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Google Cloud launches data API offering for healthcare organizations
Google LLC today introduced the Google Cloud Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program, a bundle of solutions aimed at helping organizations in the healthcare sector manage patient data more effectively. A piece of legislation called the Cures Act that passed in 2016 created new requirements around the management of medical records. Notably, it mandates that healthcare providers ...
Report: Salesforce will announce it’s buying Slack on Tuesday
Salesforce.com Inc. plans to announce its reported plans to acquire Slack Technologies Inc. on Tuesday after the markets close, CNBC reported today. The reported timing suggests that the announcement will likely coincide with Salesforce’s quarterly earnings call, which is also scheduled after Tuesday’s closing bell. The sources who spoke to CNBC also said that the cloud giant ...
IBM Cloud gets quantum-resistant cryptography
IBM Corp. is looking to make enterprise workloads deployed on its public cloud resistant to tomorrow’s encryption-breaking quantum computers. As a first step to that end, the company today introduced “quantum-safe cryptography” capabilities for three services in IBM Cloud: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, Cloud Kubernetes Service and Key Protect. Customers using the services ...
UK government will form new unit to regulate online platforms
The U.K. government will establish a Digital Markets Unit that will focus on regulating online platforms and could have the power to block business moves found to be anticompetitive, as well as hand down fines. The initiative was announced early today. The new unit is expected to begin operating in April. The Digital Markets Unit is being set up after ...
AWS open-sources Graph Notebook to make working with graph databases easier
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s newest open-source project is Graph Notebook, a tool that enables data scientists to analyze and visualize information that their companies store in graph databases. Graph Notebook is based on software components that AWS originally developed for its Amazon Neptune managed graph database service. The cloud giant announced the project on Wednesday. ...
Update: AWS fixes cloud outage that caused service disruptions across the web
Amazon Web Services Inc. is experiencing a technical issue with its Kinesis Data Streams service that has caused disruptions for Roku Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Roomba maker iRobot Corp. and a number of other companies that rely on the cloud giant’s platform. AWS said in an update posted at 12:15 p.m. PST that it’s making ...
Report: Salesforce may buy Slack for $17B+
Slack Technologies Inc.’s share price surged more than 20% today following a report from the Wall Street Journal that Salesforce.com Inc. may be looking to buy the company. The Journal’s sources said that an acquisition, if it happens, would likely value Slack above its market capitalization. That stood at about $17 billion prior to the report, ...
Stripe reportedly eyeing new funding at $70B+ valuation
Stripe Inc., the startup whose technology powers the online payment features of Amazon and numerous other online platforms, is reportedly in talks for a new round of funding at a valuation exceeding $70 billion. The investment could potentially value San Francisco-based Stripe at as much as $100 billion on the high end. That’s according to ...
Splunk acquires Flowmill for its kernel-level network monitoring technology
Information technology monitoring and analytics provider Splunk Inc. today announced plans to buy Flowmill Inc., a Palo Alto, California-based startup with a software platform that helps enterprises gain better visibility into their networks. The terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. It’s expected to complete by Jan. 31, 2021. Troubleshooting networking issues can be tricky in ...
Kubernetes’ etcd data store becomes top-level CNCF project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today granted top-level project status to etcd, an open-source data management system that serves as a key component of Kubernetes and can be found in many other software projects as well. Today’s milestone follows a nearly two-year incubation period. Open-source technologies incubated by the CNCF graduate to top-level status when ...