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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 ...
WebOps company Pantheon hits unicorn status with $100M in late-stage funding
Web operations startup Pantheon Systems Inc. hit unicorn status today with a $100 million late-starge round of funding that takes its value to more than $1 billion. The sole investor in the Series E round was SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing Pantheon’s total amount raised to $200 million. Pantheon was founded in 2010 as a ...
Amazon acquires Facebook’s satellite internet experts to boost broadband plans
Amazon.com Inc.’s space ambitions got a big boost today with the news that it acquired more than a dozen satellite internet experts from rival Facebook Inc. The talent acquisition was completed in April but only reported today by The Information. That report was later confirmed by spokespeople from both companies. The former Facebook engineers will ...
SAS Institute decides against selling itself to Broadcom after all, reports say
Data analytics firm SAS Institute Inc. has reportedly backed out of talks with Broadcom Inc. over a possible sale, following a change of heart by its owners. SAS Institute’s valuation has been a topic of intense discussion in the tech industry following the change. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that chipmaker Broadcom was looking ...
Zoho announces new business intelligence and data preparation tools
Software-as-a-service business tools provider Zoho Corp. today announced a new business intelligence platform that combines its new data preparation application with an enhanced version of its analytics application to help companies gain better real-time insights to inform their business strategy. Zoho is a leading provider of cloud-based business applications, which cover a wide range of processes ...
MongoDB 5.0 release adds time-series data and serverless instances into the mix
MongoDB Inc. is updating its namesake document-oriented database, adding key enhancements such as time series support and a preview of serverless database in the cloud version of its platform. In addition to the MongoDB 5.0 release, the company announced some major enhancements to Atlas Data Lake, Atlas Search and MongoDB Realm during its MongoDB.live event today. ...