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wect | March 28, 2016

UNCW will hold its 13th annual Wilmington Information Technology eXchange (WITX) on April 12 at the university's Computer Information Systems building. The event, which will run from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., is open to the public as well as the UNCW community. “I look at this event as a way for the university and the community to come together professionally,” said Tom Janicki, WITX chair and professor of information systems in the Cameron School of Business. “The event exposes...

Pantheon Inc | July 20, 2016

Pantheon, a WordPress and Drupal hosting service with a strong lineup of features for developers, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series C round. Investors in this round include previous investors Foundry Group, OpenView Investment Partners, and Scale Venture Partners, as well as new investor Industry Ventures, which put $8.5 million into this round. This new round follows Pantheon’s $21.5 million Series B round in 2014 and brings the company’s total funding to $57 m...

ZDNet | January 14, 2020

DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and we take the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management. The 2019 survey focuses on observability, bringing DevOps engineers' insights ...

VentureBeat | January 13, 2020

Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only 5-10 minutes. The researchers behind it say it outperforms traditional models “even at these early stages of development.” The system takes a...