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APEX Cloud Services for All Your Essential Workloads

Dell EMC

Integrated compute, storage, and networking resources for workloads across private and public cloud.

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4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn

TechCrunch

BIll Taranto. Contributor. GHI Fund President Bill Taranto has spent more than two decades in the healthcare industry and has 15 years of experience in healthcare investing. In addition to his venture investing knowledge, Bill has decades of management operations experience. More posts by this contributor. The virtual state of corporate venture capital today.

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UiPath: Blazing A Trail Toward Delivering Robotic Process Automation To The Enterprise

CTOvision

In one of the largest software IPOs of the year thus far, a company with the jaw-breaking name of UiPath (PATH) went public on April 20. The IPO price was set at $56; the shares closed their first day of trading at $69 and are trading about 18% higher as of Monday morning, April 26. […].

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How 4 New Jersey pools turned into a startup that just raised $10M

TechCrunch

As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. Noticing that a neighbor’s pool was often empty, Laskin reached out to ask if his family could use her pool. To make it worth her while, he suggested that they could help cover her expenses for maintaining the pool. Soon after, five other families had made the same arrangement with her and the pool owner had six families covering 25% of her expenses.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Bitcoin will soon be available through hundreds of US banks in a partnership with crypto firm NYDIG, report says

CTOvision

Bitcoin will become available to customers of hundreds of banks in the US this year, according to a CNBC report Wednesday. Crypto custody firm NYDIG has teamed up with fintech company Fidelity National Information Services to enable banks to offer the cryptocurrency in the coming months, CNBC reported, citing the two firms. Banks are requesting bitcoin […].

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AWS Launches a New Type of AWS Storage Gateway: Amazon Fsx File Gateway

CTOvision

Recently, AWS launched Amazon FSx File Gateway as a new type of AWS Storage Gateway, providing customers with a way to access data stored in the cloud with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, instead of using and managing on-premises file servers. Amazon FSx File Gateway optimizes the on-premises access of file shares by maintaining […].

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With backers like Tiger Global, LatAm crypto exchange Bitso raises $250M at a $2.2B valuation

TechCrunch

Bitso , a regulated crypto exchange in Latin America, announced today it has raised $250 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $2.2 billion. Tiger Global and Coatue co-led the round, which also included participation from Paradigm, BOND & Valor Capital Group and existing backers QED, Pantera Capital and Kaszek. The news caught our attention for several reasons.

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Spark on Kubernetes – Gang Scheduling with YuniKorn

Cloudera

Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) has just released 0.10.0 ( release announcement ). As part of this release, a new feature called Gang Scheduling has become available. By leveraging the Gang Scheduling feature, Spark jobs scheduling on Kubernetes becomes more efficient. What is Apache YuniKorn (Incubating)? Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) is a new Apache incubator project that offers rich scheduling capabilities on Kubernetes.

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Beyond the fanfare and SEC warnings, SPACs are here to stay

TechCrunch

Matt Johnson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of QC Ware , a quantum computing software company. Matt was a managing director in private equity at Apollo Management and prior to that was a managing director in principal investing at Credit Suisse. The number of SPACs in the deep tech sector was skyrocketing, but a combination of increased SEC scrutiny and market forces over the past few weeks has slowed the pace of new SPAC transactions.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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SmartZip Brings Real Estate Data to the Blockchain with Chainlink

CTOvision

SmartZip is excited to announce that they will join Chainlink’s market-leading decentralized oracle network by launching their own Chainlink node. The Chainlink node serves as secure blockchain middleware that makes existing SmartZip APIs compatible across leading blockchain networks. Through this new Chain Link node, SmartZip can supply their proprietary real estate data including property prices, rental […].

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Egypt’s Flextock closes $3.25M in the largest pre-seed yet in MENA

TechCrunch

Flextock , one of the 10 African startups from the recent Y Combinator winter batch, has bagged an impressive pre-seed round just two months after graduation. . The five-month-old company, which helps consumers and businesses manage e-commerce and fulfillment operations — from warehousing and logistics to delivery and cash collection — has closed a $3.25 million pre-seed investment.

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Debugging is Broken – Here’s How To Fix It

DevOps.com

Let’s face it, debugging is broken. Whether you wholeheartedly agree or vehemently disagree with that statement, I think we can all agree that debugging, at the very least, has room for improvement. In fact, the way software developers debug their code hasn’t changed much. Of course, there are now a wide array of observability and […]. The post Debugging is Broken – Here’s How To Fix It appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Supercell likes Metacore’s games so much it just gave it another $180M credit line

TechCrunch

Metacore , a Finnish mobile games company, seems to have an amazing “relationship” with Supercell, another (quite successful) Finnish mobile games company. Back in September 2020, Metacore raised $17.7 million in equity from Supercell and another $11.8 million line of credit, sometimes also called a debt round. That amazing relationship appears to be ongoing.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Palantir hires former IBM Watson Health exec as its first US government chief medical officer

CTOvision

Palantir has hired its first U.S. government chief medical officer, a former executive from IBM’s Watson Health business, as the data analytics company doubles down on its life sciences business. While the company made its name in software used by government defense agencies, sales to health-related agencies in the federal government have doubled over the last […].

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Text Blaze raises $3.3M for its speed-writing automation service

TechCrunch

Text Blaze , which was a part of the recent Winter 2021 Y Combinator accelerator batch, announced that it has closed a $3.3 million seed round. The company’s investment was led by Two Sigma Ventures’s Villi Iltchev and Susa Ventures’s Leo Polovets. The company’s product hybridizes two trends that TechCrunch has been tracking in recent years, namely automation and the written word.

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Agile Testing: Striking A Balance Between Manual and Automated Testing in an Agile Environment

Gorilla Logic

Agile is an iterative software development methodology wherein requirements evolve through collaboration between the customer and self-organizing teams. It is not sequential, but rather a continuous process. . Agile testing is a software testing process that follows Agile principles. In an Agile environment, Agile testing is the only way to ensure continuous delivery of a product, as it provides feedback on an ongoing basis, allowing the product to meet business needs and satisfy customer requir

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Chime has agreed to stop using the word ‘bank’ after a California regulator pushed back

TechCrunch

Chime can apparently call itself the “ fastest-growing fintech in the U.S. ,” but it has agreed to stop referring to itself as a “bank,” per a new report out of American Banker. Evidently, the eight-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit was the target of an investigation by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation after Chime used “chimebank” in its website address, as well as used “bank” and “banking” elsewhere in its advertisements, according to t

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Career NOMADS Are Parasites to Organizations & Individuals

CEO Insider

They Kill Real Performance Achievement and the Spirit of the Individual & Sole of an Organization … 10-Ways to Smoke Out NOMADS! Human-Capital is the new global economy power currency and to the individual that realizes there is a never-ending pursuit of continued talent development that allows you to be relevant today and tomorrow, your […].

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Sprout.ai raises $11M Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance claims

TechCrunch

It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 million. In a similar vein, Shift Technology in France has raised $100 million. Now a U.K. startup aims to do something similar, but this time it will be coming out of the key market of the U.K., where the insurance industry is enormous.

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Dear Management: Letter to DevOps Leaders

DevOps.com

My occasional reminder that “Change is good, but predictability is better,” is in the form of a message to DevOps upper management. I thought it would be fun to write, and would offer a different perspective and drive than normal. Hope you enjoy! Dear Management, Too much of anything is bad. No matter the topic, […]. The post Dear Management: Letter to DevOps Leaders appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020

TechCrunch

People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. And for some time it appeared that progress was being made in building a more diverse and equitable environment. The prospect of more women writing checks was viewed as a positive for female founders, a cohort that has struggled to attract more than a fraction of the funds that their male peers manage.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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5 Principles of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Dzone - DevOps

Imagine a large-scale IT infrastructure made up of networks, databases, servers, storage, operating systems, and other elements. How do you provision, configure, manage, and scale up these various elements on-demand? Traditionally, system administrators, often a dedicated team of specialists, manually performed these tasks as and when the need arose.

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Music mixing marketplace EngineEars raises $1M, with help from Kendrick Lamar

TechCrunch

EngineEars today announced a $1 million raise. The company’s first round of funding features investments from Kendrick Lamar, DJ Mustard, Roddy Rich and Slauson and Co. “Quality of sound is still important in music,” Lamar said in a quote provided to TechCrunch. “Ali has always been a progressive thinker. Engineers will transcend the culture.” The service was launched in 2018 by Grammy winner Derek “MixedByAli” Ali, who has worked on a slew of high-profile tracks from artists includi

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Can SharePoint Replace a File Server?

Invid Group

Can SharePoint Replace a File Server? BY: Alberto Lugo Yes, Here’s How. Many organizations, especially if they have been around for a while, have one or more file servers that all the employees use. These file servers typically have hundreds, thousands, or even millions (in the case of huge companies) of essential documents, files, code, and images.

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Timescale grabs $40M Series B as it goes all in on cloud version of time series database

TechCrunch

Timescale , makers of the open-source TimescaleDB time series database, announced a $40 million Series B financing round today. The investment comes just over two years after it got a $15 million Series A. Redpoint Ventures led today’s round, with help from existing investors Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Icon Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Helping COVID-19 Long-Haulers with the Power of AI

Dell EMC

Research accelerated by AI technology is now delivering ground-breaking work to understand and drive precision treatments for those experiencing long-haul COVID-19 around the world.

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Here’s all the biz dev support Startup Alley+ founders get at TC Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

We’re looking for motivated early-stage founders who want to take advantage of every possible opportunity to launch their startups to new levels of success. Historically, one of the most effective ways to do that is to exhibit in Startup Alley , at TechCrunch Disrupt. This year at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23) we’re shaking up history and adding a new layer of opportunity exclusively for founders who apply for a Startup Alley Pass.

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How Can CIOs Prepare Their Workers For Tomorrow?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to take steps to improve worker’s digital literacy Image Credit: ladislau.girona. As a CIO you are facing a number of different, difficult challenges. They are all important; however, one may be more important than all of the others: finding and keeping qualified technical people. The problem is that right now in the U.S. there are roughly 500,000 open IT positions.