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Google Cloud shares its blueprint for building a secure cloud data warehouse
Google Cloud has updated its collection of security blueprints with the addition of a Secure Data Warehouse Blueprint that customers are free to implement to safeguard their cloud data. Google’s security blueprints combine best practices with opinionated guidance to help customers build stronger security into their cloud deployments. In the case of its Secure Data ...
VPN provider Nord Security raises $100M to build internet privacy
Nord Security Ltd., a provider of internet privacy and security tools that’s best known for its virtual private network NordVPN, said today it has raised $100 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $1.6 billion. The round was led by Novator Ventures, with participation from Burda Principal Investments and General Catalyst. Angel investors, including Ilkka ...
Boeing heads for the cloud with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
The Boeing Co. announced today it has signed deals with all three major cloud computing providers — Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC — to expand its cloud operations and reduce its reliance on on-premises systems. In a blog post, Boeing explained that although it already has relationships with all three companies, the ...
Google Cloud boosts big-data accessibility with new innovations at Data Summit
Google Cloud early Wednesday announced a number of new products and innovations aimed at making data-driven insights and digital transformation more accessible to companies of all sizes. The new products and services, unveiled at Google Cloud Data Summit, include BigLake and Spanner change streams to unify customer data while ensuring it’s delivered in real time, ...
Startup Warp raises $23M to reinvent the venerable command-line terminal
Developer productivity startup Warp said today it has closed on $23 million in funding, including $6 million via a seed funding round and $17 million through a Series A round. The new funding was led by Dylan Field, co-founder and chief executive of Figma Inc., with participation from Elad Gil, Salesforce.com Inc. founder Marc Benioff’s Time ...
IBM unveils z16 mainframe for real-time fraud detection
IBM Corp. today unveiled the latest generation of its venerable Z Series mainframe family, powered by a new processor with built-in artificial intelligence for real-time fraud detection. The IBM z16 will be generally available in May, the company said. It’s the successor to the z15 mainframe that debuted in 2019, and the company has high ...
DocuSign debuts new contract lifecycle management tool for small, growing businesses
DocuSign Inc. is targeting smaller and growing businesses with its latest offering announced today, CLM Essentials. CLM Essentials is a contract lifecycle management tool that’s designed to reduce the complexity of creating, managing, securely storing and executing contracts for smaller businesses. DocuSign said CLM Essentials, which was announced during Momentum, its annual customer conference, helps ...
Backend API development platform Appwrite raises $27M in Series A round
So-called backend-as-a-service platform provider Appwrite.io Ltd. said today it has closed on a $27 million Series A round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. Existing investors from its seed funding round, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, Ibex Investors and Seedcamp also participated in the round, bringing its total amount raised to date ...
Microsoft announces preview of its first Arm-based Azure virtual machines
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s making its first-ever batch of Azure virtual machines powered by Ampere Computing LLC’s Arm-based Altra server chips available in preview. The company said the new VMs, which are essentially computers in software, include the general-purpose Dpsv5 and the memory-optimized Epsv5, which can deliver a price-performance boost of up to 50% ...
Microsoft deploys and tests AI models in space aboard the ISS
Microsoft Corp. today revealed how it has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop and test artificial intelligence models in orbit aboard the International Space Station. One of the first models they developed is designed to handle the chore of checking astronaut’s gloves after each spacewalk ...