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Facebook’s WhatsApp cryptocurrency could reportedly launch this year
New details have emerged about Facebook Inc.’s rumored effort to develop a cryptocurrency for WhatsApp. The New York Times today reported that the social networking giant is hoping to launch the digital coin in the first half of 2019. The sources who spoke with the publication said the value of the coin, which has been ...
Study: Microsoft’s Azure gaining on AWS as enterprise cloud spending grows
Most enterprises now spend over $1 million a year on cloud computing services and the average company splits its budget between at least three providers, according to a new study. The RightScale State of the Cloud Report, released Wednesday, is an annual survey of information technology professionals now in its eighth edition. This latest issue is ...
With Azure Sentinel, Microsoft seeks bigger slice of cybersecurity market
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its presence in the cybersecurity market with the introduction of Azure Sentinel, a cloud-based threat detection service for enterprises. Azure Sentinel is what’s known as a security information and event management platform, or SIEM for short. SIEM products enable companies to centrally analyze activity data from different systems to look for ...
Veriflow brings its formal verification technology to public cloud networks
Veriflow Systems Inc., a startup harnessing techniques from the industrial engineering world to improve the reliability of enterprise networks, is launching its first software-as-a-service offering to push into the cloud market. Unveiled today, CloudPredict is aimed at facilitating what Veriflow calls “intent-based network verification.” The service enables companies to validate that their off-premises infrastructure operates as ...
Intel’s new SGX Card expands access to its secure enclave technology
Intel Corp. today introduced a new data center product aimed at expanding access to SGX, a technology for protecting sensitive workloads that’s currently available only on a limited subset of its chips. SGX stands for Secure Guard Extensions. It’s a set of instruction codes programmed into Intel’s Xeon E server processors that can cordon off ...
FTC forms antitrust task force to monitor the tech industry
Amid a clamor in some quarters that technology giants are getting too big and powerful, the U.S. government is stepping up its efforts to regulate tech companies. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced the creation of a new task force that will be dedicated exclusively to monitoring the technology sector. The group’s mandate is to watch the ...
New Cloudborne vulnerability exposes cloud servers to potential hacking
A newly disclosed security vulnerability may enable hackers to exploit a common component of server motherboards to compromise data companies store in the cloud. The vulnerability, dubbed Cloudborne, was detailed today by Andreessen Horowitz-backed security startup Eclypsium Inc. It affects the so-called baseboard management controllers that commonly ship with servers motherboards, including those used by cloud ...
Report: VW preparing to invest $1.7B in Ford’s autonomous vehicle unit
Ford Motor Co.’s Argo AI autonomous vehicle unit could soon receive a major outside boost. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Volkswagen AG plans to invest $1.7 billion in the business to lay the foundation for future collaboration. According to the publication’s sources, the company will provide $1.1 billion in the form of working capital ...
Armed with $80M, Vast Data exits stealth to reimagine storage infrastructure
After quietly raising $80 million from investors over the past three years, Vast Data Inc. today exited stealth mode with a platform that promises to simplify enterprise storage infrastructure dramatically. Today, companies rely on a mix of storage technologies to support their operations. A typical enterprise might use flash systems to power its most important applications, ...
Fresh off Silver Lake acquisition, ServiceMax buys collaboration startup Zinc
ServiceMax Inc. today announced that it has picked up collaboration startup Zinc Inc. in its first acquisition since moving under the wing of Silver Lake Partners LP. The private equity firm, which is known for its investments in major enterprise technology players such as Dell Technologies Inc., bought ServiceMax from General Electric Co. late last ...