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Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) software provider CircleCI has raised $100 million (80.6m) in series E funding - as its lead investor notes how CI/CD is 'expanding to all companies.'

The round, which was led by IVP with participation from Sapphire Ventures, brings the company's total funding to $215m, and adds to the $56m raised in series D back in July.

"CircleCI is an especially attractive investment given the depth and complexity of the product and the underlying dataset they have observed over time on how great companies build and release software," said Cack Wilhelm, partner at IVP. Wilhelm, who will join CircleCI's board of directors as part of the move, said he believed the company would 'continue to further [its] lead as the strongest pure-play CI/CD platform available in the market.'

Among the company's highlights since the series D funding have included product launches in the shape of insights endpoints and Windows support, as well as the opening of a London office to cement the company's growth and presence in EMEA.

Speaking to this publication upon the London launch in November, Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, noted how the market - and competition - had streamlined since he joined the company. "When I first got to the company [in 2014], there were about 30 individual logos in the CI/CD market, and that's been whittled way down," he said. "Now there is, really, ourelves, a couple of smaller, standalone, very focused CI/CD players, and then you've got some of the larger platforms that are trying to go end-to-end."

As more companies understand the potential of continuous integration and delivery, the problems mount up - problems with CircleCI aims to solve. "Continuous delivery is a hornet's nest," added Rose. "It's really complicated to run into one of these systems at scale. It's very easy to get to version one, but then the complexity comes as you bring it out to more teams, as you add more projects, as your developers start pushing a lot faster and a lot harder."

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In a relatively short period of time, cloud computing has transitioned from a foreign concept to an omnipresent service proven to be the most efficient means to manage and store data. While the evolving convenience, accessibility and flexibility of the cloud has changed its perceived value, every organization is moving at its own pace through their cloud journey. Yet, nearly all are working with a multi-cloud approachincluding a combination of clouds hosted on-premises, in public clouds and at the edge. In fact, according to a study by IDC, an overwhelming majority of organizations (93%) are deploying workloads across two or more clouds which are hosted on-premises, co-located or at edge locations.

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As Canadian businesses place a closer focus on multi-cloud solutions, here are some important considerations to make the most of a multi-cloud strategy.

One of the primary benefits of cloud is that it provides the ability to access data anytime, anywhere, but theres no denying that it also means data is more open to security threats. Weve seen this as data breaches have become increasingly common. Legacy systems, however, are continually being deemed inefficient in the current tech environment. Yet at the same time, as modernization begins to take place, there is an inherent cybersecurity concern that comes from the lack of control and visibility into security practices in hosted cloud environments. Multi-cloud balances this concern by allowing organizations to select the right environment and level of security for each workload. In a multi-cloud environment, sensitive information can stay on-premises but public-facing information can still be hosted off-premises.

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Whether one loves them or hates them; Google is simply too sleek and massive to ignore. That the Lloyds Banking Group recently signed up with Google Cloud for a five-year partnership is testament to what industry giants see in the future of cloud computing.

Looking for next-level quantum computing capabilities, an enterprise is migrating into the cloud for an array of benefits that legacy models have a hard time beating. Not only Google, but innumerable cloud companies now dot the landscape. Much like so many innovations that have shaped the trajectory of the tech arena over the last three decades, cloud computing faced initial hesitation from business, and for good reason. The legacy model of ownership of data (as in on-site possession) predating yet entrenched during the 20th century was a rough one for many businesses to overcome.

With modern business now increasingly looking to the cloud for answers and efficiencies, those days should be over for any business looking for a competitive edge and to get ahead as effectively as possible. Cloud storage is simply the modern version of what was previously known as off-site secure document storage, but with significantly more space-age abilities. Weve been contracting out secure storage when it really matters for decades; the modern cloud is, at least in part, the digital version one that can render a formerly elite (and costly) service in an affordable and egalitarian way.

Smaller concerns are often so busy trying to define their difference from corporates, that it can obscure some useful acknowledgement. With over 80percent of global organisations in the cloud in some way, shape or form, its not merely a testament to the safety and facility of the cloud. These are often big corporates with huge resources to devote to stringent testing. They often have a heavy obligation to comply with data privacy and other laws, too. If theyre in the cloud, everyone can know that the cloud is safe, secure and enabling for commerce.

One of the primary benefits that enterprise is anticipating from the cloud lies in the arena of quantum computing. Especially for those with data lakes to paddle through, the prospect of vastly faster sorting and extrapolation sounds like heaven. That said, quantum computings benefits can as easily be enjoyed by smaller concerns. For example, SME IT firms like EC-MSP now as often deal with extrapolating the benefits of cloud computing as they do with straight cloud migrations. Indeed, seemingly small improvements derived of quantum computing can have a big impact on smaller concerns.

The way quantum computersattain their dazzlingcomputingpower is by linking quantumphysics realities into processing power, making supercomputers. The cloud is fast becoming the quantum cloud, or rather quantum computing is presenting as the next level for cloud computing to manifest. There are essentially three current hopes around the quantum cloud, from business point of view:

First, the old and constant pursuit of business: greater productivity from enhanced internal efficiencies. An easier cloud and faster quantum processing make for quicker and thus happier, more effective employees.

Second, business intelligence is anticipated to make a quantum leap of its own, too. Accelerated business intelligence is more than the prospect of staying ahead of the competition: its defining the landscape. Such is the expectation from quantum clouds there is almost an anticipation of prophetic abilities from quantum computing yet those expectations will define the quantum clouds development and delivery, too, as we head towards a supercomputing future. For business, AI and Machine Learning (ML) will coalesce in the quantum cloud.

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The very same Lloyds that has just undertaken to spend an alarming amount of money with Google, has also recently pointed out that losses suffered by US firms from but a few days of a primary cloud service provider being offline would amount to around $15 billion, plus associated losses. Thats not going to happen but for force majeure, however, the figure is a dramatic indicator of just how mainstream cloud computing has become since 2018.

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Quantum clouds are still off most budgets, but theyre appearing more regularly. Skills development around supercomputing in the cloud is increasing. The technology is complex, often expensive to research and develop, and sometimes to employ. Contained within these current restraints, however, is a picture of the kind of enhanced IT future that will manifest. The very complaints that typically greet tech then get to inform its development tech will make itself applicable as a life choice and the cloud and emerging quantum cloud are no exceptions.

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The coronavirus outbreak continues to spread with more than 1.34 million confirmed cases and above 74,000 casualties globally, per Johns Hopkins University data. The United States remains on top of the chart with the highest number of coronavirus-infected cases. It recorded in excess of 368,000 cases, with a death toll of more than 10,000. In order to combat the outbreak, President Trump has extended the lockdown until Apr 30. Notably, around 80% of Americans have been put under lockdown as coronavirus cases continue to spike in the United States.

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In the current scenario, people have to maintain social distancing and work remotely. Resultantly, cloud computing is emerging as a key technology in the fight against coronavirus. Cloud computing and storagehave empoweredvideo conferencing, gaming, e-commerce shopping, remote project collaboration, online classes, editing, etc. It is supporting organizations in remotely processing a lot of information, developing and running key applications and services, and also helping employees across the world collaborate while working.

Before the lockdown, companieswere alreadydiscarding their own data centers to rent computing from Amazon AMZN, Microsoft MSFT and Google GOOGL. However, this shift is expected to speed up now, as millions of employees are working remotely from home. Investors can look at the following ETFs that can gain from the current trend -- First Trust Cloud Computing ETF SKYY, Global X Cloud Computing ETF CLOU and WisdomTree Cloud Computing ETF WCLD (read: ETFs to Gain on Cloud Computing Growth Amid Coronavirus Crisis).

Streaming Services & Social Media Trending Now

As increasing number of people are spending time at home, in line with social-distancing guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic, they are resorting to streaming for in-house entertainment. In this regard, Ted Sarandos,chief content officer at Netflix NFLX, has commented that the company is seeing an increase in online viewership.Other streaming platforms like Prime Video, Hulu, orDisney+DIS are also witnessing increased viewership.

Facebook FB is also seeing a significant rise in usage of its services, including Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Against this backdrop, lets take a look at some ETFs that can gain like Vanguard Communication Services ETF VOX, Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF FCOM, Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF PNQI, MicroSectors FANG+ ETN FNGS, Invesco Dynamic Media ETF PBS and iShares Evolved U.S. Media and Entertainment ETF IEME (read: Should You Buy Facebook ETFs as Coronavirus Boosts Traffic?).

Robots See Rising Demand

The robotics market is flooded with opportunities as robots are being used for jobs such as sanitizing hospitals, homes and workplaces along with monitoring, surveying, handling and delivering food and medicines. In this context, Dr Susanne Bieller, General Secretary of the International Federation of Robotics, has said that robots have a great potential of supporting us in the current severe corona pandemic." Against this background, we have shortlisted the following ETFs for our investors to consider: Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETFBOTZ, ROBO Global Robotics & Automation ETFROBO, First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETFROBT and iShares Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Multisector ETFIRBO.

ESG Investing Shows Resilience

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has been gaining investor attention since the pre-outbreak period. Net inflows to ESG ETFs in the first three months of 2020 came in at around 6.7 billion. At the end of March, total assets of ESG ETFs were $19.1 billion, down from the peak of $20.8 billion in February but still higher than any point in 2019, noted Bloomberg. The numbers mostly indicate brighter prospects for ESG ETFs (read: ESG ETFs Appear Unscathed by the Coronavirus Carnage).

Thus, investors can take a look at the following ETFs likeXtrackers MSCI USA ESG Leaders Equity ETFUSSG,Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETFESGV,iShares ESG MSCI USA ETFESGU and Nuveen ESG Large-Cap Growth ETFNULG.

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