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DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research arm of Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc., today detailed a new project that seeks to harness machine learning to generate better weather forecasts. The project is a collaboration between DeepMind and the Met Office, the U.K.’s national …
Akamai inks $600M deal to acquire microsegmentation startup Guardicore
Akamai Technologies Inc. today said that it has inked a $600 million deal to acquire Guardicore Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based startup with a microsegmentation platform for securing corporate networks. Microsegmentation is a popular approach to limiting the impact of cyberattacks. Often, data …
Clumio brings its backup-as-a-service technology to Amazon S3 storage
Well-funded data protection startup Clumio Inc. today debuted a new solution, Clumio Protect for Amazon S3, that it says can help companies mitigate ransomware attacks targeting records they keep in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 storage service. S3 is one of the …
Cyber insurance startup Coalition valued at $3.5B+ in latest $205M funding round
Coalition Inc., a cybersecurity insurance provider that also supplies its customers with breach prevention software, is now worth more than $3.5 billion after raising a funding round led by Durable Capital, T. Rowe Price and Whale Rock Capital. Coalition announced the investment …
Amazon debuts Astro robot assistant and adds more smart home devices
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a flurry of additions to its portfolio of smart home devices, including a robot called Astro that can transport items between rooms and perform numerous other tasks. Astro is joined by a smart thermostat that automatically adjusts indoor …
Cloudflare targets the cloud object storage market with new R2 service
Cloudflare Inc. today previewed Cloudflare R2 Storage, an upcoming object storage service that the company says will offer lower pricing than existing offerings from the major cloud operators. R2 advances Cloudflare’s ongoing effort to expand into more parts of the enterprise technology …
New IBM and Linux Foundation toolkit makes AI projects more organized
IBM Corp. has teamed up with the The LF AI & Data Foundation, an open-source group operating as part of the Linux Foundation, to launch a new toolkit for managing enterprise machine learning projects. The toolkit is called the Machine Learning eXchange …
HPE expands GreenLake portfolio with new data protection and analytics services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today expanded its GreenLake product portfolio, a core pillar of the company’s revenue growth strategy, with a set of new cloud-based data protection and analytics services. The GreenLake portfolio includes data center hardware products that enterprises can buy …
Pure Storage automates storage operations with Fusion and Portworx Data Services
Pure Storage Inc. today introduced two new software products, Fusion and Portworx Data Services, to reduce the amount of manual work involved in managing a company’s information and the hardware on which it’s kept. Publicly traded Pure Storage supplies flash storage arrays …
Oracle builds more AI features into its cloud ERP platform
Oracle Corp. today introduced a new release of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning system with machine learning features designed to automate manual work for users. A company’s ERP system is one of the most important components of its entire technology infrastructure. ERP …