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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 ...
Q-CTRL raises $25M in new funding to pursue emerging quantum sensing opportunity
Australian quantum computing firmware startup Q-CTRL Pty. Ltd. is looking to expand into the emerging area of quantum sensing after receiving a fresh cash injection today. The company has closed on a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Airbus Ventures, with participation from a range of existing syndicate members including new investor ...
New Amazon integration enables simple and secure IoT device updates
Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its “internet of things” device management capabilities. Today’s integration of AWS IoT Greengrass with AWS Systems Manager gives information technology administrators a simple and secure way to manage edge devices such as industrial machines and computers alongside the assets they rely on, including on-premises servers and cloud resources. The ...
Amazon Braket adds support for hybrid quantum-classical algorithms
Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to make quantum computing more accessible with the launch of Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs today. Announced at re:Invent 2021, it’s a new feature with its Amazon Braket quantum computing cloud service that makes it easier for users to set up, monitor and execute hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. The company launched ...
AWS adds more metrics and tools to help customers optimize cloud resources
Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to help customers squeeze more performance out of its public cloud platform by leveraging an array of improved compute metrics. The company is expanding the capabilities of AWS Compute Optimizer, a tool that recommends optimal resources for customers based on the workloads they’re running. Announced during AWS re:Invent 2021, AWS ...