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Sysdig buys ‘policy as code’ startup Apolicy to automate compliance and governance
Freshly minted DevOps unicorn Sysdig Inc. is spending some of the money it raised recently to buy a startup called Apolicy.IO Inc. that specializes in “infrastructure as code” security. The company today announced its intent to acquire Apolicy, saying it will bolster its own secure DevOps capabilities with compliance and governance enforcement via “policy as ...
Google advances ‘invisible’ cloud security with intrusion detection, analytics and more
Google LLC is advancing its vision of “invisible security” with a raft of updates to its existing security services, as well as some new ones, announced at its Security Summit today. Sunil Potti, Google’s vice president and general manager of cloud security, said in a blog post that one of the problems with traditional security services ...
Amazon offers cloud-based SAN with EBS io2 Block Express volumes
Amazon Web Services Inc. is looking to simplify its block storage offerings. The company announced the general availability of Amazon EBC io2 Block Express volumes today, bringing storage area network capabilities to its cloud for the first time. Amazon EBS io2 Block Express was first previewed at re:Invent 2020 and is part of a bigger drive ...
Facebook’s BlenderBot 2.0 chatbot can learn and remember new things by itself
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit has open-sourced what it claims is the first chatbot in the world that’s capable of building a long-term memory that can be continually accessed. That, combined with its ability to search the internet for up-to-date information, allows it to have more sophisticated conversations on almost any topic, researchers said ...
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Intel exploring deal to buy US chipmaker GlobalFoundries for $30B
Intel Corp. is said to be in talks about acquiring the chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. in a deal that could be worth as much as $30 billion, which would make it Intel’s largest-ever acquisition. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cites people familiar with the matter as saying the talks involve ...
Splunk announces 3 new top execs to help accelerate its cloud transition
Big-data analytics player Splunk Inc. announced a trio of key executive executive hires today who have been tasked with helping accelerate its cloud product and marketing strategies going forward. The appointments include Sendur Sellakumar, who has been hired as the company’s first-ever chief cloud officer. Splunk sells software that processes automatically generated data such as ...
Bell Canada taps Google Cloud to support its 5G network
Google LLC’s cloud customer acquisition spree continued apace today as the company announced a strategic partnership with BCE Inc., better known as Bell Canada, to power its ongoing digital transformation and enhance its network and information technology infrastructure. Google said the multiyear partnership will pair its expertise in multicloud, data analytics and artificial intelligence with ...
Zededa partners with Google Cloud to simplify edge application deployment
Edge computing orchestration startup Zededa Inc. is partnering with Google LLC, helping Google Cloud customers scale up their edge application deployments securely with a choice of different infrastructure platforms. Founded in 2016, Zededa sells an open-source orchestration platform for deploying applications at the network edge, where they are located closer to end users. Doing so ...
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Microsoft announces Cloud PCs that can run on any device with Windows 365
Microsoft Corp. will launch a new virtual machine service next month called Windows 365 that will enable business workers to access “Cloud PCs” from any web browser. The company said in a blog post today that Windows 365 will be able to stream a version of Windows 10 or Windows 11 to any kind of device, ...
Illumio beefs up zero-trust security with automated policy enforcement
Zero-trust security startup Illumio Inc. has wasted no time in putting its late-stage $225 million funding round to good use. It’s adding new features to its platform today that make it easier to automate security enforcement, provide more intelligent insights from real-time application data and operate at a much bigger scale. Illumio, which was valued ...