Enterprise – TechCrunch
iUNU aims to build cameras on rails for growers to keep track of their crop health
You’ve probably spent a lot of time keeping track of your plants and all the minor details, like the coloration of the leaves, in order to make sure they’re healthy — but for professional growers in greenhouses, this means keeping track of thousands of plants all at once. That can get out of hand really quickly as it could involve just walking through a greenhouse with an… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/4OakzAOBKNY/
36 companies agree to a Kubernetes certification standard
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that 36 members have agreed to a set of certification standards for Kubernetes, the immensely popular open source container orchestration tool. This should make it easy for users to move from one version to another without worry, while ensuring that containers under Kubernetes management will behave in a predictable way. The group of… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/dGIPT2cSm3g/
Graphcore raises $50M amid a flurry of AI chip activity
While some of the largest chip manufacturers are looking to shift their focus onto the GPU for their biggest machine learnings, there’s a blooming ecosystem of new chip startups looking to rethink the way processing for AI works That includes a European-based startup called Graphcore, which said today that it has raised $50 million in new financing led by Sequoia Capital — following… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/TlZwa2sQmZM/
The OpenStack Foundation starts to look at projects beyond OpenStack
Over the last few years, we’ve seen the launch of a number of open source foundations like the Cloud Native Compute Foundation, the Cloud Foundry Foundation and others. Most of these run under the Linux Foundation, but one of the largest open source foundation outside of that group’s orbit is the OpenStack Foundation, which — at least until now — has solely focused on… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/eNAQ0qoOdus/
IBM makes 20 qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service
IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers. Today, the company announced that it’s releasing 20-qubit quantum computers, quite a leap in just 18 months. A qubit is a single unit of quantum information. The company also announced that IBM researchers had successfully built a 50 qubit… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/y17qHE8kRMA/
Conversive helps businesses build the virtual equivalent of face-to-face conversations
If you’ve ever interacted with a chatbot and felt like there was just something missing, the founders of a new startup called Conversive think they know the missing element — face-to-face interaction. And that, essentially, is what they’re trying to enable with their technology. Conversive customers can create a character (animated or recorded human) to represent them, place… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Gvwg-bRSqgA/
Elastic acquires search startup Swiftype
Swiftype isn’t just a startup that we write about — we also use the technology to provide site search on TechCrunch itself. Now it’s being acquired by Elastic, the company behind the open source technology Elasticsearch. It turns out the two companies are already connected, because Swiftype uses Elasticsearch for indexing and storing its search content. In fact, Swiftype CTO… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/QbsbfT8f0z4/
Dreamforce lacks the drama this year
Dreamforce took place this week in San Francisco, that magical gathering of over more than 150,000 Salesforce faithful that happens every fall. While I didn’t attend in person this time, I was able to get the gist of what was going on through a combination of pre-briefs and live streams. Of course, nothing can pass for actually seeing how thoroughly Salesforce takes over the area… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/GnWbDE0zjHI/
Real estate startup Compass nabs $100M at a $1.8B valuation
Today, the real-estate startup Compass is announcing that it has raised another $100 million — money that it plans to use to expand its sales and rental listings service to every major city in the U.S., as well as build new CRM technology to integrate client, listings and transactions data. The Series E values the company at a whopping $1.8 billion. Compass had over $100 million in the… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/EkwQ0bFDWL0/
New tools could help prevent Amazon S3 data leaks
If you do a search for Amazon S3 breaches due to customer error of leaving the data unencrypted, you’ll see a long list that includes a DoD contractor, Verizon (the owner of this publication) and Accenture, among the more high profile examples. Today, AWS announced a new set of five tools designed to protect customers from themselves and ensure (to the extent possible) that the data in S3… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/ZfLomWWu83Y/
Why Adobe’s Advertising Cloud is (mostly) a private cloud
Adobe likes to talk about its public cloud partnerships with Microsoft and others, but it doesn’t often talk about its private cloud strategy. It’s no secret that there are plenty of good reasons for using a private data center and Adobe manages a few of these around the globe. For most businesses, opting for a private cloud comes down to cost, but for Adobe’s Advertising… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/iWDY-8IZYkk/
Sourceress raises $3.5M to find candidates that managers want without realizing it
When a company is looking for a candidate for an open role, the hiring manager is probably going to rattle off a bunch of qualifications that they’re looking for to a recruiter — and Kanjun Qiu says recruiters will probably just run with that when the manager’s requirements might not actually be so rigid. It’s that intent from the manager — the idea that the… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/k3nvoSZBskQ/
Proofpoint acquires Cloudmark for $110M in cybersecurity consolidation play
As malicious groups continue to become more sophisticated in their hacking techniques, cybersecurity efforts are attempting to expand in their reach, and that is leading to some consolidation in the field. Today, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint — which provides SaaS products to protect businesses’ email, social media and other services — announced that it would pay $110 million… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/cSqvLpUvxuE/
Salesforce and Google are the latest pals in the cloud
Salesforce and Google inked a deal today that could provide easier integration between Salesforce tools and Google’s G Suite and Google Analytics. It also named Google as a preferred cloud provider for its core services as part of its international infrastructure expansion. Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/JzIgbVu8T2M/
Quip adds an App Store as it pushes toward full-blown collaboration platform
When Salesforce bought Quip, a document-based, mobile-first collaboration tool for $750 million last September, it may have seemed like an odd purchase, but Salesforce and Quip have been hard at work enhancing the product. Today at the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, the company announced significant updates to the product designed to make it more of a central way to… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Om8Q5MT4D6U/
Salesforce to offer more customized AI with myEinstein
It’s been just over a year since Salesforce introduced Einstein, a set of artificial intelligence technologies that are designed to underlie and enhance the Salesforce product set. Today, at Dreamforce, the company’s enormous customer conference taking place this week in San Francisco, it announced myEinstein, a package of tools it created to help developers and Salesforce… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/JJTvl3kcRtE/
OpenStack’s next mission: bridging the gaps between open source projects
OpenStack, the massive open source project that provides large businesses with the software tools to run their data center infrastructure, is now almost eight years old. While it had its ups and downs, hundreds of enterprises now use it to run their private clouds and there are even over two dozen public clouds that use the project’s tools. Users now include the likes of AT&T,… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Alth2MixUnY/
Adobe and Microsoft expand partnership with Adobe Experience Manager and Dynamics 365 integration
Adobe and Microsoft expanded their continuing partnership today when they announced that they are making it easy to share data between Adobe Experience Manager, a website marketing tool and Dynamics 365, Microsoft’s CRM tool.
For a sales person that means seeing the latest sales activity and customer interactions from the company website right in the customer record. From a customer… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/5M5fW7v00KM/
Cisco Spark Assistant bringing voice commands to meeting hardware
Anyone who has used modern meeting software knows it’s still fraught with challenges trying to get everyone into the meeting, futzing with the hardware or software and smoothly integrating external documents like PowerPoint presentations. Cisco is trying to improve and simplify the meeting experience with voice commands, and today it introduced Cisco Spark Assistant, a voice… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/DH-6nSmsI0Y/
VMware acquires VeloCloud as it moves deeper into networking
VMware announced today that it was acquiring VeloCloud, a startup that focuses on cloud-based wide area networks (WAN), those networks that span a broad area across data centers or regions. The companies did not reveal the purchase price.
The news confirms a report that The Information first reported yesterday.
The company appears to be an excellent fit as one of the primary use cases is… Read MoreSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/5IqPNF7Xspc/
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