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NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud-native environments

NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from Portworx, a cloud-native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit. 

BigPanda launches generative AI tool designed specifically for ITOps

IT operations personnel have a lot going on, and when an incident occurs that brings down a key system, time is always going to be against them. Over the years, companies have looked for an edge in ge

Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters

It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s. Loft Labs saw a sim

Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next

Not to minimize what Google had on display, but the company failed to give all but a passing nod to its core business — except in the context of generative AI, of course.

New Google Vids product helps create a customized video with an AI assist

All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las Vegas, Google introduced a new A

With Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google Cloud aims to simplify agent creation

Agent can take actions based on the conversation, and even interact with back-end transactional systems to take actions in an automated manner.

Google looks to monetize AI with two new $10 Workspace add-ons

The new AI meetings and messaging add-on takes notes for you, provides meeting summaries and translates content into 69 languages.

Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would

During the pandemic, many workers discovered they liked working from home, but CEOs want them in the office, and it's created tension.

When it comes to building startups in Boston, success begets success

Boston has a long history of startups, fueled by the many colleges in the area, helping to feed a successful startup ecosystem.

As deal rumors fly, Alphabet and HubSpot would be a strange pairing

Reuters reported on Thursday that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is exploring the possibility of buying Boston-based HubSpot, a CRM and marketing automation company with a market cap of over $33

As Microsoft unbundles Teams, it might not have the impact on Slack you think

One of the primary reasons that Slack joined forces with Salesforce in 2021 in a $28 billion deal was to give the communications company the clout to compete with Microsoft. For years, company co-foun

The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees

As a number of factors come into play, like the reality of a multi-cloud world and a stricter regulatory environment, companies are beginning to see the error in their ways.

Cyvl.ai is bringing data-driven solutions to transportation infrastructure

In the summer after his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an engineering school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cyvl.ai co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez needed a job. He went home and wor

With Affinity acquisition, Canva should be able to compete better with Adobe’s creative tools

Canva, the high-flying Australian design and visual communication startup, announced today it was acquiring Affinity (formerly Serif), a creative tools company based in the U.K. Bloomberg reported tha

Fireworks.ai open source API puts generative AI in reach of any developer

Just about everyone is trying to get a piece of the generative AI action these days. While the majority of the focus remains on the model vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, or the bigger compa

Thoras.ai automates resource allocation for Kubernetes workloads

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Thoras.ai founders Nilo Rahmani and Jennifer Rahmani weren’t even a twinkle in their parents’ eyes, but their parents were forced to flee along w

Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS

The question is whether Nvidia can sustain that growth to become a long-term revenue powerhouse like AWS has become for Amazon.

ServiceNow is developing AI through mix of building, buying and partnering

Every enterprise software company out there is working to bring more workflow automation and AI to the platform. ServiceNow has been on this journey for some time now, and given the kind of data it co

TigerEye founders build on prior startup experience to create business simulation tool

TigerEye CEO Tracy Young and her husband and CTO Ralph Gootee helped build their previous startup, PlanGrid, into a $100 million ARR business before selling it to Autodesk for $875 million in 2018. Ye

Aaron Levie leads Box into its third era focused on workflow automation and AI

The content management industry is shifting from pure management to AI and workflow automation to put the content to work.
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