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Google rolls out cloud database innovations, including free trial instances for Spanner
Google Cloud today announced key updates to some of its most important database platforms, including a free trial for anyone looking to test Cloud Spanner, plus a new service for BigQuery called Datastream that makes it easier to obtain real-time insights. The announcements generally are aimed at doubling down on increasing the capabilities of cloud ...
Fortanix raises $90M to advance confidential computing-based data security
Cybersecurity startup and confidential computing pioneer Fortanix Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $90 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to $122 million to date. Today’s Series C round was led by Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. GiantLeap Capital also participated, along with Foundation Capital, Intel ...
California slaps Amazon with lawsuit, accusing it of forcing sellers to sign ‘anticompetitive’ price agreements
California’s attorney general has slapped Amazon.com Inc. with a lawsuit that alleges the company is violating the state’s antitrust and unfair business practices laws by using its dominance of online retail to prevent rivals competing with it on price. Amazon has faced an increasing number of antitrust-related probes from government agencies across the world in ...
Arm unveils updated Neoverse CPU roadmap, targeting cloud, hyperscale and HPC workloads
British semiconductor firm Arm Ltd. today unveiled a revamped product roadmap with new processor designs that it says will provide a foundation for multiple kinds of workloads over the next few years. Arm’s roadmap sees the addition of Arm Neoverse V2, code-named Demeter, a new processor that’s expected to play a key role in data ...
Satellite propulsion system startup Morpheus Space raises $28M in funding
Electric spacecraft propulsion system startup Morpheus Space Inc. said today it has raised $28 million in a fresh round of funding. The Series A round was led by the space-exclusive venture capital firm Alpine Space Ventures and saw the participation of Morpheus Ventures plus existing investors Vsquared Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Airbus Ventures, In-q-Tel, Pallas Ventures ...
SambaNova Systems gives its integrated AI hardware and software platform a massive performance boost
Artificial intelligence startup SambaNova Systems Inc. today announced a revamped version of its flagship DataScale system today, with a next-generation processor that it says massively enhances performance and provides support for much larger machine learning models than before. SambaNova is an extremely well-funded startup that has designed and built an integrated hardware and software platform for ...
Xtype raises $5.8M to bring DevOps principles to low-code application development
Xtype.IO Ltd., the creator of a DevOps platform that accelerates the development of low-code applications built using ServiceNow, said today it has raised $5.8 million in a seed funding round. The investment was led by Columbia Capital with participation from Inner Loop Capital and SaaS Ventures. Xtype said it will use the funds from today’s round ...
Sysdig’s newest offerings help to automate cloud infrastructure-as-code security
Cloud-native application security firm Sysdig Inc. today announced what it says is the first cloud security posture management offering in the industry that aggregates findings by root cause analysis and prioritizes remediation based on the potential impact they may have. Sysdig ToDo is an actionable checklist that shows prioritized risks found within a user’s cloud ...
NIST and Google team up on open-source computer chips for researchers and startups
The U.S. government announced today that it’s working with Google LLC to develop and manufacture cutting-edge silicon wafers that will be made available to academic researchers, with an eye to reducing costs associated with the development of semiconductor devices. As part of the deal, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
Edgeless Systems debuts open-source, runtime-encrypted Kubernetes distribution
Cloud privacy startup Edgeless Systems GmbH has announced what it claims is the industry’s first “Confidential Kubernetes” distribution, called Constellation. Launched today as an open-source release, Constellation is based on the idea of confidential computing and allows companies to keep their Kubernetes clusters verifiably shielded from the cloud infrastructure they run on using end-to-end encryption. ...