The Investing Edge

JANUARY 25, 2017

It’s been a busy year here at Ascent and we’d like to take a moment to look back at 2016 and recognize the accomplishments achieved by our portfolio companies throughout the year. From impressive rounds of funding, to new partnerships and platform launches, 2016 proved a very successful year.

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The Investing Edge

JANUARY 25, 2017

It’s been a busy year here at Ascent and we’d like to take a moment to look back at 2016 and recognize the accomplishments achieved by our portfolio companies throughout the year. From impressive rounds of funding, to new partnerships and platform launches, 2016 proved a very successful year.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2016

This is a liveblog of the day 2 general session here at VMworld 2016 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. The demo shows Harbor (an open source container registry), VIC, and the container portal that is part of VIC. vSphere Integrated Containers is open source and available on GitHub.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 27, 2016

Future of cloud: 5 predictions for 2016 (internap.com). The VAR Guy's Biggest Open Source Stories of 2015 (thevarguy.com). Read more about What's New in Bright v7.2 Watch the video above here. Related articles. Canonical Cloud Chatter: December 2015 (insights.ubuntu.com).

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Tech Republic Data Center

AUGUST 30, 2016

VMware recently enhanced its vSphere Integrated Containers with two new open source projects, Admiral and Harbor, that could boost management capabilities for production containerized applications.

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CTOvision

APRIL 13, 2016

Noblis Among 2016 SECAF Small Business Partner of the Year Award Finalists. DHS warns on cyber risks of open source - FCW.com. Facebook open-sources its 360-degree camera, aiming to spark boom in VR videos. Katie Kennedy. Awarded $131M Contract to Support NAVFAC. Immunovaccine Inc., DISA Selects CenturyLink Inc.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2022

. — Miguel de Icaza , who joined Microsoft after the tech giant acquired Xamarin in 2016, is leaving the company, according to a report from ZDNet. de Icaza, known as a leader in open source software development, was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft. Xamarin co-founder and CEO Nat Friedman left in November.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 20, 2016

While at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, I took some time on the expo floor to talk to a number of different vendors, mostly focused on networking solutions. MidoNet is an open source, overlay-based network virtualization solution. Here are some notes from these discussions. Pricing is capacity-based.

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Galido

MAY 10, 2016

Recently, Microsoft has becoming open to working with Sony on implementing this technology. Open Source Gaming and Game Development. The open source market has been around in gaming for a while now, though new devices and technologies have opened doors for more home brew gaming.

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CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2016

CSRA Leadership, April 19, 2016. White House misses big opportunity with open source push - FCW.com. Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 3, 2016. SAVE THE DATE: Washington Technology to Host Power Breakfast Feat. Business Wire (press release). Hoyer pushing Obama's tech modernization. -

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In January 2016, I published the first-ever episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast. After almost seven years and 83 episodes, it was time to end my quirky, eclectic, and unusual podcast that explored career journeys alongside various technologies, products, and open source projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

With an open data stack that just works. It is based on open source technologies, allows developers to use the tools of their choice, and converges “data at rest” and “data in motion.”. Open source fosters innovation. Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016.

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Network World

DECEMBER 14, 2016

As 2016 draws to a close, we can reflect on a year where cybersecurity has played a major role. million last year to $4 million in 2016, according to the Ponemon Institute. Companies of all sizes have embraced the cloud and open source has become the standard for infrastructure software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Aiven provides open source solutions that stand up a cloud based data infrastructure, freeing developers to focus on high value projects, and in the process, accelerate cloud migration and modernization. The Open Source Advantage. Aiven has leaned into Open Source for cloud data infrastructure since its inception in 2016.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

For the last year Passive Total has been providing open analysis on an interesting piece of adversary infrastructure and in doing so are shedding informative light not just on that particular adversary activity but on how multiple sources of information can be pulled together to form a more complete picture of what is going on.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Nextgov: Fiscal 2016 Defense Bill Contains Cyber Screening Provision - ExecutiveGov. Open source software gains traction in federal IT - FedScoop. The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. For Sevatec CEO Sonny Kakar, U.S.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 1, 2016

This is a liveblog of the Thursday keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016. Vogels says that CloudFormation is critical with regards to automation, and points out some major improvements in CloudFormation over the course of 2016 (new services, YAML support, cross-stack references, resource schemas, and deeper IAM integration, among others).

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Too many new and rapidly evolving technologies are built on an open source and named after a bunch of zoo animals. In fact, insight platform was the number-one emerging technology in terms of investment and interest in Forrester's Q3 2016 Global State Of Enterprise Architecture And Portfolio Management Online Survey.

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CTOvision

MAY 20, 2016

2016 FCW Rising Star Awards Call for Nominations Now Open - Press Release Rocket. Oracle-Google Dispute Goes to Heart of Open-Source Software - New York Times. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Viv, Your Personal Assistant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016. We provide the infrastructure to help you deliver the GenAI experiences that will set your business apart and redefine every industry. I am extremely excited about what the future holds. Chet earned his B.S. in engineering from Arizona State University.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2017

Joomla has exploded in popularity as an open-source website creation tool for individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and developers. A wave of fake jQuery attacks hit Joomla and WordPress sites in 2015 and 2016, affecting over 4.5 million sites.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Google’s work on Fuchsia OS first emerged in 2016 , and the open-source operating system is notable for not being based on a Linux kernel, instead using a microkernel called Zircon. Google’s long-awaited Fuchsia OS is starting to quietly roll out on its first consumer device, the first-generation Nest Hub, 9to5Google reports.

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CTOvision

MARCH 8, 2016

Onalytica analyzed 1.1M+ tweets from November 30, 2015 through February 24, 2016 mentioning keywords associated with “Artificial Intelligence” and identified the top 100 most influential brands and individuals leading the discussion on Twitter. Google Open Sources TensorFlow Library for Machine Intelligence (macobserver.com).

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2017

In fact, according to the “Cybersecurity and the M&A Due Diligence Process – A 2016 NYSE Governance Services/Veracode Survey Report,” 85% of public company directors and officers say that an M&A transaction in which they were involved would likely or very likely be affected by “major security vulnerabilities.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The 2018 GitHub acquisition brought the open-source development community into the Microsoft ecosystem, fostering collaboration while also demonstrating Microsoft’s commitment to open-source development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

With an open data stack that just works. It is based on open source technologies, allows developers to use the tools of their choice, and converges “data at rest” and “data in motion.”. Open source fosters innovation. Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And in 2016, Amazon provided $10 million in funding for a new computer science building at the UW. The spokesperson said the agreement “allows for” the open sourcing of software. He added: “We expect that most or all of the software will be open sourced.”

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Network World

JANUARY 27, 2017

But according to open-source security firm Black Duck, about 11% of more than 200 applications it audited between Oct. 2015 and March 2016 contained the flaw, which enables a buffer overread that endangers data from clients and servers running affected versions of OpenSSL.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, Groq’s LPU astounded the tech community by executing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama-2, which boasts 70 billion parameters, at an impressive rate of over 100 tokens per second. Recall the historic Go match in 2016 , where AlphaGo defeated the world champion Lee Sedol ?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

But many of the top security vendors utilize open-source or third-party components and libraries which are seemingly packed with vulnerabilities. Flexera Software, which acquired Secunia in 2015, noted that between August and October of 2016, 46 products made it to the top 20 most vulnerable products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Apache Pulsar™ is an advanced, open-source streaming and messaging technology that’s ideal for handling real-time data. Stargate , for example, is an open source data API layer that sits between applications and the database, and offers a variety of endpoints for developers to build with. Chet earned his B.S.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But now thanks to the contributions of a wide team of open source developers and leaders, the consensus is becoming clear (especially among enterprise CTOs), Spark is better as part of a more comprehensive framework. In the early days of Spark it was viewed as a bit of a competitor to the rest of the framework.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Making models open source increases access, but open models can be weaponized by bad actors. Open access must be balanced with the likelihood for harm. In 2016, Steven founded Accenture’s Data Ethics and Responsible Innovation practice, which he led until joining DataStax last year.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Make more open source contributions. Make more open source contributions: I expected this one to be easy, but it turns out that this is the area where my performance is the worst. I’ll spend the next few weeks reflecting on the progress toward my 2015 projects and how that needs to affect the projects I select for 2016.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

MICrONS was funded in 2016 with $100 million in federal grants to the Allen Institute and its partners from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity , the U.S. MICrONS’ emphasis on open access is in keeping with the principles that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen championed when he founded the Allen Institute in 2003.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2023

The company is led by former executives at Turi, a machine learning startup acquired by Apple in 2016 for around $200 million in one of the largest acquisitions for a Seattle startup. XetHub resembles GitHub, a commercial service based on the Git open-source project founded in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2018.

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