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Equinix acquires bare-metal infrastructure startup Packet
Data center company Equinix Inc. today said it’s buying bare metal cloud infrastructure startup Packet Hosting Inc. in a move aimed at allowing it to speed up the deployment of interconnected edge services. Equinix is a provider of colocation services through data centers facilities scattered across the world. It rents out this capacity to companies that ...
Google buys ‘no code’ application development startup AppSheet
Google LLC today beefed up its cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Appsheet, which sells tools that enable so-called “citizen developers” to build data-based applications. AppSheet sells a “no code” application development platform that gives Google an easy way to help companies create mobile apps without needing to hire teams of developers. It works by ...
GitLab announces key executive hires ahead of public stock debut later this year
DevOps company GitLab Inc. today announced a couple of key executive hires as it prepares the ground for a planned initial public offering later this year. The appointments were announced this morning at the company’s annual GitLab Commit user conference in San Francisco, where the company also revealed it will hit $100 million in annual ...
CNCF launches Kubernetes bug bounty program
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced the creation of a new bug bounty program for the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration tool. The goal of the program is to secure what is one of the most widely used open-source technologies in the enterprise today. Software containers are used to host modern applications that can run ...
Google announces support for IBM Power Systems on its cloud
Google LLC is targeting older computing workloads by partnering with IBM Corp. to launch IBM Power Systems on its cloud infrastructure. The move, officially announced today, gives businesses an onramp for existing legacy infrastructure and workloads that can’t easily be replaced or moved to the cloud. Many of those workloads run on IBM’s Power Systems, ...
Big-data survivor Cloudera names Rob Bearden as its new CEO
Big-data software company Cloudera Inc. has named former Hortonworks Inc. boss Rob Bearden as its new president and chief executive officer, replacing its previous CEO Tom Reilly, who stepped down from the company in July. Bearden is a seemingly safe option for Cloudera, since he was previously the CEO of rival big-data firm Hortonworks, which ...
Cloud-native networking startup Containous closes $10M funding round
Cloud-native networking company Containous SAS today bagged $10 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Elaia and 360 Capital Partners. Four-year-old Containous has built what it calls a “multicloud networking platform” for containerized applications and microservices, which are the individual components of those apps. Entirely ...
Microsoft’s Project Artemis tool scans online chat rooms for sexual predators
Microsoft Corp. has built an automated system that can flag when sexual predators are trying to groom children in the chat rooms of video games or through messaging applications, it said this week. Project Artemis, announced Thursday, works by looking for common patterns of communication that are known to be used by predators that target children. ...
Google launches new storage option for long-term data
Google LLC has announced general availability of its Archive class cloud storage service, designed for rarely accessed data that needs to be stored for longer than 12 months. Archive Storage, announced Wednesday, was first launched in preview last year, and becomes the fourth tier of Google Cloud Platform’s storage options, after its Standard, Nearline and ...
AWS announces AutoGluon, an open-source library for writing AI models
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new open-source library to help developers write, with just a few lines of code, machine learning-based applications that use image, text or tabular data sets. Building machine learning apps that rely on such data isn’t an easy task. For example, developers need to know how to tune the “hyperparameters” ...