All posts tagged: geared

Israel-Hamas war live: Hamas reports clashes with IDF in north and south Gaza; aid plan ‘geared to fail’ without political will, says UN | Israel-Hamas war

Published by Sam

Hamas reports clashes with IDF in north and south Gaza Reuters: Hamas said its militants fired machine guns and anti-tank missiles toward Israeli forces in north and south Gaza early on Tuesday as Israel’s tanks and infantry attacked the enclave’s main city, raising concerns about the plight of Palestinian civilians. Israel has expanded ground operations in Gaza as it seeks to punish Hamas for a deadly gun rampage three weeks ago that Israeli authorities say killed over 1,400 people. Witnesses said Israeli forces targeted Gaza’s main north-south road on Monday and attacked Gaza City from two directions. The al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement, said militants clashed early on Tuesday with Israeli forces “invading the southern Gaza axis, (including) with machine guns, and targeted four vehicles with al-Yassin 105 missiles,” referring to locally produced anti-tank missiles. The militants also targeted two Israeli tanks and bulldozers in northwest Gaza with the missiles, al-Qassam said. Neither Reuters nor the Guardian were able to confirm the reports of fighting. Israel’s military had no immediate …

Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprises, raises M

Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprises, raises $12M

Published by skeptic

Opsera, a DevOps platform geared toward enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $12 million in a funding round — a tranche smaller than Opsera’s previous — led by Taiwania Capital with participation from Clear Ventures, Felicis Ventures and others. Bringing the company’s total raised to $31.3 million, the new cash will be put toward product R&D and growing Opsera’s 65-person team by 20% by the end of the year, according to co-founder and CEO Kumar Chivukula. “Opsera’s mission is to enable and empower enterprises to deliver software faster, better and more securely via a disruptive Unified DevOps platform,” Chivukula said in an email interview. “Despite the challenges, the pandemic has had a net positive impact on the DevOps market. The increased demand for DevOps platforms, tools and services, as well as the shift to remote work, are driving growth in the market.” Chivukula started Opsera alongside Chandra Ranganathan in 2020 after stints at Symantec, where he was a senior systems administrator, and Adobe, where he managed IT. Ranganathan met Chivukula at Symantec, but also …