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ARM picks up IoT connectivity specialist Stream Technologies
ARM Holdings plc today announced that it has acquired Stream Technologies LLC, a software provider focused on helping companies optimize how their “internet of things” devices communicate. Sensors and other connected endpoints can generate massive amounts of data when deployed in large numbers. Stream’s software provides the ability to configure how those endpoints transmit information, ...
Sumo Logic adds new features for monitoring software container environments
Sumo Logic Inc. joined the list of companies making announcements at the DockerCon conference today with the introduction of new monitoring features for software container environments. Software containers, the theme of DockerCon, are an increasingly popular means of deploying enterprise applications. The technology provides the ability to bundle code into lightweight, portable packages that lend ...
Industrial giants back $60M funding round for cybersecurity startup Claroty
Claroty Ltd., a startup focused on securing industrial infrastructure such plants and power grids, today announced that it has raised a $60 million funding round to support its efforts. The investment comes just a year and a half after Claroty’s formal launch. Singapore’s Temasek national wealth fund led the round with participation from funds associated with ...
Splunk to acquire IT alerting startup VictorOps for $120M
Splunk Inc. today announced plans to acquire alerting startup VictorOps Inc. in a move that could help make its popular infrastructure analytics platform an even more central part of information technology teams’ work. The deal is worth $120 million in cash and securities. This represents a respectable return for VictorOps’ investors, which have bet a ...
SoftBank leads $250M investment into fast-rising storage startup Cohesity
Cohesity Inc., a rising star in the crowded data storage market, today announced that it landed a mammoth $250 million funding round led by SoftBank Corp.’s Vision Fund. The investment is touted is the biggest received by a U.S.-based enterprise software startup in the last 18 months. It also marks only the second occasion that ...
Thanks to IBM, the US now has the world’s most powerful supercomputer
The newest instrument in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s scientific arsenal is a mammoth, liquid-cooled supercomputer sprawled over an eighth of an acre that is being hailed as the fastest in the world. The machine, which goes by Summit, made its official debut today. It was built by IBM Corp. at a cost of $200 ...
Facebook’s privacy woes continue as bug exposes up to 14M users’ private posts
Facebook Inc. disclosed on Thursday that an engineering error has mixed up the sharing settings of 14 million users, potentially exposing countless private posts. The incident lasted from May 18 to May 27. It occurred while Facebook was working to implement a new way for users to spotlight “featured items” on their profiles. The plan was to ...
Google launches new dedicated cloud instances for sensitive workloads
Adding to the roster of infrastructure options on its public cloud, Google Inc. today introduced sole-tenant nodes, new instances that offer dedicated hardware for sensitive workloads. The regular virtual machines on the company’s platform are multitenant, meaning they run on servers typically used by multiple different customers at once. Google’s new sole-tenant nodes, in contrast, ...
Report: Google could be hit with an up to $11B antitrust fine from the EU
The European Union may be gearing up to hit Google Inc. with a massive, multibillion-dollar fine as part of an antitrust probe focused on Android. The information comes courtesy of reports published in the Financial Times and Politico late Wednesday. The latter publication cited multiple people with “direct knowledge” of the investigation as saying that the ...
US will lift the crippling sanctions on China’s ZTE and fine it $1B
The U.S. is set to lift the crippling sanctions it has placed on ZTE Corp. as part of a newly struck deal that will include a $1 billion penalty against the Chinese electronics company and sweeping leadership changes. “At about 6 a.m. this morning, we executed a definitive agreement with ZTE,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross ...