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AWS finally comes to India
Better late than never. Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. and a month behind DigitalOcean Inc., Amazon Inc. has finally brought its cloud platform to India. The company will now provide infrastructure services to local organizations from two Availability Zones in busy Mumbai, which was incidentally also one of the first regional expansion destinations for Redmond. There ...
MongoDB Atlas is a new database management service for developers
MongoDB Inc. has a new plan for monetizing cloud-based deployments of its free document store. At a customer event in New York today, the company unveiled a managed service called Atlas that promises to help users to automate the administration of their off-premise database clusters for an affordable hourly rate. It’s a successor to MongoDB Cloud Manager, a ...
IoT PaaS startup Ayla bags $39M to supercharge connected devices
Bringing a smart appliance or an industrial sensor to market involves much more just assembling the hardware. Connected devices also require a server backend to handle management tasks such as diagnostics and patching, functionality that can be tremendously difficult to deliver on a large scale. As a result, manufacturers are recruiting the help of platform-as-a-service ...
Orbital Insight raises $20M to make satellite imagery more accessible
The commercial satellite industry captures a tremendous amount of imagery from the Earth’s surface, but there aren’t enough people to manually go through every picture. As a result, organizations miss out on a lot of valuable intelligence that could potentially help their executives make better decisions. The issue inspired former NASA engineer James Crawford to strike ...
What you missed in Big Data: Tech giants double down on analytics
Barely a week seems to pass without a web company open-sourcing some new tool for building artificial intelligence software. Last Thursday, it was Facebook Inc.’s turn. The social networking giant released a framework called Torchnet that contains five ready-made modules for training and testing deep learning algorithms. The modules are implemented in the form of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Acquisitions and APIs
M&A returned to the cloud ecosystem’s agenda last week after Red Hat Inc. bought a low-key outfit called 3scale Inc. that helps companies regulate how their web services are used. Its API management software makes it possible to control who can interact with an application, enforce usage restrictions and scan activity patterns for insights that ...
Facebook’s latest open-source tool will dramatically speed up AI projects
Since becoming actively involved with the artificial intelligence ecosystem in early 2015, Facebook Inc. has made numerous contributions ranging from niche software modules to entire server blueprints. The social networking giant expanded its repertoire yet again this week by open-sourcing a toolkit called Torchnet that provides building blocks for deep learning projects. As the name ...
SecurityScorecard’s security grading service attracts $20M from Alphabet and friends
Modern threat detection tools with machine learning technology under the hood can pick up on even the most subtle signs of malicious activity. But sometimes, a higher level view is needed to effectively identify vulnerabilities, which is where SecurityScorecard Inc. enters the picture. The startup has developed a service for surveying network weaknesses that attracted ...
Dropbox now lets you scan documents with your phone and sync them to the cloud
While consumers and companies store most of their information digitally nowadays, paper is still very much part of day-to-day life, a fact that collaboration providers are finally starting to embrace. Dropbox Inc. is leading the charge by rolling out a scanning feature for its mobile app that provides the ability to directly upload photos of ...
Microsoft’s new security service protects data beyond the firewall
Securing company data that is stored remotely on employee-owned mobile devices or in the cloud is still difficult for IT departments, but it’s becoming a much more manageable problem thanks to tools like Vera. And now Microsoft Corp. is joining the fray too with a competing service called Azure Information Protection that is set to ...