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IBM to spin off $19B infrastructure services unit as it doubles down on hybrid cloud
In a landmark move, IBM Corp. today announced plans to spin off its $19 billion managed infrastructure services unit into a separate company by the end of 2021. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna (pictured) said that the spinoff will free up IBM to fully focus on its higher-margin and higher-growth hybrid cloud business. Narrowing the ...
Google adds embedded hack alerts and more privacy features to user accounts
Google LLC is gearing up to roll out an alerting feature that will enable users of its services to be notified more quickly if their accounts suffer a suspected breach. The capability was announced today alongside several privacy enhancements. Google has security systems that actively look for suspicious activity in Google Accounts. When those systems flag ...
Fresh off IPO, Sumo Logic launches Kubernetes and AWS monitoring solutions
Sumo Logic Inc., the technology infrastructure monitoring provider that went public last month, today launched a pair of solutions for tracking the health of Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services environments. Kubernetes Observability and AWS Observability are built atop Sumo Logic’s flagship Continuous Intelligence Platform product. Each solution consists of a set of monitoring features optimized ...
Slack’s new Connect DMs feature will let users message people at other companies
Slack Technologies Inc. today introduced a collection of new features for enterprises, including a capability called Slack Connect DMs, that will enable workers to directly message people at other companies. The features debuted at the team chat provider’s virtual Frontiers event. They will advance Slack’s efforts to replace the traditional inbox, while potentially also making ...
Automation Anywhere launches AARI assistant to let humans and RPA bots interact
Automation Anywhere Inc. today debuted AARI, a digital assistant that will enable workers to interact with the robotic process automation bots used by their company and give them instructions. AARI was announced during Automation Anywhere’s virtual Innovation Day event. Robotic process automation, or RPA, is a fast-growing category of software products designed to streamline manual ...
Morpheus Data adds self-service features to its cloud orchestration platform
Morpheus Data LLC today debuted the latest version of its namesake cloud orchestration platform, which packs enhancements aimed at simplifying infrastructure provisioning and cost tracking. Morpheus’ platform enables enterprises to manage their public cloud and on-premises environments centrally. The offering started out as an internal tool at private equity firm Bertram Capital, which decided to ...
Nutanix launches Era 2 with eyes on streamlining cloud database operations
Nutanix Inc. today launched a new release of Era, its database management service, with features that it says will enable enterprises to run their cloud database deployments with greater reliability and less manual work. Publicly traded Nutanix is a major provider of software for managing information technology infrastructure. Its Era service provides a console through ...
Commvault launches Metallic Cloud Storage Service to provide air-gapped backup
Data protection and management provider Commvault Systems Inc. today launched Metallic Cloud Storage Service, a service designed to simplify backup operations for enterprises. The typical company’s backup environment consists of several different components. One of those components is the so-called backup target, the infrastructure on which standby copies of data are stored. Metallic Cloud Storage Service provides a ...
Tipalti valued at $2B+ after raising $150M for its accounting automation platform
Startup Tipalti Inc. today said that it has raised $150 million to widen the adoption of its namesake cloud service, which helps companies perform accounting tasks with less manual work. The round values San Mateo, California-based Tipalti at more than $2 billion. It was led by Durable Capital Partners with participation from Greenoaks Capital and ...
Nvidia debuts BlueField-2 data processing unit as it looks beyond graphics cards
Nvidia Corp.’s recurring GPU Technology Conference tends to focus on its hallmark graphics processing units, but during the latest installment of the event that the company held today, GPUs weren’t the only chip category in the limelight. Nvidia announced that it has started sampling a new “data processing unit” or DPU aimed at data centers. The DPU (pictured), which ...