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VMware Carbon Black expands container security through the entire CI/CD lifecycle
Software virtualization giant VMware Inc. is expanding its container and Kubernetes security capabilities with a key update to its VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload offering announced today. The update, the company said, will increase visibility for containerized applications throughout the development lifecycle, from build to deployment in the cloud or on-premises. VMware Carbon Black Cloud ...
IBM Cloud for Financial Services now generally available with expanded partner ecosystem
IBM Corp. hit a key milestone today when it announced that the world’s first financial services-ready public cloud is now ready for prime time. The company has been working on IBM Cloud for Financial Services for a long time. The offering was first revealed back in 2019 when IBM said it was working alongside Bank ...
Microsoft is using boiling liquid to cool one of its Azure data centers
Microsoft Corp. revealed today that it has been experimenting with what it calls a “two-phase immersion cooling technology” using a liquid that boils at extremely low temperatures to keep its data centers cool. The company explained in a post today on its Innovation blog that it has already implemented the technology in production at its ...
Google open-sources Lyra codec for high-quality voice calls with very low bandwidth
Google LLC said today it has open-sourced a codec called Lyra that relies on machine learning to enable high-quality voice calls in low bandwidth situations. Lyra, which is now hosted on GitHub, can compress audio down to as little as 3 kilobits per second while still ensuring a sound quality that compares well with other ...
Cisco, Dell and Lenovo debut new servers based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors
Data center infrastructure providers Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. all announced refreshed server lineups today that feature Intel Corp.’s new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The new Intel chips launched today are based on an improved architecture that’s said to provide built-in acceleration for a range of data center ...
Dell expands its data protection with new PowerProtect Backup Service
Dell Technologies Inc. is stepping up its cloud data backup capabilities with the launch of a new data protection service designed to safeguard software-as-a-service applications and other cloud workloads. In a blog post today, Laura Dubois, vice president of product management at Dell’s Data Protection product management organization, said enterprises are rapidly embracing SaaS applications ...
Tessian updates its intelligence platform to strengthen employee security behavior
Enterprise security firm Tessian Ltd., which sells tools that enable companies to assess the risk posed to their data and systems by their employees, is adding a new Human Layer Risk Hub to its platform. Tessian debuted its Human Layer Security Intelligence platform last year. It’s tools are designed to reduce the risk of accidental ...
ServiceNow to integrate sentiment data from Qualtrics
ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s teaming up with the experience management provider Qualtrics International Inc. to bring more sentiment data from customers into its customer and information technology workflows. The partnership is all about improving customer service through “empathy,” ServiceNow said. The idea is to help companies to act quickly on customer insights, which in ...
LG Electronics quits making smartphones after years of losses
LG Electronics Inc. said today that it’s exiting the smartphone business after years of operating at a loss. The decision comes after an announcement in January that LG was exploring all possible options for the flailing division, which is said to have accumulated losses of about $4.5 billion over the last six years. The move ...
No fooling: Microsoft cloud outage takes Azure, Teams and Office 365 offline
Microsoft Corp. was hit by a massive cloud outage today that took most of its internet services offline. Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, as well as Teams, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Xbox Live and Bing, were all inaccessible due to the outage. Even the Azure Status page was reportedly taken offline. The first reports of the ...