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Fastly shares new details about its widespread CDN outage on Tuesday
Fastly Inc. has shared more details about the brief but widespread outage in its content delivery network on Tuesday that took many of the internet’s most popular websites and cloud services offline. Publicly traded Fastly helps companies speed up page load times for their users. Its content delivery network stores copies of a website’s content ...
Google to expand subsea network infrastructure with new Firmina internet cable
Google LLC’s latest subsea networking project is set to see the company deploy a new internet cable that will run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina with additional landings in Brazil and Uruguay. The search giant detailed the project today in a blog post. The internet cable is named ...
Surging growth helps Marqeta raise $1.2B in one of 2021’s biggest fintech IPOs
Marqeta Inc., a financial technology company that more than doubled its revenues last year and counts tech giants such as DoorDash Inc. among its customers, has raised $1.2 billion in its initial public offering. The company wrapped up the IPO late Tuesday with a valuation of more than $14 billion. It began trading on the ...
Morpheus Data expands its Kubernetes and automation capabilities
Morpheus Data LLC today introduced a new release of its cloud management platform with improved Kubernetes support and features that will help companies automate infrastructure maintenance tasks. Morpheus Data says the release marks its biggest product update in a year. The Colorado-based company provides a platform that enables information technology teams to manage public cloud ...
Salesforce debuts new AI features to boost its vertical-specific clouds
Salesforce.com Inc. is enhancing its lineup of industry-specific cloud platforms with new capabilities aimed at companies in the financial services, healthcare and consumer goods sectors. The company says that its vertical-specific cloud platforms represent a $2 billion business. The new capabilities, which Salesforce announced today during a virtual event, should give that business a boost ...
Contentstack raises $57.5M round led by Insight Partners for its ‘headless’ CMS
Contentstack Inc., the maker of a so-called headless content management system used by the likes of HP Inc. and Broadcom Inc., has raised an $57.5 million funding round led by prolific tech investor Insight Partners. Canadian investment firm Georgian Partners contributed as well along with Contentstack’s existing backers. The oversubscribed round, which was announced this ...
StarTree Cloud launches to power analytics systems with millions of users
Venture-backed data processing startup StarTree Inc. today launched its first product, a cloud analytics platform called StarTree Cloud that it says can run more than 100,000 queries a second. The platform is launching less than two months after StarTree raised a $24 million funding round from a group of investors that included Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn ...
AI-powered cybersecurity provider ExtraHop to be acquired for $900M
Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint are spending $900 million to acquire ExtraHop Networks Inc., a software company that uses hundreds of machine learning models deployed side-by-side to find threats lurking in enterprises’ cloud environments. The deal is at least the third private equity-backed acquisition of a major cybersecurity company in as many months. ExtraHop ...
Dozens of major news sites and cloud services briefly go offline after Fastly outage
An outage in the infrastructure of content delivery network operator Fastly Inc. briefly took dozens of major websites offline early today, including The New York Times, GitHub, the U.K. government’s online information portal, PayPal and many others. Fastly detected and rolled out a fix for the issue less than an hour after first flagging it on ...
Grafana Labs eases IT monitoring with Tempo tracing tool and new Grafana release
Grafana Labs Inc. announced two new product releases, Tempo 1.0 and Grafana 8.0, at a virtual user event today, aiming to provide companies with better visibility into the health of their technology infrastructure. New York-based Grafana Labs is the startup behind a popular open-source monitoring platform of the same name. The software is one of ...