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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

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In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020

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Here are five more reasons why every enterprise should make innersource a priority in 2020: 1. Collaborate with context across teams and time zones. The company values transparency, especially on the engineering side, so that an engineer in Copenhagen can understand and leverage work happening in San Francisco.

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Cloudera DataFlow’s key milestones and wins in 2020

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Needless to say, 2020 was an unforgettable year in a lot of ways and we were all happy to say goodbye to it. Everyone was looking for real-time insights by analyzing what is going on currently within their businesses and taking corrective action pro-actively. Our keynote , delivered by our VP of Engineering, Joe Witt, and Sr.

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Your Guide to Serverless at re:Invent

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you won’t find compilations of announcements or who has the best SWAG. Because 2020 marks the year serverless goes ‘mainstream.” I expect to see more from AWS to help bridge this divide with more guidance on Well-Architected design patterns and security best practices. even from the comfort of your own home (and sweat pants).

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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Travelling Turns Smarter With Mobile Ticketing Apps – Here’s How!

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But, before you make up your mind and start scrutinizing the benefits and development process, it’s recommended to have an insight of ticketing markets, trends, growth and forecast for 2020-2025. October 2020 – The firm announced that its ATLAS operations fare collection system has accomplished Visa Ready for Transit certification.

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Meet Sudhir Menon, Ram Venkatesh and Paul Codding – Champions of the Cloudera Hybrid Data Cloud

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You have moved data to the cloud to increase agility, but you can’t move all of it to the public cloud because of security concerns and cost. Many of you have told me that you simply have too much data gravity and that your security and governance standards just aren’t suited to the cloud. ClouderaNOW.