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With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform

TechCrunch

The founding team of CEO Dan Wendlandt and CTO Thomas Graf has deep experience in working on the Linux kernel and building networking products. Graf spent 15 years working on the Linux kernel and created the Cilium open-source project, while Wendlandt worked on Open vSwitch at Nicira (and then VMware ). Image Credits: Cilium.

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Oligo raises $28M to secure open-source libraries at runtime

TechCrunch

The company’s investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ballistic Ventures and TLV Partners, as well as angel investors like Mallanox CEO and Founder Eyal Waldman, Cnyk CTO Adi Sharabani and former Google Cloud VP Eyal Manor. “We have our patent-pending technology, which is based on eBPF.

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Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing

CIO

For example, recent work by the University of Waterloo demonstrated that a small change in the Linux kernel could reduce data center power by as much as 30%. Kacy is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Chiefly & Co , a management consulting firm helping clients achieve both sustainability and profitability.

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Flox raises $27M to bring Nix to more developers

TechCrunch

Other backers include Addition and Hetz, as well as angel investors like GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, Snyk founder Guy Podjarny, and former Docker VP and Microsoft for Startups CTO — and now Sotheby’s CTO — James Turnbull. The company was co-founded Ron Efroni and Michael Brantley.

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#746 Fact from Fiction on Mainframes with Vince Re, Founder & CTO at VirtualZ Computing

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Vince Re, Founder and CTO at VirtualZ Computing. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Outside of CA, his work with Linux on the mainframe earned him election to the elite kernel.org team. About Virtual Z Computing irtualZ Computing is revolutionizing data access.

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Parsec raises $25M from A16Z to power remote work and cloud gaming

TechCrunch

CEO Benjy Boxer told me that since he and CTO Chris Dickson founded the company in 2016, the vision has always been “to make it easier for people to connect to their technology, software and content from anywhere, on any device.”

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Linux Foundation Project Secures Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

The Linux Foundation today embraced a sigstore project founded by Red Hat, Google and Purdue University to make it simpler for developers to employ cryptographic software, enabled by transparency log technologies, to secure software supply chains.

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