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Airwallex raises $200M at a $4B valuation to double down on business banking
Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that's building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. Airwallex — which provides business banking services directly to businesses themselves as well as via a set of APIs that power other companies' fintech products — has raised $200 million, a Series E round of funding that values the Australian startup at $4 billion.
Lone Pine Capital is leading the round, with new backers G Squared and Vetamer Capital Management, and previous backers 1835i Ventures (formerly ANZi), DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Sequoia Capital China also participating.
The funding brings the total raised by Airwallex — which has head offices in Hong Kong and Melbourne, Australia — to $700 million, including a $100 million injection that closed out its Series D just six months ago.
Cross-border fintech Airwallex raises $100M Series D extension at new valuation of $2.6B
Airwallex will be using the funding both to continue investing in its product and technology as well as to continue its geographical expansion and to focus on some larger business targets. The company has started to make some headway into Europe and the U.K. and that will be one big focus, along with the U.S.
The quick succession of funding and rising valuation underscore Airwallex's traction to date around what CEO and co-founder Jack Zhang describes as a vertically integrated strategy.
That involves two parts. First, Airwallex has built all the infrastructure for the business banking services that it provides directly to businesses with a focus on small and medium enterprise customers. Second, it has packaged up that infrastructure into a set of APIs that a variety of other companies use to provide financial services directly to their customers without needing to build those services themselves — the so-called "embedded finance" approach.
"We want to own the whole ecosystem," Zhang said to me. "We want to be like the Apple of business finance."
That seems to be working out so far for Airwallex. Revenues were up almost 150% for the first half of 2021 compared to a year before, with the company processing more than US$20 billion for a global client portfolio that has quadrupled in size. In addition to tens of thousands of SMEs, it also, via APIs, powers financial services for other companies like GOAT, Papaya Global and Stake.
Airwallex got its start like many of the strongest startups do: It was built to solve a problem that the founders encountered themselves. In the case of Airwallex, Zhang tells me he had actually been working on a previous startup idea. He wanted to build the "Blue Bottle Coffee" of Asia Pacific out of Australia, and it involved buying and importing a lot of different materials, packaging and, of course, coffee from all around the world.
"We found that making payments as a small business was slow and expensive," he said, since it involved banks in different countries and different banking systems, manual efforts to transfer money between them and many days to clear the payments. "But that was also my background — payments and trading — and so I decided that it was a much more fascinating problem for me to work on and resolve."
Eventually one of his co-founders in the coffee effort came along, with the four co-founders of Airwallex ultimately including Zhang, along with Xijing Dai, Lucy Liu and Max Li.
It was 2014, and Airwallex got attention from VCs early on in part for being in the right place at the right time. A wave of startups building financial services for SMBs were definitely gaining ground in North America and Europe, filling a long-neglected hole in the technology universe, but there was almost nothing of the sort in the Asia Pacific region, and in those earlier days solutions were highly regionalized.
From there it was a no-brainer that starting with cross-border payments, the first thing Airwallex tackled, would soon grow into a wider suite of banking services involving payments and other cross-border banking services.
"In the last six years, we've built more than 50 bank integrations and now offer payments across 95 countries, payments through a partner network," he added, with 43 of those offering real-time transactions. From that, it moved on to bank accounts and "other primitive stuff" with card issuance and more, he said, eventually building an end-to-end payment stack.
Airwallex has tens of thousands of customers using its financial services directly, and they make up about 40% of its revenues today. The rest is the interesting turn the company decided to take to expand its business.
Airwallex had built all of its technology from the ground up itself, and it found that — given the wave of new companies looking for more ways to engage customers and become their one-stop shop — there was an opportunity to package that tech up in a set of APIs and sell that on to a different set of customers, those who also provided services for small businesses. That part of the business now accounts for 60% of Airwallex's business, Zhang said, and is growing faster in terms of revenues. (The SMB business is growing faster in terms of customers, he said.)
A lot of embedded finance startups that base their business around building tech to power other businesses tend to stay at arm's length from offering financial services directly to consumers. The explanation I have heard is that they do not wish to compete against their customers. Zhang said that Airwallex takes a different approach, by being selective about the customers they partner with, so that the financial services they offer would never be the kind that would not be in direct competition. The GOAT marketplace for sneakers, or Papaya Global's HR platform are classic examples of this.
Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce
However, as Airwallex continues to grow, you can't help but wonder whether one of those partners might like to gobble up all of Airwallex and take on some of that service provision role itself. In that context, it's very interesting to see Salesforce Ventures returning to invest even more in the company in this round, given how widely the company has expanded from its early roots in software for salespeople into a massive platform providing a huge range of cloud services to help people run their businesses.
For now, it's been the combination of its unique roots in Asia Pacific, plus its vertical approach of building its tech from the ground up, plus its retail acumen that has impressed investors and may well see Airwallex stay independent and grow for some time to come.
"Airwallex has a clear competitive advantage in the digital payments market," said David Craver, MD at Lone Pine Capital, in a statement. "Its unique Asia-Pacific roots, coupled with its innovative infrastructure, products and services, speak volumes about the business' global growth opportunities and its impressive expansion in the competitive payment providers space. We are excited to invest in Airwallex at this dynamic time, and look forward to helping drive the company's expansion and success worldwide."
Updated to note that the coffee business was in Australia, not Hong Kong.
Written by Ingrid Lunden in: Airwallex,articles,Asia,asia pacific,Australia,Bank,Banking,blue bottle coffee,cloud services,DST Global,economy,embedded finance,Enterprise,Finance,financial services,funding,GOAT,hr,Lone Pine Capital,Melbourne,north america,papaya global,Recent Funding,Salesforce,Salesforce Ventures,Sequoia Capital China,series D,Startup company,Startups,United Kingdom,United States,Veem,Zend Developer | Tags: Europe
Scaling CockroachDB in the red ocean of relational databases
Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric of large- and medium-size companies going back decades. These established companies have a lot of market share and a lot of money to quash the competition.
So rather than trying to compete in the relational database market, over the past decade, many database startups focused on alternative architectures such as document-centric databases (like MongoDB), key-value stores (like Redis) and graph databases (like Neo4J). But Cockroach Labs went against conventional wisdom with CockroachDB: It intentionally competed in the relational database market with its relational database product.
While it did face an uphill battle to penetrate the market, Cockroach Labs saw a surprising benefit: It didn't have to invent a market. All it needed to do was grab a share of a market that also happened to be growing rapidly.
Cockroach Labs has a bright future, compelling technology, a lot of money in the bank and has an experienced, technically astute executive team.
In previous parts of this EC-1, I looked at the origins of CockroachDB, presented an in-depth technical description of its product as well as an analysis of the company's developer relations and cloud service, CockroachCloud. In this final installment, we'll look at the future of the company, the competitive landscape within the relational database market, its ability to retain talent as it looks toward a potential IPO or acquisition, and the risks it faces.
CockroachDB's success is not guaranteed. It has to overcome significant hurdles to secure a profitable place for itself among a set of well-established database technologies that are owned by companies with very deep pockets.
It's not impossible, though. We'll first look at MongoDB as an example of how a company can break through the barriers for database startups competing with incumbents.
When life gives you Mongos, make MongoDB
Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB CEO, rings the Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell. Image Credits: Nasdaq, Inc
MongoDB is a good example of the risks that come with trying to invent a new database market. The company started out as a purely document-centric database at a time when that approach was the exception rather than the rule.
Web developers like document-centric databases because they address a number of common use cases in their work. For example, a document-centric database works well for storing comments to a blog post or a customer's entire order history and profile.
Written by Danny Crichton in: AWS,Baidu,Cloud,Cloud Computing,cloud services,cockroach labs,CockroachDB,CockroachDB EC-1,data management,database,database management,EC Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure,EC Enterprise Applications,EC-1,Enterprise,mongodb,MySQL,new york city,NOSQL,Oracle,relational database,SaaS,Startups,Zend Developer | Tags: google
Vantage raises $4M to help businesses understand their AWS costs
Vantage, a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. A number of angel investors, including Brianne Kimmel, Julia Lipton, Stephanie Friedman, Calvin French Owen, Ben and Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer and Justin Gage, also participated in this round.
Vantage started out with a focus on making the AWS console a bit easier to use — and helping businesses figure out what they are spending their cloud infrastructure budgets on in the process. But as Vantage co-founder and CEO Ben Schaechter told me, it was the cost transparency features that really caught on with users.
"We were advertising ourselves as being an alternative AWS console with a focus on developer experience and cost transparency," he said. "What was interesting is — even in the early days of early access before the formal GA launch in January — I would say more than 95% of the feedback that we were getting from customers was entirely around the cost features that we had in Vantage."
Image Credits: Vantage
Like any good startup, the Vantage team looked at this and decided to double down on these features and highlight them in its marketing, though it kept the existing AWS Console-related tools as well. The reason the other tools didn't quite take off, Schaechter believes, is because more and more, AWS users have become accustomed to infrastructure-as-code to do their own automatic provisioning. And with that, they spend a lot less time in the AWS Console anyway.
"But one consistent thing — across the board — was that people were having a really, really hard time 12 times a year, where they would get a shocking AWS bill and had to figure out what happened. What Vantage is doing today is providing a lot of value on the transparency front there," he said.
Over the course of the last few months, the team added a number of new features to its cost transparency tools, including machine learning-driven predictions (both on the overall account level and service level) and the ability to share reports across teams.
While Vantage expects to add support for other clouds in the future, likely starting with Azure and then GCP, that's actually not what the team is focused on right now. Instead, Schaechter noted, the team plans to add support for bringing in data from third-party cloud services instead.
"The number one line item for companies tends to be AWS, GCP, Azure," he said. "But then, after that, it's Datadog, Cloudflare, Sumo Logic, things along those lines. Right now, there's no way to see, P&L or an ROI from a cloud usage-based perspective. Vantage can be the tool where that's showing you essentially, all of your cloud costs in one space."
That is likely the vision the investors bought into, as well, and even though Vantage is now going up against enterprise tools like Apptio's Cloudability and VMware's CloudHealth, Schaechter doesn't seem to be all that worried about the competition. He argues that these are tools that were born in a time when AWS had only a handful of services and only a few ways of interacting with those. He believes that Vantage, as a modern self-service platform, will have quite a few advantages over these older services.
"You can get up and running in a few clicks. You don't have to talk to a sales team. We're helping a large number of startups at this stage all the way up to the enterprise, whereas Cloudability and CloudHealth are, in my mind, kind of antiquated enterprise offerings. No startup is choosing to use those at this point, as far as I know," he said.
The team, which until now mostly consisted of Schaechter and his co-founder and CTO Brooke McKim, bootstrapped the company up to this point. Now they plan to use the new capital to build out its team (and the company is actively hiring right now), both on the development and go-to-market side.
The company offers a free starter plan for businesses that track up to $2,500 in monthly AWS cost, with paid plans starting at $30 per month for those who need to track larger accounts.
Even as Microsoft Azure revenue grows, AWS's market share lead stays strong
Vantage makes managing AWS easier
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: Amazon Web Services,Andreessen Horowitz,apptio,AWS,brianne kimmel,Cloud,Cloud Computing,cloud infrastructure,cloud services,cloudability,cloudflare,computing,Datadog,Enterprise,Information technology,machine learning,Recent Funding,Startups,sumo logic,TC,Technology,vantage,VMware,Zend Developer |
Arm launches its latest chip design for HPC, data centers and the edge
Arm today announced the launch of two new platforms, Arm Neoverse V1 and Neoverse N2, as well as a new mesh interconnect for them. As you can tell from the name, V1 is a completely new product and maybe the best example yet of Arm's ambitions in the data center, high-performance computing and machine learning space. N2 is Arm's next-generation general compute platform that is meant to span use cases from hyperscale clouds to SmartNICs and running edge workloads. It's also the first design based on the company's new Armv9 architecture.
Not too long ago, high-performance computing was dominated by a small number of players, but the Arm ecosystem has scored its fair share of wins here recently, with supercomputers in South Korea, India and France betting on it. The promise of V1 is that it will vastly outperform the older N1 platform, with a 2x gain in floating-point performance, for example, and a 4x gain in machine learning performance.
Image Credits: Arm
"The V1 is about how much performance can we bring — and that was the goal," Chris Bergey, SVP and GM of Arm's Infrastructure Line of Business, told me. He also noted that the V1 is Arm's widest architecture yet. He noted that while V1 wasn't specifically built for the HPC market, it was definitely a target market. And while the current Neoverse V1 platform isn't based on the new Armv9 architecture yet, the next generation will be.
N2, on the other hand, is all about getting the most performance per watt, Bergey stressed. "This is really about staying in that same performance-per-watt-type envelope that we have within N1 but bringing more performance," he said. In Arm's testing, NGINX saw a 1.3x performance increase versus the previous generation, for example.
In many ways, today's release is also a chance for Arm to highlight its recent customer wins. AWS Graviton2 is obviously doing quite well, but Oracle is also betting on Ampere's Arm-based Altra CPUs for its cloud infrastructure.
"We believe Arm is going to be everywhere — from edge to the cloud. We are seeing N1-based processors deliver consistent performance, scalability and security that customers want from Cloud infrastructure," said Bev Crair, senior VP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute. "Partnering with Ampere Computing and leading ISVs, Oracle is making Arm server-side development a first-class, easy and cost-effective solution."
Meanwhile, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent are both investing in Arm-based hardware for their cloud services as well, while Marvell will use the Neoverse V2 architecture for its OCTEON networking solutions.
2021 will be a calmer year for semiconductors and chips (except for Intel)
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: alibaba,ARM,AWS,cloud infrastructure,cloud services,computing,Enterprise,india,machine learning,nvidia,Oracle,oracle cloud,SoftBank Group,south korea,svp,TC,Technology,Tencent,Zend Developer |
Upstack raises $50M for its platform and advisory to help businesses plan and buy for digital transformation
Digital transformation has been one of the biggest catchphrases of the past year, with many an organization forced to reckon with aging IT, a lack of digital strategy, or simply the challenges of growth after being faced with newly-remote workforces, customers doing everything online and other tech demands.
Now, a startup called Upstack that has built a platform to help those businesses evaluate how to grapple with those next steps — including planning and costing out different options and scenarios, and then ultimately buying solutions — is announcing financing to do some growth of its own.
The New York startup has picked up funding of $50 million, money that it will be using to continue building out its platform and expanding its services business.
The funding is coming from Berkshire Partners, and it's being described as an "initial investment". The firm, which makes private equity and late-stage growth investments, typically puts between $100 million and $1 billion in its portfolio companies so this could end up as a bigger number, especially when you consider the size of the market that Upstack is tackling: the cloud and internet infrastructure brokerage industry generates annual revenues "in excess of $70 billion," the company estimates.
We're asking about the valuation, but PitchBook notes that the median valuation in its deals is around $211 million. Upstack had previously raised around $35 million.
Upstack today already provides tools to large enterprises, government organizations, and smaller businesses to compare offerings and plan out pricing for different scenarios covering a range of IT areas, including private, public and hybrid cloud deployments; data center investments; network connectivity; business continuity and mobile services, and the plan is to bring in more categories to the mix, including unified communications and security.
Notably, Upstack itself is profitable and names a lot of customers that themselves are tech companies — they include Cisco, Accenture, cloud storage company Backblaze, Riverbed and Lumen — a mark of how digital transformation and planning for it are not necessarily a core competency even of digital businesses, but especially those that are not technology companies. It says it has helped complete over 3,700 IT projects across 1,000 engagements to date.
"Upstack was founded to bring enterprise-grade advisory services to businesses of all sizes," said Christopher Trapp, founder and CEO, in a statement. "Berkshire's expertise in the data center, connectivity and managed services sectors aligns well with our commitment to enabling and empowering a world-class ecosystem of technology solutions advisors with a platform that delivers higher value to their customers."
The core of the Upstack's proposition is a platform that system integrators, or advisors, plus end users themselves, can use to design and compare pricing for different services and solutions. This is an unsung but critical aspect of the ecosystem: We love to hear and write about all the interesting enterprise technology that is being developed, but the truth of the matter is that buying and using that tech is never just a simple click on a "buy" button.
Even for smaller organizations, buying tech can be a hugely time-consuming task. It involves evaluating different companies and what they have to offer — which can differ widely in the same category, and gets more complex when you start to compare different technological approaches to the same problem.
It also includes the task of designing solutions to fit one's particular network. And finally, there are the calculations that need to be made to determine the real cost of services once implemented in an organization. It also gives users the ability to present their work, which also forms a critical part of the evaluating and decision-making process. When you think about all of this, it's no wonder that so many organizations have opted to follow the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of digital strategy.
As technology has evolved, the concept of digital transformation itself has become more complicated, making tools like Upstack's more in demand both by companies and the people they hire to do this work for them. Upstack also employs a group of about 15 advisors — consultants — who also provide insight and guidance in the procurement process, and it seems some of the funding will also be used to invest in expanding that team.
(Incidentally, the model of balancing technology with human experts is one used by other enterprise startups that are built around the premise of helping businesses procure technology: BlueVoyant, a security startup that has built a platform to help businesses manage and use different security services, also retains advisors who are experts in that field.)
The advisors are part of the business model: Upstack's customers can either pay Upstack a consulting fee to work with its advisors, or Upstack receives a commission from suppliers that a company ends up using, having evaluated and selected them via the Upstack platform.
The company competes with traditional systems integrators and consultants, but it seems that the fact that it has built a tech platform that some of its competitors also use is one reason why it's caught the eye of investors, and also seen strong growth.
Indeed, when you consider the breadth of services that a company might use within their infrastructure — whether it's software to run sales or marketing, or AI to run a recommendation for products on a site, or business intelligence or RPA — it will be interesting to see how and if Upstack considers deeper moves into these areas.
"Upstack has quickly become a leader in a large, rapidly growing and highly fragmented market," said Josh Johnson, principal at Berkshire Partners, in a statement. "Our experience has reinforced the importance of the agent channel to enterprises designing and procuring digital infrastructure. Upstack's platform accelerates this digital transformation by helping its advisors better serve their enterprise customers. We look forward to supporting Upstack's continued growth through M&A and further investment in the platform."
Written by Ingrid Lunden in: cloud services,digital transformation,Enterprise,funding,upstack,Zend Developer |
Microsoft's Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0
Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open-source project that aims to make it easier for developers to build event-driven, distributed cloud-native applications, hit its 1.0 milestone today, signifying the project's readiness for production use cases. Microsoft launched the Distributed Application Runtime (that's what "Dapr" stand for) back in October 2019. Since then, the project released 14 updates and the community launched integrations with virtually all major cloud providers, including Azure, AWS, Alibaba and Google Cloud.
The goal for Dapr, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich told me, was to democratize cloud-native development for enterprise developers.
"When we go look at what enterprise developers are being asked to do — they've traditionally been doing client, server, web plus database-type applications," he noted. "But now, we're asking them to containerize and to create microservices that scale out and have no-downtime updates — and they've got to integrate with all these cloud services. And many enterprises are, on top of that, asking them to make apps that are portable across on-premises environments as well as cloud environments or even be able to move between clouds. So just tons of complexity has been thrown at them that's not specific to or not relevant to the business problems they're trying to solve."
And a lot of the development involves re-inventing the wheel to make their applications reliably talk to various other services. The idea behind Dapr is to give developers a single runtime that, out of the box, provides the tools that developers need to build event-driven microservices. Among other things, Dapr provides various building blocks for things like service-to-service communications, state management, pub/sub and secrets management.
Image Credits: Dapr
"The goal with Dapr was: let's take care of all of the mundane work of writing one of these cloud-native distributed, highly available, scalable, secure cloud services, away from the developers so they can focus on their code. And actually, we took lessons from serverless, from Functions-as-a-Service where with, for example Azure Functions, it's event-driven, they focus on their business logic and then things like the bindings that come with Azure Functions take care of connecting with other services," Russinovich said.
He also noted that another goal here was to do away with language-specific models and to create a programming model that can be leveraged from any language. Enterprises, after all, tend to use multiple languages in their existing code, and a lot of them are now looking at how to best modernize their existing applications — without throwing out all of their current code.
As Russinovich noted, the project now has more than 700 contributors outside of Microsoft (though the core commuters are largely from Microsoft) and a number of businesses started using it in production before the 1.0 release. One of the larger cloud providers that is already using it is Alibaba. "Alibaba Cloud has really fallen in love with Dapr and is leveraging it heavily," he said. Other organizations that have contributed to Dapr include HashiCorp and early users like ZEISS, Ignition Group and New Relic.
And while it may seem a bit odd for a cloud provider to be happy that its competitors are using its innovations already, Russinovich noted that this was exactly the plan and that the team hopes to bring Dapr into a foundation soon.
"We've been on a path to open governance for several months and the goal is to get this into a foundation. […] The goal is opening this up. It's not a Microsoft thing. It's an industry thing," he said — but he wasn't quite ready to say to which foundation the team is talking.
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: alibaba,Alibaba Cloud,AWS,Cloud,Cloud Computing,cloud infrastructure,cloud services,cloud storage,computing,Developer,Enterprise,Hashicorp,Mark Russinovich,microservices,microsoft-azure,New Relic,serverless computing,TC,Zend Developer | Tags: google, microsoft
AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones
AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers' existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller versions so that its users can also deploy them in their stores or office locations. These appliances are fully managed by AWS and offer 64 cores of compute, 128GB of memory and 4TB of local NVMe storage.
In addition, the company expanded its set of Local Zones, which are basically small extensions of existing AWS regions that are more expensive to use but offer low-latency access in metro areas. This service launched in Los Angeles in 2019 and starting today, it's also available in preview in Boston, Houston and Miami. Soon, it'll expand to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Seattle. Google, it's worth noting, is doing something similar with its Mobile Edge Cloud.
The general idea here — and that's not dissimilar from what Google, Microsoft and others are now doing — is to bring AWS to the edge and to do so in a variety of form factors.
As AWS CEO Andy Jassy rightly noted, AWS always believed that the vast majority of companies, "in the fullness of time" (Jassy's favorite phrase from this keynote), would move to the cloud. Because of this, AWS focused on cloud services over hybrid capabilities early on. He argues that AWS watched others try and fail in building their hybrid offerings, in large parts because what customers really wanted was to use the same control plane on all edge nodes and in the cloud. None of the existing solutions from other vendors, Jassy argues, got any traction (though AWSs competitors would surely deny this) because of this.
The first result of that was VMware Cloud on AWS, which allowed customers to use the same VMware software and tools on AWS they were already familiar with. But at the end of the day, that was really about moving on-premises services to the cloud.
With Outpost, AWS launched a fully managed edge solution that can run AWS infrastructure in its customers' data centers. It's been an interesting journey for AWS, but the fact that the company closed out its keynote with this focus on hybrid — no matter how it wants to define it — shows that it now understands that there is clearly a need for this kind of service. The AWS way is to extend AWS into the edge — and I think most of its competitors will agree with that. Microsoft tried this early on with Azure Stack and really didn't get a lot of traction, as far as I'm aware, but it has since retooled its efforts around Azure Arc. Google, meanwhile, is betting big on Anthos.
Google Cloud goes after the telco business with Anthos for Telecom and its Global Mobile Edge Cloud
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: Amazon Web Services,Atlanta,AWS re:Invent 2020,boston,chicago,Cloud,cloud applications,Cloud Computing,cloud infrastructure,cloud services,computing,Dallas,denver,Developer,Enterprise,Houston,Kansas City,Las Vegas,los angeles,miami,minneapolis,mobile edge,New York,Philadelphia,phoenix,Portland,Seattle,TC,VMware,web hosting,web services,Zend Developer | Tags: google, microsoft
HashiCorp to offer managed versions of its developer tools starting with Consul
HashiCorp is well known in the developer community for offering a slew of open-source tools to help build and manage modern applications. Today the company announced a new cloud platform and plans to eventually offer managed versions of those tools, starting with Consul, a tool for connecting and securing services across platforms.
HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet says that the pandemic has accelerated demand for cloud infrastructure, and he sees a growing role for his company in helping to build cloud native applications. The company offers open-source and commercial versions of several popular tools, including Terraform, Consul, Vault and Packer, among others. These can run on premises or in the cloud, but McJannet says customers have been hankering for SaaS versions of these tools.
"Our customers have told us that it's a huge challenge running a central shared service like Consul. It requires them to keep it up and running, and they have asked for something they can consume from us where we manage it for them," McJannet told TechCrunch.
The company has been offering a managed version of Terraform for some time, but it has been quietly working on a cloud platform that could allow it to plug in each of the company's products over time and offer managed services of all the products.
"What we are announcing today is what we call the HashiCorp Cloud Platform, and you can think of it as just a common chassis to allow us to run our products on any cloud. The first of those products that we're making available is Consul on Amazon," he said.
By offering the company's products as a set of cloud services, it will lower the barrier to entry for customers who want to use their tooling, but don't have the resources to run and manage on their own. That could potentially increase the company revenue over time. As McJannet pointed out, it's a lot like what MongDB did with its managed Atlas database service, but for a wider set of products.
Last Fall, HashiCorp announced a $175 million investment on an impressive $5 billion valuation. It has 1,000 employees and is continuing to hire as demand for its product continues through the pandemic. McJannet was not discussing specific customer numbers, but said the customer count has doubled over the last year. As it builds out the new cloud services, and introduces more customers to its products, there's a good chance that number will keep growing.
HashiCorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round
Written by Ron Miller in: Cloud,cloud services,Developer,developer tools,Enterprise,Hashicorp,Open Source,SaaS,Startups,TC,Zend Developer |
BetterCloud scores $75M Series F as SaaS management needs grow
BetterCloud gives IT visibility into its SaaS tools providing the means to discover, manage and secure those tools. In the middle of a crisis that has forced most companies to move workers home, being able to manage SaaS usage in this way is growing increasingly significant.
Today the company announced a $75 million Series F. Warburg Pincus led the way with participation from existing investors Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, Greycroft Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, New Amsterdam Growth Capital and e.ventures. Today's round brings the total raised to $187 million, according to the company.
While CEO David Politis acknowledges the gravity of the current situation, he also recognizes that giving companies a way to manage their SaaS usage is more pertinent than ever. "What has happened in the last two months has been terrible for the world, but in some crazy way it has just made what we do a lot more relevant," Politis told TechCrunch .
He says the pandemic has really accelerated the market opportunity because of the reliance on cloud services and the services his company provides.
Those services began as an operational layer on top of G Suite. Later it added support for Office 365 and in 2016 it moved to more general SaaS management. It now offers direct integrations into multiple SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, Salesforce, Zendesk and more. The set of tools in Bettercloud gives IT control over security, configuration, spend optimization and auditability across SaaS applications.
In normal times after a large Series F round, we might be talking about this being the last round before an IPO, but Politis isn't ready to commit to that just yet, especially in this economy. He does say, however, that he's in it for the long haul and sees an opportunity to build a long-term, sustainable company.
"The last couple of months I've been thinking about this a lot, and when you take a $75 million round at the stage you're not doing that because you want to sell the business. You're doing that because you want to build something and build something really special," he said.
BetterCloud adds Integration Center to help developers build and share integrations
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Dtex, a specialist in insider threat cybersecurity, raises $17.5M
A lot of enterprise cybersecurity efforts focus on malicious hackers that work on behalf of larger organizations, be they criminal groups or state actors — and for good reason, since the majority of incidents these days come from phishing and other malicious techniques that originate outside the enterprise itself.
But there has also been a persistent, and now growing, focus also on "insider threats" — that is, breaches that start from within organizations themselves. And today a startup that specialises in this area is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its reach.
Dtex, which uses machine learning to monitor network activity within the perimeter and around all endpoints to detect unusual patterns or behaviour around passwords, data movement and other network activities, is today announcing that it has raised $17.5 million in funding.
The round is being led by new investor Northgate Capital with Norwest Venture Partners and Four Rivers Group, both previous investors, also participating. Prior to this, the San Jose-based startup had raised $57.5 million, according to data from PitchBook, while CrunchBase puts the total raised at $40 million.
CEO Bahman Mahbod said the startup is not disclosing valuation except to say that it's "very excited" about it.
For some context, the company works with hundreds of large enterprises, primarily in the financial, critical infrastructure, government and defence sectors. The plan is to now extend further into newer verticals where it's started to see more activity more recently: pharmaceuticals, life sciences and manufacturing. Dtex says that over the past 12 months, 80% of its top customers have been increasing their level of engagement with the startup.
Dtex's focus on "insider" threats sounds slightly sinister at first. Is the implication here that people are more dishonest and nefarious these days and thus need to be policed and monitored much more closely for wrongdoing? The answer is no. There are no more dishonest people today than there ever have been, but there are a lot more opportunities to make mistakes that result in security breaches.
The working world has been on a long-term trend of becoming increasingly digitised in all of its interactions, and bringing on a lot more devices onto those networks. Across both "knowledge" and front-line workers, we now have a vastly larger number of devices being used to help workers do their jobs or just keep in touch with the company as they work, with many of them being brought by the workers themselves rather than being provisioned by the companies. There has also been a huge increase in cloud services,
And in the realm of "knowledge" workers, we're seeing a lot more remote or peripatetic working, where people don't have fixed desks and often work outside the office altogether — something that has skyrocketed in recent times with stay-at-home orders put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 cases.
All of this translates into a much wider threat "horizon" within organizations themselves, before even considering the sophistication of external malicious hackers.
And the current state of business has exacerbated that. Mahbod tells us that Dtex is currently seeing spikes in unusual activity from the rise in home workers, who sometimes circumvent VPNs and other security controls, thus committing policy violations; as well as more problems arising from the fact that home networks have been compromised and that is leaving work networks, accessed from home, more vulnerable. These started, he said, with COVID-19 phishing attacks but have progressed to undetected malware from drive-by downloads.
And, inevitably, he added that there has been a rise in intentional data theft and accidental loss arising in cases where organizations have had to lay people off or run a round of furloughs, but might still result from negligence rather than intentional actions.
There are a number of other cybersecurity companies that provide ways to detect insider threats — they include CloudKnox and Obsidian Security, along with a number of larger and established vendors. But Mabhod says that Dtex "is the only company with 'next-generation' capabilities that are cloud-first, AI/ML baked-in, and enterprise scalable to millions of users and devices, which it sells as DMAP+.
"Effectively, Next-Gen Insider Threat solutions must replace legacy Insider Threat point solutions which were borne out of the UAM, DLP and UEBA spaces," he said.
Those providing legacy approaches of that kind include Forcepoint with its SureView product and Proofpoint with its ObserveIT product. Interestingly, CyberX, which is currently in the process of getting acquired by Microsoft (according to reports and also our sources), also includes insider threats in its services.
This is one reason why investors have been interested.
"Dtex has built a highly scalable platform that utilizes a cloud-first, lightweight endpoint architecture, offering clients a number of use cases including insider threat prevention and business operations intelligence," said Thorsten Claus, partner, Northgate Capital, in a statement. Northgate has a long list of enterprise startups in its portfolio that represent potential customers but also a track record of experience in assessing the problem at hand and building products to address it. "With Dtex, we have found a fast-growing, long-term, investible operation that is not just a band-aid collection of tools, which would be short-lived and replaced."
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ARE, Sweden: Italian Dominik Paris put himself in a strong position for a shot at another medal at the World Ski Championships after topping the downhill section of the men's alpine combined event Monday.
Paris stormed to an impressive super-G victory last week and again impressed on the Olympia course, timing 1min 07.27sec down the race track shortened to 1.8km due to wind up top. Although his last competitive stand-alone slalom dates back to Kitzbuehel in 2013, in which he failed to finish the first run, Paris did enough to manage joint fourth in the last world combined in 2017 alongside Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, third in the downhill here at 0.38sec.
But the 29-year-old Paris faces a test of character, having bombed out of the slalom in last month's Wengen combined and also at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. The Italian will also be up against it as the slalom specialists show their spurs in the technical event, scheduled for 1530 GMT. Austrian Marco Schwarz, winner of the Wengen combined last month, was just 1.25sec off Paris, and defending world combined champion Luca Aerni of Switzerland was also primed for attack, at 1.23sec.
France's Alexis Pinturault, who claimed Olympic silver last year, left himself with it all to do in the slalom. 'Pintu' could only finish 24th in the downhill at 1.52sec, just behind Victor Muffat-Jeandet, who won bronze in Pyeongchang.
Leading the French charge in the downhill was instead Maxence Muzaton, in ninth at 0.72sec. American Ted Ligety, 2013 combined champion and 2006 Olympic gold medallist in the discipline, had a shocker in the speed event, coming in 41st at 2.57sec, a deficit even the most optimistic of skiers would say was a bridge too far.


Alpha-blockers are notorious for their first-dose effect referring to the acute hypotensive effect during the early initiation period. As acute cerebral hypoperfusion may precipitate the attack of ischemic stroke, we aimed to provide a quantitative estimate of the risk of ischemic stroke during the early initiation period of alpha-blocker therapy using a self-controlled case series design. All male beneficiaries aged over 50 years as of 2007, who were incident initiators of alpha-blockers and also had a diagnosis of ischemic stroke within the 2007~2009 study period were identified from the National Health Insurance (NHI) claims database, Taiwan. The first day on which the alpha-blocker was prescribed was set as the index date. We partitioned different time periods according to their relationship with the index date as different risk periods and the remainder of the 3-year study period was defined as the background unexposed period. The incidence rate of ischemic stroke within each risk period was compared with that within the background unexposed period using a conditional Poisson regression model and was presented as incidence rate ratio (IRR). A total of 7502 men were included. Compared with the background unexposed period, the IRR of ischemic stroke within the initial 21-day period following the index date was 1.40 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.22-1.61) for the whole study population and 2.11 (95% CI, 1.73-2.57) among patients without concomitant prescriptions of anti-hypertensive agents. Our results presented evidence that alpha-blockers were associated with an increase in the risk of ischemic stroke during the early initiation period especially in subjects who were not taking other anti-hypertensive agents. We recommend caution in prescribing alpha-blockers in patients without hypertension.
Key Words: Adrenergic Alpha-1 Receptor Antagonists; Stroke; Self-Controlled Case Series Design.
All male beneficiaries aged >= 50 years as of 1st Jan. 2007 with continuous coverage of NHI for at least the previous 12 months were extracted from the claims data of the NHI program in Taiwan. Initiators of four alpha-blockers, terazosin, doxazosin, tamsulosin, and alfuzosin, who also had been diagnosed with an ischemic stroke within the 2007~2009 3-year study period were identified. The self-controlled case series design is illustrated as Figure 1.
Figure 1. Pictorial representation of the study design.
As shown in Figure 2, 3, and 4, the association between alpha-blocker therapy and ischemic stroke was driven mostly by the prescription of alpha-blocker following a previous ischemic stroke. For example, higher risks of ischemic stroke were noted within the pre-exposure risk period 1 (IRR 2.87, 95% CI, 2.60-3.17) and the pre-exposure risk period 2 (IRR 1.99, 95% CI, 1.82-2.18) for the whole study population. This phenomenon did not change significantly between patients with and without concomitant use of anti-hypertensive agents. Development of urinary symptoms after an ischemic stroke could be an explanation of this prescription pattern.
Concerning our study aim, the post-exposure risk period 1 possessed a significantly high IRR (1.40, 95% CI, 1.22-1.61) of ischemic stroke compared with the background unexposed period for the whole study population (Figure 2). Besides, the incidence of ischemic stroke within the post-exposure risk period 1 was significantly elevated (IRR 2.11, 95% CI, 1.73-2.57) among subjects without concomitant prescriptions of anti-hypertensive agents at the initiation of alpha-blockers (Figure 3). In contrast, among subjects with concomitant prescriptions of anti-hypertensive agents at the initiation of alpha-blockers, the incidence of ischemic stroke within the post-exposure risk period 1 was similar to that within the background unexposed period (IRR 1.07, 95% CI, 0.88-1.29)(Figure 4).
Figure 2. Relative risks of ischemic stroke within each risk period compared with that within the background unexposed period in whole study population. Abbreviations: IRR: incidence rate ratio; RP: risk period. I bars denote 95% confidence intervals. The dashed line and arrow indicate initiation of alpha-blockers.
Figure 3. Relative risks of ischemic stroke within each risk period compared with that within the background unexposed period in patients without anti-hypertensive agents. Abbreviations: HTN: hypertensive; IRR: incidence rate ratio; RP: risk period. I bars denote 95% confidence intervals. The dashed line and arrow indicate initiation of alpha-blockers.
One possible explanation of our findings was that patients without underlying hypertension were vulnerable to the first-dose effect of alpha-blockers and contributed to the observed increase in risk of ischemic stroke within the early initiation period of alpha-blockers in the whole study population. On the contrary, patients with underlying hypertension were tolerant of the first-dose effect of alpha-blockers. It has been reported that patients with intracranial carotid artery stenosis are more prone to ischemic stroke provoked by cerebral hypoperfusion than those with extracranial carotid artery stenosis. In addition, Chinese have more intracranial carotid artery stenosis, while Caucasians have more extracranial carotid artery stenosis. Our findings were derived from the ethnic Chinese elderly males in Taiwan. Further research is needed to clarify whether the same condition exists in other ethnic populations.
Figure 4. Relative risks of ischemic stroke within each risk period compared with that within the background unexposed period in patients with anti-hypertensive agents. Abbreviations: HTN: hypertensive; IRR: incidence rate ratio; RP: risk period. I bars denote 95% confidence intervals. The dashed line and arrow indicate initiation of alpha-blockers.
Lai CL, Kuo RN, Chen HM, Chen MF, Chan KA, Lai MS. Risk of hip/femur fractures during the initiation period of alpha-adrenoceptor blocker therapy among elderly males: a self-controlled case series study. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2015;80:1208-1218.
All data used in this study were released and approved by the Collaboration Center of Health Information Application (CCHIA), Ministry of Health and Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. This work was supported by the Science and Technology Unit, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (DOH101-TD-B-111-001, and DOH102-TD-B-111-001).


"The ICA 2019 congress will be held 9-13 September 2019 in Aachen, Germany. It is promising to be an interesting and exciting event.
There are two important deadlines coming up soon. You may wish to advise your membership of these.
First, the deadline for Abstracts is 1 February 2019. Go to http://www.ica2019.org/authors/ for the online submission.


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Located in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Minnesota Wild is an NHL (National Hockey League) team that competes in the Pacific Division (NHL). The Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets were both newcomers to the NHL when they were both admitted as expansion teams in 2000. It took two seasons for Minnesota, headed by right-wing Marian Gaborik, to finish last in their division, but the Wild made the playoffs in their third season.
The Wild miraculously avoided elimination in the first round of the playoffs by defeating the Colorado Avalanche in three straight games decided by one goal (with the latter two coming in overtime contests). Defeating the Mighty Ducks in the conference finals was the Wild's last chance at redemption. Minnesota, on the other hand, finished last in its division for the next two seasons after its surreal playoff run.
Although the Wild made it to the postseason a second time in 2006–07, winning the division title, and again in 2007, they were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. Despite having three straight winning seasons, the squad was unable to make the postseason at that time despite having a winning record. As a result of making a comeback to the playoffs that season, Minnesota was eliminated in the first round. The Wild then made a franchise-record six straight postseason appearances, but they never made it past the second round during that run.
Saint Paul, Minnesota's capital and the county seat, is located within the state. St. Paul, Minnesota's capital city, sits on the Mississippi River's upper reaches near its confluence with Minnesota. The Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes Minneapolis and St. Paul, is the largest in Minnesota and the United States' north-central region. Other nearby cities and towns include Roseville (north) in Minnesota, as well as Maplewood (east and north) in Wisconsin, as well as Woodbury (east) in Massachusetts (south).
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St. Paul, Minnesota's second-largest city (behind Minneapolis), is situated on a series of bluffs that rise from the Mississippi River to the surrounding plains. More than 160 parks are located within the city's boundaries, and eight lakes are entirely or partially located there. Cool temperate means long, chilly winters and hot summer.
In the past, high river levels in the spring have produced devastating floods, such as in 1965 and 1993, although control mechanisms have been put in place to minimize the risk since then. incorporated in 1849 as a village; in 1854, as a city. 56 square miles are covered by the city (145 square km). Minnesota's population in 2000 was 287,151; by 2010, it had risen to 285,068; and the metro area's population had increased to 3,279,833.
The area was first inhabited by the Sioux and the Ojibwa. While visiting the area in the 1680s, Franciscan missionary Louis Hennepin and adventurer Jonathan Carver both conducted explorations in the area's neighboring cavern, which has subsequently come to be known as Carver's Cave. While leading a US expedition to the Mississippi River's headwaters in 1805, Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike negotiated an unofficial treaty with the Sioux for control of the region, which included a future US military station (now a state park) on the location where Fort Snelling now stands.
It was tavern-owner Pierre ("Pig's Eye") Parrant, who made the initial land claim in 1838, shortly followed by farmer Abraham Perry. Before the construction of a log church dedicated to the apostle Paul in 1841, the community was known as Pig's Eye Landing. It was St. Paul that became Minnesota Territory's capital in 1849, and when Minnesota was admitted to the Union in 1858, it became Minnesota's state capital.
Because of its strategic location on the Mississippi River, St. Paul has played a significant role in the growth of Upper Midwest commerce for centuries. Furs were the company's initial exports, sold to the general public. St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's 10-mile (16-km) track was completed in 1862, and the first train left the city on that day. The Northern Pacific Railway from St. Paul to the West Coast was completed in 1883, and the Great Northern Railway, led by James J. Hill and ending in St. Paul, was completed 10 years later (both railways are now part of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation).
To get access to the Pacific Northwest, Seattle needed train connections, which were built as part of the city's expansion spurt. As early as 1886, the St. Paul Union Stockyards opened their doors, establishing a world-class livestock market (eventually relocated to South St. Paul). Butcher shops were also plentiful in the city, but the market shrank considerably in the 1970s, and nearly all of the city's butcher shops went out of business.
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According to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), Sales of pre-owned homes dropped to a seasonally-adjusted annual reading 4.82 million sales in January as compared to an estimated reading of 4.95 million sales and December's reading of 5.07 million existing homes sold. This was a month-to-month decline of 4.90 percent, and represented the lowest reading for existing home sales in nine months.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the NAR, said that a short supply of available homes coupled with rising prices contributed to the drop in sales. While mortgage rates remain near historical lows, higher home prices and short supply are negatively impacting affordability; this puts home buyers who rely on mortgages in competition with cash buyers.
More encouraging news arrived with the Commerce Department's new home sales report; new home sales reached 481,000 sales on a seasonally-adjusted annual basis in January. Analysts had expected new home sales of 467,000 new homes based on December's reading of 482,000 new homes sold in December.
The National Association of Realtors® reported that pending home sales rose by 1.70 percent in January as compared to December's reading of -3.70 percent. Pending sales were up 8.40 percent year-over-year. Job growth, a little more leniency in mortgage credit standards and slower inflation were seen as factors that contributed to higher pending sales. Pending sales represent under sales contracts that have not closed.
The Case Shiller 20-City Composite reported that home prices rose by 0.10 percent month-to-month and 4.50 percent year-over-year according to its index report for December. San Francisco, California had the highest year-over-year price gain at 9.30 percent, while Chicago, Illinois had the lowest year-over-year home price appreciation rate at 1.30 percent as of December.
FHFA reported that home prices for properties connected with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans rose by 5.40 percent on a year-over-year basis as compared to November' year-over-year reading of a 5.20 percent increase in home prices.
Freddie Mac reported that average mortgage rates rose across the board last week. The rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose by four basis points to 3.80 percent; the average rate for a 15-year fixed rate mortgage increased by two basis points to 3.07 percent and the rate for a 5/1 adjustable rate mortgage was also two basis points higher at 2.99 percent. Discount points for all loan types were unchanged at 0.60 percent for fixed rate mortgages and 0.50 percent for 5/1 adjustable rate mortgages.
This week's scheduled economic news includes consumer spending, construction spending and the Labor Department's non-farm payroll and national unemployment reports. Weekly jobless claims and Freddie Mac's PMMS report on mortgage rates will be released as usual on Thursday.


Drumlanrig Castle is not strictly a castle at all, as it was built in the late 17th century as a palatial mansion with no defensive purpose.
However it does incorporate parts of an older castle. By 1356 the property was owned by the Thomas, the Earl of Mar. Tradition states that there were two castles on the site prior to the present building, so it's likely that the first of them dates from the 14th century.
The earliest mention of a castle in documents is 1492, which may possibly be the second castle.
Thomas died without an heir in 1374 and the Barony of Drumlanrig passed to his sister Margaret, who was married to William Douglas, the 1st Earl of Douglas, and so the estate passed into the Douglas family. William Douglas' grandson, also William Douglas, was made the 1st Baron Drumlanrig some time before his death in 1427. The title of Viscount Drumlanrig was created in 1628 for another William Douglas, the 9th Baron Drumlanrig, and 1st Earl of Queensberry.
The present Drumlanrig Castle was built by yet another William Douglas, the 3rd Earl of Queensberry, between 1679 and 1691 in the Renaissance style, using local pink sandstone. The architects are thought to have been James Smith and Robert Mylne.
Built on a square plan with an open courtyard at the centre. At each corner of the courtyard are round stair towers. On the outside of the house are massive square towers at each corner. The front of the building features a magnificent sweeping double staircase in stone.
In the basement of the south east tower is part of one of the earlier castles, with vaulted ceilings and part of an old kitchen. The remains of gun-loops can be seen on the east wall, and these are thought to date to the 16th century.
The south east and north east towers, and the wing connecting them, have noticeably thicker walls than the rest of the castle, and they are at a slightly irregular angle whereas the other three wings are perfectly perpendicular to one another.
This suggests that the eastern portion of the castle incorporates a significant part of an older castle within its fabric. There are also three iron yetts (grille doors) within the castle, each mounted in doorways with massively thick walls, again suggesting an older origin.
In the 18th century the Drumlanrig estate suffered at the hands of yet another William Douglas, the 4th Duke of Queensberry. The 4th Duke cut down much of the estate's woodland in order to fund his lavish London lifestyle (he was a member of the Hellfire Club), and in so doing incurred the wrath of Robert Burns amongst others. The castle was neglected and fell into disrepair.
Upon the death of the 4th Duke in 1810, with no legitimate heir, Drumlanrig Castle and the Dukedom of Queensberry passed to his second cousin once removed Henry Montagu Scott, the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch. The Duke of Buccleuch's grandmother Lady Jane Douglas was the first cousin once removed of the 4th Duke of Queensberry. In recognition of his new title and estate, the Duke of Buccleuch added the Douglas name to his own, forming the now famous Montagu Douglas Scott surname.
In 1827 the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch's grandson, William Montagu Douglas Scott, the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry, restored Drumlanrig Castle, and it has remained in the hands of the Dukes of Buccleuch ever since.
Drumlanrig Castle is in the parish of Durisdeer and the county of Dumfriesshire.
Published on the 3rd of June 2010 at 5:40 pm. Updated on the 2nd of May 2016 at 7:40 pm.


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Don't think big; think small!
While most drivers have heard of these giants, they tend to ignore the smaller, regional insurers. Most of the time, the latter are working much harder to maintain their high rates of customer satisfaction. Often they have lower rates to offer to their customers too.
Comparison shopping is the name of the game!
It used to be hard to compare all the options when it came to shopping for most things. You'd make a purchase only to find out that you overpaid! This isn't that time, and it has become immensely easy to compare the rates offered by different car insurance agents.
So, where to begin. How about you start by comparison shopping? You have a lot of options available to you. There are agencies that provide service only in your part of the country. Then there are others who are only present online. Whatever the case, get in touch with as many as you can, and write down their prices. Compare the names on the list to find out who offers the cheapest car insurance within your area!
Although, that isn't where you should stop. Don't place your – and anybody else riding with you – life at risk by just picking out the cheapest providers! Instead, ask your friends and family members what they know about the insurers you have shortlisted. NerdWallet's recent study showed there was a difference of more $850 between the price insurance agents quoted on average and the actual lowest rates!
Review after every six months!
Most customers don't notice it when their car insurance provider raises their rates. That's because the disreputable companies do so slowly! They will wait for a customer to get comfortable with them before hiking the prices.
What can you do? Start calling your insurance company when it is time for you to renew your policy. If you miss that date, just do your best to get in touch with them after every six months. Review the coverage you are getting and whether you need it. This will ensure that you get the cheapest car insurance possible. Once an insurance company realizes you have caught on, it is likely they won't repeat it – after all, they won't want to lose you to a competitor!
Get the coverage you actually need!
When a potential insurance agency sends in their quote, read the types of coverages included in it carefully. You might not need some of those, and it is okay for you to drop them completely. After all, you will have to pay more with those coverages currently on your policy. Nothing matches how much you stand to save if you decline paying for comprehensive and/or collision coverage. For drivers, whose cars aren't worth more than a few thousand dollars, why waste all that money on those coverages? Similarly, if your car is paid off, then you can consider dropping these two coverage types, as well.
Another way of increasing the savings is through lowered liability limits.
Many insurance companies spend considerable money to make ads that promote the notion that they are the cheapest option out there. Don't fall for it without proof! So, they say they have super-low insurance rates but are they doing that for every driving customer of theirs?
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Hilt in Siskiyou County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
Hilt War Memorial
Photographed By Barry Swackhamer, August 21, 2015
1. Hilt War Memorial Marker
Hilt War Memorial. . In honor of our veterans who sacrificed their lives in World War II Alphonse, L.G. . Baugartnere, W. . Bernheisel, T.L. . Capello, A.F. . Clark, J.J. . Dunaway J.S. . Dutro, W.E. . Harris, Wm . Ladd, J. . Mottern, R. . Russell, F.S. (Korea) . . This memorial was erected by American Legion, Hilts Post 327. It is in Hilt in Siskiyou County California
In honor
of our veterans
who sacrificed their
lives in World War II
Alphonse, L.G. • Baugartnere, W. • Bernheisel, T.L. • Capello, A.F. • Clark, J.J. • Dunaway J.S. • Dutro, W.E. • Harris, Wm • Ladd, J. • Mottern, R. • Russell, F.S. (Korea)
Erected by American Legion, Hilts Post 327.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, World II.
Location. 41° 59.749′ N, 122° 37.314′ W. Marker is in Hilt, California, in Siskiyou County. Memorial is on Hilt Road near King Street, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 908 Hilt Road, Hornbrook CA 96044, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Hilt, CA (here, next to this marker); Siskiyou Pass (approx. 5.3 miles away in Oregon); Siskiyou Mountain Wagon Road (approx. 5.4 miles away in Oregon); a different marker also named Siskiyou Mountain Wagon Road (approx. 6.3 miles away in
Oregon); Founding of the American Legion (approx. 6.8 miles away); Cottonwood (approx. 6.9 miles away); Bradford Ripley Alden (approx. 7.2 miles away); Cottonwood Basin (approx. 7.2 miles away).
More about this memorial. This marker is at the Hilt Church
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on September 1, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California. This page has been viewed 490 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 1, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.


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~ISO (international standards organization) is one of the three factors affecting exposure along with aperture and shutter speed. The ISO scale typically starts at 100 and doubles from this starting point to an upper of 3200, with 1/3 stops in between.
~Aperture is the opening behind the lens that permits light to travel to the camera's sensor.
~Shutter Speed is the length of time the camera's aperture is open.
~Sensor is a solid state strip which captures the light needed to create a digital image. There are different types and sizes with sensors which I will discuss in subsequent writings.
~White Balance (WB) in digital cameras is used to compensate for different colors of light from different light sources to correctly show the color white and allows the camera to display other colors accurately. There is much to be said regarding white balance which I will discuss another time.
~Memory Card is basically the film for today's digital cameras. Unfortunately manufacturers do not provide memory cards in the box when purchasing your new camera. I encourage you to purchase two cards one for the camera and the second as a back up to be kept in your camera bag. Do not forget to format your card after you downloaded your previous images prior to your next shoot.
~Raw/Nef is the uncompressed image as shot by a digital camera. This is by far the choice for professional photographers. Canon introduced the raw picture format, while Nikon calls this format Nef.
~.JPEG is a term used to describe digital compression when either photographing, processing your images from software via your computer, and to show your images over the Internet. This particular compression ratio was fixed by the Joint Photo Experts Group to reduce picture size.
~.TIFF (tagged image file format) is preferred for high resolution images. It is an industry standard using lossless compression to maintain image integrity and clarity by professional photographers and enthusiasts.
~Megapixel Count different specifications are critical for different people and this specification speaks to the entire market. If your intention is to take photos for emailing, upload for social media, or print snapshot size pictures then a camera with basic resolution of 12 to 16 megapixels will be sufficient. However, having a camera with more megapixels, 24 to 36 will provide much sharper images for printing larger sizes or crop and print smaller sections of the image, the choice for most professionals.
~Pixels Pictures are made of dots called pixels (picture element). Place enough pixels together horizontally and vertically you now have a picture.


There is growing concern about further diminishing of our sovereignty in the referendum at the end of May. Other EU legislation provokes even greater alarm. In practical terms this involves money and huge further surrender of state control over our fiscal resources affecting our wealth and our well-being.
We face a future where the more successful we are in getting ourselves out of the debt we were plunged into by the 2008 bank guarantee, the more we will be made to contribute to enormous and growing debts in the euro-currency area. Italy and Spain, whose financial difficulties dwarf ours, will help to soak us dry. These are the details. There are two relevant treaties, the ESM Treaty -- which is not an EU treaty but which we still have to ratify -- and the Fiscal Compact Treaty, which we vote on in the May referendum.
The treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism is most frightening since it will have the power to call on Ireland to make a contribution to the agency (not to the EU) of up to €11,000,000,000. This is one-third of government tax revenue in 2011.
This can be increased by the ESM at its sole discretion at any time in the future. There is no limit to what may be sought from members of the 'mechanism', which has wide-ranging immunities in the exercise of its powers. Our Government is seeking to pass this into law by simple Dail legislation, allowing a body outside Ireland -- and outside the normal safeguards of the EU -- to intrude massively into the control over our revenue and expenditure. We have tasted this with the troika. It is nothing compared with what is to come.
The mechanism will order us to raise sovereign debt and hand it over. The mechanism will then decide where, when, whether and how to use it. Once handed over, Ireland will have no claim or say in what happens. We will not benefit by right. We may be helped, but at the discretion of the ESM.
As of now, our Constitution still controls government disposal of funds raised by taxation. We still decide and look forward to when such decision-making will be restored fully. The Constitution defines that limited privilege.
Under the ESM Treaty we will hand over massive economic, fiscal and budgetary powers. The coming referendum, creating as a new law the complementary Fiscal Compact Treaty is only the stepping-stone towards this disaster. These powers cannot and should not be alienated as proposed by the Government. The idea of doing this while 'reforming' the Constitution is laughable.
"It is not within the competence of the Government, or indeed of the Oireachtas, to free themselves from the restraints of the Constitution or to transfer their powers to other bodies unless expressly empowered so to do by the Constitution. They are both creatures of the Constitution and are not empowered to act free from the restraints of the Constitution."
There is a view, supported by the former Attorney General, Paul Gallagher, that an amendment to Article 136 of the TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) will solve the problem and legitimise the ESM in EU law terms. The amendment reads: "The Member States whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated if indispensable to safeguard the stability of the euro as a whole."
This mechanism will not legally come into force until 2013. How then can it legitimise the ESM Treaty which it authorises now? Surely it cannot? Surely by then, at the rate the EU changes its collective mind, we will be in new territory?
We cannot govern ourselves -- or allow ourselves to be governed by others -- on a future undertaking with which, in all conscience, the Irish people could not possibly agree. Surrender one-third of annual tax revenue to a new and untried organisation, not part of us nor part of the EU? Such is the way of madness. The wording of the Article 136 Amendment confirms that it requires all euro member states to ratify the proposed stability mechanism. Yet the ESM Treaty requires only a minority of eurozone states to ratify it. The Fiscal Compact Treaty can come into force when 12 states ratify it. So the Amendment needs all of us, in 2013, to do something which is being treated as law now! How can it make what we do now constitutionally alright both now and in 2013?
The amendment authorising the ESM Treaty was not so designed and cannot be approved as a promise. Think of all those promises broken by the eurozone/euro area countries by those powerful manipulators of our future, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy!
We cannot establish this European Stability Mechanism as it stands and make it work in law and in practice, not to mention the different constitutional situations in other eurozone member states (in Germany a constitutional challenge is already being mounted, also in Estonia). Others are expected to follow.
The rule of EU law is not operating properly. Most notably, it cannot lawfully give us the ESM now and we cannot change the Constitution on a promise. We have already made the sovereign change, in 1972. It binds us still now. The ESM stands outside the EU framework. It has not been universally ratified as it should have been. Not only is it something that we have yet to approve, it is also open to question whether the approvals in other countries conform to constitutional acceptability under EU law. The casualness is astonishing.
One example will suffice. Whatever happened to ESM Treaty Number One? The previous ESM Treaty was signed in July 2011 by Michael Noonan and by other eurozone finance ministers. It was never sent round for ratification. That ESM Treaty said bondholders should be "burned" before eurozone states could draw on the proposed stability mechanism. Treaty number two has abandoned that provision. This was signed by eurozone ambassadors on February 2. Are we due yet another version?
I view Enda Kenny and the Government he leads as dedicated, honest and sincere. Yet they are woefully bound by duty and loyalty to our rulers in the EU and to other governments bent on our subjection, if not our incidental further destruction. They are moving on this issue in the wrong direction and our ruin is the likely outcome.


Sundays are a "Car Guy" (and Gal) spectacular at Phil's Filling station. One of the Valley's biggest collector shows happens every Sunday between October and April in the parking lot of Phil's Filling Station Diner. The show often sports more than 100 cars, from customized Street Rods of the 50's to classic restored cars from the turn of the century. Like Chrome? Craving a Chocolate Shake and Burger? This blast from the past is a great way walk down memory lane; with a reasonable meal (Phil's menu has more than 60 classic diner items, so Sunday dinner can wait too!).
The Town of Fountain Hills Public Art collection provides at least 100 settings to take amazing photos with your seasonal visitors. The sculptures in the Community Center area provide a fun background to creative photos that are a big step above the boring, "Say Cheese" group pictures we all have in our collections. The area has on-site parking and is handicapped-accessible, making it a snap to snap festive pictures and enjoy a major part of the collection in close proximity.
Kids love to clown around with the whimsical pieces at the entrance to the library, but there are opportunities to capture the majesty of our mountains and the fountain as well. Taking in the docent-led tours are organized around the collection in the Community Center area and Fountain Park are a wonderful way to showcase the rich Cultural resources of Fountain Hills. Docent-led tours are given each week from October to April as well.
Every Thursday, during Art on the Avenue, an impressive gathering of artisans bring their one of-a-kind creations to the Avenue of the Fountains. Some of the art work is southwestern-themed, and many photograph, cards, paintings and home décor items feature our breath-taking mountains. Gift items abound, as well as beautiful items to bring life and color to everyday use.
The Fountain Hills Artists Gallery, Sunset Gallery and Gridley's are also on the Avenue of the Fountains, and provide enjoyable browsing between snacks at Sofrita or the All American Grill. These local restaurants have outdoor seating to boot…just one more way to showcase the pure pleasure of living in Fountain Hills.
Crusin' the Oldies but Goodies at Phil's Filling Station Diner!
Come out and look at these beautiful collector cars while enjoying the backdrop of our World Famous Fountain!
While you're there, be sure to enjoy the great culinary offerings at Phil's Filling Station, where they serve up a great menu of everything from Greek, Italian and Mexican to down home good cooking. Phil's does a great job of providing a gluten free menu, and their bar is always a good place to watch the game. They are open 7 am to 9 pm for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
You could enjoy this view all year round if you lived here! Check out their website at www.philsfillingstationgrill.com. For more information on Fountain Hills and the surrounding area, you can get relocation information from Sonoran Lifestyle Real Estate via the relocation guide at http://www.150ways.com or at http://www.SonoranLifestyle.com . Check it out for all that is going on in Fountain Hills.


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Momentum for Change ist eine Initiative des UN-Klimaschutzsekretariats, die sich mit den weltweit stattfindenden Aktivitäten befasst, die eine kohlenstofffreie und resiliente Zukunft des Planeten vorantreiben. Dabei zeichnet die Initiative mit den jährlich verliehenen Momentum for Change Awards (auch UN Climate Solutions Awards oder UN Climate Action Awards genannt) innovative und transformative Lösungen aus, die sowohl den Klimawandel als auch die weiteren wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und ökologischen Herausforderungen angehen, sogenannte "Leuchtturmaktivitäten".

Preisträger der Momentum for Change Awards (Auswahl)

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 Aguas Andinas, Santiago Biofactory
 Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Catalytic Finance Initiative
 British Columbia, Carbon Neutral Government Program
 Forest Green Rovers, "grünster" Fußballverein der Welt
 Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (Klima- und energieeffiziente Küche in Schulen) und ProVeg International (Aktion Pflanzen-Power), klimafreundliche Schulküchen
 Monash University, Bestreben zur Dekabonisierung bis 2030
 Yalla Let's Bike, Initiative in Syrien gegen Beleidigung weiblicher Fahrradfahrerinnen

Weblinks
 Momentum for Change – UNFCCC
 KEEKS-Projektseite

Umweltschutz
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Towergate has strengthened its Midlands broking team with the appointment of three new managing directors. Paul Watts has joined from Oval, Mark Minton from RBR Insurance Group of Ilkley, and Mike Smith from Aviva.
Meanwhile, rival Jelf Insurance Brokers has swooped for two Towergate staff. Rob Rees has been appointed managing director of schemes and affinities, while Paul Williams has also joined. Theresa Stapleton has moved from RBS to become operations director and Tony Parker, from Oval, is new business development director for the private client business.
Bollington Insurance Brokers has been appointed as the preferred insurance provider for the Age England Association. The association represents a membership of more than 300 independent charities with a combined turnover of around £170m.
Insurance technology firm Quindell Portfolio has landed a £120m contract, to February 2015, to provide services to the policyholders of more than half of the top 10 UK insurers through one of the UK's largest insurance intermediaries.


The 2018 Volkswagen Atlas is one of the newest additions here at Dirito Brother's Volkswagen in Walnut Creek, CA, and we couldn't be more excited about it. We know that you're going to love it just as much as we do, and that's why we've decided to create this comparison page for you. Figuring out which vehicle will perfectly fit your family's needs can be a very long process. We're here to make it easier by doing the comparisons for you! Today we're going to take a look at some of the differences between the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas, and the 2017 Fiat 500X.
With its seven available exterior colors, the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas will reflect your personal style and exude luxury no matter which one you pick. With a powerful, and muscular-looking body, the 2018 Atlas appears to be ready to take on any challenge the road sends its way, and, not surprisingly, it is! With off-road features such as traction control and 20-inch alloy wheels, your Atlas will be more than ready to take on any adventure whether it's planned or unexpected. The 2018 Atlas also boasts a mind-blowing 96.8 cubic feet of storage space! You're surely going to need to buy more things just to make full use out of it. Let's take a quick look at how the 2018 Atlas stacks up against the 2017 500X.
We're not trying to paint the 2017 Fiat 500X in a bad light here. It's an amazing vehicle in its own right, and it was a fantastic competitor. There were just a few areas where it wasn't able to keep up with the 2018 Atlas. With seating for seven, the Atlas allows for more friends and family members to hitch along for a ride to the beach, or up to the cabin. No more tying down your youngest child to the roof because you don't have enough room. You'll also save on gas because you won't have to take separate vehicles in order to fit those few extra people. And with the impressive amount of legroom the Atlas offers, you won't hear anybody complaining about not being able to ride shotgun.
If you've decided that the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas is the car for you, that's great! You can schedule a test drive with the Atlas, or any of our Volkswagen models from right here on our website! While you're here, you can also learn a bit more about the standard and available features on the 2018 Atlas on our research page, and you can check it out on our blog! If you still have questions about the Atlas or any Volkswagen vehicle, don't be afraid to reach out and ask us. One of our knowledgeable and friendly team members will always be more than happy to help you out, and get you the answers that you want.


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Here's to World Smile Day – we hope it's contagious.
At Glimsity, in our regular work day we talk to a lot of people, collect useful nuggets of information, gather insight and identify trends locally. Lil is an acronym for Local inside look (Lil). At Lil G Blog, we want to share the good stuff with you. It's everything that doesn't fit into our short videos.
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No Parking Here Signs are a useful tool to help meet safety compliance and guidelines. Create a safe workplace and keep employees protected with our Information, Office Shop & Retail Signs. No Parking Here Signs manufactured and shipped out of Queensland, Australia.
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The 17th Session of CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) will be organised on 13 April 2019, immediately following the 2019 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
Several rooms have been blocked for you during April 12 (check-in) to April 14 (check out), at the rate of EUR 110 DSU / per night, which is net to hotel and with breakfast and currently applicable VAT. Please kindly book your room via the online system https://mondial.eventsair.com/egu2019/hotel/Site/Register no later than 10 February 2019. For any issue related to hotel booking, please contact the Daniela Bierbaum (bierbaum@mondial-congress.com) from the hotel.


Noyd & Noyd Insurance Agency is an independent insurance agency in Wenatchee – meaning we do business with multiple insurance companies and compare protection and prices to find the best value for you. We're not computers – we are real, live members of the Wenatchee community, and we're committed to being your advocate in times of need.
Noyd & Noyd Insurance Agency knows that in Washington, there are as many unique insurance needs as we have neighbors who live here! To talk with one of our helpful team members about your insurance needs, contact us today.


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Hawaiian Mythology
The Gods and Spirits of Hawaii
INTRO Introduction to Hawaiian mythology
PANTHEON The hawaiian pantheon
EXPLORE Browse our entries on Hawaiian mythology
A-Z INDEX List of deity names from Hawaiian mythology
Hawaiian mythology › Hawaiian pantheon list
Hawaiian Volcano Goddess
Also known as PELEI, Pere
Volcano Goddess and the Creator and Devourer of Islands
No connection with the Brazilian soccer legend Pelé. Unfortunately. This Pele is a Goddess of Fire. She makes her home in the crater Halemaumau on the summit of Kilauea, a rather active volcano. This is probably a place to be avoided unless you're into lava in a big way.
According to one legend, when she was young she wanted to travel. So her mother (who may have been Haumea) gave her a jar containing the ocean which she could pour out whenever she wanted to go on a cruise.
During her travels she dug holes to fill with ocean and also made craters in the rock to spread her volcanic fire. All this geological activity formed the very islands and landscapes of Hawaii that exists to this day.
Her younger sister is Hiiaka, who was definitely not into the whole lava deal as it interfered with her amorous intentions...
Pele Facts and Figures
Name: Pele
Alternative names: PELEI, Pere
Type: Goddess
Area or people: Hawaii
In charge of: Volcanoes
Area of expertise: Volcano, Volcanoes
Good/Evil Rating: Unknown at present
Popularity index: 1235
PELE - the Hawaiian Goddess of Volcanoes (Hawaiian mythology)
[url=https://www.godchecker.com/hawaiian-mythology/PELE/]PELE - the Hawaiian Goddess of Volcanoes (Hawaiian mythology)[/url]
Saunders, Chas, and Peter J. Allen, eds. "PELE (Hawaiian mythology)" Godchecker. Godchecker.com, Apr 30, 2019. Web. January 18, 2020.
Article last revised on April 30, 2019 by Rowan Allen.
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Every year at our International Tea we celebrate the unique cultural differences and backgrounds we have at Five Oaks Academy (FOA). Our community is very diverse with approximately 30 different countries and areas of the world represented within our student body and their families. On Friday, September 7, we gathered together to share our heritage and the stories of how we ended up in Simpsonville, SC while tasting yummy treats from all over the world.
In addition to the International Tea, we also hold an International Festival in May each year. This year, we will celebrate FOA's cultural richness by creating an international cookbook. We are asking all FOA families and friends to participate by contributing their favorite recipes. The cookbooks will be available for purchase before the holidays and would make a wonderful present for family and friends. Please contact the school for details on how to submit a recipe or how to purchase a cookbook.
Thank you to our 2018-2019 Title Partners for their support of our community events and especially Monica Parkkonen of Monica Parkkonen Photography for taking these beautiful pictures for us to remember this special day.