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BigID’s big-idea approach to rethinking data management

Denise Nelson — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:00:24 +0000

We recently spoke with the chief executives of companies that participated in the recent AWS Startup Showcase: Innovations With CloudData and CloudOps to find out what drives them and learn about their visions for the future. This is the third in our CEO Startup Spotlight series. A decade ago, businesses weren’t nearly as concerned about […]

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Securonix powers next-gen SIEM with Ahana Cloud for Presto and open data lake analytics

Silvia Fregoni — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 20:10:00 +0000

Ransomware attacks such as the one suffered recently by the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut down the pipeline supplying oil to America’s East Coast for five days, are increasingly common and require companies to be prepared to respond quickly once a risk arises. The hybrid cloud security specialist Securonix Inc. has partnered with Ahana Cloud […]

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Orca’s new agentless approach to cybersecurity eliminates cloud blind spots

Silvia Fregoni — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:00:22 +0000

Businesses are moving ever more rapidly to the cloud to innovate, modernize and scale, but legacy security solutions are not always best suited to ensure that trajectory. Noticing blind spots along this path, Israeli company Orca Security Ltd. has developed a born-in-the-cloud solution for the cloud. It is an agentless security platform to replace old […]

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Olive bets on humanized, empathetic AI to build the internet of healthcare

Silvia Fregoni — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:00:20 +0000

The most exciting use of artificial intelligence in healthcare is usually on the clinical front, with the development of decision support tools and drug discovery, for example. But the technology can also be of great use on the administrative side of the industry. About a third of every U.S. dollar is spent in the administrative burden […]

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Fiddler Labs opens AI ‘black box’ to solve bias problem and enable compliance

Silvia Fregoni — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:30:38 +0000

The bias in artificial intelligence has gained exponential attention as large companies are accused of unfair decisions resulting from their sophisticated algorithms. Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Goldman Sachs are just some of those that found themselves involved in such discussions. The problem with AI is that the models look like “black boxes.” Unlike ordinary software […]

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VC and industry leaders say enterprise climate is promising for startups, but practitioner contact will be key

Mark Albertson — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:50:45 +0000

As veteran venture capitalists with lengthy experience working inside the technology startup community, Peter Wagner, founding partner at Wing Venture Capital, and Katie Drucker, head of business development and partnerships at Madrona Venture Group, have plenty of perspective on the ups and downs of opportunity in the tech space. Right now, the arrow is mostly […]

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ChaosSearch helps BAI apply large-scale log analytics to build transit of the future

Silvia Fregoni — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:00:50 +0000

Smart cities are no longer just science fiction elements, as “internet of things: devices and self-driving cars and trucks are already a reality and produce a lot of data. The ability to capture, store and analyze the immense volumes of log data generated across these networks is no small feat. This is a challenge for […]

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Explorium advises enterprises on improving and speeding up analytical machine learning

Patrick Nelson — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:22:53 +0000

The key to successful artificial intelligence-based advanced analytical training is augmenting internal data with external, according to data science platform startup Explorium Inc. The process is not easy, though. Problems include getting a hold of and managing that mass of external material. “The key to any analytical problem is having the right data,” said Zach Booth […]

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Keynote analysis: AWS Startup Showcase on the future-ready tech gaining enterprise traction

Mark Albertson — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:24:45 +0000

Startups considering which future technology trends to track and build on for the businesses of tomorrow might be wise to take note of research coming out of the University of California at Berkeley. The seven co-founders of Databricks Inc. were previously researchers at the school, motivated by a common mission to find value inside of […]

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A new trajectory for life sciences tech as AI accelerates data sharing

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 22:53:25 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered telemedicine and e-health solutions, while the rush to create a vaccine led to shared research and collaboration between organizations — and underlying all this was an increased demand for data, which in turn highlighted the need for secure yet accessible cloud storage and advanced methods of data analysis. Ahead of […]

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What’s driving the never-ending cloud startup boom

Paul Gillin — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:32:24 +0000

Cockroach Labs Inc. launched an enterprise version of the open-source CockroachDB distributed database six years ago at a time when “all companies wanted to run the database themselves,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Spencer Kimball. The business was steady, but like many firms trying to commercialize open-source software, the company had to cope with pricing […]

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Watch live: The AWS Startup Showcase: The Next Big Things in AI, Security & Life Sciences

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:48:38 +0000

Ecosystems play a major role in the tech industry. Instead of dog-eat-dog, companies support each other for mutual benefit. This is especially true when it comes to major players nurturing startups. Take the Amazon Web Services Inc. startup ecosystem. Household names Airbnb Inc., Tinder LLC, Spotify Technology SA and Reddit Inc. are just some of the […]

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Secrets from the hottest startups in cybersecurity and IT infrastructure

Dave Vellante — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:30:51 +0000

As you well know by now, the cloud is about shifting information technology labor to more strategic initiatives. Or as Andy Jassy, Amazon Web Services Inc. and soon-to-be Amazon.com Inc. chief executive, posited at the first AWS re:Invent conference in 2012: It’s about removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with deploying and managing IT infrastructure. […]

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Databricks co-founder Ali Ghodsi joins stellar lineup for AWS Startup Showcase event on June 16

Mark Albertson — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 19:37:18 +0000

It began as an open-source project incubated by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and today it has become one of the hottest startups in the tech world, with a $28 billion valuation and a highly anticipated initial public offering in the works. Databricks Inc. was founded in 2013 as an AI and data […]

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Continued cloud growth will offer new opportunities for entrepreneurs to build on top

Mark Albertson — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:45:35 +0000

The evolution of the public cloud over the past 15 years has been all about building — creating infrastructure to power enterprises of any size on a global basis. That has set the stage for another chapter in the cloud story. It’s one in which new businesses will be built on top of cloud platforms […]

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