Arcserve
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Data protection is critical. Unfortunately, many businesses lean on ineffective methods to back up and recover data. Some rely on file-based cloud solutions that offer some level of protection, but really can’t guarantee you won’t lose data. Others take more comprehensive data backups but do so too infrequently to significantly impact the risk of data.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
New research looking into how U.K. VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. The finding of baked-in bias holds true across all funding stages, per the findings.
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Agile Alliance
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The Agile Alliance community was deeply saddened to learn that Tamsen Mitchell passed away on October 28, 2020. A gifted coach and visual facilitator, Tamsen was a cherished friend and mentor to many in the Agile community. Renowned for her wit, vision, and edgy humor, she inspired many Agilists to pick up a marker to … Continued. The post Remembering Tamsen Mitchell first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Indonesia’s logistics industry is very fragmented , with several large providers operating alongside thousands of smaller companies. This means shippers often have to work with a variety of carriers, driving up costs and making supply chains harder to manage. Logisly , a Jakarta-based startup that describes itself as a “B2B tech-enabled logistics platform,” announced today it has raised $6 million in Series A funding to help streamline logistics in Indonesia.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
According to Glassdoor’s 2020 Politics at Work Research, most U.S. employees believe political discussions are “unacceptable” at work. And yet, one in two employees have done so. In fact, twenty-eight percent report: a co-worker has tried to persuade them to change their […]. The post How to Prevent Politics From Destroying Work Relationships appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic will usher in long-term changes to corporate cybersecurity policies and investments — largely due to the rapid onset of remote work — according to a Cisco report. For […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. It created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans , subsequently expanding into other areas like legal services, while also (like NerdWallet) offering free financial content. “It can be the wild wild west out there for small business owners,” Hecht said in a statement.
Aqua Security
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Back in June 2020, we released Starboard – an open source toolkit that integrates security tools into a Kubernetes environment. We’re now happy to announce a new Starboard Operator that automates the generation of security reports in your K8s cluster. Using Starboard Operator, you can rely on the tools you’re already familiar with, like kubectl, to easily access security information about your running workloads.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Aeva, a Mountain View, California-based lidar company started by two former Apple engineers and backed by Porsche SE, is merging with special purpose acquisition company InterPrivate Acquisition Corp., with a post-deal market valuation of $2.1 billion. The deal with InterPrivate, which is led by private equity investor Ahmed Fattouh, is expected to close by early 2021.
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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.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
GitLab has made 60 enhancements to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to address a range of things from DevSecOps processes to collaboration, at a time when most DevOps […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
TVision is building what its team hopes will become the standard for measuring streaming viewership — and to accelerate those efforts, it’s raised $16 million in new funding. The New York City startup started by measuring traditional TV viewing, using webcams to determine whether viewers were actually paying attention to the ads. More recently, it’s launched a solution focused on connected TVs, where co-founder and CEO Yan Liu said there’s no standard measurement. “What I
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Flint Brenton’s vision for the future of Centrify and cybersecurity, in general, prioritizes the need for privileged access management to become core to the multi-cloud architectures and DevOps environments he […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The last few quarters did not play out as as expected for venture capitalists or entrepreneurs; instead of a pandemic-fueled recession that cauterized the flow of private investment into startups, the economic shifts brought on by COVID-19 have given many companies a tailwind. Venture capitalists ramped up their spend in Q2 and Q3 , pushing private investment totals higher as software demand shot up as work went remote, e-commerce boomed and schools shuttered.
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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.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Wickr announced the launch of its Federal Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance on the company’s federal strategy to connect end-users with secure collaboration for mission-critical needs. As the most […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
When we covered Leena AI as a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort, the young startup was firmly focused on building HR chatbots, but in the intervening years it has expanded the vision to a broader HR policy platform. Today, the company announced an $8 million Series A led by Greycroft with help from several individual industry investors. Company CEO and co-founder Adit Jain says that in 2018 the company was concentrating on building an intelligent virtual assistant for HR-related ques
TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Often, when organizations plan and implement an effective test automation strategy, they believe that they are implementing continuous testing. They are wrong.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and don’t forget to check out last Friday’s episode that was honestly very good fun.
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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.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
There are variety of responsibilities that fall under a leaders purview but none perhaps more important than motivating the employees they work with. Today’s post is by Mark Williams. One of a leader’s most important responsibilities is to motivate and inspire employees — both to aspire to fulfill their true potential and to stretch themselves in the service of organizational goals.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
It was barely a month ago we began hearing rumors that Twilio was interested in acquiring Segment. The $3.2 billion deal was officially announced three weeks ago , and this morning the communications API company announced that the deal had closed, astonishingly fast for an acquisition of this size. While we can’t know for sure, the speed with which the deal closed could suggest that it was in the works longer than we had known, and when we began hearing rumors of the acquisition, it could
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), an arm of the Linux Foundation, is providing free security training for developers building and employing open source software starting later this week as part of an overall effort to advance best DevSecOps practices. Linux Foundation CTO Chris Aniszczyk said the Secure Software Development Fundamentals professional certificate program along […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Coupa Software , a publicly traded company that helps large corporations manage spending, announced that it was buying Llamasoft , an 18 year old Michigan company that helps large companies manage their supply chain. The deal was pegged at $1.5 billion. This year Llamasoft released its latest tool, an AI-driven platform for managing supply chains intelligently.
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DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The time for platforms to rethink how they engage developers is now How we communicate, socialize, look up information, work, shop and travel have all been transformed by platform companies. COVID-19 has only increased our reliance on these platforms, as people spend more time on the internet and businesses migrate from offline to online offerings. […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Stensul , a startup aiming to streamline the process of building marketing emails, has raised $16 million in Series B funding. When the company raised its $7 million Series A two years ago, founder and CEO Noah Dinkin told me about how it spun out of his previous startup, FanBridge. And while there are many products focused on email delivery, he said Stensul is focused on the email creation process.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Moogsoft today launched the Moogsoft Observability Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) instance of its existing platform for detecting anomalies and prioritizing alerts using AI via machine learning algorithms. Company CEO Phill Tee said now every IT organization can employ machine learning algorithms to better manage their IT environment without having to set up and manage an […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
When it comes to using algorithms and other formulae to determine what kinds of services you might offer to specific customers and at what price, the insurance industry is one of the oldest in the book. But that legacy position masks the fact that some of its determinations might leave a lot to be desired, with customers who don’t fit typical profiles unable to get competitive rates.
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DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
2020 will be a year we all remember for so many reasons. It has been a year full of uncertainty and confusion, and also one in which misconceptions abound. In the world of software engineering, we feel this acutely as all eyes are on the engineering team to continue building innovative new products and solutions—maintaining […]. The post Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020 appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechBeacon
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Building an inclusive work environment, particularly in terms of people with disabilities, is a mental and a cultural shift that has to be part of a company's core values and what it wants to drive across the organization, according to Semra Barutchu, Infosys' vice president and head of engineering services for Asia.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
In an announcement made by VMware, the company has announced the formation of its strategic alliance with Samsung to help the communication service provider industry accelerate its transformation to 5G. As […].
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