Backed by leading Japanese and US VC firms and a world leading semiconductor company, EdgeCortix is set to disrupt the multi-billion-dollar edge marketTOKYO, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeCortix® Inc., a Japan-based edge artificial intelligence (AI) fabless semiconductor development and design company today announced the closing of a $20 million (approximately ¥3 billion) funding round led by Japan's foremost venture capital (VC) firm SBI Investment Co. Ltd. and Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC), a leading Japan-US collaboration-focused VC with a history of successful semiconductor investments. In addition, EdgeCortix also received an investment from Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, to extend its strategic collaboration with EdgeCortix on AI/ML (Machine Learning) development. Existing investors Cycle Group and Monozukuri Ventures also joined this round.EdgeCortix Founder and CEO Dr

Should early-stage startups pursue a single-cloud, multicloud or on-prem strategy when just starting out?Well, the simple answer to that question is just one cloud, but in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, redundancy has become sexy again: Who wants to be dependent on a single provider for any mission-critical activity?TechCrunch+ is currently surveying startup founders and CTOs regarding their cloud usage and best practices.If you’re interested in participating in this survey, we’d love to hear from you!But it appears the main consideration isn’t redundancy — it’s actually what sort of compute load a startup has to deal with, according to a TechCrunch+ survey of several startup founders and CTOs. Notably, the founders we heard from were generally bullish on single-cloud usage for young startups, with significant caveats: If a young tech company is simply hosting software, then, to start, a single cloud will suffice, but if the company is working on AI-related tasks like training models, it may need more.Satyen Sangani, co-founder and CEO of Alation, described when it might make sense to use something other than the cloud:If your company needs a huge amount of infrastructure right at the beginning (say, you’re training the next large language model), it might make sense to buy hardware instead. Generally, the early days of companies are filled with experimentation, and the flexibility that clouds provide is a massive benefit in those days.A good question at this juncture is what fraction of “AI-first” startups are training their own models instead of remixing or retooling the UI-layer of existing LLMs, for example. We reckon it’s not too high.Regardless, after parsing answers to our first question, the next time we ask something related, we’ll amend our prompt to: When should a startup move to a multicloud setup?For now, read on for answers to our question: Should early-stage startups pursue a multicloud or on-prem focus when they’re just starting out?We spoke with:Tobi Knaup, founder CEO, D2iQMang-Git Ng, founder and CEO, AnvilJoe Mainwaring, director of Infrastructure, WorkTangoVikas Bhatia, co-founder, CEO and chief risk officer, JustProtectSatyen Sangani, co-founder and CEO, AlationSteve Mullaney, president and CEO, AviatrixEd Thompson, CTO, MatillionAdrian Estala, VP, field CDO, StarburstShane Buckley, president and CEO, GigamonTobi Knaup, founder and CEO, D2iQ: As always, it depends. But most software startups should start on one cloud and be careful not to create too much lock-in by using proprietary services so you can optimize and migrate more easily later.If your company needs a huge amount of infrastructure right at the beginning (say, you’re training the next large language model), it might make sense to buy hardware instead. Generally, the early days of companies are filled with experimentation, and the flexibility that clouds provide is a massive benefit in those days

D2iQ Kubernetes Platform 2.5 simplifies multi-cluster and air-gapped deployments, giving organizations greater consistency, visibility, security, and compliance across multi-cluster environmentsSAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- D2iQ , the leading Kubernetes management platform provider, today announced the newest version of its D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP). With customer-led updates, DKP 2.5 empowers enterprises and public sector organizations to simplify and streamline the management of multi-cluster deployments regardless of where the cluster groups are running.Key enhancements in DKP 2.5 include:Centralized multi-cloud, multicluster fleet management. DKP Enterprise 2.5 enables customers with multi-cluster deployments to more easily manage fleets of clusters through federating application management. This enables a central platform engineering team to ensure consistency and compliance regardless of where a cluster is running. Through centralized fleet management, the ease of deployment and management will be consistent as you grow your infrastructure from single clusters to multiple clusters.DKP Enterprise 2.5 enables customers with multi-cluster deployments to more easily manage fleets of clusters through federating application management. This enables a central platform engineering team to ensure consistency and compliance regardless of where a cluster is running