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NGINX launches a new Ops tool to make the web more reliable
The over 160 million websites that rely on NGINX Inc.’s reverse proxy to handle requests stand to benefit a great deal from the new monitoring tool that it’s rolling out today. Dubbed Amplify, the software promises to help customers better deal with the performance and reliability issues that hinder user experience online. Its main selling ...
Security startup LightCyber nabs $20M to boost network protection teams
Barely a week seems to pass nowadays without a security startup raising capital. The newest example is LightCyber Ltd., an emerging network protection provider born in Israel that today announced the completion of a $20 million funding round. The investment was led by industrial conglomerate Access Industries Inc. and Shlomo Kramer, a serial entrepreneur best ...
InVision, the startup powering design teams at Twitter and Nike, raises $55M
Though it’s not as well-known in Silicon Valley as Docker Inc. and the other vendors that are making waves among developers nowadays, InVision Inc. is an equally big force on the design side. The New York-based outfit helps support creative operations at web giants such as Twitter Inc. and Uber Inc. along with 70 percent of ...
Nutanix doubles down on containers and automation at .NEXT conference
Like the rest of the vendor ecosystem, hyperconverged infrastructure vendors are scrambling to address the rise of containers in the enterprise. Nutanix Inc., one of the leaders in the segment, hopes to set itself apart from the pack by providing persistent storage functionality for Docker. The feature was introduced at the vendor’s .NEXT conference today as ...
Dell is selling off its software biz for a reported $2BN
Dell Inc. is continuing to sell off assets in a bid to elevate the debt burden from its historic $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. The latest division to go is its software group, which was bought by private equity firm Francisco Partners Management LLC and hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. this morning. The press ...
HPE intros a software stack for building supercomputers
Building supercomputers is complicated even by the standards of the research institutions and other tech-savvy organizations that most commonly use them. As a result, the implementation process is often incredibly time-consuming. But Hewlett Packard Enterprise believes that it doesn’t necessarily have to be. The vendor today unveiled a toolkit called Core HPC that attempts to ...
Zokets exits stealth to simplify large-scale container clusters
The show floor at this week’s DockerCon in Seattle is teeming with vendors promising to ease the development and maintenance of containerized services. Among them is Zokets Inc., a new upstart that aims to automate not one but several of the most tedious tasks involved in the application delivery cycle. First on its checklist is ...
Red Hat launches a Docker Compose rival for running containers
Vendors are hard at work adapting their products to support the containerized workloads that are starting to appear in enterprise environments. One of the companies at the forefront of the push is Red Hat Inc., which today introduced a new native Docker management tool for Ansible, the popular automation framework it acquired last year. Users ...
What you missed in Big Data: Predicting the weather with machine learning
Thanks to modern analytics technology, weather forecasts are becoming more useful than ever before. Much of the credit goes to IBM Corp. and the researchers at its budding meteorology business. The vendor last week unveiled a service called Deep Thunder that uses machine learning to help companies optimize operations based on short-term changes in temperature ...
What you missed in Cloud: The blockchain rises
If the major infrastructure-as-a-service providers have their way, many of tomorrow’s blockchain applications will run in the public cloud. Last week saw Microsoft Corp. bring this goal a step closer by introducing a set of development tools designed to ease the implementation of distributed ledger functionality on Azure. One of the main components is an ...