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AWS expands cloud compute lineup with new EC2 instances and Outposts edge appliances
Amazon Web Services Inc. today extended both the scope and the reach of its massive cloud computing services, announcing new computing services and new ways to bring them into the heart of corporate data centers. For one, it introduced five EC2 instance types at its virtual re:Invent event, among them the high-speed M5zn series for computationally ...
Cyware targets ‘large market gap’ with CTIX Lite threat intelligence tool
Venture-backed cybersecurity startup Cyware Labs Inc. today introduced CTIX Lite, a cloud service that it says will make it more practical for midmarket companies to make use of threat intelligence feeds in their security operations. Threat intelligence feeds are services that provide organizations with information on online risks such as malicious website domains being used ...
Facebook acquires customer service startup Kustomer for reported $1B+
Facebook Inc. has acquired Kustomer Inc., a heavily funded startup with a cloud service that companies use to field customer inquiries. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, CNBC and other publications reported that the transaction values Kustomer at just over $1 billion. New York-based Kustomer raised more than $170 million from noted ...
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, ...