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Confluent brings infinite data retention to Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka startup Confluent Inc. today debuted a new infinite data retention feature within its Confluent Cloud platform that enables customers to store as much related information as they want. Apache Kafka is a popular open-source technology that’s widely used by companies to store event data, which is essentially information that’s generated by applications as ...
VMware swoops in to buy disaster recovery firm Datrium
VMware Inc. said today it’s planning to make another acquisition, this time buying cloud-based disaster recovery specialist Datrium Inc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Datrium has raised about $120 million in funding since its launch in 2012, including a $60 million Series D round led by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. two ...
Started by ex-AWS execs, Vendia exits stealth with unique serverless data sharing platform
Serverless data sharing startup Vendia Inc. is exiting stealth mode today with a platform that melds two powerful technologies in a unique way: public cloud architectures and distributed ledgers. Vendia’s platform gives companies a way to share information stored inside multiple public clouds and on-premises data centers with partners, in real time, without doing a ...
Kong updates its Kuma service mesh and hands it over to the CNCF
Application programming interface management company Kong Inc. said today its open-source service mesh Kuma has been accepted as a sandbox-level project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Kong also announced an update to Kuma for monolithic and microservices-based applications, making it easier to deploy multitenant instances of the service mesh across different networking environments. Service ...
Google Sheets now integrates with BigQuery and gets new automation features
Google LLC said today it’s making its Connected Sheets feature generally available for G Suite, making it possible for users to work with massive datasets inside Google Sheets. In addition, the company announced a couple of new artificial intelligence-based features that should make Sheets users more productive. Announced last year, G Suite’s Connected Sheets feature ...
Fivetran becomes the latest tech unicorn after raising $100M in Series C funding
Data integration company Fivetran Inc. said today it has become the latest tech startup to reach “unicorn” status after raising $100 million in a funding round that brings its valuation to $1.2 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst led the Series C round, which also saw the participation of existing investors CEAS Investments and Matrix ...
Diamanti makes it possible to migrate and replicate stateful Kubernetes apps
Hyperconverged infrastructure company Diamanti Inc. said today it’s updating its foundational software with the ability to migrate and replicate “stateful applications” based on the Kubernetes container orchestration software. Diamanti sells hardware and software for companies that want to run container workloads on-premises within their own data centers. Software containers are used to host the components ...
Amazon releases CodeGuru, which uses machine learning to optimize code
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its new Amazon CodeGuru service, which relies on machine learning to automatically check code for bugs and suggest fixes, is now generally available. Amazon announced the tool in preview at its AWS re:Invent event in December. “It’s challenging to have enough experienced developers with enough free time to do ...
Google’s Bare Metal Solution arrives in more cloud regions
Google LLC said today it’s expanding availability of its Bare Metal Solution to five new regions, and that it will add four more sites before the end of the year. Announced in November, Google’s Bare Metal Solution provides access to specialized hardware for running workloads such as Oracle databases close to Google Cloud infrastructure. The ...
Micron stock jumps on strong memory chip demand
Micron Technology Inc.‘s stock jumped almost 6% in after-hours trading today after the memory chipmaker reporting third-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company also posted guidance for its fiscal fourth quarter that came in well ahead of analysts’ estimates. For the third quarter, Micron reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
