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IBM acquires application observability startup Instana
IBM Corp. today announced plans to acquire Instana Inc., a Chicago-based application monitoring startup that has raised more than $50 million from investors including Accel and Meritech Capital Partners. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Instana’s namesake platform helps organizations track the health of their workloads to identify technical issues that may interfere ...
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian outlines ‘open cloud’ vision
Google LLC wants to give enterprises flexibility to deploy workloads across multiple infrastructure-as-a-service platforms, and easily migrate between them when needed, as part of an “open cloud” strategy detailed today by Google Cloud Chief Executive Thomas Kurian. The search giant has been working on this strategy for a few quarters. This year, it introduced BigQuery ...
AWS launches AWS Network Firewall to block cloud threats
Amazon Web Services Inc. Tuesday expanded its presence in the cybersecurity market with the introduction of AWS Network Firewall, a managed firewall service designed to protect customers’ cloud environments from malicious traffic. All firewalls are based on the same basic principle: They act as a filter that prevents malicious network traffic from reaching a company’s ...
Snowflake rolls out Snowpark for developing data workflows
Snowflake Inc. today introduced an array of new capabilities for its cloud data warehouse, including a developer tool called Snowpark that will enable companies to deploy custom data wrangling workflows on the platform. Snowflake went public in a blockbuster September listing that raised close to $4 billion. The company said in the regulatory filing for ...
Cato Networks raises $131M to converge networking with cybersecurity
Cato Networks Inc. today said that it has closed a $131 million round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. Tel Aviv-based Cato Networks competes in a market Gartner Inc. refers to as the secure access service edge or SASE segment. SASE platforms provide networking features that enterprises can use ...
Microsoft developing ‘Pluton’ security chip for Windows
Microsoft Corp. wants to equip Windows computers with a specialized security chip to be built directly into the main processor. Pluton, as the company calls the chip, will provide protection against threats such as the infamous Meltdown and Spectre exploits. The technology was detailed today in a blog post by David Weston, Microsoft’s director of enterprise and ...
AMD reveals ‘world’s fastest’ supercomputer graphics card
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today pulled back the curtains on the MI100, a graphics processing unit for supercomputers touted as the fastest chip in its class with more than 10 teraflops of peak performance. Supercomputers are typically used to run scientific workloads such as weather prediction models and physics simulations. Once, they were built mainly ...
Codefresh brings better monitoring to ‘GitOps’ workflows
Codefresh Inc. today introduced a set of capabilities that will enable software teams to do a more effective job of tracking and controlling the code they deploy on their companies’ infrastructure. In recent years, many software teams have shifted from releasing new code every few weeks or months to releasing updates once a day or ...
Yellowbrick Data makes its hybrid cloud data warehouse more accessible
Yellowbrick Data Inc. today debuted a new release of its hybrid cloud data warehouse that it says will enable enterprises to build analytics workflows more easily and improve information security. The company also introduced an entry-level product tier for customers looking to analyze only a limited amount of information. Yellowbrick Data is a Snowflake Inc. competitor backed ...
Riverbed upgrades cloud and AI capabilities with product refresh
Riverbed Technology Inc. is upgrading several of its software products with new artificial intelligence features and other enhancements that will give enterprises deeper visibility into their networks. The updates were announced today against the backdrop of the company’s Global Virtual User Conference. San Francisco-based Riverbed claims more than 30,000 customers, including 99 companies on the ...