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AWS announces free machine learning educational materials and training resources
Amazon Web Services Inc. says it’s trying to break down accessibility barriers around machine learning technology and make it possible for anyone who’s interested to become an expert in the field. To that end, the company is launching an artificial intelligence and machine learning education and scholarship program that’s specifically aimed at underrepresented and underserved ...
Frontegg raises $25M to lighten the load for SaaS software developers
User management software startup Frontegg Ltd. has just announced an early-stage $25 million funding round to fuel its bid to enable smaller companies to pursue a product-led growth strategy. The Series A round was led by Insight Partners and saw participation from existing investors Pitango First and Global Founders Capital, which previously backed Frontegg in its seed ...
Dell brings air-gapped ransomware protection to Amazon’s cloud
Dell Technologies Inc. is bringing its anti-ransomware service to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. It announced today the availability of a new offering, Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery for AWS, giving AWS users an easy way to buy and deploy an air-gapped cybervault to isolate and protect their most critical data from ransomware ...
Fannie Mae is using Amazon’s cloud to make housing more accessible
Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. as usual is showing off new customers at its annual user conference, re:Invent 2021, and first up is Federal National Mortgage Association. Better known as Fannie Mae, the mortgage giant is using AWS as its long-term “strategic cloud provider” as it bids to solve some of the biggest challenges in ...
Stacklet adds intelligent alerting to its cloud governance-as-code platform
Cloud governance-as-code startup Stacklet Inc. announced today that it’s adding automated notifications to its platform. It says it wants to help companies to boost conformance with their operational, security, cost and compliance policies by alerting them to any potential risks. Stacklet is the main contributor to the open-source Cloud Custodian project. Cloud Custodian makes it possible ...
New AWS IoT services enable digital twins of industrial assets and connected vehicle management
Amazon Web Services Inc. is upping its game in the “internet of things” with the launch of two new services. AWS IoT TwinMaker enables companies to create digital twins of physical assets, while AWS IoT FleetWise is designed to help customers manage data from fleets of smart vehicles. Digital twins are virtual representations of things ...
Box delivers strong quarterly results in wake of shareholder vote
Box Inc. delivered strong earnings today in its first financial results since hedge fund investors failed in a bid to oust co-founder and Chief Executive Aaron Levie. The company reported third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 22 cents per share on total sales of $224 million, up 14% from a year ...
Aviatrix embeds native traffic inspection and security enforcement into its multicloud network
Multicloud networking startup Aviatrix Systems Inc. is building native security into its platform with the launch of ThreatIQ with ThreatGuard. Launching today, the new offering embeds security across the Aviatrix multicloud data plane and enables each node across a network to carry out traffic inspection and policy enforcement. Aviatrix sells a multicloud network platform that ...
Property management platform Lessen raises $170M in new funding
Property tech platform Lessen Inc., which offers a marketplace connecting landlords with service professionals, today said it has closed on a fairly weighty $170 million funding round today. The Series B round was led by existing investor Fifth Wall with participation from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst and Navitas Capital and lifts Lessen’s valuation to over ...
Linux Foundation adopts the Apptainer project for containerized HPC workloads
The Linux Foundation said today it’s welcoming the rebranded Singularity project into its fold. The Apptainer project, as it’s now known, is a container platform for high-performance computing workloads, designed to execute applications at bare-metal performance while ensuing they remain secure and portable. With the Apptainer project, it’s possible to create and run containers that ...
