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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
LinkedIn taps Microsoft’s Bing for new Commute Time feature targeting job seekers
LinkedIn is becoming increasingly integrated with the other platforms and services in parent company Microsoft Corp.’s portfolio. The latest example of this arrived this morning in the form of Commute Time, a new feature in the social network’s widely used job search tool. It …
PagerDuty’s incident response platform can now learn from operations teams
PagerDuty Inc. today unveiled new automation features for its incident response platform that can learn from the administrators who use them. The platform, which has been adopted by Google Inc., Comcast Corp. and other large companies, is designed to help customers better …
With new chips, AMD ratchets up competition with Intel and Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted two new chips, one for the enterprise and another targeting consumers, that will each one-up the competition in their respective markets. The company made the announcements at the Computex computing trade conference in Taipei. The event …