. | Data Storage |
| Verimatrix Launches VCAS Monitoring in the Cloud | Verimatrix, the leader in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, announced general availability of its latest cloud-based content protection monitoring capabilities through its Video Content Authority System (VCAS). | Content Management |
| SONiC builds muscle for enterprise-network service in 2023 | The Linux-based Software for Open Networking in the Cloud decouples network software from the underlying hardware and lets it run on hundreds of switches and ASICs from multiple vendors while supporting a full suite of network features such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), remote direct memory access (RDMA), QoS, and Ethernet/IP. | Network Management |
| ConnectWise partners with Evo Security to deliver Identity and Access Management (IAM) Platform to IT Solution Providers | Evo’s Elevated Access, an essential capability for security best practices, allows TSPs to eliminate password and MFA code sharing amongst technicians and administrators. This built-in functionality removes the need for third party password rotation tools and other secret vaults while also tracking activity – a gamechanger for the TSP community. | Security |
| Spanish startup Nuclia reveals language search models | The key technology is natural language processing (NLP) and it uses language modelling to build vectors of language statements and store them in its open-source NucliaDB database. This is available in GitHub, is cloud-native and stores unstructured data and vector, text, paragraphs and relations indexing information. | Automation & Productivity |
| Personal information exposed in breach at employer services company Sequoia | Data that may have been stolen included names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, marital status, employment status, Social Security numbers, work email addresses, wage data related to benefits and member IDs. | Data Privacy |
| Cisco Refresh Sustains Demand After two Decades of Operating | The main use cases for this program are for organizations with smaller budgets and organizations growing quickly. With smaller budgets, the remanufactured equipment comes with a smaller price tag, but still allows these companies to conduct business with the level of connectivity they require to be successful. | Sustainability |
| Google introduces new machine learning addon for Google Sheets | Simple ML doesn’t require machine learning knowledge to use, Google detailed today. The addon is accessible through a panel in the Google Sheets interface that users can configure without writing code. | Automation & Productivity |
| Parascript Innovates Natural Language Processing for Unstructured Document Automation | Parascript uses NLP within the boundaries of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) as part of the data location and extraction process, turning unstructured data into structured data (standardized output) for use in other systems. Applying this technique to modern IDP solutions opens the door to full automation of complex document processes | Automation & Productivity |
| Security and compliance automation startup Drata raises $200M at a $2B valuation | The task of hitting SOC 2 compliance manually can be onerous and a large-scale organization could find itself buried in months of internal audits to reach it. With its platform, Drata says, companies can automate large amounts of that process, using it to identify trouble areas and quickly resolve them using a visual dashboard. | Security |
| Micron Delivers World’s Most Advanced Client SSD Featuring 232-Layer NAND Tech | The 2550 is the world’s first client SSD to ship using NAND over 200 layers. Delivering performance that eclipses the competition through its density and power advantages, the 2550 provides users with responsiveness and the low power consumption needed to extend battery life for work and home PCs. | Automation & Productivity |
| Bidscale Connect: Linking Government and Industry Through an AI-Powered Platform | On average, it takes over 18 months of pursuit and business development before a Government contractor wins their first contract. That work includes identifying potential opportunities, marketing to clients, and complying with agency regulations. Bidscale Connect solves these challenges through automatic workflows and intelligent analytics purpose-built for Federal procurement. | Automation & Productivity |
| New communities in Microsoft Teams service takes on Facebook and Discord | Named communities in Microsoft Teams, the service is pitched at groups such as recreational sports teams, event planning committees, parent-teacher associations and even small businesses that want to create a digital space to stay connected. Something between a Facebook group and a Discord server, the service allows users to send chats, call people and share photos and files to come together, organize and share ideas | Automation & Productivity |
| Apple to roll out new set of cybersecurity features for users | Apple’s iCloud service already provides end-to-end encryption for 14 data types. With the newly detailed Advanced Data Protection feature, Apple will extend end-to-end encryption to nine more data types including files from its Photos and Notes apps. According to the iPhone maker, the feature won’t become available for its iCloud Mail, Contacts and Calendar services because of technical constraints. | Security |
| FlexRule Recognized by Gartner for Enabling Companies to Automate Business Decisions with Advanced Decision Management Suite | FlexRule provides both an advanced Decision Management suite and methodology called DECISION-CENTRIC APPROACH to guide organizations through the journey of adapting to changing business requirements with effective and efficient decision automation solutions. | Automation & Productivity |
| Beyond Identity-Zscaler integration strengthens zero-trust architecture and reduces attack surfaces | The integration provides enterprises with continuous identity and device inspection and verification, enabling the real-time exchange of risk signals. The risk signals are incorporated before initial user authentication and monitored continuously, increasing the security of the entire user session. | Security |
| AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle all get a piece of the Pentagon’s $9B JWCC cloud computing contract | The decision to award parts of the contract to all four firms is in line with the Defense Department’s statement that it intends to rely on multiple cloud providers in the future, as opposed to just a single company. It’s a decision that analysts agree is in line with industry best practices. | Cloud |
| Mosaic Data Science Develops Innovative AI-Text Generation Tool That Summarizes Content for Specific Audiences | Mosaic Data Science has developed a text summarization tool that relies on recent advances in natural language modeling, including transformer architectures, to synthesize a long document or multiple documents into a concise summary – saving human review time and better informing business decisions. | Automation & Productivity |
| CockroachDB Introduces Functions to Increase Development Efficiency and Unlock Easier Migrations to the Cloud | CockroachDB 22.2 delivers User-Defined Functions (UDFs), a top requested feature from customers that will improve development efficiency, reduce application complexity, and streamline database migrations. | Data & Analytics |
| HPE bulks up hybrid cloud features in its GreenLake as-a-service portfolio | HPE also said it’s introducing a set of workload-optimized cloud instances that are available on pay-as-you-go pricing. It has expanded its partner ecosystem to include Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift container platform and VMware Inc.’s virtualization software. | Cloud |
| Arcitecta Unveils New Approach for Petabyte-Scale Data Resilience with Metadata-Based Data Protection | Powered by Arcitecta’s Mediaflux data fabric, Point in Time offers metadata-based data protection that secures data at scale, expedites data recovery, and eliminates the significant cost and business impact of lost data. It also provides a strong first line of defense against crypto locking with the ability to roll back ransomware attacks with its unprecedented recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). | Data Management |
| Rackspace confirms Hosted Exchange outage caused by ransomware attack | In a statement today, Rackspace said that the ransomware attack was isolated to its Hosted Exchange business and that its other products and services are fully operational, including its email product line and platform. | Security |
| Balance Theory raises $3M for its cybersecurity collaboration platform | The company provides integrations with popular cybersecurity systems. Using the integrations, companies can stream information about their cybersecurity infrastructure to the platform, as well as automatically update the information when there are configuration changes. Built-in access controls make it possible to regulate who can use what data asset and how. | IT Management |
| Twelve Labs Raises $12M Seed Extension and Announces Partnership with Oracle | A first-of-its-kind cloud-native suite of APIs that enables comprehensive video search, Twelve Labs’ platform views and understands the content of a video, including both visual (action, movement, objects, text, etc.) and audio (non-verbal and conversational) context. It then transforms the video content into a powerful intermediary data format (vectors), so that when a user types in a search query, the Twelve Labs AI automatically outputs the most relevant scenes across hundreds of thousands of hours of video. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI-based management platform startup Operative Intelligence raises $3.5M | Founded in 2019, Operative Intelligence describes itself as offering the first purpose-built Demand-Insights-as-a-Service platform. The company says its platform offers contact centers and business leaders irrefutable data to make meaningful changes in the way they serve customers as an organization, tied directly to bottom-line revenue. | Data & Analytics |
| Process mining startup Apromore raises $10.3M in funding | Apromore’s platform can map out how a company’s employees perform day-to-day business activities such as onboarding new customers. After analyzing a business workflow, the platform can determine what tasks it involves. Apromore also gleans other details, such as the amount of time those tasks require and the software products that employees use to carry them out. | Automation & Productivity |
| ChatGPT crosses 1 million users five days after launch | A few hours after the launch, the chatbot impressed many experts with its writing ability, proficiency in handling complex tasks, and its ease of use. ChatGPT is currently free to use but Altman said the company will at some point charge people to use the chatbot that many said could one day potentially replace humans. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AWS using Model9 as mainframe data pump to load S3 for replatformed mainframe apps | Model9’s software performs parallel IO transmission of mainframe data at scale to the public cloud or on-premises object stores, and uses IBM’s non-billable zIIP facility to process mainframe file data, meaning its mainframe compute is free. | Data Management |
| Cyera Delivers the First DSPM Platform that Offers Holistic Cloud Data Security Coverage with the Addition of SaaS | With the expansion to include SaaS environments, Cyera’s platform is the only DSPM solution that can break the silos that currently exist in securing multi-cloud environments by providing a unified view and control plane for data security across a company’s cloud data landscape. | Cloud Security |
| Finch Computing Accelerates its Natural Language Processing Capabilities | Its product portfolio includes the real-time NLP solution Finch for Text®, the dashboard solution Finch Analyst®, and a suite of data-as-a-service products under the FinchDaaS® umbrella. The company is a pioneer in state-of-the-art NLP and entity-driven intelligence capabilities such as text summarization and entity relationship discovery. | Automation & Productivity |
| Silicon Valley startup Reach Power raises $30M to beam electricity wirelessly with the world’s first industrial-scale wireless power | Enter Reach Power, a Silicon Valley startup that has developed the world’s first industrial-scale wireless power that sends wireless power “at-a-distance,” which means the device doesn’t have to be next to the charging station; it can be tens of feet away. The startup does this not just in the home but in industrial environments and on an industrial scale. | Emerging Tech |
| BeeHero Raises $42 Million Series B to Accelerate Deployment of Its Data-driven Precision Pollination Platform | “BeeHero’s mission is to deliver pollination accountability for commercial crop growers, by leveraging big data analytics and machine learning to help them mitigate pollination risk. Thus allowing them to focus on producing more food, securely, and sustainably," | Data & Analytics |
| Recosoft Announces DecksMoveIn Import PowerPoint into Adobe InDesign | DecksMoveIn converts text, tables, graphics, images, slide masters, and layout to the equivalent InDesign data and layout providing a high-level of PowerPoint to InDesign conversion. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hackers target decades-old web server: millions of devices vulnerable, Microsoft warns | This, say the researchers, represents “a supply chain risk that may affect millions of organizations and devices.” Indeed, over the course of a week, they found more than a million internet-exposed Boa server components around the world – mainly in India but also in large numbers in the US and Brazil. | Security |
| Introducing Powerfleet Unity, the IoT Platform that Brings People, Assets, and Data Together to Transform Business Operations | The Powerfleet Unity platform enables rapid and deep integration with IoT devices and third-party business systems to a highly scalable data pipeline that powers artificial intelligence-driven insights to help companies save lives, time, and money. | Automation & Productivity |
| RingLeader Launches ‘CrowdConference’ Service to Reimagine Team Communications | With its emphasis on real-time communications and turnkey capabilities, CrowdConference is much more than an enterprise-grade telecom service and can play a pivotal role in areas such as crisis communications, safety response, event planning, fundraising, first responders, and much more. | Automation & Productivity |
| SUSE Touts Cloud-Native Edge Prowess | “The edge is pretty new still, even to this day,” and it’s created very different circumstances for Kubernetes architecture, he told SDxCentral. In the pre-edge era, enterprises getting into Kubernetes had to manage “maybe three to five enterprise, big, beefy clusters” compared to numbers in the thousands today." | IT Management |
| Rocky Linux 9.1 Arrives With Keylime, New Module Stream and Compiler Toolset Versions | The Rocky Linux Cloud Special Interest Group (SIG) produced a variety of different cloud and container images, including new variants of the GenericCloud, EC2, and Azure images which utilize Logical Volume Manager (LVM) rather than traditional partitioning. | Automation & Productivity |
| Brytlyt’s Serverless Analytics Saves Businesses 90% of GPU Cost | Brytlyt‘s ground-breaking serverless GPU analytics platform is a game-changer in the analytics market. The usage-based model is the most cost-efficient way to run analytics solutions. This first-of-its-kind model for GPU can save businesses up to 90% of their hardware costs – breaking down one of the most significant and long-standing barriers to GPU-accelerated analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| Latest LastPass data breach involves hacker gaining access to third-party cloud storage | LastPass has a growing list of hacks and security incidents. Along with the now two this year, the company’s history of being hacked goes back to 2015, followed by security issues in 2017 and 2019. In December last year, LastPass users reported attempted logins using their master passwords, although the attack was attributed to credential-stuffing. In January, LastPass admitted it had suffered an outage it first denied that was caused by a bug. | Security |
| AWS Announces 5 New Database and Analytics Capabilities | Additionally, AWS announced a new capability for AWS Glue to automatically manage data quality across data lakes and data pipelines. Finally, Amazon Redshift now offers support for a high availability configuration across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZs). | Data & Analytics |
| Israel’s cybersecurity startup CyVers secures $8M Seed funding to make Web3 and crypto exchanges safer | The startup is developing agentless, plug-and-play, scalable, and highly accurate solutions to detect suspicious behavior. This allows CyVers to capture transactions during the few moments between the time a transaction is broadcasted and when it is registered irreversibly to a blockchain ledger. | Web3 |
| Eufy's security cameras send data to the cloud without consent, and that's not the worst part | He pointed out in the video below that, even though Eufy Security claims to take "every step imaginable" to keep its users' data private and local, it still uploads not only video thumbnails to cloud servers but also photos of the faces of people detected in the video, and user identifier data. | Data Privacy |
| DeepMind debuts new AI system capable of playing ‘Stratego’ | According to DeepMind, traditional methods of teaching AI systems to play board games can’t be applied well to “Stratego” because of its complexity. To address that limitation, DeepMind’s researchers developed a new AI method dubbed R-NaD that draws on the mathematical field of game theory. That method forms the basis of the DeepNash system DeepMind detailed this week. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Apple mixed-reality headset operating system reportedly now known as ‘xrOS’ | Apple guru Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that the name of the OS that will power the headset has been changed from “realityOS” to “xrOS.” The “XR” stands for extended reality, a term encompassing both augmented and virtual reality, or what others have referred to as mixed reality. | Emerging Tech |
| The Anyscale Platform, Built on Ray, Introduces New Breakthroughs in AI | For fast development and iteration, the new Anyscale Workspaces environment is now available for early access. Workspaces provides a unified and seamless developer experience to scale ML workloads from a laptop to the cloud with no code changes. In a single environment, developers can now build and move workloads to production while still leveraging familiar tools. | Automation & Productivity |
| Quantum developing AI-based media tagging | Quantum wants to automatically add metadata – annotations in effect – to documents, images and video recordings. This would enable users to search for things in potentially millions of files and objects, such as “find all penalties taken in Manchester United football matches in the last five years.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco to gauge user experience with its cloud-management service | AppDynamics Cloud ingests metrics, events, logs, and traces generated from the enterprise environment—including network, databases, storage, containers, security, and cloud services—to make sense of the current state of the entire IT stack all the way to the end user. | Cloud |
| New AWS SimSpace Weaver offers worst-case scenario testing at scale | Called AWS SimSpace Weaver, the new service allows organizations to run simulations that are “rare, dangerous or very expensive to test in the real world.” Described in one report as the ultimate real-life SimCity, SimSpace Weaver allows for worst-case scenario testing, such as what would happen in the event of a natural disaster hitting a town or city. | Automation & Productivity |
| Striim brings real-time data integration and streaming to AWS applications | Companies can perform continuous queries, enrichment and analytics on live streaming data, rather than waiting for it to land in a target database or data warehouse as they typically would. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco updates SD-WAN to simplify provisioning, management | Among the most significant enhancements to Cisco SD-WAN release 17.10, expected in December, is the ability to use Cisco SD-WAN Multi Region Fabric (MRF) support with existing Software Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) systems to significantly expand the reach and control of the SD-WAN environment. | Network Management |
| SMX Announces Outcome-Based Solution Delivery Approach to Drive Digital Transformation and Accelerate Mission Success | Through automation and solution teams aligned directly with business outcomes, SMX Elevate reduces dependence on labor costs and optimizes technology investments to take full advantage of modernized cloud and hybrid platforms. SMX Elevate reshapes the conventional approach to digital transformation by starting with business and mission objectives and making delivery and costs more predictable. | Automation & Productivity |
| Web3 game discovery and wallet app tech startup Glip lands $2.5 million in funding; hits 7 million downloads. | “At Hashed Emergent, we believe that the gaming industry will play a key role in onboarding the next billion users to Web3. Currently, there are two major challenges in Web3 gaming – lack of distribution channels and complex user onboarding. The team at Glip has built a seamless platform to solve both." | Web3 |
| Seagate introduces HDDs as fast as SSDs | The drive is essentially two drives in one, with two sets of platters served by two separate actuators, the arms with the drive heads, that work in parallel. So the 16TB/18TB capacity is achieved through two 8TB/9TB drives packed into one 3.5-inch form factor. The Mach.2 line is filled with helium to reduce friction. | Data Storage |
| EDB Unveils New Postgres Tools for Enterprises | With EDB PG 15, EDB supports PostgreSQL 15.1 wherever enterprises want to deploy, whether on-premises, in the cloud, self-managed or fully managed with EDB BigAnimal, EDB’s fully managed database-as-a-service. | Data Management |
| AWS SnapStart Speeds Serverless Startup | This is important as serverless platforms are typically used to quickly instantiate application functions that run for a short period of time. These are functions that may only last for seconds and need to be agile enough to spin up and down quickly. | Automation & Productivity |
| Panzura signs data management deal with AWS | “We’ve never lost a file, and we share a common goal to make the world safe for data. Leveraging the scalability of AWS technology stack, we are building a system that will one day make the entire idea of ransomware obsolete.” | Data Management |
| Schneider Electric, SAP tighten bonds to ease IIoT system integration | The two companies plan to create preconfigured deployment options for IIoT customers—so any company looking for, for example, a field service management tool using augmented reality can simply pick up and use the partnership’s preset hardware and software configuration. (Shop floor operational tech integration, using digital twins for lifecycle management, is also planned.) | Automation & Productivity |
| Windstream Puts SASE Spotlight on DLP | The DLP engine provided by Cato Networks – which the vendor added to its SSE 360 service in July – will enable Windstream’s SASE users to gain loss prevention for more than 350 data types covering globally sensitive information like health records or credit card and social security numbers, as well as country-specific information such as postal codes. | Data Management |
| Climate startup Agrology gets Seed funding to grow its predictive agriculture platform and help farmers combat climate change | Agrology offers a predictive agricultural platform that helps farmers monitor crops and receive predictive insights on irrigation, extreme weather, soil carbon respiration and sequestration, pest and disease outbreaks, and more. | Sustainability |
| Dremio pushes further into data warehouse land | Dremio’s software and Dremio Cloud now have a semi-structured MAP data type allowing querying of map data from Apache Parquet files, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. There are MERGE statement and FROM clause improvements, and improvements to scalar SQL User-Defined Functions (UDFs), tabular UDFs, Listagg, QUALIFY clause, and LIKE ANY/ALL/SOME statements. | Data Management |
| Obrizum raises $11.5M for its AI-powered employee training platform | The platform can ingest a company’s existing training materials, as well as related resources such as business documents. Built-in artificial intelligence algorithms then automatically assemble the materials into courses that Obrizum dubs Knowledge Spaces. | Automation & Productivity |
| Corsa Security Enables Terabit-Scale Traffic Inspection with Virtual Firewalls | The development means enterprises and service providers can group virtual firewalls—from leading vendors like Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet—into clusters and load balance traffic across the group of virtual firewalls to build large blocks of inspection capacity. | Security |
| AWS IoT RoboRunner launches into general availability | AWS’ RoboRunner service is designed to make it easier for companies to create robot management software. The service does so by simplifying one of the most complicated aspects of the task: data processing. | Automation & Productivity |
| QuesGen Systems Launches “QuesGen Cloud” to Accelerate Clinical Research Data Management | QuesGen Cloud solves this challenge by enabling dedicated remote instances that can be set up anywhere, anytime. The speed, flexibility, security, and scalability of QuesGen Cloud will allow impactful clinical research studies to streamline their data processes and ultimately to be more effective in their patient data operations. | Data Management |
| SANS, Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks Collaborate with Cyversity to Launch Global Cyber Diversity Academy | “SANS is excited to expand our partnership with Cyversity and further our collective mission to empower individuals launching careers in cyber, close the talent gap, and address the lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field," | Tech Jobs |
| Microsoft Azure launches DDoS IP protection for SMBs | The DDoS IP protection for SMBs can be used to protect even a single public IP address. It delivers the same services that larger organizations use, Microsoft said. | Security |
| Sapia.ai lands $17M Series A funding to reinvent job interviews and remove human bias from hiring | Unlike traditional job interviews, job candidates answer five questions in their own time, mobile or desktop, and Sapia’s Ai Smart Interviewer gives HR and hiring managers instant recommendations so they can find top talent. Sapia says its tool currently provides a 75 percent completion rate and candidate satisfaction at over 90 percent. | HR Tech |
| As computational storage gets more buzz, ScaleFlux talks up latest CSDs | Existing CSDs with, for example, onboard Arm CPUs need host software to to tell them what to do and have on-drive software to process data on the drive. ScaleFlux has developed a line of plug-in CSDs which compress and decompress data transparently to the host system and provide SSDs which perform faster, last longer and can have greater effective capacity than standard SSDs. | Data Storage |
| HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics | "Having everything with Google Cloud will provide a huge opportunity for discoveries. For example, data from our AI Avatar for natural language processing will already be in Google Cloud, ready for us to ask questions. This will speed up our work and make information more accessible." | Cloud |
| Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook | The data, sent through widely used code called the Meta Pixel, includes not only information like names and email addresses but often even more detailed information, including data on users’ income, filing status, refund amounts, and dependents’ college scholarship amounts. | Data Privacy |
| Squirro Partners with the Semantic Web Company Creating the 1st Comprehensive Composite AI Offering | It marries content from any source with a user’s intent and context to intelligently augment decision-making. It provides personalized results tailored to a specific individual, delivered precisely when that user requires it. | Automation & Productivity |
| New Black Basta ransomware campaign is actively targeting US companies | The Cybereason researchers note that while Black Basta isn’t new, its latest campaign is targeting a large number of organizations in an aggressive manner. It uses spear phishing,which involves sending emails from what appears to be a trusted sender to trick people into revealing confidential information. | Security |
| Keboola Announces $4.5M Seed Round to Help Any Business Unlock the Potential of Data | By integrating the entire data stack and automating all infrastructure operations, Keboola reduces maintenance and management friction and allows organisations to fully focus on turning data into business intelligence and new products. | Data & Analytics |
| Carv raises $4M to build Web3 decentralized identity for gaming | The company focused on Web3 gaming because it is the most consumer-facing market and that’s where the largest draw for decentralized identity opportunities currently exist. | Web3 |
| Over 1,500 apps found leaking API keys and potentially exposing user data | Algolia Inc.’s API is used to implement searches on websites and in applications. The search API powers billions of queries for thousands of companies every month, among them Stripe Inc., Slack, Medium Corp. and Zendesk Inc. — but in this case, only sometimes securely. | Security |
| Google releases YARA Rules to detect and deter malicious Cobalt Strike attacks | The new YARA Rules deliver a high degree of accuracy in detecting malicious variants of Cobalt Strike in the wild. Each version of Cobalt Strike contains about 10 to 100 attack template binaries that the YARA Rules can detect to ascertain whether the software is being used maliciously. | Security |
| Microsoft Warns of Hackers Using Google Ads to Distribute Royal Ransomware | The threat actor is known to rely on malvertising to point unsuspecting victims to malware downloader links that pose as software installers for legitimate apps like Adobe Flash Player, AnyDesk, LogMeIn, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. | Security |
| AT&T Accelerates AI Transformation and Speed to Market Up to 70% with H2O.ai | H2O.ai, an AI Cloud leader, today released updates to the first-of-its-kind AI Feature Store, an integrated online computational and storage platform that gives AT&T’s data scientists a unified, reliable source of reusable features which are the building blocks for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). | Data & Analytics |
| Dell expands data-protection product line | Dell's GDPI survey also found 85% of organizations with multiple data-protection vendors want to reduce the number of vendors they use. It cost organizations that use a single data-protection vendor 34% less to recover from incidents than those that used multiple vendors. | Data Management |
| CloudFabrix Launches Composable In-place Search and Log Intelligence | Log Intelligence as a Service, is very effective in implementing cyber security mandates for log retention, and preventing security breaches by optimizing Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM), predictive business analytics, incident response, cloud automation, and orchestration. | Data & Analytics |
| Google rolls out augmented reality-powered features in Maps and Search | Users will see a new “Search with Live View” feature made available that allows them to search the area they’re standing in using their smartphone camera. As users hold up their phone and scans nearby buildings, Maps will helpfully identify them as hotels, restaurants, banks, ATMs, stores and more. | Automation & Productivity |
| Scality Ships RING9, Software for Hybrid-cloud Data Storage | “Scality continues to innovate in scale-out object and file storage as evidenced by its new multi-tiering capability. This new feature enables high performance with low-latency flash and increases storage efficiency with tiering as data ages. This will improve usages such as backups and medical imaging, as well as new latency-sensitive workloads in media by automatically optimizing data placement," | Data Storage |
| Seagate doubles 18TB disk’s data transfer speed | Logically, the Exos 2X18 becomes two 9TB drives, and the two actuators address their own logical unit numbers (LUN0 and LUN1), which are addressed independently by the host’s operating system. The drives can have a 12Gbps SAS port or a 6Gbps SATA port. | Data Storage |
| Palo Alto targets zero-day threats with new firewall software | The new features are built into the latest version of Palo Alto's firewall operating system – PAN 11.0 Nova – and include upgraded malware sandboxing for the company’s WildFire malware-analysis service, advanced threat prevention (ATP), and a new cloud access security broker (CASB). | Security |
| Amazon RDS snapshots found to be leaking personal information | Discovered and detailed today by researchers at Mitiga Security Inc., the exposure comes through a snapshot feature in Amazon RDS that is used to back up the hosted databases. The feature allows users to share public data or a template database with an application, including creating a Public RDS snapshot for sharing without having to deal with roles and policies. | Data Privacy |
| Mosyle brings new iPhone, iPad endpoint security options | The company is unveiling its first endpoint security solution for IT admins overseeing fleets of mobile Apple devices. The idea is that the product, Mosyle Hardening and Compliance, ensures that employee devices are protected, compliant, and following the latest cybersecurity benchmarks. | Security |
| Okera Works to Solve the File Data Access Management Challenge with New Solution | With OkeraEnsemble, analysts/engineers and business/low-code data users have swift access to tabular and file-based data at massive scale using a single coherent collaborative platform. As part of Okera’s mission to democratize data for all users so they can safely and securely access data across cloud, hybrid and on-premise sources, OkeraEnsemble protects sensitive data and ensures privacy by managing data access without having to use different tools for both files and tables. | Data Management |
| Nvidia and Microsoft partner to build AI supercomputer | As part of the collaboration, Microsoft will equip Azure with tens of thousands of Nvidia graphics processing units. GPUs are widely used in supercomputers because of their ability to speed up AI and scientific applications. Microsoft will implement the GPUs alongside several other technologies from Nvidia, including the chipmaker’s Quantum-2 series of network switches. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Alluxio boosts scalability and adds multitenant support | Alluxio manages data across an assortment of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, using caching to minimize latency and moving data close to the point of processing. The company targets large-scale analytics workloads using frameworks such as Apache Spark, Presto and Hive. | Data Management |
| Comet Introduces Kangas, an Open Source Smart Data Exploration ML Tool | With Kangas, visualizations are generated in real time; enabling ML practitioners to group, sort, filter, query and interpret their structured and unstructured data to derive meaningful information and accelerate model development. | Data & Analytics |
| Iranian hackers breach Federal Civilian Executive Branch using Log4Shell vulnerability | Having gained access, the unnamed Iranian hacking group installed the XMRig crypto-mining software, moved laterally to the domain controller, compromised credentials and then installed reverse proxies on several hosts to maintain persistence. | Security |
| Alteryx Brings Scalability to Cloud Analytics with New SaaS Designer Experience | The new Designer interface will be powered by the Alteryx Analytics Cloud platform, meaning all cloud users will have access to the browser-based no-code analytics tool, with in-database pushdown processing for cloud data warehouses. | Data & Analytics |
| Astera Labs raises $150M to boost connectivity for intelligent systems | To this end, Astera Labs has developed a range of PCIe and Compute Express Link data and memory connectivity products that are purpose-built to facilitate complex heterogeneous cloud server workloads. Its newest product, announced today, is the Leo CXL Memory Connectivity Platform, which enables faster provisioning and improved availability, bandwidth and performance for applications. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google Public Sector offers government continuity of operations | Google Workspace is now able to help government organizations with their business and collaboration continuity needs. The offer ensures agency teams continue to work effectively and securely in the event of an attack, including having critical productivity tools like email, storage, document sharing and more. | IT Management |
| Gurobi 10.0 Delivers Blazing-Fast Speed, Innovative Data Science Integration | With Gurobi Machine Learning—an open-source Python project to embed trained machine learning models directly into Gurobi—data scientists can more easily tap into the power of mathematical optimization | Data & Analytics |
| Dell’s newest PowerEdge servers make HPC, AI and quantum computing available to companies of all sizes | They’re led by the PowerEdge XE9680, which Dell said is its first-ever high-performance server fitted with eight graphics processing units. Customers can choose from Nvidia’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs or A100 Tensor Core GPUs, combined with two upcoming 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable central processing units and Dell’s new Smart Cooling technology to deliver unrivaled performance for AI workloads, Dell says. | Automation & Productivity |
| ForgeRock Identity Governance helps solve security and compliance challenges | Built on Google Cloud, ForgeRock Identity Governance uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help organizations determine whether employees should or shouldn’t have access to applications and data. Leveraging ForgeRock’s platform, security decisions become immediately actionable for information technology teams. Excessive access is automatically removed and approved access automatically granted without the need to integrate additional products or solutions. | IT Management |
| Distributed file system startup WekaIO closes on bumper $135M funding round | The Weka Data Platform can be thought of as a software abstraction layer that can transform flash drives inside a cluster of on-premises servers or a public cloud infrastructure environment into a unified storage pool. It manages all the logistics involved in enabling applications to retrieve records and store newly generated data | Data Management |
| Cerebras Systems debuts AI supercomputer with 13.5M+ processor cores | According to Cerebras Systems, Andromeda can provide performance in excess of one exaflop when running AI applications. One exaflop equals 1 million trillion calculations per second. The startup says that Andromeda’s performance makes it suitable for, among other use cases, training large language models, which are complex neural networks that can perform tasks such as translating text and generating software code. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cradlepoint Announces ‘Network Slicing-Ready’ SD-WAN Ahead of SA 5G Network Adoption | The company’s NetCloud Exchange now allows organizations to create “multiple modem WAN interfaces aligned to slice instances defined by 5G standalone (SA) networks.” Organizations can then apply application-based policies to steer traffic to network slices, “whether it is a type of ultra-reliable low latency slice, an enhanced mobile broadband slice, a machine-to-machine slice, or a custom slice defined by the operator,” | Network Management |
| Microsoft’s new Supply Chain Platform combines data and AI to help fix logistics and inventory problems | It’s a composable platform that’s designed to help organizations maximize their supply chain data estate investments via an open approach that combines Microsoft’s artificial intelligence, collaboration, low-code and security. | Data & Analytics |
| Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign | "These malicious redirects appear to be designed to increase the authority of the attacker's sites for search engines," Sucuri researcher Ben Martin said in a report published last week, calling it a "clever black hat SEO trick." | Security |
| Sigma Additive Solutions and Dyndrite Announce Agreement to Build Connected In-process Data Software | By expanding development of Printrite3D’s visualization and analysis on Dyndrite’s Additive Developer Kit (ADK), users will have a single user experience for CAM, materials and process development, toolpath creation, and the resulting in-process quality data and analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| Zoom focuses on email and contact center integrations at Zoomtopia 2022 | Among the new capabilities announced at Zoomtopia is a new integration between Team Chat and In-Meeting Chat, allowing users to move between Team Chat and Meetings to reduce information silos and continue conversations once meetings have ended. | Automation & Productivity |
| Privitar Named Phase 1 Winner in UK-US Privacy Enhancing Technology Prize Challenge | Privitar is advancing to phase 2 of the challenge, where the company will lead a collaboration with University College London and Cardiff University to advance their proposal for “Project STARLIT” to create an end-to-end privacy-preserving federated learning solution that tackles the challenge of international money laundering. | Privacy & Security |
| Cisco, AWS, Dell Join Gov’t-Focused 5G, Edge Coalition | It’s focused on using GDIT’s Advanced Wireless Emerge Lab to develop use cases, prototypes, and services to make it easier to deploy 5G and edge capabilities. These will be developed in support of federal, state, and local agencies for use cases including military, logistics, supply chain, health care, education, and smart infrastructure. | 5G |
| Panasas Introduces Advanced Data Insight and Data Movement Suite for HPC and AI/ML Environments | The PanView and PanMove software solutions bring enhanced data management and analytics tools to Panasas storage that improve visibility and portability of precious data assets at organizations deploying high-performance computing (HPC), high-performance data analytics (HPDA), and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads at scale. | Data & Analytics |
| Hammerspace picks up speed in three-legged race | But every once in a while, a quantum leap forward is taken with innovation that changes paradigms. … Another paradigm shift is upon us to create high-performance global data architectures incorporating instruments and sensors, edge sites, data centers, and diverse cloud regions.” | Data Management |
| Island raises additional $60M funding for its secure enterprise browser | The company produces a browser product called the Enterprise Browser that embeds security models and requirements within the browsing experience itself. That allows users to have a familiar interface and experience while providing information technology teams centralized security control. | Security |
| ADVA Adds Time-sensitive Networking To 100G Edge Solution | With its new capabilities, the FSP 150-XG418 will simplify the rollout of 5G services at scale and enable use cases including mobile fronthaul, industrial automation and video/audio bridging. | Netowrk Management |
| Directus nabs $7M to build an open data platform for the enterprise | Using Directus, any company can quickly visualize its data, no matter the underlying SQL database, using a platform that is open-source, scalable and extensible without needing to adjust or change anything about the data beneath. | Data & Analytics |
| US Patent Issued for Exactech’s Predict+, First Machine Learning-Based Software that Informs Surgeons | This newly issued patent describes a method and system to predict outcomes following arthroplasty procedures and relates to Predict+. Predict+ is a data-driven, clinical decision support tool and the first software of its kind to use machine learning to predict individual patient outcomes after shoulder replacement surgery. | Machine Learning |
| LambdaTest adds macOS Ventura testing to its cloud | “We are not a testing tool company, but an enabler of an ecosystem where developers can run all kinds of tests written in any language or framework. The platform enables you to run your tasks at any scale from anywhere at any time.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Decentralized Data Solutions Startup Oort Launches Edge Network to Scale Web3 Infrastructure | “The scalability problem gives rise to other issues, like latency, reliability, and the lack of essential features like google-type file searching. When decentralized storage service providers struggle to meet the industry’s scalability needs, it’s hard for them to compete with traditional, centralized services. Our job at Oort is to solve these problems by drastically improving Web3 infrastructure’s scalability.” | Web3 |
| Identity.com Launches V2 Gateway Protocol to Simplify and Streamline Permissionless, Decentralized Identities | Identity.com, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization empowering users with better control of their personal online data, is announcing the launch of its next-generation Gateway Protocol. The version-two launch will enable users at individual and enterprise levels to have far more control over sensitive personal identity information that is vulnerable to hacks and abuse by a wide range of actors. | Data Privacy |
| Veeam and Datto rival N-able talks up Cove backup | The company is a Solarwinds spinout, with more than 12,700 MSP partners signed up and 1,400 employees. It has three product pillars: remote monitoring and maintenance (RMM), security and data protection, and the Cove product. | Data Management |
| Researchers in Korea Develop Novel Multi-Modal Image Retrieval System | The proposed model had both image and text as the input query. For extracting the image features from the input, the team used a deep neural network model known as DenseNet-121. This architecture allowed for the maximum flow of information from the input to the output layer and needed tuning of very few parameters during training. DenseNet-121 was combined with the bidirectional encoder representation from transformer (BERT) architecture for extracting semantic and contextual features from the text input. | Automation & Productivity |
| Zoom rolls out new email and calendar tools | The integrations are designed to save time for users by removing the need to toggle between multiple tabs. “The Zoom Mail and Calendar Clients (beta) will let any Zoom user — free or paid — access their existing email accounts from popular third-party email services directly in the Zoom desktop app. | Automation & Productivity |
| NTT DOCOMO partners with Japan’s largest blockchain company Astar Network to accelerate Web3 adoption | To expedite the growth of Web3 in their native Japan, Astar Network and NTT Docomo will foster initiatives that address technological, social, and organizational challenges. A consortium will be established that gives individuals and corporations the ability to utilize tokens for governance, a cornerstone of Web3 which supports democratic decision-making. | Web3 |
| Storj gives the lowdown on Web3 decentralized storage | "Blockchain requires high computation, it tends to have very high latency. And if you have a storage business and you have an hour and a half to save a file and retrieve a file synchronously, that’s not a thing that that many people can use well. But if you’ve got sub-second latency, and you’ve got high throughput, then you have a product that addresses a broad range of use cases,” and not just archiving." | Data Storage |
| CereTax and Peisner Johnson Partner to Bring a Powerful Sales Tax Automation and Compliance Operation to Multi-vertical Customers | “We believe it is vital to have a reliable compliance partner for our customers so that they are not putting all their eggs in a one-stop-shop basket. It gives more transparency to the customer and lends to a more knowledgeable support experience as experts on the compliance and calc side can see things the other side could potentially miss," | Automation & Productivity |
| VMware Carbon Black XDR offers improve threat detection across networks and endpoints | VMware Contexa records and processes more than 1.5 trillion endpoint events and more than 10 billion network flows daily. It also curates threat intelligence data captured through technology partnerships. VMware Carbon Black XDR taps into Contexa to allow security teams to identify threats quickly across their environment and make better-informed decisions in applying prevention policies. | Security |
| Exotanium raises $12M to optimize cloud efficiency while reducing costs by up to 90% | Exotanium is a startup with a lot of promise, offering cloud infrastructure optimization tools that it says can help enterprises to achieve significant savings while elevating performance and boosting security. Its platform, which is based on patent-pending technology developed at Cornell University, is claimed to increase the amount of computing enterprises use by up to five times, using the same budget. | Cloud |
| First Street Foundation’s Risk Factor Pro Provides Industry Standard Data, Analysis, and Insight to Every American Homeowner | The data available exclusively through Risk Factor Pro includes damage cost estimates, enhanced analysis of the consequences of flood, extreme heat, and wildfire to a building, visual graphics, and interactive maps. | Data & Analytics |
| Web3 Foundation Announces Polkadot Blockchain’s Native Token (DOT) Has Morphed and Is Software, Not a Security | “In the Web3 Foundation’s view, current offers and sales of DOT, the native token of the Polkadot blockchain, are not securities transactions. DOT is used for the purposes for which it was designed – among other things, to bid for and secure parachains and facilitate on-chain governance. Control of the Polkadot network has long been in the hands of DOT holders. Today, DOT is not a security. It is software,” | Blockchain |
| Equinix debuts highly distributed, low-latency bare metal deployment option for VMware Cloud | The service combines VMware’s managed and supported cloud infrastructure-as-a-service with Equinix’s popular bare metal-as-a-service offering. It brings the advantage of extending VMware users’ cloud environments into more distributed metro locations, providing higher performance at the edge. | Cloud |
| Mastodon now has over 1 million users amid Twitter tensions | Mastodon, the free, open-source, decentralized micro-blogging social media platform, has surpassed a million monthly active users for the first time in its history. | Social Media |
| Israeli gaming startup Xternity launches with $4.5 million in funding to boost the adoption of Web3 games | The gaming industry is undergoing a web3 revolution that is already in its advanced stages. While more infrastructures and adoption tools are released to the ecosystem, Xternity is focusing on building no-code solutions that help game developers boost players’ engagement, especially among GenZ. Xternity works as a meta layer that can be added seamlessly to any game. | Web3 |
| VMware targets remote workers with beefed-up SD-WAN client | "The new client, which runs on all major desktop and mobile platforms, contains “a lot of the capabilities customers expect from the VMware SD-WAN in terms of a single pane of glass, secure connectivity and a layer of error correction on top.” | Network Management |
| Startup UnifabriX exits stealth mode with CXL 3.0 Smart Memory device demo | The aim is to provide multi-core CPUs with the memory and memory bandwidth needed to run compute/memory-intensive AI and machine learning workloads in data centers. Existing CPUs have socket-connected DRAM and this limits the memory capacity and bandwidth. | Automation & Productivity |
| Samsung to mass-produce 1 terabit flash chip | Samsung said it was able to attain the industry’s highest bit density by significantly enhancing the bit productivity per wafer, by up to a claimed 20 percent. It’s latest chip is a good fit for SSDS using the PCIe gen 4 interface and doubled speed PCIe gen 5. | Automation & Productivity |
| Arista’s continuous integration pipeline brings cloud principles to the network | The new service is built on Arista’s recently announced EOS Network Data Lake. NetDL brings together its Network DataBase information and combines it with other data sources such as internet, application and user data. | Network Management |
| Google’s Cloud Hyperdisk to bring SAN features to GCP | It says SAP HANA, SQL Server, data lake, modeling and simulation applications need a single storage entity providing object storage flexibility with file manageability and block access performance. The coming Google Cloud Hyperdisk block storage offering meets these requirements and will offer 80 percent higher IOPS per vCPU for high-end database management system (DBMS) workloads when compared to other hyperscalers. | Data Storage |
| Australia’s biggest health insurer Medibank hacked; hackers stole data of 9.7 million customers | Medibank confirmed that names, dates of birth, address, phone number, and email addresses of around 9.7 million current and former customers were accessed in the data theft, Reuters reported. Medibank warned its customers must be vigilant about the potential of cybercriminals selling their personal health information on the dark web or attempting to contact them directly for extortion. | Data Privacy |
| Elrond rebrands as MultiversX as it shifts focus to the metaverse | According to its website, MultiversX is a highly scalable, secure, and decentralized blockchain network created to enable radically new applications, for users, businesses, society, and the new metaverse frontier. | Metaverse |
| JumpCloud brings Remote Access to cross-platform teams | Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking unified device and identity access management often take a multi-vendor approach. JumpCloud, a company that helps centralize management across users and devices, recently introduced its free cloud-based Remote Assist solution to provide a missing link to remote tech support. | IT Management |
| Exodus Announces BNB Smart Chain Support in Web3 Wallet | The Exodus Web3 Wallet is the ideal platform to explore Web3 projects, now including the BNB Smart Chain. Customers can earn yield or simply browse NFTs on multiple supported networks. Our browser-based Web3 Wallet is the only one they’ll need.” | Web3 |
| Meta develops new hardware-efficient video processing method | “The problem was that we were spending more than 80% of our resources processing minimum functionality encodings,” Meta engineers detailed in a blog post. “If we stayed on that trajectory, minimum functionality would monopolize our resources within a year. As a result, videos would start to take longer to publish — or fail to publish altogether.” | Automation & Productivity |
| ServiceNow launches workflow, workspace tools for enterprises and government agencies | Service Request Playbook for Public Sector provides templates that help government agencies digitize and automate queries. This makes it easier for citizens to request services via their computers, mobile devices and third-party apps and track progress up through resolution. | Automation & Productivity |
| Bitdefender Launches Industry’s First Chat Protection Feature for Mobile-Based Instant Messaging Applications | Bitdefender Chat Protection immediately alerts users if malicious links are received or sent during live sessions over the world’s most popular chat applications including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord. | Security |
| MindsDB Announces Over 70 Data Integrations, Becomes Fastest Growing Applied ML Platform | MindsDB also announced that it now has more than 70 technology and data integrations with many of the world’s leading compute, storage, and the most scalable, multi-cloud databases. These partnerships enable users of these data stores to take advantage of MIndsDB’s advanced ML from within these platforms, turning their databases into powerful predictive engines. | Data & Analytics |
| Cloud-native application security firm Apiiro raises $100M round | The software works by plugging into the code management tools employed by a firm and creating an inventory of software development assets. That gives Apiiro’s algorithms the chance to spot vulnerable application components. When developers make changes to some part of an application, the Code Risk Platform will assess those changes and look for vulnerabilities.. | Security |
| IBM Launches New Software to Break Down Data Silos and Streamline Planning and Analytics | Along with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson and IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, this suite also includes a new IBM Analytics Content Hub that helps streamline how users discover and access analytics and planning tools from multiple vendors in a single, personalized dashboard view. | Data & Analytics |
| observIQ Announces Enterprise Edition of Open Source Observability Pipeline BindPlane OP | Continuing its commitment to open source observability, observIQ announces the enterprise edition of BindPlane OP. BindPlane OP provides the ability to control observability costs and simplify the management of telemetry agents at scale while avoiding vendor lock-in. | Data & Analytics |
| Covalent partners with Boba Network to provide high-quality data that allows developers to build faster and easier across multiple chains | Today, the Coinbase Ventures and Binance Labs-backed Covalent announced a new integration with Boba Network, marking a significant milestone with the blockchain Layer 2 (L2) scaling solution Boba Network. Right out of the box, Covalent brings full transparency and visibility to assets across over 32 blockchain networks and is trusted by over 27,000 developers. | Blockchain |
| Serverless cache startup Momento exits stealth mode with $15M in funding | The startup’s product, the Momento Serverless Cache, is a cloud-based cache that can be connected to an application with as few as five lines of code. Developers don’t have to manage the infrastructure on which the platform runs. | Cloud |
| A Next-Gen Web3 Metaverse Has Announced Their First Demo | Artyfact’s team will do so by building a Web3 Gaming Metaverse with high-quality graphics and addictive gameplay, while incorporating revolutionary Play-and-Earn (PAE) model into the economics. This will make it an exciting and engaging gaming world that also has earning elements, rather than being a chore you have to perform to earn rewards in usual P2E games. | Web3 |
| Qlik Launches Qlik Cloud Data Integration | Qlik Cloud Data Integration is a set of SaaS services designed for analytics and data engineers deploying enterprise integration and transformation initiatives. The services form a data fabric that unifies, transforms and delivers data across an organization via flexible, governed and reusable data pipelines. | Data Management |
| Hackers Using Rogue Versions of KeePass and SolarWinds Software to Distribute RomCom RAT | The unknown threat actor has also been observed leveraging trojanized variants of Advanced IP Scanner and pdfFiller as droppers to distribute the implant. | Security |
| VAST Data to ‘revolutionize’ data lake market | So VAST will be adding data lake and data management capabilities, and OEM partners that are world-leading, without saying if they are in the IT hardware systems, data lake or data management business. Should we be thinking of Databricks, Dremio, and Snowflake, or traditional system OEMs like Dell and HPE? | Data Management |
| 130 Dropbox GitHub repositories compromised in successful phishing attack | The attack, which followed GitHub detailing a phishing campaign in September, was first detected on Oct. 14 when GitHub alerted Dropbox to suspicious behavior that had begun on the previous day. Upon investigation, Dropbox found that a threat actor pretending to be Circle Internet Services Inc. had accessed one of its GitHub accounts. | Security |
| Google plans giant AI language model supporting world’s 1,000 most spoken languages | Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world’s “1,000 most spoken languages.” As a first step towards this goal, the company is unveiling an AI model trained on over 400 languages, which it describes as “the largest language coverage seen in a speech model today.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Picsart Launches AI Image Generator and AI Writer Tools to Empower the Creative Workflow | Picsart, the world’s leading digital creation platform and a top 20 most downloaded app worldwide, announced new generative AI tools to create images and ad copy. | Automation & Productivity |
| Kioxia brings SSDs to AI and Arm environments | It seems counterintuitive, but apparently AI models can get dumber as they learn. Kioxia says that when existing neural network models are retrained with fresh data, leading to revised parameter weights, knowledge acquired in the past can be lost, leading to deterioration of classification accuracy. It calls this “catastrophic forgetting.” | Data Management |
| Arta Finance launches out of stealth with $90M backed by former Google Chief Eric Schmidt to replicate ‘digital family office’ | Arta also unveiled its platform today, starting with accredited investors in the United States. The startup unlocks the access, personalization, and connections that, until now, were available only to the ultra-wealthy through their family offices. Family offices typically employ teams of professionals who use sophisticated financial strategies and tap into exclusive investment opportunities. | FinTech |
| Google proposes list of five principles for IoT security labeling | Google argues that IoT product labeling has been lacking, even down to the definition of what labeling is. Other areas of concern and still open to debate include what labeling needs to convey regarding security and privacy, where the label should reside and how to achieve consumer acceptance. | IoT |
| API security and protecting the DevSecOps pipeline, Akto raises $4.5M in funding | Akto’s solution takes less than a minute to deploy and creates an automatic inventory of APIs, which security teams can use to detect PII data leaks and test for misconfigurations during development. | Security |
| Safe-T’s Privacy Platforms Reached Over 5 Million Downloads | Safe-T’s Consumer Privacy solution provides users with a robust privacy protection tool. Utilizing advanced encryption technologies, the privacy solution prevents access to and monitoring of a user’s personal data. | Data Privacy |
| Colorado quantum startup ColdQuanta lands $110M Series B to usher in a new era of quantum computing | “ColdQuanta’s core technology has a wide range of applications on the quantum technology spectrum. They’re not just tackling quantum computing, they’re also advancing quantum technology in developing the next generation of atomic clocks and radio frequency (RF) technologies, which provide significant advantages over classic antenna-based receivers," | Quantum Computing |
| NetApp introduces Blue XP data management | Blue XP is the common data management capability. It is a single, unified NetApp control plane for a data estate in a hybrid multi-cloud environment, consumed as SaaS. Blue XP has deployment, management, observability, security and consumption of data and application services, and operates in an open architecture | Data Management |
| Informatica Launches Intelligent Data Management Cloud for State and Local Government | Siloed, duplicated, and incomplete views of citizen identity and information need to be combined, cleansed, cataloged, and governed to improve data quality for more accurate insights, thus enhancing citizen experiences. | Data Management |
| Web3 bros form Decentralized Storage Alliance | This Web3 dStorage concept is specifically opposed to the so-called Web2 centralized storage provided by the main public clouds such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Wasabi, and others. | Data Storage |
| YouTube announces plans to bring streaming services to its main app | YouTube will act as a third party, offering various streaming services on its platform via its new “Primetime Channels.” It seems YouTube wants to become a kind of cable service for the modern world. | Apps |
| Pinecone Launches World’s Most Advanced Hybrid Search Functionality | “Vector search” allows companies to provide relevant results based on semantic, or similar meanings, as opposed to simple keyword-based searches. At the same time, keywords still matter in searches involving uncommon words like names or industry-specific terms. With few exceptions, companies have to choose between semantic search and keyword search, or running both systems in parallel. | Automation & Productivity |
| Azul launches Java new vulnerability detection to secure enterprise software supply chains | The code is run against known curated Java-specific common vulnerabilities and exposures databases to catch and reveal any potential vulnerabilities that might have been inserted along the supply chain, and sophisticated algorithms eliminate false positives. | Security |
| Dublin-based tech startup EVERYANGLE bags €2.7M to grow its computer vision and machine learning platform to analyze CCTV footage | However, less than 0.1% of CCTV video captured is ever reviewed by a human being, due to time and cost factors. EVERYANGLE’s unique platform analyses video footage rapidly and cost-effectively at scale to help retailers, hospitality providers, and fuel station operators gain rich in-store customer insights, reduce loss and optimize their operations | Data & Analytics |
| Notebook Labs raises $3.3M to build privacy-focused identity infrastructure for Web3 | Notebook’s platform uses zero-knowledge cryptography in order to permit identity verification, which allows users full control of their identity data and retain their own privacy. This also allows Web3 dapp providers to trust that users are who they say they are without needing to penetrate their anonymity. | Web3 |
| Google updates its Skaffold code deployment tool with new automation features | “Skaffold now intelligently checks the architecture of your local machine as well as the target Kubernetes cluster before building your images, allowing you to deploy to ARM, x86 or multi-arch clusters from a x86 or ARM machine without any manual configuration." | Automation & Productivity |
| EdTech startup Classera raises $40M Series A for the largest education platform in the Middle East and North Africa | The Company’s LSP is a fully integrated eco-system that includes a gamified learning management platform based on A.I and social learning, an augmented reality learning app “C-Reality”, a full ERP for educational institutions “C-Smarter”, an integrated e-payment gateway ”C-Pay” for pocket money, tuitions payments and financing, and a specialized educational marketplace for Edtech and educational supplies products ”Edumalls” | EdTech |
| InfluxData Deploys Next-Gen InfluxDB Time Series Engine with Unlimited Scale | The new engine reimagines InfluxDB as a columnar real-time data platform, delivering high-volume data ingestion with unbounded cardinality, optimized for the full range of time series data. InfluxData also adds SQL language support for queries, bringing the hugely popular data programming language to InfluxDB for the first time. | Data & Analytics |
| Google execs knew 'Incognito mode' failed to protect privacy, suit claims | A lawsuit alleging Google misled users to believe their privacy was protected in "Incognito mode" says internal corporate emails prove executives knew it did anything but. The suit seeks at least $5 billion from Google. | Data Privacy |
| ThoughtSpot for Sheets Launches to Bring Self-Service Analytics to Spreadsheets | With ThoughtSpot for Sheets, users simply install a free plugin app for Google Sheets, and then can instantly begin analyzing all their data in these sheets through search. Built and run entirely in the browser, ThoughtSpot for Sheets requires no data modeling, technical skills, or existing architecture. Users simply install, connect, and start searching. | Data & Analytics |
| Veeam launches Backup for Salesforce | “Veeam provides complete access and control of Salesforce data and metadata, as well as providing powerful, rapid-recovery capabilities for IT departments and Salesforce administrators. This includes granular and bulk data recovery of Salesforce records, hierarchies, fields and files." | Data Management |
| Mezmo Unveils Observability Pipeline to Enhance the Value of Data | Preprocessing data is a great first step,” said Tucker Callaway, CEO, Mezmo. “We’ve built on that foundation and our success in making log data actionable to create a smart observability data pipeline that enriches and correlates high volumes of data in motion to provide additional context and drive action.” | Data & Analytics |
| Lacework Brings Its CNAPP Solution To Google Cloud’s Chronicle Security Operations | By tapping into rich multicloud runtime alerts from the Lacework Polygraph Data Platform, organizations using Chronicle Security Operations gain better insight into cloud threats, helping them understand, respond to, and remediate incidents more effectively than ever before | Security |
| Soda Cloud Self-Serve Launches to Unite Data Consumers and Producers with Data Quality Agreements | Soda Cloud Self-Serve addresses these challenges by uniting data consumers and data producers through data quality agreements, empowering them to collaborate seamlessly, regardless of technical skillset. Democratizing data in this way enables everyone to feel confident when they talk about their data needs, ensuring more data-informed decision-making and delivering data-powered experiences for customers. | Data Management |
| IEX Group Announces the Full-Scale Commercial Launch of cloudSwXtch to Solve Challenges of Leveraging Cloud Networks for Demanding Workflows | cloudSwXtch is a virtual overlay network that adds feature rich, high-performance networking to cloud or edge deployments – while requiring no code changes to existing applications. cloudSwXtch unlocks missing network features that are required for demanding, high-throughput workflows such as financial, industrial, and media applications. | Cloud |
| Apple improves iCloud.com for better ease of use | With tweaked toolbars and button locations, the idea is that the iCloud site will be easier to navigate. One nice new feature in the Photos tile is that this now offers you your most recent images, though it would be good to permit users to choose a specific gallery, given that most people’s recent images aren’t necessarily the best pictures they have. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google acquires Twitter-backed AI avatar startup Alter for $100M to help creators and brands express their virtual identity | Alter, which started off as Facemoji, helps brands and creators express their virtual identity. As of June 2019, Alter had over 2 million downloads by tapping into youths. The startup also offered a plug-and-play avatar system to help game and app developers integrates avatar into their apps. | DevOps |
| Kentik Demystifies Kubernetes Networking with Kentik Kube | Kentik Kube gives cloud and infrastructure engineers detailed network traffic and performance visibility both inside and among their Kubernetes clusters — so they can quickly detect and solve network problems, and surface traffic costs from pods to external services. | Network Management |
| Filecoin Green Launches CO2.Storage: the Web3 Data Storage Solution for Carbon Offsets | Filecoin Green announced the launch of CO2.Storage, the first Web3 data storage solution to enable transparency for comprehensive environmental attributes underlying carbon offsets. This free storage utility aims to address the inefficiencies of traditional storage solutions for all types of digital environmental assets, including carbon offsets, Renewable Energy Credits and others | Web3 |
| Dataware pioneer Cinchy raises $14M funding to eliminate need for data integrations | Cinchy’s architecture solves those issues by removing the need to make data copies, or integrations, when launching new solutions. Instead, data can be “linked,” and the process actually gets faster and more efficient as the fabric powers more solutions. It provides an easier way to tap into diverse data sources, which at many companies include on-premises, cloud, SQL and NoSQL database systems. | Data Management |
| Oosto’s Latest Software Release Pushes Real-time Identification and Threat Detection to the Edge | The version release is accompanied by the company’s introduction of its proprietary edge device, the new OnPoint touchless reader tablet. This output allows security teams to further reduce organizational risks associated with outdated physical security systems, better manage controlled access, and identify safety threats. | Security |
| Oasis Labs and Equifax turn to blockchain to verify Web3 user identities | In an attempt to address these challenges, today, privacy blockchain provider Oasis Labs announced a new partnership with Equifax to co-develop a Web3 ‘know your customer’ (KYC) solution, which will provide a blockchain-driven identity management and verification solution for companies adopting this new iteration of the World Wide Web. | Blockchain |
| Flux decentralized compute service adds storage | “At Flux, we have made it our mission to offer business and developers operating on Web2 cloud services the same experience in a Web3 environment, and the launch of FluxIPFS is our latest step in doing so" | Data Storage |
| Chronosphere and PromLabs Make the PromLens Query Builder Open Source for All | Chronosphere is the only cloud native observability platform putting engineering organizations back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud native complexity. Chronosphere first collaborated with Volz in 2021 to tackle the challenges of open source standards accessibility when it embedded PromLens into its Query Builder, which offers a quick and simple way to write and troubleshoot PromQL queries. | Data & Analytics |
| Nutanix extends Kubernetes in HCI hypervisor | It announced broad support for the main Kubernetes container platforms, built-in infrastructure-as-code capabilities, and enhanced data services for cloud-native applications. | Cloud |
| LatticeFlow Secures $12M to Eliminate AI Data and Model Blind Spots in Computer Vision | However, models often fail to work as expected when deployed in production because real-world scenarios are far more complex and varied than lab training datasets. Because of this, 90% of all models don’t reach production, resulting in billions of losses. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Lexmark Enhances Cloud Services with Translation Assistant Solution for Real-Time Document Translation | Customers can scan documents in the original language using a Lexmark MFP, select the appropriate output language from several choices, and receive a translated* document within minutes. | Automation & Productivity |
| Monte Carlo Launches Data Reliability Dashboard | “Data leaders know data reliability is important, but typically lack the tools to measure it. Monte Carlo’s Data Reliability Dashboard will bridge this divide and provide better tracking for critical KPIs such as pipeline and data quality metrics; time-to-response and resolution for critical incidents; and other important data SLAs,” | Data Management |
| Solace and Gravitee.io Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next-Generation Event-Native API Management Platform | Forrester advises that, “Many organizations struggle with legacy approaches to integration. This threatens the ability of IT to deliver innovations at the pace of business change. While APIs are a key part of addressing this challenge, event-driven architecture is also key. But more than that, events and APIs must be delivered as products with self-service in mind.” * | Automation & Productivity |
| Big data-powered emergency response platform RapidSOS raises $70M | RapidSOS is the creator of an “intelligent safety” platform that helps emergency response workers with important data that comes from devices such as smart watches, which can detect when the person wearing it falls down, smart cars that can pinpoint their exact location, and smart home systems that can provide detailed information on a house fire, for example. | Data & Analytics |
| Netmaker Launches with $2.3 Million in Funding to Fix Cloud Networking with WireGuard | Netmaker allows applications to access each other directly and securely, without going through a central gateway. It does this with peer-to-peer virtual networks, automated over a client-server model. The server manages the keys, addresses, and discovery of peers, and sends this information to clients, which enables advanced routing operations to move traffic into, out of, and throughout the network. | Network Management |
| Seqera Labs lands €22M in Series A funding for its data orchestration and workflow platform for life sciences | The Series A funding follows a period of strong growth, with a 400% year-over-year revenue increase and a tripling of employees over the last 12 months. Seqera’s goal is to empower scientists to assemble and deploy massively scalable data analysis pipelines in multi-cloud environments with minimal friction. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco Webex supports hybrid work with new collaboration capabilities | Despite hybrid and remote work models having firmly cemented themselves as an established way of working, an October 2022 report by Frost & Sullivan looking at the state of the global video conferencing device market found that only 6.4% of meeting rooms and classrooms are video-enabled. | Automation & Productivity |
| Duality Introduces Its Privacy-Enhanced Data Collaboration Platform | The fully production-ready platform comes equipped with unparalleled data science and performance capabilities that significantly reduce the time to carry out encrypted queries on large datasets across any environment or cloud. | Data & Analytics |
| Forget about SaaS security at your peril, Valence Security raises $25M | Valence Security’s solution sits within the global SaaS security market, which researchers valued at $8,294.10 million in 2021, and estimate will reach $2,1166.85 million by 2028. | Security |
| Resonai, which uses AI and AR to create digital twins of buildings, raises $20M in funding | Using the Vera platform, a theater space, retail setting, a spacious apartment or any other kind of building can be scanned and sent to Vera’s AR cloud to create a highly accurate 3D digital twin. This virtual space then becomes available via the cloud and is connected to Vera operated apps and mobile devices. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Dell bulks out zero trust services portfolio to help protect Microsoft users | Hamid points out that the path to Zero Trust looks different for every organization and involves a complex journey to implement this type of system architecture. If you take the attitude that, literally, data and resources are inaccessible by default, then every data and resource accessed by a user and applications they invoke needs verifying. | Security |
| SUSE debuts Edge 2.0 platform for running containers at the network edge | The Edge 2.0 platform is based on three existing SUSE products: SLE Micro, Rancher and NuVector. SLE Micro is a Linux distribution designed to run on edge devices. Rancher is a container management platform, while NuVector is a cybersecurity tool for protecting containerized applications from hacking attempts. | Edge Computing |
| Prove Announces the Launch of Prove Auth to Deliver Next-Generation Passwordless Identity Authentication | Prove Auth is powered by Pinnacle™, Prove’s identity platform which manages identity tokens for 90% of the US adult population and is rapidly expanding globally. Prove’s identity tokens enable passive authentication with unparalleled accuracy versus legacy methods that are probabilistic and cumbersome. | Security |
| Dynatrace Extends Its Davis AI Engine to Enable Ad Hoc, Exploratory Analytics | This enhancement builds on the Davis engine’s existing capabilities, including automatic and continuous full-stack monitoring, processing trillions of dependencies in real time, and delivering precise answers and intelligent automation from data. | Data & Analytics |
| Open Systems Provides Innovative IoT Security Monitoring to Protect Microsoft Customers Against Cyberthreats | By adding IoT and OT telemetry to MDR+, customers benefit from 24×7 detection and response that correlates alerts across their IoT, OT and IT environments for maximum visibility and protection as part of a holistic security program. | Security |
| Fermyon raises $20M in early-stage funding for its cloud application platform | According to Fermyon, WebAssembly is suitable for building not only browser-based programs but also cloud applications that implement a microservices architecture. A microservices architecture is an approach to application design that prioritizes modularity. | Cloud |
| Skykick Launches Security Manager To Help 100,000 Microsoft Cloud ITSPs Improve Customer Security, Reduce Cost, And Accelerate Growth | A small 10-person ITSP primarily focused on SMB-relevant applications like Microsoft 365 could be spending as many as 2,500 hours a year on security tickets like MFA, Phishing and Single Sign-on authentication. | Security |
| Web3 newsletter platform Paragraph raises $1.7M in pre-seed funding | In order to push the boundaries of publishing using blockchain technology, Paragraph has partnered with multiple companies including distributed identity provider Unstoppable Domains, collaborative publishing tool Clubs.link and the social network protocol Farcaster. | Blockchain |
| Uptycs Introduces Industry-First Detections that Correlate Threat Activity from the Kubernetes Control Plane and Container Runtime | “Uptycs correlates risk signals from the modern attack surface for lightning-fast, contextualized detection and response. We do this with our unique, telemetry-powered approach and Detection Cloud. It’s a shift up approach to cybersecurity that brings together multiple teams and types of IT infrastructure into a unified data model and UI.” | Security |
| iCIMS Introduces iCIMS Advanced Analytics and Delivers New Capabilities for Deeper Talent Insight and Recruitment Efficiency | Powered by Visier, a leader in people analytics, iCIMS Advanced Analytics helps talent teams analyze and visualize applicant tracking system (ATS) data like never before. The new solution gives users more talent intelligence with greater flexibility, while saving time and streamlining collaboration | Data & Analytics |
| Merge API secures $55M to speed up software integration projects | If a company wishes to connect its software product to three third-party services, it would usually have to build three integrations, or one for each service’s API. Using Merge’s platform, it’s possible to perform the same task using only one API instead of three. | Automation & Productivity |
| ServiceNow’s Lightstep enables ‘observability as code’ with query language for Kubernetes apps | Announced today, Lightstep UQL is designed to help DevOps teams create Kubernetes apps that are born “fully observable,” making it easier to enforce best practices proactively around consistency, maintainability and reproducibility using familiar code-based queries. | Cloud |
| Section.io’s On-Demand Deployment tackles multicloud deployment complexity | Section’s On-Demand Deployment is designed to allow developers to deliver application workloads across a globally distributed platform in seconds, compared with hours or days-long manual processes. Once deployed, Section says, its intelligent and adaptive automation manages workloads around performance, reliability, compliance, cost or other developer intent to ensure applications run at the right place and time. | Automation & Productivity |
| FBI warning: This ransomware group is targeting poorly protected VPN servers | After accessing the VPN, the group used remote protocols SSH and RDP to move laterally, then sought privileged accounts through credential dumping and 'pass the hash', where attackers use stolen password hashes to move laterally. | Security |
| HashiCorp and Intel Collaborate to Help Platform Teams Improve Cloud Adoption and Migration Efforts | “HashiCorp’s products help the world’s largest enterprises automate the provisioning, networking, and security that underlie their cloud operations. This collaboration will make the process of migrating to the cloud easier and more effective for companies all over the world.” | Cloud |
| Panzura positions and pans its competition | The company sees itself as providing a cloud-based distributed and global primary and secondary file data access and management platform that negates the need for on-premises filers. Its software is divided into four layers. | Data Management |
| Microsoft debuts Arm-based personal computer for developers | The Windows Dev Kit 2023 combines the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip with 32 gigabytes of memory and 512 gigabytes of high-speed NVME flash storage. According to Microsoft, the machine also includes a neural processing unit optimized for running artificial intelligence software. | Automation & Productivity |
| Pepperdata Unveils Autonomous FinOps for Kubernetes | The latest release enables executives, platform engineering and IT ops teams, and finops professionals managing Kubernetes workloads in public clouds to achieve desired economics from compute resources – without manual intervention or code changes | IT Management |
| EagleView Assess Autonomous Drone-Sourced Property Intelligence | Launching from the ground, EagleView Assess lets contractors, adjusters, and insurance carriers obtain unbiased evidence of roof damage, including hail, wind, or aging – without the worries of actively piloting the drone. This level of autonomy plus property intelligence removes much of the friction from the claims process, speeding claim acceptance and ultimately, homeowner’s repairs | Automation & Productivity |
| Orion Governance Partners with Qlik to Help Enterprises Solve Data Challenges | The integration of our EIIG platform enables Qlik users to see key data metrics such as quality score, value score, and trust score right in their Qlik apps. Users can dive into the EIIG platform to see data lineage and get more insight by leveraging metadata analytics such as impact analysis. | Data & Analytics |
| Milkomeda Paves the Way for Blockchain Growth and Interoperability With the Launch of the EVM-Based A1 Rollup on Algorand | The A1 Rollup is an EVM-based (Ethereum Virtual Machine) layer 2 solution that exposes the Algorand ecosystem and its users to the hundreds of thousands of developers writing in Solidity, the world’s most popular smart contracting language. | Blockchain |
| IBM Releases Its Diamondback Tape Library | IBM is extending its comprehensive portfolio of data resilience solutions with the introduction of the IBM Diamondback Tape Library, a high-density archival storage solution that is physically air-gapped to help protect against ransomware and other cyber threats in hybrid cloud environments. | Data Storage |
| Google opens up Workspace with slew of third-party integrations | The new additions include the launch of third-party smart chips in Docs and new integrations and enhanced API capabilities for Meet, Chat and Spaces—all of which are meant to deliver new ways to use third-party applications within or alongside Google Workspace. | Automation & Productivity |
| Jumio extends platform with KYC and anti-fraud technology from 4Stop | The enhanced platform streamlines fraud, eKYC and anti-money-laundering compliance management with a one-stop orchestration hub. The hub brings together global data, risk signals, real-time analytics, actionable insights and a configurable rules engine to help businesses defend against fraud without compromising user experience, the company says | Security |
| Syniti Introduces AI-Driven Matching Solution to Support Both Party and Operational Data | "With Syniti Match, we are reducing the wasted time spent on the tedious processes of eliminating the duplications and inconsistencies that drive down the quality of your data.” | Data Management |
| Ankr launches Chainscanner, an all-in-one block explorer and analytics platform for app-specific blockchains | The newly-launched Chainscanner provides an easy way for both developers and users to view and analyze data and interact with their desired chains. It also offers developers and users an easy-to-use interface to take care of all needs for interacting with AppChains deployed on sidechain ecosystems like BNB, Polygon, and Avalanche. | Blockchain |
| Keebo Raises $15M; Launches Automated Warehouse Optimization | Today, Keebo also announced its fully automated Warehouse Optimization, a novel hosted capability that will allow businesses to significantly reduce the cost of their cloud warehousing – on average by 30-60% – and free up their data teams to focus on work with clear business value rather than relying on manual optimizations for their workload and data infrastructure. | Data Management |
| London-based cybersecurity startup OutThink raises $10 million to tackle human errors behind data breaches | “The idea for OutThink was born out of frustration that existing solutions on the market were failing, yet it also came from a passionate belief that if we engaged people beyond traditional security awareness training into human risk management, we could make them the organization’s strongest defense mechanism,” | Security |
| Seagate Introduces Cloud Import by Lyve Mobile Services | Cloud Import, an additional feature for Lyve Mobile Services, allows customers to easily accelerate their data ingestion from the field to any major public clouds by simply adding the feature to their Project Plan. | Data Management |
| Ataccama Announces Major Update with Upgraded Data Catalog and New Observability Module | At the heart of the new release is an upgraded Ataccama ONE Data Catalog, now enhanced with greater capabilities for collaboration, compliance and data activation, as well as a new Data Observability module built for enterprise use. | Data & Analytics |
| Veryfi Technology Enables TripActions to Eliminate Expense Reporting | Veryfi, using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to instantly transform documents into structured data,announced that TripActions is using the company’s technology to eliminate the time that is spent by employees filling out expense reports — saving businesses up to 86% in out-of-policy spend. | Automation & Productivity |
| Veritas Introduces Veritas Alta Cloud Data Management Platform | “Veritas Alta advances our mission to empower customers to own and control their data no matter where it resides—on-prem or in the cloud—while reducing the operational complexity and costs associated with managing multi-cloud environments.” | Data Management |
| VAST Data Lays the Foundation for Zero-Trust, Zero-Waste Infrastructure with Latest Universal Storage Release | Built upon its revolutionary disaggregated and shared-everything (DASE) architecture, the new feature updates (versions 4.4 & 4.5) in Universal Storage enable VAST to power a zero-trust approach to data protection. | Data Storage |
| Oracle debuts Alloy infrastructure platform and new data lakehouse | Alloy is described as a hardware and software platform that makes it possible to create a version of Oracle’s public cloud platform in on-premises data centers. Additionally, an organization can make its Alloy-powered infrastructure available to its customers similarly to a cloud provider. | Data & Analytics |
| Red Hat and IBM Research Advance IT Automation with AI-Powered Capabilities for Ansible | Project Wisdom – underpinned by AI foundation models derived from IBM’s AI for Code efforts – works by enabling a user to input a command as a straightforward English sentence. It then parses the sentence and builds the requested automation workflow, delivered as an Ansible Playbook, which can be used to automate any number of IT tasks | Automation & Productivity |
| Hightouch Adds dbt Code Checks to Its Data Activation Platform | Now, as users update their dbt models in GitHub, they are proactively notified of any potential breaking changes to downstream Hightouch syncs, giving them the guardrails and visibility needed to empower more teams with data. | Data & Analytics |
| Azure touts elasticated SAN service | Think of it as a logical external SAN array for Azure compute instances, which is built from Azure storage drives and has the ability to scale compute (IOPS and GB/sec throughput) and capacity in lockstep or separately. Performance can go up to millions of IOPS at SAN level, 64,000 IOPS at volume level, double-digit GB/sec bandwidth, and <10ms latency. | Data Storage |
| Alteryx Announces New Enhancements for Cloud Analytics and Enterprise Readiness | Alteryx Machine Learning is now powered by the Alteryx Analytics Cloud platform. Now, anyone with a non-data science background can easily build automated machine learning models at scale to create predictive financial forecasts, identify overdue accounts, segment customers, improve user engagement and more. | Data & Analytics |
| Open Compute Project announces Caliptra, a new standard for trust in hardware | Caliptra is said to define a reusable drop-in silicon code block for root of trust measurement that can be integrated into any modern application-specific integrated circuit or system-on-chip, including new central processing units, graphics processing units, solid state drives and network interface controllers. | Security |
| Keebo AI optimizes data warehouses with automated ‘learning’ platform, raises $10.5M | The hosted capability, the company claims, can quickly identify opportunities to make data processing more efficient with less cloud usage, enabling businesses to reduce the cost of their cloud warehousing on average by 30-60%. | Automation & Productivity |
| Meta contributes Grand Teton AI infrastructure platform to the Open Compute Project | Grand Teton was actually just one of several new contributions Meta has made to the OCP. Other announcements included Open Rack v3, the latest edition of Meta’s Open Rack hardware, designed with increased flexibility. Open Rack v3 comes with a frame and the power infrastructure to support multiple use cases, including Grand Teton. | Artificial Intelli |
| TikTok rival Triller launches metaverse platform Metaverz | TikTok rival Triller becomes the latest company to join the metaverse bandwagon with the launch Monday of Metaverz, a new metaverse that provides virtual spaces where users can gather to watch live music and sporting events. | Metaverse |
| Exabeam New-Scale SIEM enables security teams to ‘Detect the Undetectable’ | The new Exabeam Security Operations Platform is designed to give security teams the “greatest fighting chance” at defeating adversaries through a workflow for threat detection, investigation and response. The new product portfolio combines cloud-scale security log management, behavioral analytics and an automated investigation experience — the core elements of New-Scale SIEM. | Security |
| PIP launches PIP.me 2.0, a set of customizable eWeb3 pages that change the way users handle payments and interact with cryptos | The PIP.me solution serves as a personalized eWeb3 page for every service user. In addition, PIP has changed how people accept cryptocurrency payments, removing the need for remembering wallet addresses. Supporting industry-leading blockchains like BNB Chain, The PIP.me solution provides the easiest Web3 website for every user without any fee. | Web3 |
| California gives counties the option to issue digital birth, death, marriage certificates | Senate Bill 786, more cumbersomely known as: County birth, death, and marriage records: blockchain, was signed by the governor last week. If refers specifically to Verifiable Credentials, which became a W3C standard earlier this year. | Blockchain |
| Infinidat ups capacity and cyber resiliency | The high-end InfiniBox array has increased maximum capacity to 17.28PB effective after compression and thin provisioning. The prior top-end F6300 InfiniBox provided 10PB effective capacity. That total has increased 72.8 percent by moving to 20TB disk drives. | Data Storage |
| Kyndryl, Microsoft and Dell Unveil Solution to Advance Cloud Transformation | Customers can deploy Kyndryl Distributed Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with Azure Arc in a data center, remote office and branch office (ROBO) locations or even next to an assembly line in a factory to run augmented reality maintenance and repair (ARMAR) in real-time and collect IoT data to derive insights for predictive maintenance and manage operations. | Cloud |
| New PHP Version of Ducktail Malware Hijacking Facebook Business Accounts | Ducktail, which emerged on the threat landscape in late 2021, is attributed to an unnamed Vietnamese threat actor, with the malware primarily designed to hijack Facebook business and advertising accounts. | Security |
| Smart IOPS packet-switching controller supercharges SSDs | Startup Smart IOPS has burst out from stealth mode with a line of enterprise-class PCIe 3 and 4 SSDs using its own controller chip that it says treats data blocks like packets to achieve vastly increased IOPS and low latency. | Data Storage |
| Microsoft 365 Message Encryption found to leak structural information in messages | According to the advisory, attackers who can obtain enough OME emails could use the information to infer the contents of the messages partially or fully by analyzing the location and frequency of repeated patterns in individual messages. Having done so, an attacker could then match these patterns to ones found in other OME emails and files. | Security |
| Matillion Announces Release of Its Data Productivity Cloud Platform | Matillion is the only platform with a wizard-based approach to building custom connectors for loading data, providing universal connectivity to any source with no coding necessary. The Data Productivity Cloud enables unprecedented access to an organization’s data, allowing users of all skill levels to glean insights from all over the business. | Data Management |
| SecuriThings raises $21M for its connected device management platform | The first device management task that SecuriThings’ platform promises to ease is ensuring cybersecurity requirements are met. According to the startup, its platform can automatically scan an organization’s devices for potential vulnerabilities. Its algorithms also detect if hackers attempt to use those vulnerabilities to launch cyberattacks. | Security |
| This unusual ransomware attack targets home PCs, so beware | The website suggests that the user needs to update their computer with an important software update – claiming that they're antivirus or Windows system needs it – and tricks users into downloading a JavaScript file that contains the ransomware payload. | Security |
| US Army reportedly planning $1B cloud migration contract | The contract is expected to be awarded by July 2023. From there, cloud migration initiatives procured through the agreement will be managed by the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency. The agency, which was launched in 2019, helps coordinate the Army’s cloud computing projects. | Cloud |
| Financial technology startup NorthOne secures $67M in fresh funding | NorthOne offers a feature called Envelopes to ease budgeting for businesses. According to the startup, the feature enables users to specify what percentage of revenues should be invested in what area. It can then automatically calculate a budget based on a company’s latest revenue data. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft boosts Azure’s big-data cred with flurry of database-related enhancements | Generally available now, the Partner Ecosystem spans each layer of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, beginning with databases. Here, Microsoft is integrating with the popular third-party databases MongoDB and Yugabyte DB, adding their NoSQL and NewSQL capabilities and enhancing them with its own analytics and data governance tools. | Data & Analytics |
| planetRE Announces API Based New Web 3 Passwordless Authentication Systems | planetRE, the nation’s leading enterprise cloud vendor, has announced on the eve of ALTA One 2022, the Annual North American Title company event, the launch of world’s first, patent pending Web 3 based Digital Identity Management and passwordless system under the Skyharbor brand. | Web3 |
| Matillion unveils new Data Productivity Cloud with low-code user interface | The advantage of the Matillion Data Productivity Cloud is in its simplicity, the company explained, as it’s uniquely ready for any user to connect data and put it to work. Matillion employs a wizard-based approach that enables users to build custom connectors to load any kind of data into the platform, with no coding necessary. | Data & Analytics |
| Dell launches operations software platform Project Frontier to scale up edge computing | With Frontier, teams will have a centralized operations center for their edge computing deployments that spans multiple sites across the globe. New applications and devices can be added as required, securely onboarded and with adequate compute resources provided. | Edge Computing |
| Google introduces passwordless authentication to Chrome and Android with passkeys | “[Passkeys] remove the risks associated with password reuse and account database breaches, and protect users from phishing attacks. Passkeys are built on industry standards and work across different operating systems and browser ecosystems, and can be used for both websites and apps,” the post said. | Security |
| Seagate Launches Lyve Cloud Analytics Platform to Optimize Machine Learning Operations and Accelerate Innovation | Adding the analytics capability to the most frictionless cloud storage, Seagate enables enterprises to activate their stored data in an open data lake architecture for analytics at petabyte scale, further accelerating time to implementation and innovation, yielding up to 40% cost saving compared to other available offerings in the market. | Data & Analytics |
| Red Sift acquires Hardenize to enrich, extend and improve its security solutions | Hardenize’s internet asset inventory and monitoring combines automated discovery with continuous network and security configuration monitoring to find properties to start monitoring them immediately. The company argues that no one wants to spend their time populating a database and hence, the platform draws from multiple sources of information to maintain a search engine that can help identify sites. | Security |
| Hackers attacked all the major US airports | According to ABC News, the cyberattacks were first reported around 3 a.m. ET when the Port Authority informed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that the LaGuardia Airport system had been hit. “It’s an inconvenience,” the source told ABC. The attacks have resulted in targeted “denial of public access” to public-facing web domains that report airport wait times and congestion. | Security |
| Google beefs up cloud infrastructure with new VMs, mainframe modernization and software security offerings | The new C3 machine series is powered by Intel Corp.’s 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor and Google’s custom Intel Infrastructure Processing Unit. It’s designed to work with Google’s new Hyperdisk block storage, providing what Mehta promised will be the best input/output operations per second of any cloud-based virtual CPU available. | Automation & Productivity |
| PayPal loses $5 billion of its market value over the $2,500 misinformation fine debacle as flood of PayPal users canceled their accounts | The payment giant said it will no longer fine $2500 users who engage in “misinformation” or “hatred” against protected identities, adding that the ‘notice recently went out in error’ and that it never intended to penalize account holders on these grounds. But it might already be too late. | Data & Analytics |
| Google says it's 'cracked the code' to business intelligence | To accomplish that, Google Cloud is unifying its business intelligence products under the Looker umbrella, combining Looker and Data Studio to form Looker Studio. It will come in three tiers, including Looker Studio Pro, which provides support and special governance features. | Data & Analytics |
| Google is trying to solve the software supply chain security problem | Software Delivery Shield is a fully managed software toolkit designed for developers, DevOps teams and security teams. It includes services that cover five different parts of the software development process: application development, software "supply," continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), production environments, and policies. | DevOps |
| AWS sets up Lustre-based caching filesystem | Amazon File Cache has a POSIX interface to NFS v3-accessed origin files that can be on-premises or in the public cloud in one or more regions, and also to S3 buckets which store object data. | Data Management |
| Persona and SentiLink Partner to Automate Cutting-Edge Fraud Reduction Technology | Persona also provides an intuitive case review tool and a flexible orchestration layer to help businesses automate their identity operations — from setting custom rules to ingesting third party data and triggering external actions. | Automation & Productivity |
| French open-source cybersecurity startup CrowdSec raises $13.7M | Described as the world’s first collaborative intrusion prevention system, access is granted through an open-source, MIT-licensed solution with a database of malicious IP addresses for all community members to block, generating a real-time, crowdsourced threat intelligence system that can counter cyberattacks worldwide. | Security |
| Spotify acquires Irish tech startup Kinzen to combat online hate speech and protect against harmful content | The acquisition is part of Spotify’s efforts to address the harmful content on its platform after a backlash over “The Joe Rogan Experience,” in which the popular podcaster was accused of spreading misinformation about COVID-19. | Tech for Good |
| Hammerspace extends Global Data Environment | Hammerspace has extended its Global Data Environment so that IT operations can set global data policies applying to all data regardless of vendor storage or where it is located, and users can create and act on custom metadata from their desktops. | Data Management |
| Xembly Raises $15 Million Series A, Reimagines Workplace Productivity with Conversational AI | Xembly has reimagined workplace productivity with conversational AI. The product leverages advanced natural language processing to harness the productivity of an executive assistant or chief of staff, expertly detecting the intention behind conversations in meetings, Slack and email to automate tedious tasks – like scheduling, meeting notes, action item management, to-do lists, meeting feedback, and schedule optimization. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell has Liqid route to CXL memory pooling | Dell has shown how its MX7000 composable server chassis can be used with Liqid technology to add PCIe gen 4-connected GPUs and other accelerators to the composable systems mix, with an open road to faster still PCIe gen 5, CXL, and external pooled memory. | Automation & Productivity |
| SocialGrep releases Intelligent Keyword Alerts for Reddit | “There are dozens of social media listening tools that provide comprehensive keyword research, but we wanted to make the experience both easy for users, and very precise. Our Reddit keyword alerts are easy to set up, and they get the results delivered in near real-time.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Apollo GraphQL Introduces Its GraphOS Platform for Supergraphs | GraphOS is the execution fabric for the supergraph – a powerful runtime that connects backend and frontend systems in a modular way. It offers self-hosted or cloud-hosted routing, so users can choose to operate the supergraph in the cloud, and build without complex infrastructure setup or configuration. | Data & Analytics |
| Coming soon — a resume-validating blockchain network for job seekers | A foundation that includes several big-name software vendors and tech services has launched a self-sovereign identity service where workers can store verified credentials to use when applying for jobs. In turn, employers get instant access to verifiable credentials for hiring. | Blockchain |
| ClickHouse Announces Launch of ClickHouse Cloud | With no infrastructure to manage, ClickHouse Cloud architecture decouples storage and compute and scales automatically to accommodate modern workloads, so users do not have to size and tune their clusters to achieve blazing-fast query speeds. | Cloud |
| Quantum communications startup Qunnect lands $8M led by Airbus Ventures to usher in the era of quantum internet | Qunnect is aiming to commercialize the core technologies needed for long-distance quantum-secure communication with the foundational technology licensed from the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. By utilizing the same atomic foundation, Qunnect assures high compatibility between devices while maintaining optimal fiber transmission. | Automation & Productivity |
| Provectus Announces Release of Its Open-Source Data Discovery and Observability Platform | It closes gaps that conventional data catalogs cannot fill, such as lack of standardized data collection, incompatibility of different catalogs, limited data lineage, and inefficient data quality and observability practices. | Data & Analytics |
| Google follows Meta in introducing text-to-video AI | Google calls Imagen Video a “text-conditional video generation system based on a cascade of video diffusion models.” With just a text prompt, it says, it can generate high definition videos using a base video generation model and a sequence of interleaved spatial and temporal video super-resolution models.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Need for secure cloud environments continues to grow, as NetSPI raises $410M | One of the key reasons for this growing interest is that vulnerability management solutions have failed to secure off-site shadow IT assets and services. | Security |
| Komprise tells users: Go do it yourself | Komprise has added self-service features for line-of-business (LOB) IT, analytics, and research teams to its unstructured data management software, lessening the burden on admins by giving users controlled read-only access to their individual data estates. | Data Management |
| Elastic Announces the Beta of New Universal Profiling and Additional Synthetic Monitoring Capabilities to Enhance Cloud-Native Observability | Elastic’s new Universal Profiling capability, now in private beta, provides visibility into how application code and infrastructure are performing at all times in production, across a wide range of languages, in both containerized and non-containerized environments. | Cloud |
| This device claims to solve everyone's biggest remote work problem | Logitech Sight's dual lens 4K camera has a 315-degree field of view – omitting the segment pointing towards the front-of-room video bar – and uses its intelligence to pick up and track speakers. Logitech plans to add Smart Switching to RightSight, to select the best view depending on the audio source and the direction in which roundtable participants are facing. | Automation & Productivity |
| DeepMind details new AI system for developing algorithms | Matrix multiplications, the calculations that DeepMind sped up using its newly debuted AlphaTensor system, are a type of mathematical operation that involves matrices. A matrix is a collection of numbers arranged in rows and columns similarly to a spreadsheet. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Dynatrace Launches Grail for Observability, Security and Business Analytics | Grail will revolutionize data analytics and management by unifying observability data as well as security and business data from cloud-native and multicloud environments, retaining its context, and delivering instant, precise, and cost-efficient AI-powered answers and automation. | Data & Analytics |
| LayerX emerges from stealth with $7.5M Seed round to launch user-first security platform for all browsers | LayerX is the pioneer of AI-based high-resolution monitoring, risk analysis and control of all users’ browser activities to enable the enterprise workforce to access any web resource from any device while ensuring protection from the wide range of web-borne risks. | Security |
| Dell adopts Zero Trust security principles | Dell’s CyberSecurity Advisory Services will help customers move towards a Zero Trust environment, based on their current cybersecurity situation. The services find security gaps, determine technologies customers should implement to address them, and advise on how to enable continuous vigilance and governance for long-term cyber resiliency. | Security |
| IBM merges its data storage offerings with Red Hat’s OpenShift and Ceph | The aim, IBM said, is to deliver a more consistent application and data storage experience across on-premises and cloud infrastructures. It’s a big move that will see IBM Spectrum Fusion data management software adopt the storage technologies of Red Hat’s OpenShift Data Foundation as its new base layer. | Data Storage |
| Tenable: Vulnerability management is out, attack surface management is in | “Traditional vulnerability management focuses on the act of enumerating flaws in software that could be exploited (CVEs). Exposure management extends beyond this by providing additional context like who is using the system, what they have access to, how it’s configured, etc.," | Security |
| Eclypsium, a Portland security startup that protects device supply chains, raises $25M | “Eclypsium solves a critical and often overlooked dimension of the cybersecurity puzzle — ensuring every device is continuously protected against supply chain risk," | Security |
| CoreSite Launches New Interconnection Product to Increase High-Speed Bandwidth Options for Customers | CoreSite’s inter-site and inter-market connectivity offers a range of service options and a virtual extension between data center sites, allowing customers to overcome capacity or network access constraints at their original data center and grow within a region or expand to new regions. | Network Management |
| The White House passes an AI "Bill of Rights" that attempts to put your concerns at ease | The blueprint delineates that the framework applies to automated systems that "have the potential to meaningfully impact the American public's rights, opportunities, or access to critical resources or services." | Artificial Intelligence |
| Aryaka adds web gateway and firewall-as-a-service to its zero-trust wide-area network | The additions offer a unified control panel for managing application performance and stability to assist chief information officers in modernizing their infrastructure and simplifying operations by converging networking and security in an all-in-one service. | IT Management |
| Securiti creates a command center for AI-driven cloud data protection | Securiti’s solution identifies structured and unstructured data throughout the cloud using advanced AI techniques, and automatically generates insights about key systems and infrastructure to determine who a given piece of data belongs to. | Data Management |
| Automation Anywhere’s new platform release helps companies to scale business automation everywhere | The company has created a cloud-native platform that’s able to automate interactions with dozens of common business applications, such as Salesforce and Microsoft Office, for example. Employees can also use the platform to create their own automation bots without any coding. Alternatively, users can access a catalog of pre-packaged automation workflows for common enterprise use cases. | Automation & Productivity |
| ACA Group Expands Electronic Communications Surveillance Capabilities in ComplianceAlpha Platform | “As electronic communications recordkeeping comes under increased scrutiny from global regulators, it’s now clear that firms need to move beyond policies and procedures, and actually be able to access and analyze communications data to take proactive action to ensure compliance” | Data Management |
| Securiti raises $75M and launches new data management platform | To help companies protect their data against cyberattacks, Securiti has equipped the DataControls Cloud with a tool that automatically finds cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The tool can, for example, point out when important business records are stored in an unencrypted format. It also detects other types of issues, such as if a database can be accessed without a password. | Data Management |
| Atlassian takes aim at app sprawl with collaboration-suite subscription service | Atlassian is rolling out a raft of updates including new smart links and unified administration controls, as well as a new subscription service, for its work- management and collaboration products —Trello, Confluence, Atlas, and Jira Work Management. | Automation & Productivity |
| Web3 security service Blowfish raises $11.8M to protect crypto wallets | Using its service, wallet providers can hook into an application programming interface designed to detect and warn against a number of different attacks that precede scams, hacks and a potential loss of funds. | Security |
| Unravel Data raises $50m for data pipeline tech | Unravel says its Unravel Platform product is intended to “help connect the dots from every system in the modern data stack, including within and across the most popular data ecosystems such as Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon EMR, BigQuery, and Dataproc.” | Data & Analytics |
| Radix launches Babylon Alphanet to bring asset-oriented DeFi to life | Today is a major milestone for the asset-oriented decentralized finance (DeFi) blockchain Radix, which has just announced the launch of its Babylon Alphanet. The release brings with it the first iteration of both the Radix Engine application development environment and its Rust-based programming language, Scrypto. | Blockchain |
| Microsoft confirms attackers actively targeting vulnerabilities in Exchange | The company identified the first vulnerability was identified as CVE-2022-41040, a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability, which could allow attackers access to the internal network from the server. The second, identified as CVE-2022-41082, permits the attacker to execute remote code when PowerShell is accessible to the attacker. | Security |
| Fungible shifts focus to SAN performance, power | The scale-out Fungible storage cluster product is significantly faster, more power efficient, and space efficient in delivering storage capacity to applications than competing SANs. | Data Storage |
| Microsoft: Hackers are using open source software and fake jobs in phishing attacks | A phishing-happy hacking crew linked to North Korea's armed forces has been using trojanized open-source apps and LinkedIn recruitment bait to hit tech industry employees, according to threat analysts from Microsoft's advanced persistent threat (APT) research group. | Security |
| New Illumio Endpoint prevents breaches caused by hybrid work | llumio Endpoint is claimed to be unlike other zero-trust solutions in letting organizations follow their teams’ laptops wherever they work, whether at home, in the office or at a coffee shop. With Illumio Endpoint, the company claims, the first device that gets infected will also be the last | Security |
| AppTek and expert.ai Announce Strategic Partnership | The partnership leverages AppTek’s leadership in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) technologies with expert.ai’s natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities to enable organizations to leverage audio content in the unstructured data sets that they manage for improving decision making and augmenting intelligent automation. | Automation & Productivity |
| Elevate Security and Booz Allen Hamilton Partner to Address Human Cyber Risk | Additionally, Elevate will power the Booz Allen Commercial team’s Dynamic Cyber Trust solution, which adapts zero trust principles to individual risk scores, delivering cyber protection that minimizes insider risk while ensuring organizational productivity. | Security |
| Storage upstart Storadera talks about its single sheet price list | The instant data access service costs €6 ($5.83) per TB per month with the terabyte amount calculated as the monthly average. That’s it. There are no other items on its price sheet – no egress fees, or fast retrieval fees, or lower fees for slower-to-retrieve deep archives. | Data Storage |
| Acceldata teams with Snowflake for improved visibility in modern data environments | With the new Snowflake integration, joint customers can now ensure resources are used efficiently. Acceldata’s Data Observability Cloud provides data teams with actionable insights into spending, administration and usage trends, as well as alerts for misconfigurations or anomalies. | Data & Analytics |
| Kaleidos, the startup behind open-source design software Penpot, raises $8M in funding two weeks after Adobe acquired rival Figma for $20 billion | the Madrid, Spain-based Kaleidos is focused on the development and optimization of their two open-source products meant for digital cross-functional teams: Penpot, the first open-source design, and prototyping platform and Taiga, the project management tool for agile teams. | Automation & Productivity |
| Nodeum scaling up for exabyte environments | Nodeum software runs on Linux and provides a storage virtualizing control plane and global namespace. This is used to take less-active unstructured data (files) on third-party primary storage and send it to secondary storage tiers – NAS, LTFS tape or, via S3, on-premises object storage (Cloudian, Dell ECS, Scality, OpenStack Swift) and the public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). | Data Storage |
| Section’s Distributed GraphQL Hosting Allows Organizations to Quickly Launch and Scale Location-Optimized, Multi-Cloud API Servers | Organizations can host GraphQL in datacenters across town or around the world to improve API performance and reliability, lower costs, decrease impact on back-end servers, and improve scalability, resilience, compliance, security and other factors – all without impacting their current cloud-native development process or tools. | Automation & Productivity |
| Wasabi raises $250m to grow cloud storage biz | The company says it provides S3-compatible public cloud storage for a fifth of AWS with no egress or API access charges, and revenues more than doubled from 2020 to 2021, though Wasabi does not reveal actual revenues figures. | Data Storage |
| Google Maps’ updates to provide more realistic, immersive experiences for users | The feature relies on billions of user photos that have been processed using artificial intelligence, helping Maps to model photorealistic buildings in a more immersive, 3D view. The idea is that this more realistic view will help users to better understand the topography of a given area, rotate their perspective so they can look between buildings, get a feel for the weather and traffic conditions, and so on. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cirrascale Cloud Services Announces Availability of SambaNova’s Dataflow-as-a-Service on Cirrascale AI Innovation Cloud | “Expanding our cloud platform to include SambaNova brings us closer than ever to being a one-stop-shop for customers to gain access to the latest, state-of-the-art large language models, such as GPT-175B and true-resolution computer vision.” | Cloud |
| VAST Data heading to the public cloud | Some file storage suppliers such as NetApp are making their software available in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Weka has a similar strategy, as does Qumulo and Dell EMC with PowerScale for multi-cloud as part of its Project Alpine. It’s about having a form of global file system and services across the private-public multi-cloud environment. | Data Management |
| SAS launches first cloud app with pay-as-you-go pricing | The announcement represents an evolution in thinking at the 46-year-old maker of statistics and analytics software. Although the company has listed applications on various public cloud platforms for some time, this is the first that users can provision immediately without contacting the company to negotiate a license fee or make a monthly payment. | Cloud |
| Arthur.ai raises $42M to optimize AI applications’ accuracy | Arthur.ai has built a software platform that can automatically detect data drift. The platform is also capable of detecting fairness issues in AI applications. It visualizes issues in a dashboard that engineers can consult to identify the scope of an AI malfunction, as well as find its cause. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Kyndryl and Elastic Announce Expanded Partnership to Enable Data Observability, Search and Insights Across Cloud and Edge Computing Environments | The companies will focus on delivering large-scale IT operations and AIOps capabilities to joint customers by leveraging Kyndryl’s data framework and toolkits and Elastic’s Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, enabling streamlined migrations, modernized infrastructure and tenant management, and AI development for efficient and proactive IT management. | Data & Analytics |
| NetWitness Announces New Managed Detection and Response Service | The new NetWitness MDR Service helps customers address the ongoing cyber skills shortage while keeping their organizations well-protected from attacks by combining technology, planning, training, and managed detection into a single, complete offering. | Security |
| AI-powered student engagement platform provider Ocelot raises $117M in funding | Ocelot says that by providing the technological infrastructure universities need to deliver greater engagement and communications, it can have a significant impact on student satisfaction, reducing student dropout rates and improving the overall college experience. | EDTech |
| BlackSky Customer Skytec Demonstrates Seamless Integration of Dynamic Monitoring Data Through Esri ArcGIS Online | “With on-demand tasking access to BlackSky’s constellation, customers can incorporate hourly, dawn-to-dusk image products directly into their current workflows and experience the value of real-time geospatial intelligence firsthand.” | Data & Analytics |
| Orange and Netskope Unite to Deliver SSE | The hybrid architecture embeds Netskope’s points-of-presence (POPs) within the Orange network, leveraging Orange Cyberdefense’s security with Netskope’s global security private cloud footprint and SSE to protect enterprises from data loss and a growing volume of sophisticated threats across cloud, web, and private applications. | Security |
| Enhanced Fortinet AIOps bring AI operations management to 5G/LTE gateways | Fortinet argues that this shift has seen NOC teams increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-based management tools such as AIOps to maximize network visibility, improve the response time to anomalies, and reduce ticket volume to remediate potential issues in local-area and wide-area networks, including software-define WANs. | IT Management |
| Bluesky helps curb machine learning costs with cost governance algorithms | There are several ways in which Bluesky reinforces cost governance by optimizing the amount of time and resources dedicated to querying popular cloud sources. The solution can curb query redundancy via incremental materialization, a useful function for recurring queries in set increments, like hourly, daily or weekly. | Cloud |
| Web3 infrastructure startup AAG launches MetaOne dApp Store to offer curated dashboard of approved safe dApps | With thousands of dApps out there, users are now susceptible to malicious and phishing dApps. Finding safe dApps is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That’s why Web3 infrastructure startup AAG is on a mission to simplify the blockchain experience by offering a curated list of approved safe dApps. | Blockchain |
| Hackers Actively Exploiting New Sophos Firewall RCE Vulnerability | The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-3236 (CVSS score: 9.8), impacts Sophos Firewall v19.0 MR1 (19.0.1) and older and concerns a code injection vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin components that could result in remote code execution. | Security |
| Boba Network launches on Avalanche, becoming the first ever L2 on Avalanche | With the launch, Avalanche developers will be able to access Hybrid Compute, one of Boba’s flagship capabilities for smart contracts, to interface seamlessly with Web2 APIs. By leveraging the power of real-world data and off-chain compute, developers can create rich applications with great utility. | Blockchain |
| Jamf Pro now lets IT admins manage AWS Mac instances | It means even virtual Macs can have all the security, policy, and access controls you’d expect from the Mac on your home or office desk when enrolled. | IT Management |
| Google expands its cloud platform’s analytics and security capabilities | Google Cloud provides a service called Pub/Sub that customers can use to load data into BigQuery from external systems. In the past, companies had to create custom software workflows to load data into BigQuery. Google has added a pre-packaged software workflow to Pub/Sub that reduces the need for custom code and promises to lower cloud costs in the process. | Data & Analytics |
| ExpressVPN Launches industry’s First Hardware Product, Aircove a Wi-Fi 6 Router with Built-in VPN Protection | Aircove is the first and only Wi-Fi 6 router that comes with built-in VPN by default and a user interface tailored for those seeking to protect their families with a VPN. With Aircove, users can enjoy holistic home security easily, with VPN protection straight out of the box. | Security. |
| MinIO surpasses 1 billion downloads | MinIO was started in 2014 to develop cloud-native and open source object storage software, with a goal to be AWS S3 for the rest of the world. It has become the most popular object storage software ever, following the trail blazed by Linux and the Apache HTTP server. | Data Storage |
| Quest Software Announces Public Beta for SharePlex for PostgreSQL | “Enterprises have depended on SharePlex for Oracle for two decades to support HA, DR, scaling and integration use cases. SharePlex support of the same capabilities for PostgreSQL will enable the types of flexible database architectures required to replace mission-critical Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL,” | Data & Analytics |
| Malicious OAuth applications used to compromise Microsoft Exchange servers | The threat actor launched credential-stuffing attacks against high-risk accounts that did not have multifactor authentication enabled and then leveraged unsecured administrator accounts to gain initial access. With this access, the attacker then created a malicious OAuth app that added an inbound connector in the email server, allowing the actor to send spam emails from the target’s domain. | Security |
| Spectra Logic and iRODS Consortium Partner to Provide Glacier-Like Tier of Storage | The combined solution enables customers to use industry-standard cloud interfaces for on-premises disk and on-premises glacier storage with object tape, while unlocking multi-site/multi-cloud capabilities. | Data Storage |
| AccessFintech secures $60M in funding for its financial data platform | AccessFintech has developed a cloud-based platform, called the Synergy Network, that simplifies the task. Synergy Network collects data about a transaction from all the organizations involved in processing it. The platform then organizes the collected transaction data in a centralized environment that enables financial institutions to access it more easily. | Data & Analytics |
| Hadean raises $30M to build out metaverse infrastructure | Using Hadean’s technology, thousands of users can enter into an immersive virtual space at the same time and experience the same world with minimal latency. Using Hadean’s infrastructure, the video game maker CCP Games unveiled a demo that permitted 14,000 players to use Unreal Engine to participate in a single online world at once. | Metaverse |
| Falkonry Unveils GPU-Based, High-Speed Time Series Anomaly Detection Application | A factory-scale edge-based system which might have required dozens of dual-socket servers to support a CPU-based inference pipeline can now be provisioned with a modest three-node cluster incorporating a single NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU. | Automation & Productivity |
| Imply accelerates massive real-time analytics | Startup Imply has made its parallel query engine generally available to speed reporting from massive real-time Apache Druid databases, added SQL ingestion, a total cost of ownership pledge and announced 250 customers for its Polaris Druid-based cloud database service. | Data & Analytics |
| Commvault Metallic ThreatWise aims at detecting unknown threats | The service integrates cyber deception to engage and surface threats before bad actors reach their target. Using decoys, Metallic ThreatWise baits bad actors into engaging fake resources, proactively spotting threats in production environments and arming businesses with tools to keep data safe from extortion. | Security |
| New Era of Real-Time Log-based Network Operations | "We are pleased to announce our expanded LogAI solution for all types and formats of logs that can be ingested in the Augtera platform as JSON over Kafka or using our APIs. No other log solution provides this real-time NLP based capability, and LogAI does it at high scale, with high-performance, and high-efficiency.” | Network Management |
| Kyndryl service integrates, automates infrastructure resources | Kyndryl Bridge integrates existing tools, partnerships, intellectual property, and processes the company has amassed through years of delivering infrastructure services and uses it to provide as-a-service capabilities and applications that help control and manage enterprise infrastructure. | IT Management |
| Lenovo expands data center portfolio with dozens of new systems | Many of the data center systems that Lenovo debuted today are rolling out for its ThinkSystem series of servers and data storage systems. Lenovo is also updating its ThinkEdge edge computing device lineup, as well as the ThinkAgile family of hyperconverged infrastructure appliances. | Data Management |
| Ordr Improves Visibility, Security and Management of Connected Devices From Ground To Cloud | New integrations expand the more than 80 integrations within the Ordr Data Lake, to empower organizations with a single source of truth about connected devices and assets in their on-prem, remote, data center, private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. | IT Management |
| Pure Storage adds sustainability assessment tools to its flash storage arrays | The Pure1 Sustainability Assessment feature gives companies increased visibility into the environmental impact of their data center operations, along with recommendations on steps they can take to reduce their energy consumption and improve their carbon footprint. | Sustainability |
| Starburst Advances Data Product Functionality to Serve Cross-Border Use Cases | Starburst, the analytics anywhere company, announced enhanced functionality for building and sharing data products built on global datasets. The new functionality is supported by Starburst Stargate, which allows customers to link catalogs and data sources across geographies while ensuring access controls are in place and data residency requirements are honored. | Data & Analytics |
| Datamaran lands $13.3M in funding led by Fortive to assess ESG risks for companies and financial institutions | Datamaran is the only software analytics platform in the world that identifies and monitors external risks, including ESG. In addition to being trusted by blue-chip companies and top-tier partners. | ESG |
| Nvidia unveils DGX BasePOD and partners | Nvidia’s basic DGX POD reference architecture specifies up to nine Nvidia DGX-1 servers, 12 storage servers (from Nvidia partners), and three networking switches. The DGX systems are GPU server-based configurations for AI work and combine multiple Nvidia GPUs into a single system. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cowbell Adaptive Cyber Insurance offers dynamic risk protection | The new offering bundles risk management tools and services with coverage so policyholders can continuously address changes in the threat landscape. The engagement starts with a real-time benchmark of cyber risks measured by Cowbell Factors and includes inside-out risk data. | Security |
| Cybersecurity provider Malwarebytes receives $100M in new funding | The company’s antivirus is capable of detecting and blocking several types of malware, including ransomware. Malwarebytes also provides a feature that blocks attempts by malicious programs to disable its antivirus. | Security |
| Apache Druid Shapeshifts with New Query Engine | Apache Druid is known for its capability to deliver sub-second responses to queries against petabytes of fast-moving data arriving via Kafka or Kinesis. With the latest milestone of Project Shapeshift, the real-time analytics database is morphing into a more versatile product, thanks to the addition of a multi-stage query engine. | Data & Analytics |
| Cockroach Labs debuts serverless edition of its popular CockroachDB database | With the availability of CockroachDB Serverless, developers can stop worrying about the database altogether, safe in the knowledge that it will always be running in the background and capable of scaling to meet their application’s performance demands. | DevOps |
| Pure Storage adds sustainability assessment tools to its flash storage arrays | Available on Pure’s FlashBlade//S family of flash storage arrays and older products, the new tool provides detailed information via its power saving analysis, which shows the energy each array is using compared to its nominal power load. Customers can monitor power consumption efficiency for a single array, or an entire data center fleet. | Sustainability |
| AWS Outposts Unhooks EKS at the Edge | It noted nodes and pods don’t need that constant connectivity to operate in a on-premises local environment, but Kubernetes may take that lack of connectivity as a sign the pod or node is flawed and try to spin up a replacement. This would result in a healthy application potentially being taken down. | Network Management |
| New Machine Learning Powered Secureframe Questionnaires Helps Organizations Breeze Through RFPs and Security Questionnaires | The new machine learning powered automation makes responding to RFPs and security questionnaires fast and easy for organizations of all sizes. The innovative solution suggests RFP and questionnaire responses using content and context from the Secureframe platform along with approved prior responses to deliver greater accuracy with every confirmed response. | Automation & Productivity |
| HEAVY.AI Launches Industry’s First Digital Twin for Telco Network Planning, Building and Operations | HeavyRF allows telcos to review historic and current network-performance data as they test site-configuration scenarios against physical impediments, such as trees and dense buildings. It uses GPU-accelerated analytics to seamlessly combine customer-demographic and behavioral data with real-time geophysical mapping. | Data & Analytics |
| TDengine Releases TDengine Cloud | The TDengine Data Platform combines a database with caching, stream processing, and data subscription as a complete, purpose-built solution for time-series data. TDengine solves the common problem of high cardinality with a unique architecture that supports billions of data points while outperforming general-purpose and legacy time-series databases in data ingestion, querying, and compression. | Data & Analytics |
| American Airlines data breach exposes employee and customer data | Potentially stolen information includes name, date of birth, mailing address, phone number, email address, driver’s license number, passport number and certain medical information. All those potentially exposed are being offered two-year membership of Experian IdentityWorks for identity detection and resolution of identity theft. | Data Privacy |
| Fivetran Introduces Metadata API, Enables End-to-End Data Analysis and Visibility | Fivetran today announced the availability of its Metadata API to enable the tracking of data “in-flight” from source to destination as it moves through Fivetran-managed pipelines. With this additional visibility, customers can integrate with governance and observability tools to give data teams more control over who has access to what data | Data & Analytics |
| CrowdStrike Grabs Reposify for EASM Visibility | CrowdStrike acquired external attack surface management (EASM) provider Reposify to integrate into its Falcon platform and help customers identify exposed external assets. | Security |
| Nvidia enables broader usage of AI with LLM cloud services | Kharya explained that with a transformer, the AI model can understand which parts of a sentence, an image or even very disparate data points are relevant to each other. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which typically look at only the immediate neighboring relationships, transformers are designed to train on more distant relationships as well, which Kharya said is very important for use cases like natural language processing (NLP). | Automation & Productivity |
| Spot lands $5.5M seed funding led by Freestyle for the next-gen communication app for teams | Spot helps high-performing organizations communicate more effectively while enhancing team experience, building company culture, improving retention, and amplifying productivity. Teams can communicate within the platform using virtual avatars in a branded office setting while accessing a comprehensive team chat and video conferencing, a more integrated solution compared to Slack, Discord, and Teams. | Automation & Productivity |
| Replicon Launches the World’s First Knowledge Workforce Management Solution | Managing siloed data related to people, projects, skills and time is a major challenge for fast growing businesses. With a unified and shared data platform, Replicon’s Knowledge Workforce Management Solution eliminates data and process silos across business functions in an organization. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft rolls out the first major update for Windows 11 | On the productivity side, one of the most noticeable upgrades might be the new drag-and-drop function in the taskbar, which allows users to right-click and pull applications and documents into, and out of, the bar. | Automation & Productivity |
| Ankr, Polygon join forces to enhance the web3 building experience for supernet developers | Powered by the modular blockchain stack Polygon Edge, Supernets is EVM-compatible, interoperable, highly performant, and customizable. It gives developers the ability to have a custom decentralized network without the hassle of maintaining blockchain infrastructure. | Blockchain |
| Seagate launches self-healing storage technology | Paired with ADAPT is a new technology, ADR (Automatic Drive Regeneration), which is the self-healing part. If a hard drive’s read/write head fails, ADR takes the failed head out of commission but leaves the remaining drive heads operational. This way you sacrifice the one platter on the drive instead of the whole drive, as is typical of drive failure. ADAPT then rebuilds the data from the dead platter elsewhere. | Data Storage |
| Virtual machine support in Google Anthos allows VMs to run alongside containers | The addition of VM support in Anthos allows developers and operations teams to run VMs alongside containers on shared cloud-native infrastructure. The service is said to deliver consistent container and VM operations with Kubernetes-style declarative configuration and policy enforcement. | Cloud |
| Amazon Unveils Additional Analytics and Data to Empower Seller Success | Amazon announced new features to Manage Your Experiments, a tool that helps sellers optimize content on product detail pages to drive higher rates of conversion, increasing their sales by up to 25% | Data & Analytics |
| Juniper increases flexibility of its data-center automation and assurance platform | “Asptra’s Freeform, extends the addressable market, through a broader customization capability, to organizations that are less cloudlike in their network topologies, protocol utilization, and overall network architectures,” | IT Management |
| IBM offers dedicated snapshot protection for SAP HANA and Salesforce environments | It can automatically create application-aware backups that are scanned for malware using machine learning-based forensics. IBM Spectrum Sentinel can intelligently isolate infected backups, enabling organizations to identify the most recent verified and validated backup copies for faster recovery. | Data Management |
| Seagate DNA storage involvement predates Catalog deal | Catalog’s current Shannon technology has demonstrated writing and reading data using DNA storage technology but the equipment needs to be housed in a room, which Catalog says is the size of a small kitchen. Seagate says the results of its joint research with Catalog are expected to reduce Shannon’s size by a factor of 1,000 and also increase the automation and scalability of Catalog’s platform. | Healthcare Tech |
| Vantiq Secures Patent to Advance State-of-the-Art for Distributed Software | Functionality described in the patent includes Vantiq’s approach to automatically assigning the elements of a software application to the different nodes of a given distributed computing environment. Vantiq creates these deployment models, automatically and in real time, while offering users the capability to adjust their application deployment strategies via a graphical interface. | DevOps |
| Uber security breach 'looks bad', potentially compromising all systems | The hacker, who claimed to be 18 years old, told NYT he had sent a text message to an Uber employee and was able to persuade the staff member to reveal a password after claiming to be a corporate information technology personnel. The social engineering hack allowed him to breach Uber's systems, with the hacker describing the company's security posture as weak. | Security |
| Web3 developer tool provider Infura announces plans to launch decentralized protocol | Infura was launched in 2016 with the goal of providing developers an access point for Web3, otherwise known as the decentralized web. It allows for peer-to-peer transactions using blockchain technology without the need for centralized servers, by using Ethereum for computing and the InterPlanetary File System, a decentralized storage network. | Blockchain |
| PoINT object archive combines disk and tape | Its Archival Gateway scales by adding nodes, supports 50 billion objects per S3 bucket, and has up to 230GB/sec throughput across up to 256 tape drives. It supports up to eight tape libraries and is certified by all the main tape library vendors, such as SpectraLogic and Quantum. | Data Storage |
| AiThority.com Announces its Annual Predictions Series to Set New Benchmarks in AI /ML Analysis | AiThority.com’s annual predictions series celebrates the essence of dynamic business environment for emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning, IT Ops, automation, blockchain and headless commerce. | Emerging Tech |
| VMware warns new ChromeLoader variants pose a serious risk | Highlighting the evolving threat the malware presents, a Chromeloader variant dubbed “Bloom” drops a file named bloom.exe in customer environments with ChromeLoader infections. The Bloom variant has been observed making external network connections and exfiltrating sensitive data. | Security |
| Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile | Nile provides a networking platform that companies can use to provide wired and wireless connectivity at their corporate locations. The platform includes networking hardware, as well as a suite of software tools for managing the hardware. Nile says its technology provides a total cost of ownership that is 30% to 50% lower than what competing products offer. | Network Management |
| Fortanix raises $90M to advance confidential computing-based data security | Fortanix is at the cutting edge of the confidential computing movement, which is a term that describes encryption technology for data that’s being processed. Most data tools already provide strong encryption for data that’s sitting idly in a server, or being transmitted across a network, but information must be decrypted into its original, readable form when used by applications. That creates an opening for hackers to steal that data as it’s being used, and it’s this hole that Fortanix is trying to plug. | Security |
| Sysdig CSPM Offers Risk Checklist, Guided Remediation | The Sysdig Secure platform offers alerts for runtime events, vulnerabilities, and compliance failures. The latest features aggregate the results that have the same risk root cause and offer “a clear remediation path” by guiding users to take the highest impact actions. | IT Management |
| Cadence Announces Joint Enterprise Data and AI Platform | The Cadence JedAI Platform enables engineers to glean actionable intelligence from massive volumes of chip design and verification data, opening the door to a new generation of AI-driven design and verification tools that dramatically improve productivity and power, performance and area (PPA). | Data & Analytics |
| Biomemory describes DNA storage tech it hopes will replace tape | French startup Biomemory has developed a DNA Drive storage technology using synthetic biology to store 5PB of data in stainless steel pellets with contents that can be read by a DNA sequencer. | Data Storage |
| Arista rolls out new routing capabilities for cloud-first companies | One of the new capabilities Arista has introduced is called TunnelSec which simplifies the use of different encryption technologies. As an example, it's common for companies to deploy overlay networks to use both IPsec and MACsec encryption. TunnelSec encryption eliminates the need for external encryption traditionally used in networking. | Cloud |
| Opera Crypto Browser integrates MetaMask in time for the Ethereum Merge | “The upcoming Merge is the most important technological update in the history of crypto that will move Ethereum from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, thus making it more scalable, secure, sustainable, and ready to be used by the mainstream user,” said Susie Batt, crypto ecosystem lead at Opera. “Opera is the only browser truly ready for this shift and the only one offering web users all the tools they need to give Web3 a try in a safe environment.” | Blockchain |
| Alphabet spinoff SandboxAQ acquires cybersecurity and encryption startup Cryptosense | Founded in 2013, Cryptosense offers cryptography management software designed to protect sensitive data against data breaches. Pitched as cryptography management at the speed of DevOps, the Cryptosense platform provides full visibility into cryptography during development and a full inventory in production. | Security |
| SaaS startup Revyz aims to protect Jira Cloud | “Revyz addresses a major gap in SaaS data protection enabling customers to plug gaps in their shared responsibility model, data security and cloud compliance. We see this to be a huge opportunity as more Atlassian customers migrate to the cloud." | Data Management |
| Adobe to buy online design startup Figma in a $20 billion deal | Founded in 20212 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, San Francisco-based Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together. Born in the browser, Figma helps the entire product team create, test, and ship better designs, faster. | Automation & Productivity |
| Arm unveils updated Neoverse CPU roadmap, targeting cloud, hyperscale and HPC workloads | Arm Neoverse was introduced in 2018 as the company’s answer to Intel Corp.’s Xeon processors and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Epyc chips, and has since evolved to three distinct platforms — the Arm V-series, N-series and E-series — each of which is aimed at different compute tasks. | Automation & Productivity |
| Riverbed Launches Alluvio IQ Unified Observability Service | Alluvio IQ leverages full-fidelity network performance and end-user experience data across every transaction in the digital enterprise and applies AI and machine learning to contextually correlate data streams and alerts to identify the most business-impacting events. The new service enables IT organizations to “shift left,” empowering all staff to do the job of more experienced IT experts, freeing-up senior IT staff to focus on strategic business initiatives. | IT Management |
| Asigra rolls out ransomware detection software | Asigra has released Tigris – a data protection software product – aimed at detecting and disarming malicious code embedded deep within zipped content files, where it is invisible to most scanners. | Security |
| Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using WPGateway Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability | WPGateway is billed as a means for site administrators to install, backup, and clone WordPress plugins and themes from a unified dashboard. | Security |
| Dell introduces customer-managed APEX storage | APEX Data Storage Services are file and block storage facilities based on Dell hardware and software installed on-premises or in colos. Customers subscribe to the service, in a public cloud fashion, and can scale their consumption up or down, paying for it as an operational expense rather than a capital expense. | Data Storage |
| Cake DeFi launches a $50M global R&D hub in Singapore to develop best-in-class blockchain and digital asset technologies | Today, Cake DeFi, a Singapore-based crypto fintech startup, announced the launch of Birthday Research, a global R&D hub that will focus on developing best-in-class blockchain and digital asset technologies. The new hub will be located in Singapore and will focus on developing best-in-class blockchain and digital asset technologies through open-source blockchain research and development. | Blockchain |
| New McAfee+ offers privacy and identity protection | The comprehensive new product suite gives users access to a raft of services: Personal Data Cleanup, always-on credit monitoring and reports, credit lock and security freezes, $1 million identity theft and stolen funds coverage, $25,000 ransomware coverage, identity restoration and the ability to secure devices with protection against threats and viruses. | Data Privacy |
| Netskope Strengthens Cloud Firewall for SASE Environments | “Applications are now traversing ports and protocols, and it’s becoming very difficult to figure out what traffic is focused on what application,” Palavalli explained. He added the app control enables a converged way of using a web proxy, cloud access security broker (CASB), and a cloud firewall – “the trifecta” – to protect all traffic going in and out of a network. | Security |
| Cloud security should be data-centric, says data protection provider Theom | “Cloud data breaches have remained an unsolved problem because existing security controls are blind to the data they are attempting to protect, focusing on protecting the infrastructure and applications and not the data,” | Security |
| New Barracuda capabilities assist with cyberthreats and digital transformation | Email protection from Barracuda also now has zero-trust access, hardening the Microsoft 365 environment by continuously verifying and allowing only the right users to access the right resources. The new capabilities allow customers to control and manage access to email systems and Microsoft 365 applications on a need-to-know basis, providing an additional layer of security for their businesses. | Security |
| Linux Foundation announces OpenWallet Foundation for interoperable open-source digital wallets | The mission of OWF is to build an open-source engine on which anyone can build interoperable wallets with industry best practices for privacy and security baked in. It would become the foundational starting point as a standard for interoperability among wallets, allowing currencies, tokens, tickets, assets, identity credentials and other use cases to be exchanged easily. | Blockchain |
| Novo Nordisk And Microsoft Collaborate To Accelerate Drug Discovery And Development Using Big Data And Artificial Intelligence | A second use case aims to develop models that predict a person’s risk of developing atherosclerosis, a cardiovascular disease caused by build-up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances in and on the artery walls. The AI will also be used to identify novel targets and establish biomarkers of the disease. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Steam users targeted with novel browser-in-the-browser attacks | To trick users into handing over their credentials, those behind the attack lure victims to a fake website that contains a login button with messages offering various offers such as joining a game team or tournament and purchasing discounted tickets to cybersport events. In another case, viewers of a gameplay video were given the option to visit another resource to receive a free in-game item. | Security |
| AutoRabit unveils security tools for Salesforce ecosystems | To help organizations monitor performance and mitigate risk in an expanding threat landscape, AutoRabit today announced the launch of CodeScan Shield. Its new no-code analysis tool allows admins and developers to easily scan a Salesforce ecosystem for security threats and immediately informs them of potential errors before a major breach occurs. | Security |
| Dell Apex Storage Allows More Control, if Orgs Want It | In the customer-managed storage service, organizations control their own day-to-day management, “which is ideal for IT teams that want to implement a consumption-based storage model and are equipped with resources to handle tasks such as monitoring capacity utilization and managing infrastructure." | Data Storage |
| Resemble AI Launches Speech-to-Speech Feature to Capture the Unique Style of Human Voices at Scale | Now AI voices can perform a wide range of emotions, speaking styles or even singing using non-speech vocalizations. If the input audio is spoken in a different language, the resulting target voice will be able to speak in that language. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AWS, Harvard collaborate to advance quantum networking | For its part, HQI is looking to build a quantum ecosystem that brings together scientists and engineers across universities, companies, and government entities. The idea is to advance the science and engineering of quantum systems from high-speed networking to secure communications and ultraprecise sensing, according to HQI. | Quantum Computing |
| Oracle brings its souped-up MySQL database to the Amazon cloud | MySQL HeatWave is a major upgrade to the popular open-source database engine that combines online transaction processing, analytics, machine learning and machine learning-based automation within a single MySQL instance. | Data & Analytics |
| Irisity Unveils IRIS+, AI-Powered Video Analytics Solution | IRIS+ supports installations of all sizes and can be applied to any number of cameras, delivering the most attractive TCO in the video analytics market. Its high availability and full redundancy limit the opportunity for system downtime or data loss. Seamless automated backups, upgrades, 24/7 network, and camera health monitoring simplifies management and service requirements. | Data & Analytics |
| Cledara raises $20M to simplify cloud application management | According to Cledara, its platform can save about 15 hours of manual work per month by easing the day-to-day tasks involved in managing a company’s SaaS applications. Moreover, the startup promises to reduce companies’ cloud expenses in the process. The startup offers a 2% cashback on many SaaS purchases made using its virtual credit cards. | Cloud |
| Google completes $5.4B acquisition of cybersecurity provider Mandiant | As part of its cybersecurity work, Mandiant collects a significant amount of data about hacker activity. The company makes that data available to other organizations through a service known as Mandiant Threat Intelligence. | Security |
| Nakivo adds Backblaze and Blob support | The refresh also boosts the platform’s security credentials. Backups to all four of its cloud targets now get immutability, blunting ransomware merchants’ ability to encrypt or otherwise tamper with them, while also helping meet compliance or regulatory requirements that mandate WORM-type backups. | Data Storage |
| Volaris acquires identity management solutions company Hitachi ID Systems | Hitachi ID’s offering includes the ability to optimize internal controls, improve user service, lower operating costs and strengthen network security. One feature, the ability to facilitate new business, is said to allow companies to grow and generate new revenue with the benefits of better internal processes and security. | Security |
| There’s a plan for Google’s failed balloon-based internet, and it involves lasers | Aalyria has two main focuses: Tightbeam, a laser communications system that uses beams of light to transmit data between base stations and endpoints, and Spacetime, the cloud-based software that’s meant to juggle constantly changing connections. | Emerging Tech |
| Modulous, which helps developers build prefabricated homes, raises $11.5M | The startup’s software automates planning for multifamily home design. Developers, architects and contractors can use the tech to determine the viability of a location for a home and its costs. It also provides a proprietary kit-of-parts, which are prebuilt building blocks that developers use to assemble the homes, similar to a life-sized Lego set. | Automation & Productivity |
| Rossum Adds Email Automation to Accelerate Document Processing | “Only when workflows are optimized end-to-end are the real efficiencies in document processing realized. Our vision for this latest release is to provide automation options that cover a broader spectrum from pre-processing, data capture, to validation and post-processing.” | Automation & Productivity |
| MariaDB, Qlik team up to encourage migration from older databases | MariaDB, which sells a commercial version of the open-source MariaDB DBMS, said its engine can do the work of many proprietary engines at a fraction of the cost. The pairing, announced Thursday, is aimed at providing continuous integration and replication of synced data across on-premises, hybrid and cloud environments. | Data Management |
| IKOULA Adds ESET Solutions to Its Offer, to Strengthen Data Protection for Companies | “At ESET, we have made the choice to include in our solutions not only Cloud sandboxing technology – that is to say blocking ransomware and zero-day threats – but also full disk encryption functionality, as well as advanced multi-layer technology”, | Security |
| Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in WordPress BackupBuddy Plugin in ~5 Million Attempts | BackupBuddy allows users to back up their entire WordPress installation from within the dashboard, including theme files, pages, posts, widgets, users, and media files, among others. | Security |
| Slack offers new DocuSign integration to streamline e-signature process | The new DocuSign CLM for Slack app instead allows colleagues and customers to navigate the full agreement process, including redlining, reviewing and approving, directly within Slack. This removes the need for signatories to check their emails or switch to different systems in order to receive status updates. | Automation & Productivity |
| Algolia improves site search functionality with Search.io acquisition | Search.io has developed its own system as well, though unlike Algolia’s core system, it doesn’t rely on keyword relevancy. Rather what Search.io has built is a vector database–based engine that uses AI to convert content into numerical values, where relevancy can be determined based on proximity to the next nearest number. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google launches storage services with knobs on | So, in no particular order, Google Cloud Hyperdisk is described as a next generation complement to its Persistent Disk service block storage service, with different implementations for different workloads. Hyperdisk Extreme, for example, will support up to 300k IOPs and 4Gbps, to support demanding database workloads such as HANA. | Data Storage |
| IBM is leasing on-prem System i servers | For $50 per user per month, IBM will place a quad-core POWER S1014-based System i server on-premises. Extra licenses can be acquired in lots of five. Leases are for three to five years, and IBM service the machine either remotely or on-site. | IT Management |
| Rubrik Ready for Data Security Rumble | “We believe the next frontier of cybersecurity is data security,” Rogers told SDxCentral, defining data security as the combination of data resilience, data observability, and data recovery. | Security |
| Crypto tech startup Mysten Labs valued at over $2 billion after raising $300M in funding led by FTX to accelerate web3 adoption | “Current web3 infrastructure is in the dial-up era – it’s slow, expensive, capacity constrained, insecure, and simply hard to build for. With Sui, we are endeavoring to build a blockchain that scales with demand and incentivizes growth, eliminating middlemen, and enabling users across applications to seamlessly integrate and interact with their favorite products | Web3 |
| White House releases six proposals for reforming tech industry regulation | The second proposal focuses on privacy. The White House stated that clear limits should be placed on the ability of companies to collect, use, transfer and maintain Americans’ personal data. Additionally, the proposal highlights the need for increased regulation of targeted advertising. | Data Privacy |
| Web3 startup Mysten Labs raises $300M led by FTX at $2B valuation | “With Sui, we are endeavoring to build a blockchain that scales with demand and incentivizes growth, eliminating middlemen, and enabling users across applications to seamlessly integrate and interact with their favorite products.” | Blockchain |
| iCloud Shared Photo Library won’t launch with iOS 16 | When it does launch, the feature will let you and up to five other people automatically share a collection of photos, with the option of including all the photos in your personal library, photos from after a specific date, or that include specific people. | Automation & Productivity |
| Next.js gets a mini makeover before v13 drops next month | Released in 2016, Next.js is a popular open-source web development framework created by Vercel and used by roughly 40% of developers. A React framework built on top of the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment, it enables developers to build performant web applications and fast static websites. | DevOps |
| ‘Axie Infinity’ creator Sky Mavis taps Google Cloud to secure blockchain network | Google Cloud will be joining a validator node pool that includes Animoca Brands, DappRadar, Nansen and others. Validators oversee the security of the network by providing collective security and governance over transactions by monitoring the validity of transactions and assuring that the entire pool is operating correctly. | Blockchain |
| MariaDB and Qlik Announce Data Migration Partnership | Using Qlik’s Data Integration platform, customers can easily migrate data from any legacy database source, such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, to MariaDB Enterprise Server, MariaDB Xpand distributed SQL database or MariaDB SkySQL cloud database service, delivering business-ready data at a fraction of the cost of legacy databases. | Data & Analytics |
| London-based conversational AI startup PolyAI lands $40M to automate customer service with human-like voice assistants | PolyAI has developed a proprietary suite of technologies that sound perfectly human, enabling voice assistants to understand callers no matter how they speak. PolyAI’s agents are based on PolyAI’s proprietary machine learning and natural language processing technology, which allows them to scale seamlessly across different use cases and world languages. | Automation & Productivity |
| Akridata Announces Availability of New AI Platform for Visual Data | Founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs with deep technical expertise in solving image processing challenges, Akridata quickly realized from working with computer vision data science teams that the bigger challenges lay in searching, clustering and selecting visual data to accelerate model accuracy. | Data & Analytics |
| Amazon acquires machinery maker Cloostermans to expand its robotics division | Amazon disclosed today that it has deployed more than 520,000 robotic drive units in its facilities since 2012. A drive unit is a compact autonomous vehicle designed to move merchandise between different sections of a warehouse. Amazon also operates other types of autonomous systems in its facilities, including an internally developed robotic arm that it detailed earlier this year. | Automation & Productivity |
| HPE expands Alletra storage portfolio with hybrid arrays | Alletra 5000 is likewise built on the code base in the Nimble platform, but is a hybrid array model. This is claimed to offer performance at a better price point, with HPE stating it is up to 25 percent faster than existing Nimble Storage Hybrid Flash Arrays. | Data Storage |
| Cisco plans to predict, solve network problems via SaaS | The service is part of a variety of predictive services Cisco expects to offer that lean heavily on AI/ML and analytics to predict problems and automate their resolution across internet, cloud, and SaaS networking environments. | Network Management |
| Ontotext Releases Metadata Studio for Complex Text Analysis | With the help of Ontotext Metadata Studio, these organizations can use their business analysts to define Semantic Objects as specific views, abstracting developers away from the complexity and peculiarities of the knowledge graph | Data & Analytics |
| Graphiant Comes out of Stealth Gunning for Cisco's SD-WAN Market | All routing on the Graphiant Network Edge is handled by the Graphiant Stateless Core, which includes metadata protocol, end-to-end privacy, and a programmable network to get SLAs for applications. Graphiant claims the core architecture is “highly differentiated and impossible to solve via automation.” | Network Management |
| OrionVM and Blaize Launch New AI-as-a-Service Offering | This first-of-its-kind partnership will empower organizations across multiple industries to launch their AI solutions more quickly and efficiently, including machine learning across vast data sets. Under the agreement, both companies’ global sales teams will sell Blaize’s AI applications, enabled and powered by OrionVM’s optimized cloud platform. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Animoca Brands raises $125M to deliver digital property rights | Founded in 2011, Animoca specializes in blockchain, gamification and artificial intelligence technologies to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of an open metaverse. | Blockchain |
| Automated quality assurance startup QA Wolf launches with $20M in funding | QA Wolf works by getting to know apps and then building out a comprehensive plan, starting with critical flows. Once a plan is in place, QA Wolf codes end-to-end tests using Microsoft Corp.’s Playwright, a framework for web testing and automation that does not lock customers in. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco partners with Radiflow for its OT security expertise | Once the baseline of the normal behavior is stable, the platform switches to “detection mode” and uses its DPI engine to detect anomalies in traffic flows, said Bard | Security |
| Virtana Launches Kubernetes Support Strategy | Given this rapid spike in Kubernetes usage, AWS and Azure users need a tool that provides cost savings for both traditional compute and containerized/serverless compute resources. As of today, most users do not appropriately constrain, monitor, or manage their Kubernetes containers, leading to excess spend and unpredictable performance. | IT Management |
| FormKiQ Disrupts the World of Document Storage with the Launch of Its Enterprise Document Management Software | While other EDMSs offer a standalone product that doesn’t integrate into the client’s existing infrastructure, FormKiQ installs directly into the client’s existing structure, giving them complete control over the product’s code and data. The system is also built on Amazon Web Services’ serverless model, eliminating any server configuration or maintenance since AWS manages these features. | Document Management |
| Android 13 is making it easier to keep work and personal data separate | According to Google, Android 13’s redesigned “work profiles” build upon last year’s enhancements to keep an employee’s personal data separate from their work data and make the user experience better and more productive, all while still adhering to an IT department’s admin policies. | Automation & Productivity |
| The Ethereum ‘Merge’ is coming and it’s about to change everything in crypto | The upgrade, known as “the Merge,” has been in the works for more than two years after being delayed multiple times. It will reduce the network’s power consumption by more than 99% by making the entire blockchain more energy-efficient. The upgrade is planned to be completed on Sept. 15. | Blockchain |
| Ring finally brings end-to-end encryption to its flagship video doorbells | End-to-end encryption lets users of the company’s video cameras keep their footage locked down, making it accessible only on their enrolled iOS or Android device. Separately, Ring is also making it easier to save recorded videos when an owner sells or disposes of a Ring device. | Security |
| Passwords aren’t dead yet. Bitwarden raises $100M for password management | The key differentiation between Bitwarden and other competitors is not only is it open source, but it offers a free password manager for unlimited logins and devices that can be be deployed in the cloud or via a self-hosted setup to ensure that organizations can meet external compliance requirements. | Security |
| Hitachi Vantara says SQream if you want your data to go faster | The SQream product set will be integrated with both Hitachi’s Content Software for File NVMe parallel file system, and the Hitachi Content Platform object storage platform to accelerate analytics on Hadoop-Hive, Cloudera, Teradata and the like. It can also be turned towards running AI/ML models across massive data sets. | Data Storage |
| Meta’s Instagram fined $400 million by Irish regulators for violating children’s privacy; raising serious concerns about the ethical standard of big tech companies | “Anyone under 18 automatically has their account set to private when they join Instagram, so only people they know can see what they post, and adults can’t message teens who don’t follow them. We engaged fully with the DPC throughout their inquiry, and we’re carefully reviewing their final decision.” | Data Privacy |
| ZineOne bags $28M in Series C funding to grow its in-session marketing platform and convert anonymous consumers without cookies or PII | When potential customers visit an e-commerce site, ZineOne instantly analyzes their behavior patterns within the first few clicks to deliver the right product recommendations or promotional offers while avoiding giving discounts to users who would have purchased anyway. This massively increases customer acquisition, conversion rates, and revenue for businesses implementing ZineOne. | Marketing Tech |
| Nintex Promapp Mobile App Delivers Process-in-your-pocket | Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, announced the launch of the Nintex Promapp mobile app, empowering company-wide business teams to gain efficiencies via process management, no matter where they are working from. | Automation & Productivity |
| Lightbend says Akka will shift from open source to a paid Business Source License | Akka is a developer toolkit designed to streamline the process of building and running heavy-duty distributed apps. Akka is ideal for individuals and companies that want to build programs in Scala and Java that can scale up quickly while avoiding many of the issues associated with concurrent systems. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cyberattack simulation provider Cymulate raises $70M in new funding | Companies historically carried out cyberattack simulations only occasionally because the process involves a significant amount of time and effort. According to Cymulate, its platform includes automation features that make it practical to carry out cyberattack simulations daily. Checking the corporate network for vulnerabilities more frequently enables companies to detect security issues sooner. | Security |
| RudderStack Announces HIPAA-Compliant Customer Data Solution | RudderStack is the warehouse-first, customer data platform (CDP) built for developers. The company takes a new approach to building and operating customer data infrastructure, making it easy to collect, unify, transform, and store customer data as well as securely route it to a wide range of common, popular tools. | Data & Analytics |
| DoE stuffs $24m into data management R&D | “These efforts will enable data to be processed and stored at higher rates across the edge, cloud, and high-performance computing environments, and develop new visualization methods to explore that data, form hypotheses, and convey conclusions to a broad spectrum of audiences.” | Data Management |
| Microsoft adds virtual cores to Windows Server licensing | There’s quite a bit to the changes. The main one is licensing Windows Server on a virtual core basis. Under this model, customers can buy licenses for only the virtual cores they need (with a per-VM minimum), without being tied to a physical number of cores on the server. | IT Management |
| AMA and Moziware to Revolutionize Remote Collaboration for Frontline Workers by Bringing Xperteye on & Live on Cimo Next-Gen Smart Glasses | Equipped with AMA’s AR-powered remote collaboration solution and the cimo ultra-compact and lightweight smart glasses, frontline workers across manufacturing, audit, telco, healthcare, and other industries can remotely collaborate, complete complex tasks together, and resolve issues smarter, faster, and safer. | Automation & Productivity |
| TikTok denies breach after hacker claims to have user data and source code | A hacker going by the name of “AgainstTheWest” claimed to have breached TikTok on Breach Forums on Sept. 3 and stolen data from the Chinese instant messaging app WeChat as well. The hacker shared screenshots of alleged databases belonging to the companies and claimed they contained 2.05 billion records of more than 790 gigabytes. | Security |
| Docquity raises $44M in funding for its medical learning platform | Docquity’s platform also includes a library of educational resources. The platform provides access to medical guidelines, educational webinars explaining treatment methods and summaries of research that appears in medical journals. Docquity’s interface also includes an event calendar that enables users to browse upcoming medical conferences. | Automation & Productivity |
| Ant Group Makes Trusted AI Solutions More Accessible to Support Industrial Collaboration in Digital Economy | Ant Group announced three initiatives to make trusted AI more accessible. This includes making its graph processing database TuGraph open source; launching an industrial-grade AI security testing platform; and unveiling a privacy-preserving computation open platform. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Goodly Cloud Debuts to Make Hardware Lifecycle Management Simple & Insightful | Goodly Cloud is launching the early access version of its B2B SaaS. This software is for teams that want a simple and insightful tool to manage the lifecycle of their hardware. At maturity, the new SaaS tool will monitor each user’s hardware lifecycle, provide key insights and generate early notifications if action needs to be taken | IT Management |
| Apple wasn’t fooling when it said it wanted to make Macs more secure | But Apple has also done one more thing that hasn’t really been noticed until now: It is making Macs even more security conscious than ever before, introducing automated self-diagnosis and malware checking that provides a layer of protection the platform hasn’t really had. | Security |
| SeMI Technologies Introduces an all-new Business Model for Vector Search | “At this point, as we’ve reached 1,500,000 downloads, a lot of people know and love our open-source software, but they want us to run it for them,” says SeMI Technologies’ co-founder Bob van Luijt.” So, we’ve created a ‘NoOps’ option that allows them to pay only for what they use on our optimized Weaviate Cloud Service.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Sephora fined for violating CCPA — what it means for data protection | At the same time, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) is also slowly traversing through the legislative system and, if passed, will implement a federal data protection standard. | Data Privacy |
| LDRA Advances ‘Shift Left’ Strategy with Amazon Web Services Integration | This LDRA/AWS integration, a model for integration in public and private clouds, brings development, security and operations together to improve efficiencies and automation from the start. Using the LDRA tool suite with AWS lets them execute security tests more efficiently across one or many tasks in parallel. | Automation & Productivity |
| FCC urged to test for 'dangerous' interference from Wi-Fi 6E | That said, the paucity of high-powered 6GHz-capable Wi-Fi devices currently on the market, combined with the Wi-Fi industry’s strong technological track record on this type of issue, means that the current threat to emergency communications and the like is minimal, according to Menezes. | Security |
| Reddit to contextualize conversations for advertisers with Spiketrap acquisition | As the company explains, the move will enhance its ability to target users with ads based on their conversations and interests on the platform, while also improving ad-quality scoring and engagement prediction models for auto bidding. | Marketing Tech |
| OneSignal lands $50M to help businesses send push notifications to mobile apps, SMS, and email | Beginning as a mobile game studio, OneSignal pivoted to customer engagement when co-founder and CEO George Deglin saw an opportunity to address a perennial challenge in app development: creating an effective push notification pipeline. | Automation & Productivity |
| Twitter will now let you edit your tweets, if you’re willing to pay | According to the social media giant, the edit tweet option will enable “users to fix text and add tags to a tweet within 30 minutes after its initial publication, according to a release. An edited tweet will have a label, icon, and timestamp indicating that it has been modified, and users can tap the label to view the tweet’s edit history and see past versions.” | Apps |
| Styra Further Shifts Security Left With New Policy-as-Code Repository Scanning | With this new addition, Styra now provides near-instant scanning of configuration files in GitHub, so that Platform teams have the power to proactively prevent errors from making their way into production. | Automation & Productivity |
| VMware Claims Aria Will Erase Mainstream Cloud Management | She noted some enterprises probably already have specific management tools they feel sufficiently address a certain domain like cloud cost, but using those tools disparately adds unnecessary complexity. “To understand the information about your application, are you going to log on to five different consoles?” | Cloud |
| Austin-based tech startup tokenproof bags $5M in seed funding to protect and bring NFTs to the real world | After a one-time verification of a user’s digital wallet, tokenproof issues a proof of ownership credential, while the actual wallet remains securely disconnected. The tokenproof mobile app creates dynamic QR codes to authenticate and unlock the value of NFTs; whether that’s access to an invite-only event, a membership benefit, or a retail experience – in the real world or online. | Privacy & Security |
| National Cybersecurity Alliance Launches Outreach, Mentorship Program | The program partners with several HBCUs and cybersecurity organizations like Trellix, Proofpoint, Dell Technologies, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Quanta Services, to address the alarming increase of unfilled positions within the industry. | Tech Jobs |
| Run:ai Announces First Hybrid Cloud Software Solution for AI Workloads | “Companies can underestimate the time and effort it takes to abstract infrastructure and migrate workloads to different clouds. Provider lock-in happens early and it can take months to train IT and DevOps teams on every environmeny." | Automation & Productivity |
| Over 1,800 Android and iOS Apps Found Leaking Hard-Coded AWS Credentials | To make matters worse, 47% of the identified apps contained valid AWS tokens that granted complete access to all private files and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets in the cloud. This included infrastructure files, and data backups, among others. | Security |
| VMware Unveils New Offerings for Multi-Cloud Navigation | VMware vSphere 8 ushers in a new era of computing by supporting DPUs (Data Processing Units) alongside CPUs and GPUs—making the future of modern infrastructure accessible to all enterprises. vSphere 8 will also supercharge customers’ workload performance, improve operational efficiency and IT productivity, accelerate innovation for DevOps, and more. | Cloud |
| Hacking campaign uses infected James Webb Telescope image | The infection vector starts with a phishing email containing a Microsoft Office attachment containing an external reference hidden inside the document’s metadata which downloads a malicious template file. When the document is opened, the malicious template file is downloaded and saved on the system, initiating the first stage of code execution for the attack. | Security |
| Panasas Announces General Availability of ActiveStor Flash and Ultra XL Platforms | The Panasas ActiveStor systems have been tailored to a broad range of use cases, including advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) training, high performance data analytics (HPDA), modeling and simulation, and massive-scale data workloads. | Data Storage |
| Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE Adds SaaS App Security | As part of its SSPM, Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation cloud access security broker (CASB) allows users to view and configure security settings for SaaS apps in a “single, unified business SASE portal,” | Security |
| RKVST Launches Free and Subscription Tiers of Its SaaS Platform | RKVST does this by capturing the identity of sources and origin of data, enforcing sharing and visibility rules with strong cryptography, and underpinning that with distributed ledger technology that prevents forgery, back-dating or shredding of evidence. | Security |
| Traceable API Security Testing scans APIs for vulnerabilities, accuracy, reliability and overall security | Application programming interface security startup Traceable Inc. today announced the general availability of its API Security Testing offering which enables any API in pre-production to be tested for vulnerabilities, accuracy, reliability and overall security. | Security |
| Folio Photonics Announces Multi-layer Optical Disc Storage Technology | Leveraging patented advancements in materials science, Folio Photonics has developed the first economically viable, enterprise-scale optical storage discs with dynamic multi-layer write/read capabilities, which will enable the development of radically low-cost/high-capacity disc storage. | Data Storage |
| Parasoft Artificial Intelligence Catapults Software Testing to Next Level | “Parasoft has added AI/ML capabilities across a number of testing practices, including UI testing, API testing, functional testing, and static analysis, seeking to make it easier for developers to create, maintain, and execute tests and remediate the findings.” | Automation & Productivity |
| FTC sues mobile attribution tech startup Kochava for selling location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices without permission | The FTC alleged that by selling data tracking people, Kochava is enabling others to identify individuals and exposing them to threats of stigma, stalking, discrimination, job loss, and even physical violence. The FTC’s lawsuit seeks to halt Kochava’s sale of sensitive geolocation data and require the company to delete the sensitive geolocation information it has collected. | Data Privacy |
| John Snow Labs Announces Free, Enterprise-Grade, No-Code Natural Language Processing Tools: Annotation Lab and NLP Server | The Annotation Lab, a robust data labeling and AI/ML solution for teams, enables users to annotate documents, images, and videos. The software automatically trains models using active learning and transfer learning. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dell announces DPU-powered VxRail systems for multicloud and edge-based VMware workloads | The result is a new series of VxRail systems that were designed in close collaboration with VMware to run the latest version of vSphere 8, which is the latter’s flagship virtualization software. VxRail is a hyperconverged infrastructure system that bundles storage, compute and networking into a single appliance. | Cloud |
| Lumen Launches All-Digital Service for SASE | Fortinet and VMware are the first partners to supply Lumen with software, on-premises equipment, remote access clients, and cloud security gateways for SD-WAN and information security services. | Security |
| Animation Startup Plask Releases New Premium Motion Capture Tool To Democratize 3D Animation | Carefully fine-tuned over six months of beta testing with animation production companies, entertainment studios, and game developers, Plask’s newly launched MoCap Pro tier offers stable and accurate motion capture (mocap), and boasts added features such as multi-person mocap and foot locking for greater animation ability. | Automation & Productivity |
| NetApp, VMware join forces in Amazon’s cloud | FSx for ONTAP (FSxN) is a fully managed ONTAP file system in AWS with ONTAP APIs, data reduction, and data protection features. VMware Cloud on AWS was launched in 2017 with joint VMware and AWS engineering efforts and mimics the on-premises VMware environment in the AWS cloud | Data Storage |
| NTT unveils what it calls the ‘first edge and private 5G’ service | The service is powered by VMware’s Edge Compute Stack and will enable enterprises to track, analyze and take action on data where it’s generated or collected. Concurrently, VMware is adopting NTT’s Private 5G technologies. The companies will jointly market the offering. | Data & Analytics |
| NetApp and VMware extend reach into the cloud to help reduce application complexity and costs | The first initiative involves NetApp and VMware working together to certify and support VMware Cloud and NetApp Cloud Services on the world’s three largest public cloud platforms — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. By doing so, customers running applications on VMware that utilize NetApp’s storage environments will be able to migrate and extend data-intensive workloads and files to the cloud. | Cloud |
| Teradata takes on Snowflake and Databricks with cloud-native platform | The company is launching two new cloud-native offerings. VantageCloud Lake extends the Teradata Vantage data lake to a more elastic cloud deployment model. Teradata ClearScape Analytics helps enterprises take advantage of new analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) development workloads in the cloud. | Data & Analytics |
| Google opens the door for Android apps that work across all kinds of devices | In a blog post, Google explains that it’s launching a new cross-device software development kit (SDK) that contains the tools developers need to make their apps play nice across Android devices, and, eventually non-Android phones, tablets, TVs, cars, and more. | Apps |
| Buoyant Linkerd Doubles Down on Zero-Trust Security for Kubernetes | The new Linkerd 2.12 version includes route-based authorization policies that are designed to provide finer-grained management over microservices communications by controlling access to individual paths or routes for each microservice. | Security |
| Alchemy acquires Ethereum education platform ChainShot | Ethereum is soon going through its own maturation as well, as an expected upgrade known as “the Merge” is happening in September that will greatly increase its efficiency. This will set the foundation for future upgrades to the blockchain, which will become available in 2023, setting the stage for scaling up the network to allow it to handle even more transaction volume. | Blockchain |
| LastPass source code stolen by hackers in security breach | LastPass is one of the largest password management services available for users and is said to support more than 30 million users and 85,000 businesses. A significant portion of its revenue comes from businesses that pay for its services to support millions of internet users who subscribe to the service for free. | Security |
| Enterprise software maker OpenText to acquire Micro Focus for $6B | Additionally, the deal is set to expand OpenText’s core portfolio of products for managing business records. Micro Focus offers a set of applications that companies can use to back up their business records, organize them and ensure data is managed in accordance with regulations. | Document Management |
| Observable Announces Free Tier of Service for Data Practitioners | Observable has announced the introduction of free team accounts for data analysts, data scientists, developers, engineers and key decision makers, allowing them to learn from and build on each other’s work openly and publicly. | Data & Analytics |
| World’s First AI Writing Assistant Powered by GPT-3 Launches in the App Store | ParagraphAI can generate essays, articles, emails, messages and more with perfect spelling, grammar, tone and vocabulary. Its release comes just in time for the back-to-school season with an NLP model and integration that generates 99% original plagiarism-free drafts. | Automation & Productivity |
| FlipGrid, a video discussion and learning startup acquired by Microsoft four years ago, rebrands to Flip to take on Google and Apple | Fast forward four years later, Flipgrid has broadened its services beyond education and now offers anyone the ability to share videos and build communities, including families, friends, and creators, all for free. To date, more than 7 billion videos were created or shared on its platform from 190 countries around the world. | Automation & Productivity |
| TDengine 3.0 Introduces Cloud Native Architecture | TDengine today released TDengine 3.0, which adds a cloud-native architecture for Kubernetes deployments and other innovations that both scale and simplify the deployment and management of massive time-series data environments. | Data & Analytics |
| MSP360 Introduces New Ransomware Protection Feature with Backblaze B2 Object Lock Integration | When activated by an IT admin in MSP360 Managed Backup 6.0, Backblaze B2 Object Lock provides an additional layer of security to a business’s data protection strategy by blocking object version deletion during a user-defined retention period. Put simply, objects and files utilizing immutability cannot be deleted either intentionally or accidentally. Immutability also serves as proof of compliance in industries with strict compliance standards. | Security |
| Elastic 8.4 Introduces SOAR for Modern Security Operations | The enhanced workflows in Elastic 8.4 combine native response capabilities and configurable alert and case actions with bidirectional integrations with security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) vendors. Users can now enjoy integrations with ServiceNow, Swimlane, and Tines, as well as new partnerships with D3 and Torq. | Security |
| Headroom Solves Virtual Meeting Fatigue with Artificial Intelligence that Eliminates Wasted Time and Reveals Essential Highlights | Headroom is self-learning; its relevance and impact on productivity improves with use. Headroom data shows 90% of every meeting lacks useful information. To maximize the 10% meeting content that is helpful, the company developed Shareable Automatic Summaries which auto-generate highlight reels that provide key moments, shared notes and action items, and enable easy sharing with others. | Automation & Productivity |
| Alteryx Announces New Capabilities to Meet Compliance Needs of Public Sector | The launch of Server-FIPS is monumental for the use of analytics in public sector environments that require enhanced data encryption. Alteryx Server-FIPS is a FIPS-capable and scalable server-based product for scheduling, sharing, and running apps and models created in Alteryx Designer-FIPS for others in the organization to leverage. | Data Management |
| Google has opened up the waitlist to talk to its experimental AI chatbot | But for many researchers, the best way to improve these same bots is to throw them into the public arena, where the chattering populace will stress-test and manipulate them in ways no fair-minded engineer would dream of. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Anyone can sign up for DuckDuckGo’s privacy-protecting @duck.com email address | After rolling out its Email Protection service in private beta last year, DuckDuckGo has announced that it’s finally available to all users. Email Protection is a forwarding service that assigns you a free “@duck.com” email address and intercepts email trackers before they hit your personal inbox. | Data Privacy |
| Zilliz raises $60m for cloud vector database | “Milvus has now become the world’s most popular open-source vector database with over a thousand end-users. We will continue to serve as a primary contributor and committer to Milvus and deliver on our promise to provide a fully managed vector database service on public cloud with the security, reliability, ease of use, and affordability that enterprises require.” | Data & Analytics |
| Decodable and DataStax partnership: What does it mean for enterprises? | According to the companies, the joint offering will be driven by three core services – Decodable’s SQL-based stream processing platform powered by Apache Flink and DataStax’s Cassandra-based Astra DB and Pulsar-based Astra Streaming. | Data & Analytics |
| XenData kit takes tape copies of cloud archives | XenData’s CX-10 Plus is a networked rackmount box containing an SSD system drive and a 14TB disk drive cache. Its system software sends incoming data out to the public cloud and retains a local synchronized copy of the cloud archive files on LTO tape cartridges. | Data Storage |
| Elastic automates security with SOAR, practices open security | The new solution is powered by Elastic Agent and will offer native remediation and response capabilities across all users, as well as configurable alerts and integration with other SOAR vendors, enabling organizations to implement SOAR without the need to purchase additional solutions. | Security |
| A-LIGN updates deliver complete compliance solution automation | New features in the release include automated evidence collection to save time and resources, cloud integrations and continuous monitoring. A new policy center feature offers readily available industry best practices and guideline readiness assessments are said to decrease the time to reach audit readiness. | Automation & Productivity |
| Okta Releases Unified IAM, Governance Solution | Okta explained that without basic governance capabilities organizations expose themselves to risks such as complex, manual audit processes, poor end-user experience, limited visibility into user access, and inability to meet compliance needs. | Data compliance |
| Vector database startup Zilliz raises $60M in Series B funding extension | Traditional databases are designed for tables and documents, so they’re inefficient for machine learning. This is where Milvus can be helpful, with its ability to transform and index millions of vectors dynamically to answer the queries that are commonly thrown at AI models. | Data & Analytics |
| Next.js release helps Netlify bring web personalization to the edge | With its newest release, the company says it is the only runtime environment to support Next.js Advanced Middleware. Its new capability will help developers build websites and apps faster, at scale and with control to rewrite and transform HTML content at the edge, said Biilmann — without additional client-side JavaScript or complex server-rendering strategies. | Automation & Productivity |
| PhaseZero Launches CxAnalytics 1.0, Customers Benefit with Real-Time Analytics and Insights to Drive High-Impact, Fact-Based Decisions | Delivering on the promise of providing “AI and Analytics Driven Digital Commerce” solutions to manufacturing and distribution companies, CxAnalytics 1.0 is a validated, pre-built analytics dashboard and comprehensive Data-as-a-Service solution that comes pre-integrated with CxCommerce, Google Analytics, and numerous ERP systems. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft extends Azure server lifetimes by 50% | And Microsoft isn't alone. Both Amazon Web Services and Google said on respective earnings calls this February that they had extended their hardware lifespans by a year. | IT Management |
| Blox Launches World’s first AI-powered Data Enrichment and Digital Customer Experience Platform in One Unified Product | Today, enterprises are forced to buy point solutions from different software vendors, each addressing a single point in the journey, as opposed to end to end systems that talk to data at different points in the workflows. What they get is a hodge-podge of data, every vendor interpreting data differently and using it differently for the same customer, preventing any meaningful personalization | Data & Analytics |
| Salesforce-native testing platform Provar unveils end-to-end management solution | Fitting to its name, Manager’s capabilities provide planning, design and documentation for testing to weld together manual, automated, unit and exploratory unit testing with result reporting. | Automation & Productivity |
| Firewall Bug Under Active Attack Triggers CISA Warning | Software running Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls is under attack, prompting U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to issue a warning to public and federal IT security teams to apply available fixes. Federal agencies urged to patch the bug by September 9. | Security |
| Whistleblower delivers liver shot to Twitter with new accusations about lax security | He has since said that Twitter acted negligently when it came to understanding just how many spam accounts infiltrated the website, something that will please Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk, since he accused Twitter of hiding the truth about spam accounts when he was trying to buy the company. | Security |
| Sisu Data adds predictive analytics to new offering | The company uses its AI-driven decision intelligence engine to detail not only metric changes, but also the key drivers behind them. Now, with the addition of predictive analytics, it is moving to answer the next major question enterprises face – what to do next? | Data & Analytics |
| Cloudli Communications Launches AI-Powered Call Screener for TalkNText Subscribers | When the Call Screener feature is activated within the Cloudli app, the caller is prompted to state their name and the reason for their call via the Call Screener virtual assistant. The verbal response is transcribed and scanned in real time by the AI-powered assistant and presented to the Cloudli user for review. Armed with this enhanced contextual information powered by KONTXT by RealNetworks, the user may then choose to answer the call or decline and send it straight to voicemail. | Automation & Productivity |
| LockBit ransomware gang knocked offline after publishing stolen Entrust data | Entrust described the attack as involving an unauthorized party accessing certain systems used for internal operations but not affecting its products in identity and access management, identification and passport issuance, payments, cloud security and data processing. | Security |
| Botco.ai Launches Instachat Builder Enable Rapid AI Chat Deployment | Traditionally, chat applications required extensive manual training before they could begin fielding customer questions, but with Instachat Builder, companies can train Botco.ai’s conversational AI platform on any relevant text information in minutes. This new approach enables teams to launch intelligent chatbots immediately — thereby speeding up deployment, boosting response rates, and reducing fallbacks. | Automation & Productivity |
| Oracle faces privacy lawsuit over data collection practices | Some of the company’s marketing tools provide access to consumer data that brands use to optimize their advertising campaigns, as well as measure ads’ effectiveness. The newly filed lawsuit accuses Oracle of collecting the consumer data that it provides to brands in an unlawful manner. | Data Privacy |
| BigID Introduces Auto-Classification for Data Governance | Organizations can now leverage patented AI to automatically classify and tag data for data governance across their entire data landscape – including multi-cloud and hybrid environments | Data Governance |
| Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers | Warnings come from security researchers who say TA558 cybercriminals have revamped their 2018 campaigns with fake reservation emails that contain links – that if clicked – deliver a malicious malware payload containing a potpourri of malware variants. | Security |
| Incorta enhances its analytics platform with new data applications | The first set of data applications focuses on helping users analyze workforce data stored in Workday’s namesake cloud platform, as well as Oracle’s EBS and Cloud ERP offerings. Workday is used by enterprises to coordinate their human resource management efforts and perform related tasks. | Data & Analytics |
| Okta Identity Governance platform unifies identity and access management | The third capability, Enhanced Governance Reports, offers reporting capabilities to help meet audit and compliance requirements. Administrators can provide an audit report of who has access to what resources, who approved the access and how they got it. | Privacy & Security |
| SingleStore integrates with SAS Viya | “The integration of SingleStore’s hybrid, multi-cloud database into the parallel analytics engine, SAS Viya, will dramatically improve performance, reduce cost, and enable real-time applications for organizations.” | Data & Analytics |
| Google Cloud claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever attempted | The DDoS attack peaked at a stunning 46 million requests per second using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure-based requests. “To give a sense of the scale of the attack, that is like receiving all of the daily requests to Wikipedia in just 10 seconds,” | Security |
| HYCU offers protection freebie on AWS EC2 | Backup-as-a-Service biz HYCU is offering a free-for-life tier of data protection on AWS, a rung below its paid-for tier and missing things like immutability. | Data Storage |
| Infamous Lazarus hacking group targeting Mac users with fake job listings | The Mac malware drops three files: a decoy PDF document, a fake font updater app and a downloader called “safarifontagent.” The bundle of malicious files is timestamped July 21, indicating that the campaign is new, not part of previous Lazarus campaigns. That said, a certificate used to sign the malicious files was issued in February this year to a developer known as “Shankey Nohria.” | Security |
| Massdriver’s platform helps developers diagram the cloud and get on with coding | Massdriver’s platform allows customers to visually build their cloud infrastructure from pre-built infrastructure bundles including databases, authenticators, cloud integrations and more. It allows them to connect them and compose entire systems across regions or cloud providers based on the team’s intentions. | Automation & Productivity |
| Groundcover aims to improve observability and monitoring with eBPF and microservices | eBPF is a technology designed to run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without having to manipulate the kernel’s behavior or load any kernel modules. Basically, it lets you run sandboxed programs using your operating system. With the ability to make the Linux kernel programmable, developers get a wide range of tools to aid their tasks. | Automation & Productivity |
| Waterdrop Unveiled Its First Digital Employee Waterdrop Assistant | “Waterdrop Assistant” is a human-like virtual employee that was developed based on Waterdrop’s business processes and is powered by multiple technologies, including robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI). “Waterdrop Assistant” can help the online insurance service team with numerous tasks, including data processing and analysis, online user management, and customer services, thus improving the response time, quality, and scope of the Company’s customer service team. | Automation & Productivity |
| IonQ launches what’s said to be the world’s ‘most powerful’ quantum computing system on Azure | onQ is notable for having developed a quantum computing system that’s based on trapped ions, where the qubits are suspended in a vacuum and manipulated by laser beams. It’s a completely different setup from the superconducting qubits developed by other players in the industry, such as IBM Corp., Google LLC and Honeywell International Inc., which have to be operated at incredibly cold temperatures. | Quantum Computing |
| Cloudify Launches Free Terraform UI Experience for DevOps Engineers, Enabling Seamless, Automated Import and Management of Unlimited Terraform Modules | This advancement enables DevOps teams to turn their Terraform modules into self-service environments and scale up their services to the organization through Cloudify’s Environment as a Service approach. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google will update its search engine to prioritize high-quality content more effectively | Google has already begun testing the update internally. Based on its testing, the company expects that the changes will provide particularly significant improvements when users enter queries related to online education, arts, entertainment, shopping and technology. | Automation & Productivity |
| Protected health information may have been compromised by Meta pixel | The health system, which services four U.S. states, had been using Meta tracking pixels — JavaScript code that allows websites to track visitors — on hundreds of hospital websites within patient portals. By itself, that’s not a significant issue, but Novant Health was also using the tracking pixels within password-protect patient portals, Health IT Security reported today. | Data Privacy |
| Cloudera claims its new ‘all-in-one’ data lakehouse cuts ownership costs by up to 35% | The offering complements the 2019-launched flagship CDP product and provides enterprises with a single, centralized data platform that includes built-in cloud compute, cloud storage, machine learning (ML), streaming data analytics and enterprise-grade security. | Data & Analytics |
| APT Lazarus Targets Engineers with macOS Malware | The campaign, identified by researchers from ESET Research Labs and revealed in a series of tweets posted Tuesday, impersonates cryptocurrency trader Coinbase in a job description claiming to seek an engineering manager for product security, researchers divulged. | Security |
| New Esri Initiative Provides Free Geospatial Software for Nonprofits | To support and advance the missions of similar small nonprofits that may think geographic information systems (GIS) software is out of reach, Esri has launched the Esri Small Nonprofit Organization Grant Initiative. The grant initiative will provide 150 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations with access to GIS training and software. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google adds more breach detection features to its Chronicle cybersecurity platform | “Our scale, and depth of intelligence, gained by securing billions of users everyday, gives us a unique vantage point to craft effective and targeted detections,” Google Cloud software engineer Benjamin Chang and engineering manager Rick Correa wrote in a blog post. “These native detection sets cover a wide variety of threats for cloud and beyond.” | Security |
| Arcion Releases Next Evolution of Real-Time CDC Data Pipeline Technology | Combining with the end-to-end multi-threaded architectural design, Arcion is able to bring a 10x faster log extraction experience to Oracle users. The company also has expanded its range of source and target connectivity to include BigQuery, Azure-managed SQL Server, and Imply. | Data & Analytics |
| Industrial cybersecurity and asset monitoring startup SynSaber raises $13M | SynSaber released version 1.0 of its vendor-agnostic operation and detection solution in February, allowing critical infrastructure asset owners and operators to send OT edge data to empower their security information event management, orchestration, automation and response, or managed service security provider services — better known by their acronyms SIEM, OAR and MSSP. | Security |
| HyperTrack lands $25M funding to build out its API-based, last-mile logistics infrastructure | To solve that problem, HyperTrack has created a mobile infrastructure encompassing order planning, assignments, location tracking and mapping application programming interfaces. These can then be pieced together by developers to rapidly build comprehensive last-mile logistics systems for their applications in a matter of days. | Automation & Productivity |
| GrowthSpace lands $25M to grow its talent development platform and connect employees to relevant experts | Global spending on workplace learning and development, also known as human capital development and upskilling is estimated to be around $360 billion, according to data from Statista. One of the major challenges facing most organizations today is connecting employees to relevant experts at scale. | Automation & Productivity |
| Datadog Extends Monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure Database Platforms | With this expanded support, engineers and database administrators can quickly pinpoint and address database performance issues such as costly and slow queries, incorrect indexes in SQL Server or Azure databases and bottlenecks in their applications. | Data Management |
| Cloudian balances object storage access loads | It establishes a clean separation between the HyperStore object storage domain and the accessing networking infrastructure. The HyperStore distributed system gets a single IP address and is accessed and used as a private storage cloud. | Data Storage |
| TidalScale and inverted server virtualization | Nine-year-old startup TidalScale has developed a distributed hyperkernel which combines different nodes in a cluster of physical servers into a software-defined server. It enables inverse virtualization, combining a cluster of so-called worker nodes into a single large virtual machine with a big memory pool, and is based on the FreeBSD hypervisor bhyve. | Automation & Productivity |
| Integrate.ai Announces Availability of New Privacy-Preserving ML Platform | The platform leverages federated learning and differential privacy technologies to unlock a range of machine learning and analytics capabilities on data that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to access due to privacy, confidentiality, or technical hurdles. | Data Privacy |
| Verge.io adds GPUs to virtual datacenter systems | HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) builds an IT datacenter from standard server-storage-networking boxes with storage pooled across them like a virtual SAN. Verge.io software does the same but then subdivides the pooled compute-storage-networking resource, the abstracted datacenter, into virtual datacenters (VDCs). | Data Storage |
| Data.world Launches Data Lineage Product Powered by Knowledge Graph | Data lineage is an application of metadata that provides visibility into where data originates, how and where it’s applied, and whether it’s been manipulated. Lineage provides critical context for data applications and can improve the resiliency and reliability of data and analytics supply chains. | Data & Analytics |
| DigitalOcean warns of email compromise after another Mailchimp breach | Bleeping Computer reported today that DigitalOcean was first informed of the breach on Aug. 8 and that the company was using its Mailchimp account to send email confirmations, password reset notifications and alerts to customers. | Data Privacy |
| Broadcom turbocharges AI and ML with Tomahawk 5 | Today, San Jose-based Broadcom announced the StrataXGS Tomahawk 5 switch series, which offers 51.2 Tbps of Ethernet switching capacity in a single, monolithic device – more than double the bandwidth of its contemporaries, the company claims. | Automation & Productivity |
| Data processing chip startup Pliops raises $100M | Pliops has attracted big money from its backers because it’s focused on solving a big problem with big data. Its processor technology is designed to make data centers run faster and more efficiently. Specifically, its Extreme Data Processor helps to simplify the way data is processed and flash storage is managed. | Automation & Productivity |
| Networking startup DriveNets raises $262M in new funding | The other core component of the startup’s platform is the DriveNets Orchestrator. It provides analytics features that enable carriers to detect and troubleshoot technical issues in their networks. According to DriveNets, the software performs some troubleshooting tasks automatically. It includes a failover tool that can restore network operations after an outage. | Network Management |
| Decentralized tech startup Satellite IM closes $10.5M to offer the world’s first web3 communications platform with private messaging | Enter Satellite IM, a Boston-based tech startup and a fully decentralized peer-to-peer voice, video, and text communication platform that stores files on a distributed network so redundancy comes built-in along with large file storage, enabling only intended users to have a secured experience without compromises. | Web3 |
| Expereo Acquires Breeze Networks to Expand SASE, SD-WAN Reach | “SSE is one thing, and SD-WAN another thing. There’s a few vendors that have them together, but they have a limited footprint or they’re very costly,” he said. “Once all the vendors get to that level, then I think IT teams will truly have something that is really nicely packaged.” | Network Management |
| Property management software provider Guesty raises $170M | Guesty has created a platform for managing short-term rentals and vacation rental properties and reservations. Property managers and landlords can use Guesty to manage reservations from major booking platforms such as Airbnb, Vrbo, Expedia and Booking.com. | Automation & Productivity |
| Feds: Zeppelin Ransomware Resurfaces with New Compromise, Encryption Tactics | Threat actors deploying the ransomware as a service (RaaS) are tapping remote desktop protocol (RDD) exploitation and SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities–alongside previously used phishing campaigns–to breach target networks, according to an advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released Thursday. | Security |
| TikTok now offers a very basic text-to-image AI generator directly in the app | The video platform recently added a new effect it calls “AI greenscreen” that allows users to type in a text prompt that the software will then generate as an image. This image can then be used as the background to a video — potentially a very useful tool for creators. | Automation & Productivity |
| Zip adds renewal features to its procurement management software | Zip said the feature saves companies money and disruption by avoiding automatic renewals at the customer’s option and preventing unanticipated contract expirations. Its automated alerts can be set to notify users of pending renewal dates through email and collaboration software platforms such as Slack Technologies Inc.’s Slack. | Automation & Productivity |
| Facebook’s In-app Browser on iOS Tracks ‘Anything You Do on Any Website’ | Users of Apple’s Instagram and Facebook iOS apps are being warned that both use an in-app browser that allows parent company Meta to track ‘every single tap’ users make with external websites accessed via the software. | Data Privacy |
| Sensitive data ruling by Europe’s top court could force broad privacy reboot | A ruling put out yesterday by the European Union’s top court could have major implications for online platforms that use background tracking and profiling to target users with behavioral ads or to feed recommender engines that are designed to surface so-called ‘personalized’ content. | Data Privacy |
| Granulate to Launch Free Solution for Autonomous Kubernetes Cost Optimization | Granulate’s gMaestro provides DevOps, SREs, and FinOps teams full visibility into their K8s clusters allowing them to eliminate over-provisioning and reduce costs by up to 60%. | Data & Analytics |
| The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS | The exploit works by targeting the installer for the Zoom application, which needs to run with special user permissions in order to install or remove the main Zoom application from a computer. Though the installer requires a user to enter their password on first adding the application to the system, Wardle found that an auto-update function then continually ran in the background with superuser privileges. | Security |
| Macronix intros compute-in-NAND storage | The amount of AI data to process and the compute-intensive nature of the processing means that data cannot be loaded into memory fast enough to keep compute cores busy. Its better to do some of the processing in the storage drives and so accelerate processing time and save energy on drive-to/from-DRAM data transfers. | Data Storage |
| Starlink Successfully Hacked Using $25 Modchip | He developed the tool using low-cost, off-the-shelf parts and was able to use it to obtain root access by glitching the Starlink UT security operations center bootrom, according to a tweet previewing the presentation that he said was sent through a rooted Starlink UT. | Security |
| Google fined $43 million for misleading users on collection of their personal location data | The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) estimates that 1.3 million Google account users in Australia may have been affected. In an email to Reuters, Google said it had settled the complaints and added it has made location information simple for users to manage and easy to understand. | Data Privacy |
| ObservIQ Announces Availability of BindPlane Observability Pipeline | BindPlane OP addresses the growing challenge of increased data overwhelming the ability to meaningfully monitor the pipeline. It filters data, reducing the volume, for greater manageability and lowering the cost of unused data analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| Concentric AI Launches New Security Solution to Protect Sensitive Data Shared Across Popular E-mail and Messaging Platforms | Available today and publicly unveiled at Black Hat USA 2022 in Concentric’s Innovation City Booth No. 90, this industry-first capability reveals sensitive data shared across e-mail and business messaging platforms and highlights who has inappropriate access to mission-critical content. | Security |
| FTC will explore new data privacy rules to regulate the tech industry | The ANPR contains dozens of questions that cover topics such as data collection, algorithmic discrimination, commercial surveillance and cybersecurity. Some of the questions are technical in nature, focusing on details such as what are the best ways to measure algorithmic errors. | Data privacy |
| Facebook is testing end-to-end encryption for all Messenger chats | Meta has started to test end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chat as a default for Messenger chats and, as a companion to it, launched a new online E2EE storage service dubbed Secure Storage for backing up chat histories. | Privacy & Security |
| OpenAI improves its AI-powered content filter and makes it free to use | When it receives a text input, the Moderation endpoint will analyze it to see if it contains anything that ought to be filtered out, such as sexual content, hateful or violent speech, or messages that promote self-harm. It will weed out and block all content prohibited by OpenAI’s content policy. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Injective raises $40M to build finance-focused blockchain | With Injective’s platform, fully decentralized finance applications can be built, such as cryptocurrency exchanges, predictions markets, derivatives and options trading. That’s done by provisioning a large library of cross-chain primitives such as an on-chain, financial transaction order book for DeFi apps. | Blockchain |
| Yellow.ai Announces the Launch of Its Proprietary DynamicNLP, a First in the Enterprise Conversational AI Space | “Yellow.ai DynamicNLP is a first of its kind proprietary technology in the global enterprise Conversational AI industry; a breakthrough innovation that can help enterprises save time, effort, and operational cost while accelerating their go-live strategy." | Automation & Productivity |
| AWS, Splunk and other tech firms launch open-source cybersecurity data framework | OCSF seeks to help organizations respond to cyberattacks more effectively by simplifying one of the most complicated aspects of the task: data management. In particular, the project is designed to streamline the process of processing data about cyberattacks. | Security |
| Infinidat guarantees one-minute data recovery | The guarantee is that enterprises and service providers recover and restore their data in the wake of a cyberattack by using a guaranteed immutable snapshot dataset with a guaranteed recovery time of one minute or less. | Data Management |
| Sysdig incorporates machine learning to detect cryptojacking attempts | Sysdig’s announcement identifies machine learning as a critical technology that enterprises and decision makers can turn to more broadly to accelerate their efforts to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities. | Security |
| University of Michigan Institute for Social Research is developing new data platform | The $38 million investment by the NSF is enabling the Institute for Social Research to establish the Research Data Ecosystem: A National Resource for Reproducible, Robust and Transparent Social Science Research in the 21st Century. ISR will oversee the creation of new data archives and software that researchers can use to access, organize, analyze and contribute data. | Data & Analytics |
| Amazon debuts new data storage capabilities at AWS Storage Day | Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that it’s placing more importance on “data resiliency” within its flagship Amazon Elastic Block Store service with the addition of a new feature it’s calling “crash consistent snapshots,” available for subsets of EBS volumes. | Data Storage |
| MIT Researchers use OpenAI Codex to Build an An ML-based Mathematics Problem-generator | By using OpenAI Codex for solving complex mathematical problems, MIT researchers were able to demonstrate AI’s role in automation-based course evaluation and mathematical question-generation for large-scale examination. Considered as a major milestone in the MIT AI’s research program, this new project could be used to sample different types of problems, equations and plots. | Artificial Intelligence |
| BigID Announces Automated Remediation for Sensitive File Access in the Cloud | Building on its existing data access intelligence and remediation capabilities in the multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, BigID now adds full automated end-to-end remediation to ensure cloud data risk from open and over-privileged file access is quickly closed, preventing insider threats, data leaks and dangerous breaches. | Cloud |
| Nvidia launches new metaverse efforts at SIGGRAPH | Among the announcements is the Nvidia Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine, which is a set of tools and services designed to create AI-powered virtual assistants. | Metaverse |
| CrowdStrike’s new AI-powered ‘Indicators of Attack’ offer enhanced visibility of cloud intrusions | IoAs, invented by CrowdStrike over a decade ago, bring a new approach to stopping breaches based on adversary behavior irrespective of the malware or exploit used in an attack. The enhancement of the service with AI now delivers new IoAs “at machine speed and scale.” | Security |
| Cybereason Lets You Manage Cyberthreats on Your Phone | Cybereason launched a managed detection and response (MDR) mobile app during this year’s Black Hat. It allows users access to the MDR dashboard to get alerts and respond to potential cyberthreats with the help of Cybereason’s security operations center (SOC) from their phone at any time, as the vendor found attacks are more likely to occur during offline hours. | Security |
| Recorded Future Launches National Cyber Defense Intelligence Kit | The National Cyber Defense Intelligence Kit centralizes intelligence on specific industries and areas of interest, enabling analysts and leaders to quickly answer intelligence requirements, set up real-time alerts, and conduct deep investigations. | Security |
| Pentera Launches Attack-Based Validation for Exposed Credentials to Prevent Compromised Credentials Breaches | The platform leverages these hashed or clear text credentials in millions of attack vectors, and provides actionable credential exposure mitigation steps such as password reset, or hardening users’ MFA policies and limiting privileges at risk in near real-time. | Security |
| Fintech startup Airswift raises $2 million to build web 3.0 native payment infrastructure | The startup provides a web 3.0 native omnichannel payment gateway, crypto-funded prepaid cards, and on/off ramp services that connect businesses with consumers. Airswift is widely recognized as a leader in blockchain technology, with extensive operational experience in global digital payments and enterprise Web 3.0 financial infrastructure. | Web3 |
| NNAISENSE announces release of EvoTorch, a rare open-source evolutionary algorithm | NNAISENSE has also integrated EvoTorch with the open-source Ray framework that is used for scaling Python and AI applications. Atkinson said that if a data scientist builds a problem as a PyTorch function to optimize on EvoTorch, it’s possible to scale to thousands of CPUs and hundreds of GPUs. | Automation & Productivity |
| Phishers Swim Around 2FA in Coinbase Account Heists | Threat actors are making their way around two-factor authentication (2FA) and using other clever evasion tactics in a recently observed phishing campaign aimed at taking over Coinbase accounts to defraud users of their crypto balances. | Security |
| AI-powered SaaS data protection startup Spin Technology raises $16M | Its platform “SpinOne” offers all-in-one SaaS data protection designed specifically for mission-critical SaaS apps. SpinOne offers four major areas of protection, starting with ransomware monitoring and response. The ransomware protection functionality provides two-hour incident responses against ransomware attacks on SaaS data, reducing recovery costs by as much as 90%. | Security |
| Data integration startup Equalum raises $14M to support growth | The platform provides high availability with failover protection, automated initial capture and CDC, easy bulk replications, native cloud support and a broad array of pre-configured sources and targets. | Data & Analytics |
| Crypto exchange Bitget launches a $200M protection fund to secure and safeguard users’ digital assets | "With the launch of the Bitget Protection Fund, we are one step closer to fulfilling our commitment to safeguarding and protecting our Bitget community. The protection fund will help us mitigate investors’ concerns and attract potential users. As we continue to endure the crypto winter, it is crucial that our users can rest assured that their funds are kept safe.” | Security |
| NetRise Platform offers insights into XIoT firmware vulnerabilities | The new cloud-based software-as-a-service platform analyzes and continuously monitors XIoT devices’ firmware, the device-specific hardware embedded into a chip. The platform takes firmware images and dissects them, presenting all key data, artifacts and risks in an easy-to-consume interface | IoT |
| AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms | The ruling is the latest failure in a series of quixotic legal battles by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to copyright and patent the output of various AI software tools he’s created. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cloudian Provides On-Premises Object Storage on Microsoft Azure Stack HCI | Cloudian announced that its HyperStore object storage is now validated to work with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. The combined solution gives Azure Stack HCI customers the scalability and flexibility benefits of public cloud in a highly secure and cost-effective, cloud-native storage platform within their own data centers. | Data Storage |
| New York Becomes First State to Mandate CLE in Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection | Under the new requirement, all attorneys must complete one hour of training every two years in either the ethical obligations surrounding cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, or in the technological and practice-related aspects of protecting data and client communications. | Data Privacy |
| Google sues Sonos over smart speaker and voice control tech | These new lawsuits allege infringement of seven additional patents. One lawsuit focuses on hotword detection and wireless charging, and the other revolves around how a group of speakers determines which one should respond to voice input. | Automation & Productivity |
| Samsung lays a clutch of tasty flash eggs at FMS 2022 | Flash market leader Samsung excelled itself at the FMS 2022 event this week, showing a near blizzard of new products: a petabyte-scale SSD, a memory-semantic SSD, a SmartSSD, and SSD telemetry plus general availability of a PCIe 5 SSD and a 24GB SAS SSD and CXL DRAM. | Data Storage |
| Open Redirect Flaw Snags Amex, Snapchat User Data | Open redirect is a security vulnerability that occurs when a website fails to validate user input, which allows bad actors to manipulate the URLs of domains from legitimate entities with good reputations to redirect victims to malicious sites, researchers said. | Security |
| Afresh raises $115M in funding to reduce food waste with AI | Founded in 2017, Afresh provides a software platform that enables grocery store operators to track fresh food sales. The startup’s platform is also capable of forecasting future customer demand. Supply chain teams can consult the data provided by Afresh to optimize the amount of fresh food they procure from suppliers in a way that minimizes food waste. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datajoin breaks marketing data silos with micro integrations | Micro integrations, Datajoin said, take the complex process of ID resolution and app-to-app integration and simplify it. You just have to identify the data points you need and the product automatically makes data appear in the target application. No data platform or engineering resources are needed. | Data & Analytics |
| Meta AI unveils BlenderBot 3, an advanced chatbot that learns from interactions | BlenderBot 3 is said to be the world’s first 175 billion-parameter, publicly available chatbot that comes complete with model weights, code, datasets and model cards. | Automation & Productivity |
| Blockchain Partnership: PraSaga and Metahug Gamify Web3 Education Via Roblox | Metahug is a global philanthropic organization helping children with limited resources understand and utilize Web3. Metahug will teach children how to use and build Web3 tools via popular youth gaming platform — Roblox, with PraSaga providing free access to its SagaChain to support the initiative. | Web3 |
| Seraphic Launches First-of-its-Kind, Enterprise-Grade Browser Security and Governance Solution that Works Across Any Browser | The browser has become the primary productivity tool for employees amid the rise in remote work, increased adoption of bring your own device (BYOD) environments and growing use of web-based SaaS applications by corporations. These trends have turned the browser into the largest attack surface against businesses. Yet, browsers lack enterprise-grade security and governance capabilities | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenText Unveils Cloud Editions 22.3, Unleashing Exponential Innovation as Project Titanium Roadmap Takes Off | OpenText is also expanding its support for forensic investigators through OpenText EnCase enhancements. The addition of Advanced Forensic File Format 4 (AFF4), in both OpenText™ EnCase Forensic and OpenText™ EnCase Endpoint Investigator, broadens support of industry standards and enables customers to consolidate evidence collected with multiple tools into a single case file, resulting in faster, more efficient investigations. | Automation & Productivity |
| Dish Hints at Cisco, Amazon, Dell Ties to Hit Enterprise Market | Ergen also noted that current government efforts to fund rural broadband deployments could impact Dish’s FWA plans. He explained that if rivals like T-Mobile US and Verizon were to receive government funding that it would make it more financially challenging for Dish to compete. | Network Management |
| HPE to ship a dedicated inference server for the edge | It has up to 16 "AI cores" and supports FP16, INT8, INT16, FP32 data formats, all of which are used in inferencing. These are not custom Arm processors, they are entirely new SoCs designed for inferencing. | Automation & Productivity |
| Talon raises $100M in funding for its secure enterprise browser | Administrators can manage employees’ TalonWork installations through a cloud-based dashboard. According to Talon, the dashboard highlights potentially malicious browser extensions that were downloaded without authorization from the information technology team. It also helps with related tasks, such as downloading security updates. | Security |
| Compliance tech startup RegScale raised $20M in funding to deliver continuous compliance automation for heavily regulated industries | Through its Continuous Compliance Automation platform, RegScale helps businesses to meet any regulatory requirement with 70+ compliance requirements such as NIST, ISO, SOX, CMMC, and NERC-CIP supported out of the box and the ability for RegScale to digitize any regulation in under a week. | Automation & Compliance |
| Cybersecurity risk management startup Axio raises $25M | The company’s Axio360 platform enables ongoing visibility and actionable insights across the organization, including cyber risk quantification, cybersecurity assessment, financial stress testing and prioritization. | Security |
| Astar teams up with Alchemy to accelerate web3 development on Polkadot ecosystem | The move will make it easier for developers to use Alchemy Supernode to create decentralized applications (dApps) on Astar Network, Polkadot’s leading parachain, and unleash a wave of web3 creativity. As a result of the partnership, developers can use Alchemy’s powerful APIs to create sophisticated apps that leverage features previously unavailable on Polkadot. | Web3 |
| Cresta Expands Vision for Real-Time Intelligence | Our Real-Time Intelligence platform helps businesses conquer this challenge by delivering a holistic and deeply integrated platform that rapidly layers into any existing contact center. This modular and integrated approach closes the gap between insight and action, empowering teams to achieve superhuman visibility, insight, and action on every conversation.” | Data & Analytics |
| VMware introduces cloud workload protection for AWS | The new solution, VMware Carbon Black Workload, will automatically gather and list vulnerabilities in AWS environments, while providing a next-generation antivirus (NGAV) to analyze attackers’ behavior patterns, while providing endpoint detection and response capabilities. | Security |
| Flashpoint acquires Echosec to expand its open-source intelligence capabilities | The company’s platform and application programming interface delivers timely, relevant data from sources such as social media, the deep web and the dark web. The data can be used for geopolitical risk assessments, counterterrorism, brand protection, disinformation monitoring and crisis response. | Security |
| FirstWave Cloud’s Revolutionary Open Security Management Platform (OSMP) Delivers On “Urgent” Need For SMB Cyber Protection | “With CyberCision™, service providers can build as-a-service cybersecurity packages of enterprise-grade, including a range of management and operational services such as multi-tenanting, billing, and provisioning that enable them to streamline the sales and delivery process at a minimal cost.” | Security |
| Swiss IIoT tech startup VISENSE bags €750K in pre-seed funding to help industrial manufacturers battle machine downtime | With the increasing demand for automation and quality inspection across the industrial manufacturing sector, VISENSE enters a market with high potential. According to Grand View Research, the global machine vision market is projected to grow at a 7.7% CAGR from $14.3 billion in 2021 to $25.9 billion in 2030 | Automation & Productivity |
| Druva’s new data resiliency guarantee offers up to $10M in coverage | With the guarantee, Data Resiliency Cloud customers gain additional confidence that they are protected against a wide variety of data loss and downtime events across cyber, human, application, operation and environmental risk factors. | Security |
| Microsoft goes all-in on threat intelligence and launches two new products | Microsoft is one of the key providers capitalizing on this trend. Just over a year ago, it acquired cyberrisk intelligence provider RiskIQ. Today, Microsoft announced the release of two new products: Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) and Microsoft External Attack Surface Management. | Security |
| Strobes Security Announces Its Next Version of Strobes PTaaS, a Continuous and On-Demand Pentesting Platform | With Strobes PTaaS, customers can raise a pentest request of any kind, schedule the assessments including the delivery dates and access the vulnerabilities from the platform. | Security |
| Grayshift Introduces Reveal, the Industry’s First Cloud-Native Mobile Device Forensic Analysis Solution, and Delivers Powerful New Features in GrayKey | Initially available to U.S.-based law enforcement agencies, Reveal by Grayshift is the first cloud-native platform for accessing, analyzing, and managing forensic evidentiary data for public safety agencies. | Data & Analytics |
| Goodbye FTL – Kioxia reconstructing flash drives with software-enabled flash | The aim is to get rid of hard disk drive-era thinking regarding SSD controllers, and provide hyperscaler customers with a way to make their flash media operate more efficiently and consistently. SSDs contain flash dies as before, but the existing FTL-running controller is no more, replaced by a minimal processor running low-level SSD operations and a much-reduced scope FTL. | Data Storage |
| Arista buys software-defined networking pioneer Pluribus | Pluribus is a software-defined networking pioneer, founded in 2010 and has morphed its original Netvisor One, a virtualized Linux-based NOS that provides Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking and distributed fabric intelligence into its Adaptive Cloud Fabric software-defined networking package. | Network Management |
| ‘Service experience’ startup Aisera raises $90M to help enterprises go AI-native | Aisera has created what it says is a proactive, personalized and predictive AI-based Service Experience Platform that automates key processes around customer service, employee service desk and information technology ticketing. A kind of ServiceNow on steroids, the platform powers virtual agents that can handle multiple types of requests. | Automation & Productivity |
| Axis adds automation, onboarding features to Atmos ZTNA network access software | One of these features includes leveraging telemetry data gathered from identities, devices, and connectors to allow multicloud point of presence (PoP) resolution for the selection of the most optimal connectivity path and autoselecting between AWS, Google, or Oracle PoP for brokering. | Network Management |
| Ivanti and SentinelOne Partner to Revolutionize Patch Management and Deliver Autonomous Vulnerability Assessment, Prioritization, and Remediation | Ivanti, the provider of the Ivanti Neurons automation platform that discovers, manages, secures, and services IT assets from cloud to edge, and SentinelOne, an autonomous cybersecurity platform company, announced they have joined forces to help organizations adopt a comprehensive, risk-based approach to patch management and bolster cybersecurity against cyber threats, including ransomware attack | Security |
| Verse Announces the Release of Verse Capture to Bring the Power of Texting and Conversational AI to the Massive SMB Market | Next-generation conversation automation platform, Verse, has announced the launch of its latest product offering, Verse Capture. The chatbot alternative provides businesses with the ability to transform website traffic into real-time 2-way text conversations powered by Human-Guided AI. | Automation & Productivity |
| Serenity EHS raises $5M to expand workflow offerings on ServiceNow | Support for investigation and root cause analysis allows users to perform investigations with support for 5-Whys, Corrective and Preventative Actions and Eight Discipline, common methodologies used to explore relationships underlying a particular problem. | Automation & Productivity |
| Phishing attack results in data breach at Pittsburgh-based health system | “To protect against the attacks such as this, educating users on how to spot and report phishing attacks, then allowing them to practice the skills through simulated phishing emails, is a key way to reduce risk," | Security |
| Researchers find 3,000+ mobile apps exposing Twitter API keys | With full access, an attacker would gain the ability to perform actions such as reading direct messages, retweeting, liking, deleting and removing and adding followers, along with the ability to change account settings and the display picture on the account | Privacy & Security |
| Los Alamos Labs, SK hynix develop computational storage SSD | ”Moving our large-scale physics simulations from file-based I/O to record- and columnar-indexed I/O has shown incredible speedups for analysis of simulation output.” | Data Storage |
| UiPath Acquires Natural Language Processing Company Re:infer | “Our customers are awash in documents, communications, and data that they need to understand the meaning of and process efficiently. Combining Re:infer’s NLP technology with our Document Understanding and AI products expands the breadth of our current AI-powered automation capabilities and unlocks new automation opportunities for our customers.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Adaptavist and monday.com Partner to Expand Work Management and Digital Transformation Capabilities for Enterprise Worldwide | The monday.com platform is a customizable Work OS that helps teams of all sizes — across all departments including marketing, sales, finance, operations, and IT – create workflows to plan, run and track their processes, projects, and operations. | Automation & Productivity |
| Fiddler Announces Giga-Scale Model Performance Management with Deeper Understanding of Unstructured Models and Fine Discoverability to Launch New AI Initiatives | Fiddler will now provide vector monitoring capabilities to help organizations gain a deeper understanding of more complex ML models in production that involve unstructured data such as text, images, embeddings, and intermediate model representations. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Messaging Apps Tapped as Platform for Cybercriminal Activity | Intel 471 identified three key ways in which threat actors are leveraging built-in features of popular messaging apps for their own gain: storing stolen data, hosting malware payloads, and using bots that perform their dirty work, they said. | Privacy & Security |
| With new $600M financing, Contentsquare aims to humanize digital interactions | The company has a five-product strategy for its platform that includes analytics to analyze customer journey and content, optimization of mobile apps, finding and fixing surface errors and load times, merchandising for product and pricing analytics, and recommendations for benchmarking and scoring. | Data & Analytics |
| Amazon to shut down its Amazon Drive file storage service | Amazon intends to shut down the service in phases. As a first step, the company has synced Amazon Drive users’ photos and videos to Amazon Photos, another file storage service that it provides for consumers. The move will ensure that users’ files remain accessible after Amazon Drive is discontinued. | Cloud |
| How Spike increases productivity with its conversational email platform | He claims that Spike’s offering helps businesses to save money, all while unifying communications into one place. It allows users to do anything right from their inboxes — including communicate, organize, plan, share notes and projects, video conference and monitor schedules. | Automation & Productivity |
| Facebook’s Meta continues to lose billions in pursuit of the metaverse; already lost $6B on its metaverse project | Zuckerberg said the Facebook users’ decline was partly due to the boom in popularity of the competitor platform TikTok. The blame game didn’t stop there. Zuckerberg also blamed the woes on a combination of other factors, including privacy changes to Apple’s iOS and economic challenges. The company said the lower-than-expected growth was due to inflation as well as supply chain issues impacting advertisers’ budgets. | Metaverse |
| Video management provider Panopto makes $383M bid for rival Kaltura | One of the main markets where Kaltura competes is the education sector. Universities and other educational institutions use the company’s software to host virtual classes, create quizzes and track student participation. | Automation & Productivity |
| Center raises $11M to build NFT search index | Now, Center is creating an index of NFTs in the same way that search engines index the web. To date, the company has indexed over 135 million NFTs. The objective is to allow developers to quickly and easily provide search capability for NFTs across multiple blockchains using metadata for the discovery of NFTs and embed the results within their apps. | Blockchain |
| Datafold and Hightouch Integrate to Make Activated Data More Reliable | The integration with Datafold ensures that whenever an upstream data model is modified within a schema or pipeline, the data engineer will be alerted to the impact to any Hightouch sync. This prevents every update from inadvertently breaking the sync or changing the data within a sync in an unexpected way | Data Management |
| Document workflow vendor AirSlate acquires DocHub to grow automation | “DocHub is the most widely used PDF editing and e-signature solution on the Google Workspace marketplace, and our customers will be able to take advantage of that capability once the integration is complete.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Kubernetes Made Easy for Docker Desktop Users with New Loft vcluster Extension | “Using their familiar Docker Desktop, users are able to set up as many different virtual Kubernetes clusters as needed for development, testing, as well as production.” | Cloud |
| FeatureByte launches with $5.7M in funding to streamline enterprise AI projects | The Boston-based startup is developing a software platform designed to simplify the task of managing the features, or data, that an AI uses to make decisions. According to FeatureByte, its platform will speed up the preparation of data for machine learning applications and streamline various ongoing management tasks. | Artificial Intelligence |
| The One-Two Punch of Cybersecurity Solutions | Using AI-based image recognition capabilities, the service identifies impersonation techniques, scanning logos inside emails, QR code information, and applying optical character recognition (OCR) — including the option to record login pages to protect against phishing attempts. | Security |
| Hazelcast launches serverless offering to accelerate real-time applications | California-based Hazelcast, a company that provides a platform to act on streaming data in real-time, has announced a new serverless solution under its cloud-managed service portfolio. The offering gives enterprises an easier way to access the company’s platform to build real-time application | DevOps |
| IriusRisk simplifies security for developers with new infrastructure-as-code capability | Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has been made available as a component of IriusRisk‘s automated threat-modeling platform for application security. Software-defined infrastructure may now be automatically managed and provisioned by development or operational teams using IaC, eliminating the need for human configuration | Security |
| Inseego Integrates Cloud, Security to 5G WAN | The Inseego 5G SD Edge platform is a hardware and software combination that includes a device that sits on-premises in an indoor edge location and a cloud-based service management layer. It’s targeted at providing connectivity options for distributed and edge locations. | Cloud |
| Mindtech Releases Part Two of Its Synthetic Data Guide | Mindtech Global has released part two of its synthetic data guide aimed at tackling visual AI’s training problems. It’s a how-to for resolving issues related to combining real-world images with computer-generated ones to optimize the performance of their AI model. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Teleport introduces passwordless authentication to access management | The new solution will offer enterprise users passwordless access to key resources including servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and internal web apps without the need for usernames, passwords, private keys, or other exploitable secrets. | Security |
| Neon Raises $30M for Its Postgres as a Service | Many companies are now migrating their operational databases to the cloud as part of their digital transformation strategies, and fully managed database services like Neon can assist with the setup, maintenance, and administration of Postgres on cloud platforms. | Data Management |
| Dell upgrades PowerStore hardware, software | The Gen 2 platform refresh is quite an upgrade over the older hardware. Now using Cascade Lake-era Intel processors, the new PowerStore systems come with up to 50% more IOPS for mixed workloads, up to 70% faster writes, and up to 10 times improvement in copy operations. | Automation & Productivity |
| Arcserve Expands SaaS Backup Capabilities to Protect Evolving Data Environments | Recent research from Arcserve found that almost half of businesses (44%) believe protecting and recovering data stored in public clouds is the cloud provider’s responsibility. Therefore, they don’t back it up, which exposes them to cyberattacks and data loss caused by human error, intentional deletion, and programmatic issues. | Data Management |
| Cybersecurity and data protection provider Acronis raises $250M in new funding | Alongside its cybersecurity features, the platform offers tools for protecting data from outages. It enables managed service providers to create backup copies of their corporate customers’ records and recover them in the event of an outage. | Data Management |
| Blockchain domain startup Unstoppable Domains joins unicorn club with $65 million Series A funding | Unstoppable will use the new capital infusion to fuel product innovation and grow its partnerships in the web3 space as we continue to build a platform for user-owned and portable digital identity. Unstoppable is a registry business similar to Verisign, the owner of .com domain, except the domains are on a blockchain. | Blockchain |
| Pure gets into mainframe backups with Model9 | Pure’s FlashBlade is a unified file and object all-flash storage array using QLC (4bits/cell) NAND with up to 1.9PB of raw capacity per chassis. Model9’s Shield product takes mainframe backup data, converts it to S3 object storage format, and then moves it to a target object storage device either on-premises or in the public cloud. | Data Storage |
| StorONE Eliminates Capacity-Based Pricing, Offers Per Drive Pricing Model | StorONE’s Scale-for-Free pricing model is based on the number of drives in use, not total capacity. The new model breaks free of expensive capacity-based license schemes that punish customers for using high-density drives, keeping them from enjoying hardware innovation. | Data Storage |
| Aruba AIOps Solution Combines Network and Security Insights | Part of Aruba’s growing family of AIOps solutions, the new capabilities supplement overtaxed IT teams as they grapple with increasing network complexity and the rapid growth of IoT. For the first time, AIOps can be utilized for not just network troubleshooting but also performance optimization and critical security controls. | IT Management |
| Microsoft warns of stealthy backdoors used to target Exchange Servers, email | Security company ESET last year found 80 unique malicious IIS modules belonging to 14 malware families, most of which were previously undocumented. These included IIS backdoors, info stealers, injectors, proxies for C&C infrastructure, and modules that fraudulently modify content served to search engines. | Security |
| Expert.ai Showcases New Features for Its Natural Language Platform | New capabilities include enhanced active learning to further improve data labeling; pre-trained knowledge models to both accelerate the delivery of NL applications as well as proactively select and quickly validate the desired outputs; and expanded extraction functionalities based on auto-generation rules for extraction. | Data & Analytics |
| AWS rolls out new malware detection and container security features | GuardDuty is a managed service designed to detect malicious activity in cloud environments. The service can, for example, detect when a hacker attempts to download business data from an important cloud application. GuardDuty also spots other types of malicious activity. | Security |
| API security firm Impart Security promises solutions, not more alarms, for overwhelmed security staff | “While other platforms and technologies can detect security threats, Impart is the only one to also provide out-of-the-box solutions to those vulnerabilities. The last thing we want to do is be a noisy alerting system – we aim to solve problems for security practitioners, not add to their workload.” | Security |
| Google Cloud partners with startup Veza | “With Veza’s platform now available alongside Google Cloud’s secure and global infrastructure, customers will be able to quickly deploy the solutions they need to better understand, control, and securely take action on their data across their multi-cloud environments.” | Cloud |
| CrowdStrike announces new threat hunting product, expands container security | The new product, Falcon OverWatch Cloud Threat Hunting, is being pitched as the industry’s first standalone service for finding hidden and advanced threats originating, operating or persisting in cloud environments. The new service offers cloud-oriented indicators of attack for the control plane and detailed adversary tradecraft to observe and disrupt sophisticated cloud threats. | Security |
| HPE’s Aruba unit debuts new AI features for automating network management | Aruba Central is receiving an AI tool dubbed Client Insights that can automatically detect when devices are attached to the network. Moreover, Client Insights collects technical data about each device. The tool can determine whether a newly added system is a server, a data center switch or an employee endpoint, as well as collect information about the network traffic that it generates. | Network Management |
| AWS re:Inforce: BigID looks to reduce risk and automate policies for AWS cloud | Because the average AWS customer has multiple accounts, the addition of the new intelligent access control feature is designed to reduce risk and automate role-based policies across AWS including S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, and more with extended integrations with AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue, the company said. | Cloud |
| ‘AIoT’ startup Butlr raises $20M, signs agreement with Carrier Global | Butlr’s Heati sensors and software platform provide data and insights on space occupancy, utilization and activity while it’s physically incapable of collecting any personal information. Commercial real estate and senior living are said to be the first two industries to embrace Butlr’s technology and the company is exploring opportunities for people sensing in additional markets | Artificial Intelligence |
| U.S. Government Collabs to Close Cyber Talent Gap | The U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that they will partner with the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce to establish a 120-Day Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint. The program aims to help fill the vacancies of 700,000 jobs across the cyber industry and promote diversity in the field. | Tech Jobs |
| RingCentral Expands Hardware Ecosystem and Announces Whiteboard for RingCentral Rooms | RingCentral Rooms enables organizations to transform their meeting spaces into dynamically enabled video conferencing destinations. It extends RingCentral Video and allows customers to have the same great video experience in a conference room that they already have in a home office or on the go. | Automation & Productivity |
| Samsung Develops Second-Generation SmartSSD with Upgraded Processing Functionality | Unlike existing SSDs, Samsung’s SmartSSD can process data directly, thereby minimizing data transfers between the CPU, GPU and RAM. This technology can avoid the bottlenecks that often occur when moving data between storage devices and CPUs, resulting in markedly improved system performance and much higher energy efficiency. | Data Management |
| IQM raises $128M to build quantum computers aimed at fixing the climate crisis | It says quantum computing is an “enabling technology” that will deliver supercharged, precise capabilities that are vastly more powerful than today’s existing supercomputers, with applications in drug discovery, encryption, data protection and more. | Quantum Computing |
| Edge Delta Delivers Automatic Observability into Kubernetes Resources | Kubernetes resources are constantly provisioned and deprovisioned – a pace that many development teams can’t keep up with, making it nearly impossible to continually monitor their environments. Additionally, as a distributed architecture, Kubernetes environments create high data volumes and costs. | Data & Analytics |
| Phishing scam uses PayPal to send malicious invoices to potential victims | Detailed today by researchers at Avanan, the scam involves hackers sending malicious invoices from PayPal’s domain, using a free PayPal account they have signed up for. The body of the emails sent spoof brands such as Norton to trick victims into thinking they were legitimate. | Security |
| Logiwa Launches Powerful Software For Order Fulfillment Analytics | Combine that with our AI-powered optimization algorithms, process automation tools and cloud-based accessibility, and you have a WMS system ready to take your business into the future of high-volume fulfillment,” said Musaoglu. | Automation & Productivity |
| Druva strengthens ransomware protection | It has announced an enhanced set of capabilities based around telemetry from thousands of businesses of varying sizes and spanning many vertical industries. Druva uses this stream of data to identify local and global trends then tells customers what they could do to combat the threats that have been revealed. | Security |
| Hackers for Hire: Adversaries Employ ‘Cyber Mercenaries’ | Dubbed Atlas Intelligence Group (A.I.G.), the cybergang has been spotted by security researchers recruiting independent black-hat hackers to execute specific aspects of its own campaigns. A.I.G., also known as Atlantis Cyber-Army, functions as a cyber-threats-as-a-service criminal enterprise | Security |
| Robocorp simplifies open-source RPA | This is good news for the assemblage of RPA startups vying for a piece of the market, like Robocorp. Its new Automation Studio provides a shared view of RPA automations, called bots, for both developers and business users. It also builds on the company’s existing work coding RPA bots in Python that can run on open-source servers. | Automation & Productivity |
| 15Five gets $52M in funding to grow its continuous performance management platform | 15Five has created an unusual manager productivity platform that combines subscription software, training and coaching to improve the productivity of managers and other employees. Its products include Engage, an offering that provides surveys and feedback to help managers focus on what matters. | Automation & Productivity |
| Oracle and Microsoft Release Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure | With this new offering, Microsoft Azure customers can easily provision, access, and monitor enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with a familiar experience. | Data & Analytics |
| Anodot Gets US Patent for Anomaly Detection Solution | The algorithm boosts the industry-leading (seasonal) ARIMA model for estimating anomalies in time series data, reducing runtime by 99.98% and slashing the expense of running the model by up to 80%, enabling Anodot to better protect its customers’ bottom lines. | Automation & Productivity |
| Anvilogic raises $25M in funding to automate manual cybersecurity tasks | Implementing threat detection algorithms can take weeks and often involves adding custom code to an SOC team’s cybersecurity tools. According to Anvilogic, its platform speeds up the task. The platform includes pre-packaged threat detection algorithms that can be implemented quickly, as well as a machine learning tool capable of recommending which algorithms a company should deploy first. | Security |
| Cato Networks launches SSE system with customizable DLP capabilities | "Datatypes scanned by DLP are sometimes inaccurate because we are doing a template match with regular expressions (REGEX)," explains Avigad. "The machine learning capability we have added monitors and understands the behavior of each data type to identify anomalies." | Automation & Productivity |
| Freshworks freshens up its smart chatbot service for enterprises | In Freshchat, bots automatically identify and answer the most common user questions, while agents are directed to focus on the more challenging support requests that require human decision-making. | Automation & Productivity |
| Darktrace launches new family of security AI tools | In an attempt to enhance its existing security AI capabilities, Darktrace today announced the launch of Darktrace PREVENT, a new interconnected family of AI products that uses AI to “think like an attacker” to automatically identify an enterprise’s critical assets and exposures. | Security |
| IBM adds four servers to Power10 lineup | The new scale-out systems are the single-socket S1014, described as ideal for entry-level SMBs and remote offices, and the S1022 and S1024 systems, which are two-socket systems aimed at higher-end uses. | Automation & Productivity |
| Oracle Enhances Smart Construction Platform with New Analytics Capabilities | The Smart Construction Platform unites capabilities from Oracle engineering and construction applications and third-party solutions with a common data environment and user experience. With the platform, owners and contractors can more easily work together to improve decision-making at every level of their organizations. | Data & Analytics |
| Human protocol unveils a new decentralized routing protocol to coordinate distributed job markets | The feature, known as the Routing Protocol, sits atop the existing Human to enable the discovery of network generators, fee agreements, consensus job standards, proof of balance, and governance support for seamless consensus-based network upgrades. | Aut |
| After swimming up the Amazon, Cloudian’s object storage now stacks up with Azure | The Azure HCI software is installed by a deployment wizard as an on-premises Azure Stack cluster, linking it to the Azure cloud for infrastructure management services, such as site replication, cloud backup and Kubernetes. | Data Storage |
| New Perception Point solution adds enterprise security to Chrome and Edge | The new solution, Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, combines a next-generation web isolation platform powered by Hysolate Ltd., a startup acquired by the company in March 2022, and Perception Point’s multilayer detection engines. The combination is said to deliver the unprecedented ability to isolate, detect and remediate all malicious threats from the web. | Security |
| Microsoft Teams is getting all these new hybrid work features | Teams Connect, an intra- and inter-organization collaboration feature for Teams channels, will be generally available this month. This offers a shared space so users from different organizations don't need to switch tenants to collaborate on the channels. | Automation & Productivity |
| Rescale and Nvidia partner to automate industrial metaverse | The partnership with Nvidia adds over 150 additional containerized artificial intelligence (AI) and HPC applications and hundreds of pretrained models optimized for Nvidia GPUs. This joins more than 900 other applications already pre-integrated into the Rescale platform | Automation & Productivity |
| Pecan AI can now automate the deployment and monitoring of predictive AI models | Israel-based Pecan AI sells a data science platform that enables companies to build artificial intelligence models for tasks such as predicting customer demand and finding opportunities to reduce operational cost. | Data & Analytics |
| Western Digital first to ship 22TB drives | They are the Gold IT/data center, Red Pro NAS, and Purple Pro video and surveillance products, all using non-shingled, conventional (perpendicular) magnetic recording enhanced with OptiNAND and energy-assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR) technologies. | Data Storage |
| Scribe Security rolls out code integrity validator for software supply chains | The Tel Aviv-based startup is addressing the problem of malicious code planted in software, particularly that shared under an open-source license. Software supply chain security firm ArgonSec Ltd. has estimated that supply chain attacks more than tripled in 2021 with the hack of software from SolarWinds WorldWide LLC and the discovery of vulnerabilities in the popular Log4j open-source diagnostic utility making global headlines. | Security |
| StarRocks’ real-time analytics engine moves to the cloud | The architecture is purpose-built for real-time data analysis by a large number of concurrent users with support for fast multitable joins. The engine works with a variety of schema models, including flat tables, star and snowflake schemas. It provides a basis for combining real-time transactional data with historical records. | Data & Analytics |
| DAST vendor Bishop Fox looks to help orgs manage the attack surface | Bishop Fox’s solution enables organizations to continuously map the attack surface, and identify high-risk exposures so they can take action to remediate them. It also offers live access to dedicated testers. | Security |
| Juniper Networks infuses AI to pump up automation capabilities | The location, orientation, and distance between APs are calculated and shown to reduce — or even eliminate — deployment problems. As the environment changes, the dashboard will indicate where APs should be moved to. | Automation & Productivity |
| DeltaStream bags $10M funding to make real-time data streaming easier for developers | The company has built a serverless streaming database that’s designed to help manage, secure and process data streams. The “serverless” aspect refers to the way the platform abstracts away the underlying infrastructure, so developers can interact with the platform without tinkering with computer servers. | Data & Analytics |
| SingleStore helps enterprises better manage growing data volumes | San Francisco-headquartered SingleStore offers a real-time SQL database that allows enterprises to integrate, monitor and query datasets of all types from all available sources as a single entity. | Data & Analytics |
| DeltaStream emerges from stealth to simplify real-time streaming apps | “DeltaStream sits above the streaming storage services such as Apache Kafka and enables users to build real-time streaming applications and pipelines in familiar SQL language," | Automation & Productivity |
| Phone scam variant uses QuickBooks to trick victims into handing over details | The scam involves scammers setting up free 30-day trial QuickBook accounts to send invoices to potential victims. The scammers send invoices claiming that the victims had purchased an item and their credit cards have already been charged. The text in the invoice states that if the targeted victims wish to dispute the charges, they should contact the phone number in the email. | Privacy & Security |
| NLP Specialist AI21 Labs Raises $64M | The company has launched several products, including Wordtune, a browser extension with millions of active users that was chosen by Google as one of its favorite extensions for 2021, as well as Wordtune Read, which analyzes and summarizes documents in seconds, enabling users to read long and complex text quickly and efficiently. | Automation & Productivity |
| Deep learning automation startup Deci raises $25M in Series B round | Deci has created a development platform for deep learning aimed at making it easy for AI developers to build, optimize and then deploy their models quickly, in the cloud, at the edge or on mobile devices. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Catalogic upgrades ransomware, hypervisor protection | “DPX GuardMode changes a backup teams’ cyber reliance posture from reactive to proactive with early detection. [It] notifies backup and storage teams of suspicious activity and pinpoints the extent of damage caused by cyber incidents.” | Data Management |
| Signal AI debuts External Intelligence Graph to augment business decision-making | The company has just announced the availability of its new External Intelligence Graph, which helps map out the relationships between things that modern organizations need to care about but probably don’t understand that well. It’s talking about things like climate change, supply chain risk and competitor intelligence. | Data & Analytics |
| TIBCO goes DIY with new AI-model deployment platform | This addition to TIBCO’s analytics portfolio helps users to build their models and scale cloud-based analytic model management, deployment, monitoring and governance. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Wallaroo Introduces Free Community Edition to Democratize Production ML | For too long, the perception was that scaling ML required unlimited resources or specific skills/expertise for data scientists and ML engineers. Wallaroo helps teams of all sizes and expertise levels get started on their AI/ML journey, streamline their Machine Learning Operation (MLOps), and realize the ROI in AI with speed and efficiency. | Machine Learning |
| Meta develops AI system for reviewing Wikipedia citations | Meta’s newly released AI system aims to ease the work of Wikipedia editors by partly automating the task of reviewing citations. The system can scan an article and identify if there are pieces of information that are backed up by a questionable citation. Moreover, it’s capable of recommending more relevant sources with which the questionable citation can be replaced. | Automation & Productivity |
| New Rezilion release identifies, prioritizes and remediates vulnerable software | Rezilion argues that as the software attack surface rapidly changes, security, development and infrastructure teams seeking to secure their software can’t keep pace. Difficulties include teams only seeing portions of the software attack surface at one moment in time, combined with a massive amount of vulnerability alerts that are noisy and confusing. | Security |
| Microsoft launches Defender for IoT to protect printers, smart TVs and more | Defender for IoT is an agentless monitoring system for securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to enterprise IT networks, like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), printers, and smart TVs, as well as operational technology (OT) behind critical infrastructure. | Security |
| Deloitte launches a new zero-trust access managed service | Zero Trust Access will offer decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) connectivity between end users and applications, so that sensitive data traffic doesn’t traverse through any third-party managed point-of-presence (POP) devices. | Security |
| Seattle startup raises $14M to fuel ambitious plan for a social network built on the blockchain | Founded about a year ago, Peer provides similar functions as Facebook, where people can interact with user-generated-content, but is entirely built on the blockchain. This means its content creators will be able to own and monetize their posts as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. | Blockchain |
| Dell’s PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and CyberSense heading into the cloud | These have direct connections to AWS, Azure, GCP and other clouds with (backup) data sent to a PowerProtect DD system in a Faction datacenter and then moved into a Cyber Recovery Vault in immutable copy form and separated by a logical air gap from the source data. | Cloud |
| Disneyland hack reveals dangers of social media account takeover | While it’s unclear how the hacker gained access to Disneyland’s social accounts, Aaron Turner, CTO of SaaS Protect at California-based AI cybersecurity provider, Vectra, believes that social media companies are to blame for offering organizations poor authentication mechanisms. | Security |
| BangDB Launches APIs for AI, Graph and Stream Processing | By bringing AI, Stream Processing, Graph and the database together in a single product, BangDB has created a modern stack to disrupt the data analysis market. | Data & Analytics |
| U.S. Healthcare Orgs Targeted with Maui Ransomware | Another characteristic of Maui that diverges from other ransomware is that it appears to be designed for manual execution by a threat actor, allowing its operators to “specify which files to encrypt when executing it and then exfiltrate the resulting runtime artifacts,” | Security |
| Dashbot Launches Conversational Data Cloud to Provide a Centralized View of All Chatbot Data | Dashbot, a conversational AI and data platform, announced the launch of its proprietary Conversational Data Cloud, letting customers build and optimize their chatbots from their businesses’ own conversational data. Dashbot’s Conversational Data Cloud turns unstructured, noisy, interrelated and often tangled conversational data into immediate action. | Data & Analytics |
| Swimlane raises $70M for its low-code cybersecurity automation platform | Swimlane provides a platform called Turbine that enables companies to create automation workflows, or playbooks, for performing cybersecurity tasks. A company could use Turbine to create a playbook that automatically scans the network traffic received by an application for malicious requests. It’s also possible to create playbooks that perform multiple tasks. | Security |
| Databricks updates Lakehouse Platform | Databricks has updated its Lakehouse Platform, promising more cost-efficient performance, better pipeline building, virtual cleanrooms, and a marketplace for data and analytics assets. | Data & Analytics |
| Cloudflare Claims Completion of Zero-Trust Platform | Cloudflare added several new capabilities to its zero-trust and secure access service edge (SASE) platform, called Cloudflare One. Included in the additions are email security protection, data loss prevention, cloud access security broker (CASB), and private network discovery. | Security |
| Zscaler gives security a shot of AI | For starters, Zscaler announced AI and ML capabilities for the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, a security cloud that processes more than 200 billion daily transactions and blocks 150 million attacks. | Security |
| GoTo buys Miradore to expand its mobile device management expertise | Miradore has built a cloud-hosted mobile device management platform that’s aimed at SMBs. IT teams can manage end users across Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android devices, supporting both “bring your own device” and hybrid work models that have become the norm in many industries. | IT Management |
| FBI and CISA warn: This ransomware is using RDP flaws to break into networks | While Medusa is today not as prolific as Conti and Lockbit RaaS networks, MedusaLocker caused its fair share of trouble, being one of several threats that led to Microsoft's warning to healthcare operators to patch VPN endpoints and configure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) securely. | Security |
| Infrastructure-as-code security startup Oak9 raises $8M | The company’s Security as Code platform continuously finds, analyzes and remediates security and compliance issues in real time as changes occur in IaC and deployed cloud workloads. | Security |
| Konnecto raises $21M in Series A for the world’s first prescriptive path-to-purchase optimization platform | Konnecto is designed to help brands and marketers reverse-engineer and understand the entire customer journey across multiple platforms while also enabling them to disrupt competitors’ customer journeys in order to increase market share. | Marketing Tech |
| Immue discovers new exploitation of Apple’s private relay | While helping organizations across multiple industries stop cyber fraud and bot attacks targeted at their companies, Immue said it detected many of these attacks coming from internet protocols (IPs) associated with Apple and their two supporting Akamai and Cloudflare servers. | Privacy & Security |
| Leaky Access Tokens Exposed Amazon Photos of Users | Theoretically, with exposed tokens, an attacker could’ve accessed users’ personal data from a number of different Amazon apps – not just Photos but also, for example, Amazon Drive. They also could have performed a ransomware attack, locking up or permanently deleting photos, documents and more. | Security |
| Citing security concerns, FCC commissioner asks Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores | Carr, who’s a Republican commissioner, said he believes the Chinese company is violating the standards of Apple and Google by scraping data from its American users and sending it back to China. “TikTok’s pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. user data,” he said | Privacy & Security |
| TIBCO goes DIY with new AI-model deployment platform | The Palo Alto, California-based company today announced the release of TIBCO ModelOps, which enables businesses to deploy AI models faster and at scale to keep up with the pace of their sales activity. This addition to TIBCO’s analytics portfolio helps users to build their models and scale cloud-based analytic model management, deployment, monitoring and governance. | Automation & Productivity |
| Snowplow Analytics raises $40M to grow its behavioral data crunching platform | With the Snowplow Behavioral Data Platform, data teams can access behavioral data that’s created, modeled and customized for the specific application they’re building. This solves many headaches for teams, allowing them to focus on getting the application just right, rather than on wasting time finding, cleansing and preparing data for analysis. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft Teams for web just got these new features | Teams for the web include custom background effects, Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART) captioning, and Live Captions and Live Transcript, Microsoft announced in a blogpost. | Automation & Productivity |
| Connatix Launches Intuitive Contextual Targeting Solution ‘Deep Contextual’ | Deep Contextual is the most intuitive contextual targeting offering on the market that leverages AI-powered deep learning, advanced computer vision, natural language processing and other proprietary technologies to analyze video and page content, providing deeper insights and contextual categories for smarter and more effective targeting. | Artificial Intelligence |
| US taps startup QuSecure for post-quantum cybersecurity | To address that threat, the federal government is tapping the startup QuSecure to supply it with post-quantum cybersecurity software. The contract is a big deal for the three-year-old startup, which just released its quantum orchestration platform, QuProtect, in May. Its product is designed to protect encrypted communications and data with quantum-resilience using quantum secure channels. | Security |
| Anari AI Launches Thor X to Enhance Cloud-based 3D Applications | Anari AI is launching Thor X, the first “System-on-Cloud” specialized in semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data structures. Primarily focused on providing custom hardware acceleration to industries such as geospatial, BIM, digital twin, and metaverse, Thor X is enabling 30x more efficient processing compared to the best GPUs on the market. | Automation & Productivity |
| E-commerce technology startup Nautical Commerce nabs $30M in funding | However, there are relatively few tools focused specifically on enabling multiple companies to sell merchandise via the same marketplace. As a result, retailers taking this route historically had to either build custom software or assemble a marketplace from multiple existing products with limited feature sets. | Automation & Productivity |
| Immuta Adds Policy Enforcement to Unity Catalog in the Databricks Lakehouse Platform | Immuta is one of the first Databricks partners to integrate its policy engine into Unity Catalog, building a deeper level of customer trust through enhanced and consistent policy management and enforcement. | Data Management |
| Zero-trust network access provider, Cyolo, strengthens authentication offerings | Cyolo claims that it securely links all organization users (remote and onsite, third-party, OT and so on,) to all of their work environments (on-premises, cloud, hybrid), enabling them to be more productive while safeguarding the network from access-based hazards. | Security |
| Siemens Launches Siemens Xcelerator – An Open Digital Business Platform to Accelerate Digital Transformation | Siemens Xcelerator includes a curated portfolio of internet of things (IoT) enabled hardware, software and digital services from across Siemens and certified third parties; a growing ecosystem of partners; and an evolving marketplace to facilitate interactions and transactions between customers, partners and developers. | Digital Transformation |
| Veritas Backup Exec sends data to Backblaze cloud | B2 is accessed through the S3 protocol and provides a public cloud alternative to on-premises purpose-built backup appliances such as Dell EMC’s PowerProtect (Data Domain as was), ExaGrid, and Quantum’s Dxi systems. Backup Exec is Veritas’s small and medium enterprise offering and complements its NetBackup enterprise backup software. | Data Storage |
| HPE GreenLake expansion aimed at blurring lines between public and private clouds | HPE is continuing to fill in the gaps on its three-year-old strategy to move its full portfolio to subscription pricing. Three months ago it folded in network management from its Aruba subsidiary, added a unified dashboard that spans the full range of a customer’s GreenLake services and introduced 12 new cloud services spanning networking, data services, high-performance computing and operations management. | Cloud |
| This sophisticated malware is targeting routers to break into networks | A newly discovered remote access trojan (RAT) called ZuoRAT has targeted remote workers by exploiting flaws in often unpatched small office/home office (SOHO) routers. | Security |
| Opaque Systems Raises $22M Series A To Bring Scalable, Multi-Party Analytics and AI to Confidential Computing | Today, more than $300 billion of the world’s most valuable data remains untapped due to the lack of a secure processing environment. With the emergence of confidential computing, organizations can now secure sensitive data in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) in the cloud. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft WebView2 phishing technique can bypass MFA and steal login cookies | WebView2 is a runtime, or software and instructions that are executed while a program is running, that provides web-based features in Microsoft 365 desktop applications using Microsoft Edge as a rendering engine. | Security |
| Dell builds its own partner-based data lakehouse | Like Databricks, Dremio, SingleStore, and Snowflake, Dell envisages a single data lakehouse construct. The concept is that you have a single, universal store with no need to run extract, transform and load (ETL) processes to get raw data selected and put into the proper form for use in a data warehouse | Data & Analytics |
| Lockbit ransomware gang creates first malicious bug bounty program | According to Lockbit’s leak site, as part of the bug bounty program, the cyber gang will pay all security researchers, ethical and unethical hackers” to provide Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on high-profile individuals and web exploits in exchange for remuneration ranging from $1,000 to $1 million | Security |
| Kyligence rolls out unified metrics platform for analytics | Kyligence Zen is described as an “intelligent metrics store platform” that automates pipelines from data lakes or data warehouses to multidimensional online analytical processing or OLAP databases to make metrics more consistent. | Data & Analytics |
| VMware adds cross-cloud management to core virtualization platforms | In a bid to erase distinctions between on-premises and cloud infrastructure VMware Inc. today introduced extensions to its vSphere virtualization platform and vSAN storage virtualization software that provide centralized cloud-based management of data center infrastructure. | Cloud |
| Starburst Acquires Varada To Deliver New Standard Of Data Lake Analytics | While Starburst’s best-in-class query engine already leads the industry in both performance and cost-efficiency, combining Varada’s proprietary and patented indexing technology sets a new benchmark in data lake analytics, empowering organizations to more quickly and efficiently derive greater insights from their data. | Data & Analytics |
| Apple's 'most complicated product' is heading for launch, says analyst | According to Kuo, who gathers insights about Apple's future products through supply-chain checks, Apple's technology would support "video see thru" functionality for an "excellent immersive experience". | Emerging Tech |
| Security automation startup Cerby launches platform for unmanageable applications | The enrollment-based platform combines technology, robotic process automation and seamless integrations with identity providers like Okta Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure AD. This functionality enables the platform to understand commonly used software-as-a-service applications in a business context and automate security policies before they lead to breaches. | IT Management |
| Nvidia partners with Run:ai and Weights & Biases for MLops Stack | Geller said that the partnership’s goal is to make a full machine learning operations workflow more consumable for enterprise users. To that end, Run:ai and Weights & Biases are building an integration to help make it easier to run the two technologies together. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Sinequa Adds Industry-Leading Neural Search Capabilities to its Search Cloud Platform | As an optional capability of Sinequa’s Search Cloud platform, Neural Search is the first commercially available solution to use four deep learning language models. These models are pre-trained and ready to use in combination with Sinequa’s advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and semantic search for the best relevance and question-answering capability, optimized to run efficiently even at scale. | Automation & Productivity |
| Esri Releases ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine | Data scientists can perform spatial analysis wherever their data is stored—in a data lake, a data warehouse, or ArcGIS software—saving the time and cost of moving volumes of data out of cloud environments. | Data & Analytics |
| Anari AI Launches Thor X to Enhance Cloud-based 3D Applications | Anari AI is launching Thor X, the first “System-on-Cloud” specialized in semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data structures. Primarily focused on providing custom hardware acceleration to industries such as geospatial, BIM, digital twin, and metaverse, Thor X is enabling 30x more efficient processing compared to the best GPUs on the market. | Cloud |
| Starburst Acquires Varada To Deliver New Standard Of Data Lake Analytics | With the acquisition and integration of Varada’s technology, customers using Starburst for their analytical workloads can reduce cloud compute costs by 40%+ and query response times by up to 7x. | Data & Analytics |
| Panasas Joins MLCommons to Advance ML Storage Innovation | MLCommons, the open and global engineering consortium dedicated to making machine learning better for everyone, promotes widespread ML adoption and democratization through benchmarks, large-scale public datasets, and best practices. Panasas approached MLCommons to discuss the storage challenge in the ETL (extract, transform, and load) process and its impact on the overall performance of the ML pipeline. | Machine Learning |
| Cisco reports vulnerabilities in products including email and web manager | This vulnerability is due to a design oversight in the querying process, according to Cisco. LDAP is an external authentication protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services on the public internet or corporate intranet. | Security |
| Evinced raises $38M to help enterprises build accessible websites and mobile apps | The startup’s software can detect if some features of an online service don’t work with screen readers, or if they may be inaccessible for people who use a keyboard to navigate the interface. Evinced is capable of detecting other types of interface flaws as well. | Automation & Productivity |
| LogRocket Launches Conditional Recording, Secures $25M Series C | LogRocket Conditional Recording removes this limitation by intelligently detecting negative user experience and ensuring that these negative experiences are captured and stored. Instead of relying on sampling which can miss important data, LogRocket customers reliably know that 100% of the data they need will be available in real-time. | Data & Analytics |
| Permiso.io launches new cloud detection and response service | Today, cloud identity detection and response provider Permiso.io announced the launch of P0 Labs, a new managed detection and response service that will bring together a team of cloud security incident responders and threat detection experts to help enterprises detect and respond to data breaches. | Security |
| Amazon Connect adds AI-powered updates to boost agent efficiency and chatbot design | Amazon Connect Cases aims to resolve this by automatically creating a new case the first time a customer calls. It then tracks all related calls, chats and tasks and keeps them in one place, so agents have a quick understanding of the case at their fingertips. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft wants to improve IoT security with Edge Secured-core devices | Beyond desktops and servers, Microsoft also has the "Edge Secured-core" program – a security certification for IoT devices that operate on the edge of networks called the Azure Certified Device program. It's for devices connected to Microsoft's Azure cloud service. | Security |
| Behavox Makes a Quantum Leap in Compliance | “Behavox Quantum generates more useful, actionable alerts, meaning less time is wasted chasing false positives. The ability to catch 80% of bad actors in comparison to the 2% Lexicon catches will revolutionize the industry,” | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft Defender for individuals offers cross-platform Windows Security | Called “Microsoft Defender for individuals,” the security app offers online security through a unified view into a user’s protections across their personal phones and computers. Microsoft Defender isn’t new, but the new product differs in that it extends already built-in Windows Security beyond a PC to macOS, iOS and Android devices. | Security |
| Cisco ThousandEyes Forecasts Network Disruptions for SD-WAN | The new ThousandEyes product “is the first example of true predictive network intelligence that doesn’t just leverage machine learning (ML) to understand what’s happening and what might be wrong now, but actually predicts outages that have yet to happen, and will allow you to remediate them in real time,” | Network Management |
| InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Edge Data Replication | Edge Data Replication enables developers to collect, store and analyze high-precision time series data in InfluxDB at the edge, while replicating all or subsets of this data into InfluxDB Cloud. | Data & Analytics |
| SaaS buying platform startup Vendr raises $150M on $1B valuation | The platform provides commercial negotiations, renewal management and contract logistics services by negotiating software purchases. The company also helps clients improve their bottom line by keeping track of information relevant to managing their SaaS stack. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google Distributed Cloud Edge Eyes Private Networks | These services include the ability to tap into licensed spectrum assets either controlled by a carrier or available through outside licensing models; support for virtualized radio access network (vRAN) technology for connectivity and edge applications; and deployment and management of control and user plane functions. | Cloud |
| Lightning AI raises $40M in funding to streamline AI development projects | Lightning AI sells a commercial version of PyTorch Lightning, an open-source neural network development tool created by co-founder and Chief Executive Officer William Falcon. The tool is one of the most popular technologies in its category. According to the startup, PyTorch Lightning is downloaded 4 million times per month. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AI-powered Sales Solution Amy Raises $6 Million Seed Round to Boost Business Professionals’ Selling Power by Tapping into the Power of Human Connections | The platform analyzes all publicly available information about a business prospect, transforming strands of random data into digestible briefs which contain insights about the prospect, the company they work for, and common experiences. The platform’s unique algorithm collects information about the respective prospect and, through proprietary NLP technology, extracts and presents a personalized meeting brief comprised solely of information relevant to business professionals | Data & Analytics |
| AWS turns-up mainframe-migration service | The service includes tools to refactor workloads written for mainframes in legacy programming languages such as COBOL to Java-based cloud services. Or customers can keep their workloads as written and re-platform them to AWS with minimal code changes, AWS stated. | IT Management |
| An executive assistant for every worker: Startup’s AI takes meeting notes, follows up on email, and more | Xena is a “conversational agent” sitting on top of the Xembly platform. It can understand conversations in Zoom or Google Meet, on Slack, and in email. It detects intention and then surfaces that intention to accomplish tasks and create efficiency across those other workplace tools. | Automation & Productivity |
| Yext Partners with Snowflake to Unlock Actionable Search Insights | “Analytics has always been a key focus of ours, and that’s only become more important now that Yext answers questions across websites, search engines, apps, and chatbots,” | Data & Analytics |
| Workflow automation startup airSlate raises $51.5M as it extends collaboration with UiPath | The partnership is centered around an integration that helps joint customers add automated document workflows into UiPath’s processes. Customers can now generate documents and forms with data provided by UiPath and other third-party systems, scan documents through automated workflows for approval and signing, and collect data and bring it back to UiPath. | Automation & Productivity |
| Finout launches with $14M in funding to help companies clean up cloud expenditure | The mega-bill lays out a company’s entire monthly cloud expenses. Where it gets clever, though, is that it uses advanced assignment rules and virtual tagging to attribute each line item in the bill to its business role, feature, team and product. Moreover, it uses the most granular cost units it can, including native agentless Kubernetes support. | Cloud |
| ThoughtSpot and Matillion Partner to Enable Rapid Delivery of Insights with Low-Code Data Integration and Live Analytics | Matillion’s low-code/no-code ELT templates via Shared Jobs solve this problem, offering users a cloud-native tool to extract, migrate, and transform data from any source, while ThoughtSpot makes it possible for anyone to analyze this data through search and AI. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco Introduces Nexus Cloud To Simplify Operations | Cisco is bringing to market Nexus Cloud, a “gateway” to managing cloud assets. This cloud-delivered and cloud-managed platform is designed for running enterprise cloud networks with full visibility and ease of use. | Cloud |
| Real-estate technology unicorn HomeLight raises $115M | Accept.inc, the startup that HomeLight is acquiring, also focuses on the real-estate market. It provides a service that enables home buyers to make all-cash offers on homes. According to market research cited by the startup, its service can help home buyers secure lower prices and increase the likelihood that their bids will be accepted by as much as 400%. | Automation & Productivity |
| Meta’s AI researchers are teaching robots to navigate physical worlds without maps or training | To that end, Meta has focused its efforts on “embodied AI,” which refers to training AI systems via interactions in 3D simulations. In this area, Meta said it has created a promising new “point-goal navigation model” that can navigate through new environments without any map or GPS sensor. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Irish tech startup Webio raises $4M in funding to help companies chase down debt using conversational AI | The jewel in the crown is Webio’s ability to ‘move the needle’ in predicting conversation outcomes by analyzing what is said and how it is said. Identifying characteristics such as a person’s potential vulnerability early and accurately, and then guiding that customer conversations through a range of best next steps dynamically is an example of a critical capability in this market. | Automation & Productivity |
| WEKA Unveils Multicloud Data Platform for AI and Next-Gen Workloads | WEKA is helping organizations to harness AI and innovate the future by running these impossibly large, performance-intensive workloads in the cloud – or clouds – of their choosing, as well as hybrid cloud and edge environments. | Data & Analytics |
| Cybersecurity startup GreyNoise raises $15M in Series A funding to reduce false-positive security alerts and fight mass vulnerability exploitation | “To address these issues, GreyNoise separates irrelevant internet noise from emerging threats. This enables security teams to quickly eliminate noisy security alerts from the SOC, identify and block mass exploit attacks, hunt for compromised systems, and prioritize patching. We offer security teams a better way to stay ahead of large opportunistic attacks such as Log4J.” | Security |
| Splunk bolsters its big-data platforms with new security and observability tools | For instance, Splunk Cloud Platform’s Data Manager feature provides a more scalable onboarding experience across Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure starting today, with support for Google Cloud coming in the summer. Customers will have access to an easier to manage hybrid cloud control plane from where they can view all of the data flowing into Splunk. | Security |
| Splunk bolsters its big-data platforms with new security and observability tools | KNIME, which offers a no-code/low-code toolset that enables – in a manner of speaking – square data sets to fit into round storage holes, announced a new partnership with cloud data lake provider Snowflake, designed to democratize access to data analytics across line-of-business roles inside an enterprise. | Data & Analytics |
| Microsoft Teams taps artificial intelligence for headache-free meetings | These include echo cancellation, adjusting audio in poor acoustic areas, and allowing users to speak and hear at the same time without interruptions. These build on AI-powered features recently released, including expanding background noise suppression. | Automation & Productivity |
| Symbiote Linux malware uses sophisticated techniques to hide and steal credentials | Symbiote hides itself and any other malware deployed, making infections hard to detect. Hard might be an understatement: According to the researchers, performing live forensics on an infected may not turn up anything since all the files, processes and network artifacts are hidden by the malware. | Security |
| Jack Dorsey’s TBD venture details Web5 platform | One of Web5’s components is Ion, a software system developed by Microsoft Corp. that runs on the bitcoin mainnet. The term mainnet describes the blockchain that powers a cryptocurrency | Blockchain |
| Corel adds zero trust tech to its strength with Awingu acquisition | Adding Awingu to the Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) tech stack also solves their customers’ challenges of securely working with legacy apps, on-premise assets, hybrid cloud architectures and the fast-growing base of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications all organizations have. | Security |
| Google suspends researcher who claims one of its AI systems is now sentient | Most AI experts agree that the technology has yet to reach the level of self-knowledge and awareness that humans possess. However, the most advanced AI tools today are capable of extremely sophisticated interactions that could convince some people they are having a discussion with a sentient being. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Primer Acquires Yonder, Adds Disinformation Analysis to AI Portfolio for Information Operations | By pairing Yonder’s contextual narrative intelligence capabilities with Primer’s state-of-the-art NLP models and solutions, such as Primer Command for real-time security and operational intelligence, customers can proactively monitor emerging narratives, identify the groups starting and promoting them, assess the potential risks, and take action to avoid or mitigate harm to their brands and operations. | Data & Analytics |
| MongoDB fires up new cloud, on-premises releases | That’s why, after the release of MongoDB 5.0, time-series collections in that version were enhanced with several features like, support for sharded clusters, data tiering, multi-deletes, cardinality handling improvements, handling of missing data points (with densification and gap-filling), and compression to reduce storage overhead. | Data & Analytics |
| Immuta scoops up $100M for its data-level security technology | Immuta’s engine scans an organization’s data and infers use based on its characteristics. It then creates tags that can be used as a foundation for global policies. “We use access-based controls based on attributes at query time,” he said. “That means we can discover data and apply policies in 90% of use cases.” | Security |
| 443ID launches with OSINT-driven identity and access management solution | 443ID’s platform gathers OSINT signals, essentially online data that goes beyond the reach of traditional search engines, to generate a real-time risk score for each user, and assigns extra authentication steps to high-risk users, such as filling out CAPTCHA forms or verifying their email address so they can verify their identity. | Security |
| SaaS security management startup AppOmni raises $70M | The platform deeply scans application programming interfaces, security controls and configuration settings to evaluate the current state of SaaS deployments and compare them against best practices and business intent. | Security |
| AI Platform Tethr Announces Zero Touch Conversation Intelligence | Tethr, the leading AI-powered conversation intelligence platform, launched its Zero Touch offering, which includes a free trial giving users self-service access to the platform and in-depth analytics of their own customer conversations. | Data & Analytics |
| Laminar closes $30M funding round to protect enterprises’ cloud data | The startup’s platform can, for example, detect if a cloud database doesn’t encrypt business information or is set up in a way that allows users to download records without entering a password. Laminar’s algorithms generate suggestions on how administrators should go about fixing configuration issues. | Security |
| Gigasheet Announces $7M Series A to Democratize Big Data Analysis | The no-code analytics platform helps organizations investigate massive data sets without the need for a database, an IT team, or knowledge of any query language like SQL. | Data & Analytics |
| Incognia expands focus to combat increased identity fraud | Incognia says it has developed a method of mobile app security that doesn’t require the user to take any action. Instead, Incognia claims that it can distinguish trustworthy users from fraudsters by using a device’s location signals and motion sensors to build a location identity that’s unique to each user, similar to a location fingerprint. | Data Privacy |
| Devo raises $100M at $2B valuation for its AI-powered cybersecurity platform | The platform continuously collects data about the cloud resources, software containers and other assets in a company’s technology environment. Devo then uses machine learning to scan the collected information for signs of malicious activity. | Security |
| Privitar, Denodo partner to unite data’s context with regulatory compliance | “This idea of context, the purpose for which you’re using the data, is the key driver. It’s no longer just enough for people to ask for data. As a privacy vendor, the first question for us is: what is the purpose? What are you trying to do with it?” | Data Privacy |
| Stardog Enables Data Citizens with New Platform Innovations | The new Advanced Query tool empowers citizen data users to ask complex business questions via the semantic layer more easily. By removing the need to learn a graph query language, users can self-serve from across their enterprise data landscape. | Data & Analytics |
| US government issues warning over ‘Karakurt’ data extortion group | The group takes an arguably sinister twist in that those behind the hacking group have contacted the victim’s employees, business partners and clients with harassing emails and phone calls to pressure the victim to cooperate. | Security |
| ServiceNow acquires Hitch to bring AI-powered skills mapping to the enterprise | With prebuilt integrations for applicant tracking systems, learning management systems, human capital management (HCM) systems, LinkedIn, online survey tools and more, Hitch offers mapping and analytics for skill supply and demand, career planning and mentoring. | Automation & Productivity |
| Incorta launches native delta-sharing integration to enable secure, real-time exchange of large datasets | Its platform enables analysis of raw business data — which normally has to go through one or more iterations in order to be usable — to shorten the data pipeline. It directly maps to source application data, eliminating conventional transformation and aggregation steps, | Data & Analytics |
| Chainguard raises $50M to secure companies’ software supply chains | A software bill of materials provides data about the components that an application includes, as well as the tools used to build it. Chainguard Enforce, Chainguard’s first tool, automatically generates this data to help development teams track their code’s security more efficiently. | Security |
| LogicMonitor launches unified observability platform for multicloud and container environments | LM Envision extends these tools with expanded coverage for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments, plus Kubernetes container services, the company said. It also claims more than 2,000 integrations with third-party tools and services to help teams spot trends and anomalies from a single platform. | IT Management |
| MLOps Company Iterative Introduces Open, Git-based ML Model Tool | MLEM is a core building block for a Git-based ML model registry, together with other Iterative tools, like GTO and DVC. A model registry stores and versions trained ML models. Model registries greatly simplify the task of tracking models as they move through the ML lifecycle, from training to production deployments and ultimately retirement. | Machine Learning |
| Coralogix raises $142M for lightweight full-stack observability platform | Coralogix’s full-stack observability platform, powered by the organization’s Streama technology, has gathered lots of investor interest due to its ability to provide access to real-time assets, ML models, data transformation and alerting capabilities without relying on storage or indexing. | IT Management |
| New Clumio service provides air gap ransomware protection for AWS EC2 and EBS | SecureVault Lite is pitched as allowing enterprises to no longer have to choose between ransomware protection and cost reduction. Clumio’s new service is claimed to deliver 30% savings with AWS integration at a similar cost as local in-account Amazon EBS snapshots. | Security |
| BeReal, the new Gen Z photo sharing app that prompts users to take one unedited photo a day, is taking the social media by storm | According to app intelligence firm Apptopia, BeReal has seen 8 million downloads year-to-date, representing 76.5% of its lifetime installs. France (where the app is based) and the U.S. lead, with a 20.5% and 19.7% share of installs, respectively. | Apps |
| Cisco + NetApp + Pure = CI as a service | “We are excited to combine our own Pure Storage as-a-service (STaaS)… with Cisco+ Hybrid Cloud to create FlashStack as-a-service (FSaaS)… Our joint customers can scale capacity up or down as needed, and only pay for the IT services they consume.” | Data Storage |
| Fortanix introduces new blockchain security tools | Fortanix carries out the two-factor authentication process in a so-called trusted execution environment. A trusted execution environment is an isolated section of a server’s memory that is accessible only to a specific application. | Security |
| Lookout acquires password management company SaferPass | “At the same time, large-scale data breaches have leaked billions of consumer emails and passwords on the dark web, putting individuals at risk of identity theft and financial fraud. The SaferPass team shares our vision for providing seamless security solutions that address all access points and protect personal and corporate data wherever it may reside.” | Security |
| Forward Networks integrates with Rapid7 to model network behavior and mitigate device vulnerabilities | By integrating with Rapid7, Forward Networks believes it can illustrate the actual risk each device vulnerability poses to on-premises, multicloud and software-defined wide-area networks from a single screen. It does so by creating a network-based “digital twin” of each device, the company explained, which can then be used to accurately model current and possible network behaviors. | IT Management |
| Ordr raises $40M for IoT monitoring tool | Ordr helps enterprises monitor IoT connected devices as part of a real-time inventory, which provides details on the device’s model, serial number and location, to help security teams identify devices with vulnerabilities, weak passwords or certifications, while using machine learning to identify anomalous activity on each device. | IT Management |
| Finnish cybersecurity startup Hoxhunt raises $40M amid raising cyberattack numbers | The company also features a fully automated service simulates real attacks and shows the techniques attackers use to infiltrate organizations. Employees are rewarded for reporting the attacks – both real and simulated. | Security |
| Exafunction Raises $25 Million Series A Funding Led by Greenoaks | With Exafunction, customers achieve 5-10x improvements in hardware utilization, getting more from their existing resources, speeding up their models, and cutting both costs and energy usage. | Automation & Productivity |
| DuckDuckGo caught giving Microsoft permission to track users despite its strong privacy protection claim | According to Bleeping Computer, security researcher Zach Edwards posted on Twitter that “while DuckDuckGo blocks Google and Facebook trackers, it allowed Microsoft trackers to continue running.” The company explains that “this issue is occurring on browsers and only pertains to non-DuckDuckGo websites.” | Data Privacy |
| GitHub adds more security and automation features to Enterprise Server | The platform ships with a cybersecurity tool called Dependabot that GitHub obtained through a 2019 startup acquisition. According to the Microsoft unit, Dependabot can automatically alert developers if a security flaw is found in one of the open-source components used by an application. | DevOps |
| MariaDB and MindsDB Raise the IQ for Cloud Databases | MariaDB has been downloaded over one billion times and is used by 75% of the Fortune 500, touching the lives of more than a billion people every day. MariaDB database users will now be able to add machine learning based predictions directly into their datasets stored in SkySQL | Data & Analytics |
| Seemplicity launches with $32M round to help companies plug security holes faster | The idea with Seemplicity’s platform is to connect security findings with the people who can fix them quickly, helping reduce the time it takes between first discovering vulnerabilities and mitigating them. It does this by aggregating, normalizing and orchestrating the findings from multiple security tools to create a single, consistent security backlog. | Security |
| ChromeLoader Browser Hijacker Provides Gateway to Bigger Threats | ChromeLoader may seem on the surface like a run-of-the-mill browser hijacker that merely redirects victims to advertisement websites. However, its use of PowerShell could pose a greater risk by leading to further and advanced malicious activity, such as the propagation of ransomware or spyware or theft of browser-session data. | Security |
| Microsoft announces new ‘family’ of identity and access management tools | Today, Microsoft announced the launch of Entra, a new product family of identity and access management solutions. The family includes existing tools like Azure AD alongside two new product categories; Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) and Decentralized Identity. | Security |
| One AI launches with $8M in funding to ease natural language processing projects | One AI provides a collection of pre-packaged natural language processing models optimized for business use cases. They’re available through an application programming interface, which enables developers to integrate the startup’s technology into their software with relative ease. | Artificial Intelligence |
| LANL and Pavilion Partner to Explore Analytics Offloads to Computational Storage Arrays | LANL is moving their I/O from file based to record or column based, which enables analytics to be done using tools from the big data/analytics community. LANL has shown 1000X speedups on analytics functions by leveraging data reduction near the storage devices via their DeltaFS technology. | Data & Analytics |
| Flexa, a female-founded tech startup, raises $2.9M to demystify flexible work and bring transparency to the global hiring market | Unlike the traditional job platform, Flexa has flipped the hiring process on its head by enabling companies to showcase what their working environments offer when it comes to flexibility and benefits. Flexa enables companies to be discovered by candidates who want to know up-front how the company operates and get a transparent look at what its working policies are before applying for a role. | Automation & Productivity |
| NetApp previews cloud-native Astra Data Store | NetApp has launched an early access program for its Astra Data Store, cloud-native software providing shared NFS file and block storage to new and old applications, meaning containers and virtual machines | Data Storage |
| TigerGraph launches Workbench for graph neural network ML/AI modeling | The ML Workbench is a Jupyter-based Python development framework that enables data scientists to build deep-learning AI models using connected data directly from the business. | Data & Analytics |
| Informatica Launches Free Data Loader for Google BigQuery | the enterprise cloud data management leader announced the launch of a new cloud service, Informatica Data Loader for Google BigQuery, a no cost, zero-code, zero-devops, zero infrastructure required cloud data management SaaS offering that will help departmental users across the organization to move from data to insights in minutes, as opposed to weeks. | Data & Analytics |
| Google debuts new tools for securing Chrome OS and Chrome in the enterprise | Google today introduced Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework, a collection of integrations designed to ease IT teams’ work further. The integrations provide the ability to manage workers’ Chrome OS devices and Chrome browser installations using popular third-party software tools. | Security |
| Alteryx Empowers Public Sector to Accelerate Insights with Automated Analytics | Now with a FIPS-compatible version of Alteryx Designer, public sector organizations including government agencies of all sizes can implement analytics automation to connect their businesses with insights. | Data & Analytics |
| Algorics Launches Metavate, Metadata-driven Automation For Clinical Data Flow And Transparency | MetaVate is a fully integrated modular solution with a unique, metadata-driven data transformation engine designed to support the creation of any target data sets from any source data sets, including SDTM, ADaM and third-party data. | Data & Analytics |
| Meta rewrites privacy policy but says it won’t collect data in ‘new ways’ | Meta is also rolling out new Audience Controls on Facebook that change who might see the posts you make. The tool used to default to whatever audience setting you’d used most recently, whether that was Public, Friends (+ friends of anyone tagged), Only Me, or a custom selection of people you’d show the post to or hide it from. | Data Privacy |
| Salesforce advances open-source Merlion project for time-series ML analysis | Merlion includes capabilities for loading and processing data, building and training a wide array of models that are unified under a common API, Bhatnager said. The project also includes practices and steps for model outputs, as well a framework to actually evaluate model performance. | Machine Learning |
| Vulnerabilities in Open Automation Software Platform opens the door to attackers | The platform, from the company of the same name, connects industrial devices, servers, files, databases and “internet of things” devices to provide supervisory control and data acquisition systems or industrial automation solutions. | Security |
| New ‘Cheerscrypt’ Linux-based ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers | The ransomware encrypts VMware-related files and shares some similarities with other ransomware families such as LockBit, Hive and RansomEXX, which have previously targeted ESXi servers in the past. | Security |
| Gradiant Acquires Synauta, Machine Learning Company, to Advance AI Technology in Water | The use of digital twins in industrial water treatment and desalination and water reuse has been pioneered by Gradiant. The acquisition strengthens Gradiant’s position as a technology leader in end-to-end water solutions and accelerates deployment of digital twin technologies to build a digitized water future. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Komprise now automates unstructured data discovery and migration | “IT users can now create automated workflows for all the steps required to find the right data across your storage assets, tag and enrich the data, and send it to external tools for analysis. The Komprise Global File Index and Smart Data Workflows together reduce the time it takes to move the right unstructured data by up to 80%,” | Data & Analytics |
| Web3 protocol Saga raises $6.5M for scalable blockchain infrastructure | Saga uses what it calls “chainlets,” dedicated custom blockchains that are designed for specific applications to allow developers to rapidly deploy decentralized applications. Dapps are the foundation of Web3, the decentralized web. | Web3 |
| Google will start distributing a security-vetted collection of open-source software libraries | Per Google’s announcement, the Assured Open Source Software service will extend the benefits of Google’s own extensive software auditing experience to Cloud customers. All open-source packages made available through the service are also used internally by Google, the company said, and are regularly scanned and analyzed for vulnerabilities. | Security |
| SmartPM Launches New Analytics Dashboard, Project Workspace, to Centralize Mission-Critical Schedule Insights | Project Workspace includes several features designed to further streamline and strengthen SmartPM’s powerful Schedule Optimization Platform, allowing users with little or no training to customize their workspace so they can monitor important project milestones quickly and explore “what-if” modeling to maximize schedule management results. | Automation & Productivity |
| Skybox Security Unveils the Industry's Most Advanced Vulnerability Management Solution That Quantifies Cyber Exposure Risk in Financial Terms | Leveraging its proprietary network modeling techniques, Skybox now quantifies the business impact of cyber risks into economic impact. This new financial calculation enables customers to identify and prioritize the most critical threats based on the size of financial impact, among other risk analyses. | Security |
| phoenixNAP Enables One-Click Kubernetes Deployments in Bare Metal Cloud | phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud Rancher solution was built to help organizations accelerate container adoption and save developers hours of environment setup work. The platform uses the open-source software stack to enable one-click deployment of HA upstream and downstream clusters. | Automation & Productivity |
| Franz’s AllegroGraph 7.3 Extends GraphQL to Knowledge Graph Developers | “GraphQL APIs are growing in importance, as more development teams rapidly adopt them to expose back-end data and functionality with greater flexibility than REST APIs, according to Gartner. | Data & Analytics |
| Meet Grand Time: The community-driven web3 platform where you can tokenize your time | Just a few weeks after its launch, Grand Time has caught on and thousands of users have already flocked to its platform. So far, it has reached a new benchmark of over 800,000 monthly gig-based tasks on its platform. Some users (out of 26,000 total) are earning upwards of $100 a day performing over 100 tasks. | Web3 |
| Veeam rolls out backup SaaS for Salesforce, updates its Microsoft 365 service | Veeam already has a big presence in virtual machine backup for Kubernetes and SaaS apps: its Kasten Kubernetes app backup operation is growing fast. The public cloud and SaaS, particularly Salesforce, is the next frontier so to speak. | Data Management |
| Online whiteboarding platform Miro unveils new tools to strengthen hybrid work | With Miro’s tools, remote, in-office and hybrid teams can communicate and collaborate across formats, tools, channels and time zones without the restrictions of physical location, meeting space, or whiteboards. | Automation & Productivity |
| CISA issues warning about vulnerabilities in VMware and F5 products | In an alert published Wednesday, CISA detailed that hackers reverse-engineered VMware’s April 6 patch within 48 hours and began launching cyberattacks against vulnerable networks. The vulnerabilities makes affected systems susceptible to several types of cyberattacks. | Security |
| Critical Vulnerability in Premium WordPress Themes Allows for Site Takeover | One of the flaws—tracked as CVE-2022-1654 and rated as 9.9, or critical on the CVSS–allows for “any authenticated attacker, including a subscriber or customer-level attacker, to gain administrative privileges and completely take over any site running either the Jupiter Theme or JupiterX Core Plugin,” | Security |
| Tamr Introduces Tamr Enrich to Simplify and Improve the Data Mastering Process | Using Tamr’s patented human-guided machine learning, Tamr Enrich curates and actively manages external datasets and services, enabling customers to seamlessly embed trusted, high-quality external data insights to their data mastering pipelines for richer business. | Data & Analytics |
| Cloud data protection startup Dig Security launches with $11M in seed funding | “Companies don’t know what data they hold in the cloud, where it is, or — most importantly — how to protect it,” he said. “They have tools to protect endpoints, networks, APIs… but nothing to actively secure their data in public clouds.” | Cloud Security |
| QuSecure releases first end-to-end post-quantum solution | QuProtect uses standards and compliance-based security architecture to offer users endpoint zero-trust endpoint management and quantum cryptography as part of an end-to-end security solution. | Security |
| SK hynix lays claim to fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD | This FL6 is classed as a storage-class memory drive by Kioxia and uses fast SLC (1 bit/cell) NAND unlike the other SSDS in our table which use inherently slower TLC (3 bits/cell) 3D NAND. They rely on parallel access within the drive and fast controllers to reach the speeds they do. | Data Storage |
| SpotOn raises $300M to develop its payments platform | The platform’s services include support for marketing, loyalty, website design, appointment, payroll and review services. SpotOn targets its offering at small to medium-sized businesses by providing enterprise-level solutions at affordable prices. | Automation & Productivity |
| Komprise Automates Unstructured Data Discovery with Smart Data Workflows | Komprise has expanded Deep Analytics Actions to include copy and confine operations based on Deep Analytics queries, added the ability to execute external functions such as running natural language processing functions via API and expanded global tagging and search to support these workflows. | Data & Analytics |
| Alteryx Announces New Cloud Capabilities that Empower Businesses to Deploy Analytics at Enterprise Scale | Bolstered by its recent acquisition of Trifacta, Alteryx offers enhanced integrations with leading cloud data warehouses including Databricks, Snowflake, and Google BigQuery. The integrations support high-performance native pushdown capabilities, shortening the time to derive insights from big data sets from hours to minutes. | Data & Analytics |
| Mastercard launches biometric payment app that lets you pay with your face or hand in stores | “All the research that we’ve done has told us that consumers love biometrics. They want making a payment at a store to be as convenient as opening their phone.” | Privacy & Security |
| JSON vulnerabilities in Strapi open the door to hackers and data theft | The researchers explain the first vulnerability allows an authenticated user with access to the Strapi admin panel to view private and sensitive data. This includes email and password reset tokens as well as details of other admin panel users that have a relationship with content accessible to the authenticated user. | Security |
| DataCore launches Bolt: NVMe-oF Kubernetes storage | Intel said OpenEBS’s Mayastor engine was the fastest open-source storage for Kubernetes in March last year. NVMe/TCP uses everyday datacenter Ethernet and doesn’t need the more expensive lossless Ethernet setup used by RoCE, while being almost as fast. | Data Storage |
| Ahana Announces New Presto Query Analyzer to Bring Instant Insights into Presto Clusters | With the Presto Query Analyzer, data platform teams can get instant insights into their Presto clusters including query performance, bandwidth bottlenecks, and much more. The Presto Query Analyzer was built for the Presto community and is free to use. | Data & Analytics |
| SUSE Transforms Cloud Native Security From Core to Cloud to Edge With Significant Advancements to NeuVector and Rancher | As part of the SUSE Rancher 2.6.5 release, Rancher users can access and be authenticated to manage SUSE NeuVector directly through the Rancher console. This provides customers the benefit of a complete zero-trust stack with a seamless user experience that simplifies security management for large, globally distributed Kubernetes environments. | Cloud Security |
| Rubrik launches Rubrik Security Cloud | This builds on the joint collaboration between Rubrik and Microsoft which produced the Rubrik Cloud Vault, built on Azure. It is a fully managed, secure, and isolated cloud vault service to store clean data and help customers better defend against cyberattacks. | Cloud Security |
| IBM launches ESS Spectrum Scale box optimized for AI | The 3200 supports these capacities and a larger 38TB FCM, taking its total chassis capacity to 912TB versus 3500’s 368.6TB. IBM does say that, with LZ4 compression, the 3500’s effective capacity is 1PB. | Data Storage |
| Cornami raises $68M to support quantum encryption | Its solution provides enterprises with a foundation they can use to accelerate Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to encrypt data against post-quantum threats faster. Cornami’s approach not only reduces application latency in the cloud and at the network’s edge but also lowers the overall power consumption of apps. | Emerging Tech |
| Keyfactor-Fortanix integration offers improved machine identity management | The technology integration combines the benefits of certificate lifecycle automation with key protection in Fortanix Data Security Manager. Using the combination, the companies say, enterprises and MSPs can effectively manage all machine identities across hybrid and multicloud infrastructure while reducing complexity in ensuring sensitive private keys remain protected. | Security |
| Real-time analytics database firm Imply Data bags $100M in late-stage funding | Imply was founded by the creators of the open-source Apache Druid database that’s designed to power real-time analytics. It’s an alternative to traditional data warehouses, for use in scenarios where speed is the main priority. Think financial institutions that need to analyze streams of incoming data to detect fraud, for example. | Data & Analytics |
| Tableau adds automated, plain-language explanations to dashboards | While Tableau still offers self-managed services, its focus on Tableau Cloud shows how the enterprise has moved largely to SaaS products. The company said that three-quarters of new Tableau customers choose its cloud product over an on-premise or hybrid solution. | Data & Analytics |
| Access orchestration firm Pathlock raises $200M as it combines with four other companies | Pathlock pitches its solution as allowing enterprises to manage all aspects of application governance in a single platform, including user provisioning and temporary elevation, ongoing user access reviews, control testing, transaction monitoring and audit preparation. | IT Management |
| FBI: Hackers used malicious PHP code to grab credit card data | "As of January 2022, unidentified cyber actors unlawfully scraped credit card data from a US business by injecting malicious PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) code into the business' online checkout page and sending the scraped data to an actor-controlled server that spoofed a legitimate card processing server," | Security |
| Lightbend launches Kalix application layer to simplify serverless and cloud-native development | Lightbend, which has until now focused on tools that make serverless infrastructure viable for different kinds of applications, said developers require an additional “application layer” that’s able to maintain an app’s properties and requirements on behalf of its users. | Cloud |
| Microsoft announces general availability of Cloud for Sustainability | The company boasted the extensible Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Solution has the ability to centralise previously disparate data to provide greater visibility of an organisation's sustainability efforts and supply chain; enable the ability for organisations to record, report, and reduce environmental impact through automated data connections; and help pinpoint specific emissions areas to track. | Cloud |
| TFORM, Continues to Bring Visibility, Intelligence, and Automation to It Environments | TFORM today announced the enhancement of its data center and workload assessment solution that was officially launched in August 2020. In its initial launch phase, TFORM provided the most comprehensive view of any IT environment, whether on-premises or in a public/Private cloud. | Automation & Productivity |
| Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte announce joint managed security service | In practice, the services will offer users managed security support with networking, user access, data security, workload security, device security, orchestration and automation, telemetry, and analytics. | Automation & Productivity |
| Kubernetes startup Akuity raises $20M to take Argo Project to the next level | Argo enables organizations to build and run cloud-native applications and workflows on Kubernetes using GitOps. It does that by providing what it says is an easy way to combine three modes of computing — services, workflows and event-based — to create jobs and applications on Kubernetes. | Automation & Productivity |
| Kasten by Veeam releases new Kubernetes data management platform | “Kasten K10 V5.0 tackles data management challenges including backup/restore, disaster recovery and application mobility to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes,” | Data Management |
| Snapt Announces the One Security Package to Run Kubernetes in Public Cloud | Snapt Nova is a centrally managed load balancing and application security platform designed for cloud-native and hybrid environments and includes real-time threat intelligence, web application and API protection, and bot protection. | Cloud |
| This phishing attack delivers three forms of malware. And they all want to steal your data | BitRAT is particularly dangerous to victims, because it can take full control of infected Windows systems, complete with the ability to view webcam activity, listen to audio through the microphone, secretly mine for cryptocurrency that goes into a wallet owned by the attackers and download additional malicious files. | Security |
| Sysdig releases new Kubernetes troubleshooting tool | Sysdig Advisor enables developers and site reliability engineering teams a single platform for troubleshooting Kubernetes container problems, providing live logs and a prioritized list of issues they can use to secure the environment more effectively. | Security |
| Deepfactor Partners with Synopsys to Help Developers Resolve Cloud Native Supply Chain Security Risks | Deepfactor Developer Security integrates with the Synopsys Black Duck tool to reduce SCA alert volume and provide developers with contextual security insights to prioritize and remediate application vulnerabilities and license risks discovered during development and testing. | Cloud Security |
| Privacera Announces Most Complete Data Access Governance | A key milestone with this new release is that Privacera now brings the industry’s first comprehensive data access and security governance solution to Google BigQuery. | Data & Analytics |
| Arqit Demonstrates Industrial IoT Security | Arqit and Blue Mesh collaborated to integrate Arqit’s QuantumCloud™ to secure sensor network equipment through a security enhancement to an internationally standardised protocol known as MQTT which is a ubiquitous method used for sending data from Industrial IoT devices to cloud servers for data manipulation and analysis. | Security |
| Threat Actors Use Telegram to Spread ‘Eternity’ Malware-as-a-Service | The new malware service, dubbed the Eternity Project by the threat actors behind it, allows cybercriminals to target potential victims with a customized threat offering based on individual modules they can buy for prices ranging from $90 to $490, | Security |
| Newly launched AI startup Inflection AI raises $225M in funding | “We will soon have the ability to relay our thoughts and ideas to computers using the same natural, conversational language we use to communicate with people.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| N-able Cove Data Protection embraces disaster recovery | Cove Data Protection includes data protection for servers, workstations, and Microsoft 365. It offers the ability to back up as often as every 15 minutes, moving up to 60x less data compared to local-first backup for improved recovery point and recovery time objectives. | Data Management |
| Nokia launches SaaS services to tackle energy consumption and home device management | The first, dubbed Nokia Analytics Virtualization and Automation (AVA) for Energy SaaS, uses artificial intelligence to monitor network traffic and help reduce the amount of connectivity resources used during periods of low demand. | Network Management |
| Rain nabs $11M to build voice experiences for brands | “Through our work in voice, we recognized an opportunity to build employee-facing voice solutions for the ‘deskless workforce’ — skilled workers in industries like agriculture, health care, construction, and manufacturing. | Automation & Productivity |
| Software startup Observe scores $70m funding round | Observe’s software transforms raw log events and metrics into entities that make sense to site reliability engineers (SREs) such as containers, pods, EC2 instances, customers, shopping carts, and S3 buckets, and the relationships between them. | Data & Analytics |
| Senet and Ready Wireless Partner to Deliver End-to-End LoRaWAN Enabled Environmental Monitoring and Asset Tracking Solutions | With over 150 point-solutions available from Ready Wireless, customers are quickly realizing the value of leveraging LoRaWAN connected device data from multiple sources to solve some of their most challenging operational and environmental issues. | Network Management |
| Cisco Releases Cloud Controls Framework to Ease Security Compliance Strain | Cisco recently made public its Cloud Controls Framework (CCF), which aggregates a set of comprehensive international and national security compliance and certification requirements. The vendor claims it allows organizations to achieve cloud security certifications more efficiently. | Security |
| AI tech startup Viable lands $5M to provide instant qualitative customer insights and shorten feedback loops | Viable is the first analytics startup to use the GPT-3 language model, from AI research and deployment company OpenAI, to extract immediate insights buried in customer surveys, helpdesk tickets, and app store reviews at an enterprise scale. | Data & Analytics |
| OtterTune raises $12M to automate database maintenance | OtterTune likes to say that its software will adjust more than 100 different “knobs” or parameters for these popular open source databases. It uses artificial intelligence algorithms to watch the performance of the database and then suggest better values for the parameters or “knobs” to speed up performance. | Data & Analytics |
| FlexJobs acquires talent-matching platform Localwise to expand its focus on local job searching and hiring | Offering a full suite of local hiring solutions, the site has also helped over 50,000 local employers match with nearby talent. It empowers local businesses to thrive by transforming local hiring through trusted relationships, including access to a team of Hiring and Talent Specialists | Automation & Productivity |
| Lang.ai looks to help orgs extract value from customer conversations, with AI | The system uses an unsupervised learning model to adapt to the constantly changing flow of information by categorizing data and then helping to determine what should be done with the data to help improve user experience and business outcomes. | Data & Analytics |
| Blockchain data startup Chainalysis secures $170M in funding at $8.6B valuation | The startup makes the data that it collects available to customers through several products, each of which focuses on a different set of use cases. Chainalysis says its products are used by government agencies, financial institutions, cybersecurity companies and other organizations in more than 70 countries. | Data & Analytics |
| Sudozi nabs $4.3M to simplify money management for enterprises | To tackle these challenges, Punkunus and team developed an integrated, real-time platform that automates workflows and brings together all vendor, spending and budget information in a single place. | Automation & Productivity |
| Komodor nabs $42M to help companies maintain their Kubernetes deployments | The platform collects data from a company’s Kubernetes deployment, as well as other internal systems such as the software development tools used by engineers to build applications. Komodor analyzes this data to automatically detect technical issues. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI21 Labs claims it’s building the next phase of natural language processing | AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based AI lab and product company, says it’s developed a new system called the modular reasoning knowledge and language system, or MRKL system (pronounced “miracle”), to augment the power of large language models, enhancing them with discrete reasoning experts like online calculators and currency converter. | Artificial Intelligence |
| CIQ raises $26M to promote free alternative to Red Hat Linux | Rocky Linux was created to be a successor to CentOS that would remain a drop-in replacement for RHEL. “It gives us a way to help the operating system without holding it hostage,” | DevOps |
| Improvado offers tool for deeper marketing insights, nabs series A | Improvado is integrated with more than 300 different data sources from different marketing platforms. The results are gathered, synchronized and analyzed before being pushed out to a reporting or visualization tool like Tableau, Looker or Google Data Studio. | Data & Analytics |
| Governance and administration startup BalkanID launches with $5.75M in funding | The company’s solution leverages artificial intelligence and workflow automation to provide visibility into risky entitlements and simplify the access review and certification process. BalkanID’s Identity Governance and Administration platform is built for cloud-native environments. | Data Governance |
| Application security testing startup StackHawk raises $20.7M | StackHawk’s solution allows modern software development organizations to extend CI/CD to encompass continuous application and application programming interface security testing. This way, security vulnerabilities are detected while the developer is actively working on the code. | Security |
| Mindtech Enables Automated Creation of Millions of ‘Synthetic Actors’ | The end-to-end platform now enables the automated creation of millions of individual ‘actors’, placed into virtual worlds, creating synthetic data for training AI visual systems addressing a wide range of markets, including retail, security, smart city and home. | Data & Analytics |
| Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a PostgreSQL-compatible database for mission-critical workloads | Notably, AlloyDB maintains full compatibility with PostgreSQL 14, the latest version of the open-source project. That means customers can migrate existing PostgreSQL applications without making any code changes. | Data & Analytics |
| Calendly Routing Forms, a Step Towards Omnichannel Scheduling | Calendly Routing Forms use screening questions and routing logic to make it simple and efficient for teams to automate evaluating prospect and customer needs before routing them to a specific booking page to schedule a meeting. | Automation & Productivity |
| Email security startup Material Security raises $100M on unicorn valuation of $1.1B | The service stops lateral account takeover via email by preventing attackers from hijacking other services. The service adds a verification step before granting access to password resets and other critical messages. | Security |
| Pure uses Snowflake to get FlashBlade up close and cloud-adjacent with customers’ co-los | Pure Storage and Snowflake are arranging for Snowflake compute to access and analyze data stored in FlashBlade file+object boxes based in fast access, cloud-adjacent co-los like Equinix datacenters. | Data Storage |
| Aiven raises $210M in late-stage funding to expand its open-source expertise | What’s especially useful is that Aiven operates those projects for its customers on the cloud of their choice. Aiven then takes care of the configuration and sets things up, then ensures the necessary resilience, compliance and security. | Cloud |
| ForgeRock releases AI-driven anti-fraud solution | This flexible authentication process means that legitimate users can login without having to undergo lots of authentication steps whereas malicious users or those that act suspiciously will have to undergo more thorough screening measures throughout the login process. | Security |
| Arrikto Launches Kubeflow as a Service MLOps Platform | With Arrikto’s Kubeflow as a Service, data scientists can now gain access to a complete MLOps platform, in just minutes without having to have any special knowledge of the underlying infrastructure. | Data & Analytics |
| Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform | The startup believes the best approach to observability is to bring all of the telemetry data from applications into a single place and curate this as specific “resources” such as the user, session, a shopping cart, pod or container, help desk ticket or build. | Data & Analytics |
| Rocky Linux developer CIQ raises $26M to recreate CentOS for enterprises | While it’s still early days for CIQ, it seems things have gotten off to a solid start — the open-source Rocky Linux project is notching up as many as 250,000 downloads in some months, and its fresh cash injection could go some way toward helping it become one of the major Linux distributions for enterprises. | Automation & Productivity |
| Quest Software Delivers Data Intelligence Offering to Address Data Quality, Governance | Based on the DQLabs augmented data quality platform, erwin’s data quality offering automates data profiling and data quality assessment and extends data quality visibility beyond traditional IT roles to data governance teams and business users. | Data & Analytics |
| Qualcomm plunges into the robotics market with new platform | Qualcomm is taking a big dive into robotics. At its 5G Summit event, the company announced a new robotics platform that serves as an off-the-shelf developer kit for creating autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and drones, utilizing 5G and edge AI for next-gen autonomy. | Automation & Productivity |
| Three suppliers add ransomware capabilities to line-up | Cohesity, Nasuni, and HPE’s Zerto all revealed plans to add ransomware protection products and features to their line-ups this week. | Security |
| Databricks Announces New Pay-As-You-Go Lakehouse Offering in AWS Marketplace | AWS customers can also start a free 14-day trial of Databricks from the AWS console and will be able to consolidate billing and payment under their existing AWS management account. | Data & Analytics |
| IBM migrates more than 500 servers and 375 terabytes of data to SAP’s S/4HANA | IBM said the move is one of the largest-ever corporate transformation projects based on SAP’s ERP software. It’s driven by a need to modernize its business processes and deliver better insights in support of clients running in the cloud. | Cloud |
| PingCAP Announces the General Availability of TiDB Cloud | After a year of extensively testing TiDB Cloud in public preview with partners and customers, enterprises can now run their mission critical transactional and real-time analytic workloads against a single, fully managed database while enjoying maximum performance and business continuity. | Data & Analytics |
| London-based Guider raises $3 million to grow its mentoring platform and expand its global footprint | The Great Resignation has already affected many businesses. Research suggests that 77% of 25-33 year olds are looking for a career change in the next year1, while 94% of employees admitted they would remain in a role if there were greater opportunities to ‘learn & grow’. In order to retain valuable talent, corporations need to be an attractive place to work and put the employee at the centre of its actions | Automation & Productivity |
| Hackers are using tech services companies as a 'launchpad' for attacks on customers | "As this advisory makes clear, malicious cyber actors continue to target managed service providers, which is why it's critical that MSPs and their customers take recommended actions to protect their networks," | Security |
| Cohesity launches FortKnox to protect data from ransomware attacks | FortKnox provides an additional layer of off-site protection for customers by keeping data in a secure ‘vault,’ with physical separation, network and management isolation to keep threat actors from accessing sensitive data. | Security |
| USB-based Wormable Malware Targets Windows Installer | Wormable malware dubbed Raspberry Robin has been active since last September and is wriggling its way through USB drives onto Windows machines to use Microsoft Standard Installer and other legitimate processes to install malicious files, researchers have found. | Security |
| Certn nabs $50M to accelerate background checks with AI | “They can easily verify their identity via a selfie using our OneID and a government-issued ID card photo. All personal data, consents and authorizations are collected from the candidate to prevent any errors or delays. The information is then quickly verified using Certn’s AI and machine learning solution,” | Artificial Intelligence |
| IBM lays out plans for 4,000-qubit chips in updated quantum computing roadmap | The plan involves creating new modular architectures and networking systems to support more powerful quantum processors with higher qubit counts. At the same time, the company will design a more intelligent software layer to handle quantum workloads more efficiently. | Emerging Tech |
| SaaS payments infrastructure company Paddle raises $200M | But while the benefits of cloud-hosted software are generally well-understood for the end-user, there is a whole stack of infrastructure considerations that SaaS companies have to manage, which can distract them from core product development. | Automation & Productivity |
| Google announces Cloud TPU virtual machines for AI workloads | Google Cloud said embedding acceleration with Cloud TPU can help businesses lower cost associated with ranking and recommendation use-cases which commonly rely on deeply neural network-based algorithms that can be costly to run. | Automation & Productivity |
| Microsoft launches new managed service category | Today, Microsoft announced the launch of a new managed service category called Microsoft Security Experts. The service provides organizations with support from external security experts who can conduct tasks like threat hunting and managed detection and response. | Security |
| ‘Decision intelligence’ platform Pyramid Analytics raises $120M | Its platform leverages AI and a fully integrated toolset that combines data prep, analytics and data science for anyone in a company to derive insights from. | Data & Analytics |
| PocketLaw nabs $11M to automate legal work for SMEs | PocketLaw, aims to make the contract-creation process significantly cheaper and quicker, enabling users to build “bespoke legal agreements” in a matter of minutes through automation and a question-and-answer approach supported by on-screen digital guides. | Automation & Productivity |
| Hammerspace and Seagate Collaborate to Extend Global Data Environments | The collaboration enables customers to combine the benefits of leveraging Seagate’s S3-compatible public cloud storage-as-a-service platform with the ability to bring together all their edge, distributed datacenter, and cloud data into a consolidated, consumable resource within a Global Data Environment. | Data Storage |
| Sales Impact Academy announces $22M in new funding for its go-to-market learning platform | “The thing that has surprised me the most over the last 12 months is the pull that we’re getting from the enterprise,” Fifield said. “Our learning community has gone from 3,000 people to almost 15,000 professionals. That makes us, comfortably, the largest go-to-market learning community in the world.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Domino Data Lab announces latest MLops platform to satisfy both data science and IT | The release, which will be generally available to customers in June 2022, includes 12 new capabilities to allow data science and IT teams to develop and deploy more models at a faster pace; reduce data and infrastructure complexity and costs; and extend autonomous model performance monitoring to Snowflake’s Data Cloud. | Data & Analytics |
| Seattle startup Heard raises $10M to ease administrative load for mental health providers | The startup is part of an ecosystem of mental health care startups in the Pacific Northwest that includes Eugene, Ore.-based Ksana Health, which is developing a “Fitbit for mental health” and Seattle-based WeConnect, which provides an app and peer support to people recovering from addiction. | Automation & Productivity |
| AI-assisted 3D animation startup Kinetix raises $11M in Seed funding to drive user-generated content in the metaverse | Kinetix is a free AI-powered platform that makes 3D creation accessible to millions of creators around the world. With Kinetix, everyone can now easily produce films, concerts, group dances, and video games for virtual worlds. | Automation & Productivity |
| Immuta and Starburst Expand Partnership to Meet Demands for Secure Data Access | The Immuta plugin, now shipping with every Starburst Enterprise instance, allows seamless integration with a customer’s Immuta installation. The partnership enables organizations to maximize the power and flexibility of data mesh architectures with fast, secure data access. | Data & Analytics |
| Dell bolsters storage lineup with 500 software upgrades | The main updates for PowerStore are improved support for native file replication and third-party file monitoring and ransomware protection, along with improved networking speeds, NVMe support, and deeper integration for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) virtualized SAN/NAS arrays and disaster recovery. | Data Storage |
| Meet Logseq, an open-source knowledge management system that ‘stores data like a brain’ | This is something that fledgling startup Logseq is setting out to solve, with a privacy-focused open-source knowledge base that helps people and companies combine all their disparate notes, research, PDF markups and more into an interconnected system for storing and retrieving information. | Data Management |
| Google Cloud is forming a dedicated Web3 team | The upcoming services could reportedly include a system that would enable companies to make “blockchain data easy for people to explore.” Additionally, Google Cloud’s Web3 team may build a solution for running blockchain nodes, systems that are deployed as part of blockchains and play an important role in processing transactions. | Web3 |
| Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II Solid State Array | InfiniSafe combines immutable snapshots of data, logical air gapping, fenced forensic environment, and virtually instantaneous data recovery, and is now extended into the InfiniBox SSA II, as well as the entire InfiniBox family. | Data Storage |
| Netooze Ltd Announces a New vStack and VMware Cloud Service | Enter: Netooze, a new vStack and VMware Cloud-Service that lets you configure and deploy virtual servers, configure network circuits, order SSL certificates, and administer domain zones and monitoring. | Cloud |
| SmartMetric Says Its Biometric User Fingerprint Credit Card Technology Stands to Save Card Merchants Billions of Dollars | SmartMetric, Inc. has made substantial improvements in its biometric card that include a state of the art miniature solid state rechargeable battery. Also a sophisticated hardware solution that distinguishes a live fingerprint from a fake one. | Privacy & Security |
| Nasuni buys DBM Cloud Systems | “The Nasuni File Data Platform includes the world’s only cloud-native global file system that combines file and object storage delivering unlimited scale and capacity and we’ve built strong partnerships with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for the backend object storage. | Data Storage |
| Apple, Microsoft and Google announce plans to enable passwordless authentication for billions of devices | In supporting the FIDO standard, these vendors will enable billions of consumers to log in to devices and online services without the need for passwords, but instead using their fingerprint, face, or device PIN. | Privacy & Security |
| LottieFiles raises $37M Series B to bring lightweight and scalable animations to apps and websites | Unlike GIF or PNG graphics which are smaller in size, Lottie animations are scalable and interactive. They were first introduced six years ago as an open-source library by Airbnb engineers. Lottie also allows native apps to use animations as easily as they use static assets. | Automation & Productivity |
| Citrix and Google Cloud Simplify Shift to Flexible Work | Google Cloud Marketplace makes it easy for companies to quickly purchase and deploy market-leading digital workspace solutions designed to enable secure remote work, including Citrix DaaS solutions purpose-built for Google Cloud: | IT Management |
| WANdisco Edge to Cloud Launches to Activate IoT Data at Scale | The first-of-its-kind solution directly connects IoT data storage with cloud-based AI, machine learning, and analytics applications, allowing every sensor-generated data point to add business value and be monetized. | Data & Analytics |
| Cisco adds predictive networking SaaS options to improve uptime and security | Cisco’s predictive networks work by gathering data from myriad telemetry sources. Once integrated, the AI engine learns the patterns using a variety of models and begins to predict user experience issues, providing problem-solving options. | Network Management |
| Fictiv raises $100M to deliver ‘hardware at the speed of software’ | Companies can sign up to get parts delivered for new product development, have parts engineered to order for custom products and as part of maintenance and repair operations. All of this is supported by a wide array of manufacturing options that cover everything from machining, injection molding, 3D printing and more. | Automation & Productivity |
| Searchable.ai Launches Collections for Seamless Knowledge Sharing | Collections enable users to assemble all types of information regardless of which app it’s currently living in–Google docs, email attachments, Jira tickets, Asana tasks, Github issues, Confluence pages, local drive files, and more–in one place so team members can efficiently find what they need to start working. | Automation & Productivity |
| Attackers Use Event Logs to Hide Fileless Malware | The first stage of the attack involves the adversary driving targets to a legitimate website and enticing the target to download a compressed .RAR file boobytrapped with the network penetration testing tools called Cobalt Strike and SilentBreak. | Security |
| Google Cloud’s newest data platforms bring better insights to factory operators | Google Cloud’s new offerings are meant to change that. Manufacturing Data Engine is a service that’s used to store factory data on Google Cloud that comes complete with easily configurable and customizable blueprints for data ingestion, transformation, storage and access. | Data & Analytics |
| Sentry triples its valuation to over $3 billion after raising $90M in Series E funding to grow its application monitoring platform | With the proliferation of applications, languages, and frameworks, Sentry empowers any developer or development team to solve issues in production code by using one tool to monitor for errors, performance, and health across mobile, desktop, and IoT, and across any industry or vertical. | Automation & Productivity |
| Mosyle raises $196M for its mobile device management platform for Apple devices | Today, mobile device management (MDM) provider Mosyle announced the general availability of the Apple Unified Platform, a solution that combines MDM, endpoint security, entity management, and application management into a single solution for deploying and managing Apple devices. | IT Management |
| Corporate virtual private network provider Tailscale raises $100M | Tailscale pitches itself as offering a secure network that just works. Tailscale’s VPN requires zero configuration and can be installed on any device in minutes. The service manages firewall rules and works from anywhere. | Security |
| GitHub to enforce 2FA for all code contributors by the end of 2023 | GitHub has announced that two-factor authentication (2FA) will be mandatory for all code contributors through GitHub.com by the end of 2023, building on a slew of recent security developments at the Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform. | Security |
| ShiftLeft’s AppSec tool secures vulnerabilities that attackers are likely to exploit | ShiftLeft’s AppSec code security platform, ShiftLeft Core, enables enterprise’s to use static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) to scan application code and third-party libraries for security issues and vulnerabilities. | Security |
| API Security Innovator Traceable AI Lands $60 Million Series B | Traceable AI is the only API security platform that discovers, manages and secures APIs for enterprises. | Security |
| Kintent raises $18M to simplify cybersecurity compliance for companies | “To do that, we need a future where vendors and customers use APIs to truthfully share security and compliance information with each other. So, instead of zero-trust, Kintent will create a world of transparent, measurable trust – where trust in business is programmatically verified at all times.” | Security |
| Syxsense looks to provide a unified endpoint-management and security cloud-based service | Syxsense Enterprise’s new SaaS-based unified endpoint security and management platform aims to integrate patch management, vulnerability scanning and remediation, and mobile device management (MDM) into a single centralized console. | IT Management |
| Infinidat accelerates high-end array | Infinidat supplies InfiniBox arrays with DRAM caching delivering 90 percent or more of read requests from memory, with disk-based and all-flash SSA systems both faster than typical all-flash arrays thanks to its “Neural Cache.” | Data Storage |
| Gemini brings Web3 to the masses with ‘Superlunar’ research and design studio launch | “I think it’s fair to say that there are many promises to Web3, but we’re incredibly early in the space and we’ve still got a long way to go before we can build a lot in terms of user value — for example, experiences that people can have in Web3 that they can’t have in Web2.” | Web3 |
| Teleport raises $110M to simplify infrastructure access with identity for every user and app and device | The company has created an open-source Access Plane technology that helps organizations get a better handle on the complexity of running applications and services in multiple clouds. It works by giving every single user, device, application and service an identity and consolidates four essential capabilities — connectivity, authentication, authorization and audit — to ensure access can only be granted to authorized users. | IT Management |
| Toplyne raises $15M to help SaaS companies sell more | However, even with all the growth, one major problem continues to mar most SaaS enterprises – conversion. The firms can draw users through their freemium offerings, but struggling to convert them into paying or premium customers. In fact, today, most hyper-growth product-led companies are witnessing conversion rates under 1-2%. | Automation & Productivity |
| Kintent raises $18M to simplify cybersecurity compliance for companies | “To do that, we need a future where vendors and customers use APIs to truthfully share security and compliance information with each other. So, instead of zero-trust, Kintent will create a world of transparent, measurable trust – where trust in business is programmatically verified at all times.” | Security |
| Privacy-Focused Data-Generation Platform Kahoona Raises $4.5 Million Seed Round Led by Global Founders Capital | “Using advanced AI models and deep behavioral insights, we were able to bridge the gap between users’ right for privacy and the ever-growing need for data by content providers and digital stores,” | Data Privacy |
| Enpass launches first offline password management tool for enterprises | Enpass’s approach to password management means that the solution doesn’t store any user passwords, files or credentials on Enpass servers, but instead allows customers to choose whether to store the data on a local device or cloud service, such as OneDrive or Sharepoint. | Security |
| Dell announces expanded cyber recovery offerings for on-premises and cloud data | With the new service, Dell will manage the day-to-day cybersecurity recovery vault operations and also assist with data recovery when it’s needed. The offering comes with a selection of standardized configurations, simplified Dell-assisted recovery options and expertise with nearly 2,000 isolated vault solutions deployed globally. | Security |
| Accern Raises $20M Series B Round to Accelerate Access to NoCode NLP | Built for domain experts and business analysts, the Accern Solution with end-to-end AI/ML/NLP workflows can be deployed in minutes to deliver high impact insights for equity research, credit risk, M&A activity, ESG performance, insurance claims, fraud prevention, market intelligence, sanctions monitoring and more. | Automation & Productivity |
| Software delivery intelligence company LinearB lands $50M to improve engineering efficiency | How does LinearB address all this, exactly? Well, the platform helps software developers align their day-to-day work with business objectives, while managers can visualize “people effort,” real-time project statuses and all the important data in a single pane. | Automation & Productivity |
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