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Google Cloud Armor adds rate limiting, bot management, threat intelligence and more
Google Cloud said today it’s adding to Cloud Armor’s capabilities to ward off the growing sophistication and intensity of cyberattacks against its cloud customers. Google Cloud Armor is the company’s main networking defense service, which is used both internally to protect services including Gmail and YouTube, and externally to safeguard customer’s own applications and services. ...
Sysdig adds Drift Control to protect against container modification risk
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today announced the eneral availability of a new feature called Drift Control aimed at preventing cyberattacks at runtime. With Drift Control, the company said, teams can detect, prevent and speed up incident response for software containers that have been modified in production. Sysdig sells tools for securing container environments that are ...
Yugabyte intros new migration engine for its powerful distributed database
Yugabyte Inc. today announced what it says are the most extensive set of updates ever made to its database ecosystem. The startup is the chief developer behind YugabyteDB, an open-source and high-performance distributed structured query language database that’s used to power global, internet-scale applications. YugabyteDB is known for features such as its high-performing document store, ...
Industrial giant Siemens to buy Brightly Software in $1.58B deal
The German industrial giant Siemens AG said today it has agreed to buy U.S.-based asset management software firm Brightly Software Inc. for $1.58 billion, with the deal expected to close before the end of the year. Brightly Software will be integrated with the Siemens Smart Infrastructure division, which sells digital systems that are used to ...
ServiceNow’s observability platform Lightstep gains new capabilities to speed up incident resolution
ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s boosting the capabilities of its Lightstep observability platform with the launch of Lightstep Notebooks, a new feature that enables faster, more collaborative and accurate troubleshooting. Used by thousands of enterprises across the world, ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform that optimizes productivity for information technology and operations. ServiceNow acquired Lightstep ...
Intel delays building Ohio chip plant after federal funding delay
Intel Corp. has reportedly delayed breaking ground on its planned multibillion-dollar chip manufacturing plant in Ohio after becoming frustrated with Congress’ lack of progress on new legislation that would support the chipmaking industry. The groundbreaking ceremony had been scheduled for July 2022 but has now been canceled indefinitely, according to a report by the Wall ...
Amazon sent an AWS Snowcone device into orbit aboard the ISS
Amazon.com Inc. revealed at its re:Mars conference today that it has put one of its AWS Snowcone edge computing and storage devices into orbit, as part of Axiom Space Inc.’s latest mission to the International Space Station. Snowcones are special devices that are designed to operate in rugged, mobile and disconnected environments, bringing onsite processing ...
Amazon partners with Matter to launch AWS Expand healthcare tech accelerator
The healthcare industry incubator Matter said today it’s partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a new initiative called AWS Expand to help bring startups from Europe, the Middle East and Africa to the U.S. market. AWS said in a blog post that the partnership was driven by a shared concern around the process of ...
Qualcomm announces unified ‘full stack’ approach to AI software
Qualcomm Inc. today unveiled its new AI Stack portfolio, which it says brings a unified software approach to creating artificial intelligence applications across its products. According to the company, the Qualcomm AI Stack combines and improves upon its existing AI offerings by providing a more comprehensive AI solution for original equipment manufacturers and developers. It supports ...
Amazon reveals how it’s using AI to transform the retail experience
Amazon.com today showcased the multiple ways in which artificial intelligence-based machine learning and computer vision algorithms are being combined with synthetic data to improve key retail automation technologies such as Just Walk Out, Amazon One and Amazon Dash Cart. In a keynote at Amazon’s re:MARS event today in Las Vegas, Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s vice president ...