Latest Technology News In South Africa
David Hitz, James Lau and Michael Malcolm founded Network Appliance in 1992 in California. They built network-attached storage appliances designed to make shared file storage simpler than general-purpose servers running complex storage software.
Read More
Peter Gassner founded Veeva Systems in 2007 after senior roles at Salesforce and other enterprise-software companies. Veeva focused narrowly on cloud applications for pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies rather than building generic CRM for every industry.
Read More
Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie and Jean-Philippe Fricker founded Cerebras Systems in 2015 with the goal of building an AI processor at wafer scale. Instead of cutting a processed silicon wafer into many separate dies, the team designed around an enormous interconnected processor spanning most of a wafer.
Read More
Astera Labs was founded in 2017 by semiconductor veterans including Jitendra Mohan, Sanjay Gajendra and Casey Morrison to address connectivity bottlenecks in cloud and data-centre systems. The company concentrated on purpose-built silicon and software for moving data reliably between processors, accelerators, memory and other components.
Read More
Robin Li and Eric Xu founded Baidu in Beijing in 2000, building a Chinese-language search engine around Li’s earlier work on information-retrieval and link-analysis technology. Search became the company’s core product as China’s internet population expanded rapidly.
Read More
Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis founded Twilio in 2008 with the idea that developers should be able to add voice and messaging to software through web APIs instead of specialised telecom infrastructure. The company abstracted telephone-network complexity behind programmable cloud services.
Read More
MongoDB was created by founders including Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz and Kevin Ryan after their work on DoubleClick and a later cloud-platform start-up called 10gen. The team concluded that existing databases were a major constraint on building internet applications and developed a document-oriented database that stored flexible JSON-like records.
Read More
Barry Lam founded Quanta Computer in Taiwan in 1988 after earlier work in the computer-hardware industry. The company became a major original-design manufacturer of notebook computers, engineering and assembling systems sold under other companies’ brands.
Read More
CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee, initially using GPUs for cryptocurrency mining before recognising that the same hardware could be rented for other compute-intensive workloads. The founders began turning a mining operation into a specialised cloud capable of supplying GPU capacity to visual-effects, machine-learning and other customers.
Read More
Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri founded Workday in 2005 after Oracle acquired PeopleSoft, the enterprise-software company Duffield had previously founded. They set out to build human-resources and financial-management applications natively for internet delivery rather than adapting an older client-server suite.
Read More