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Lenovo announces new advisory services and updates to its HCI stack
Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced a slate of new advisory services for customers that need help with their digital transformations. The new services were introduced alongside a number of updates to the company’s hyperconverged infrastructure platforms. Among the consulting services are Principal Consultant-led workshops, which Lenovo described as collaborative “white boarding sessions” that will help ...
Arm unveils Armv9 architecture for its next generation of processor chips
The British chip designer Arm Holdings Ltd. introduced a roadmap for its next-generation central processing unit architecture today. Its new breed of chips will be optimized for specialized workloads such as artificial intelligence and digital signal processing and come with greater security built right into the silicon. Arm, which is in the process of being acquired ...
Cloud data backup and recovery firm HYCU lands big Series A funding round
The previously self-funded multicloud data backup and recovery-as-a-service provider HYCU Inc. has gotten its first dose of venture capital, and it’s a hefty amount for a Series A funding round, coming in at $87.5 million. Today’s round was led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Acrew Capital and is said to reinforce HCYU’s “leading ...
Cisco brings passwordless authentication to its Secure Access Service Edge network security tools
Cisco Systems Inc. said today that it’s expanding its Secure Access Service Edge portfolio to help network operations and security operations teams connect users to the applications they work with in a more secure way. The new additions to Cisco SASE come alongside a big update to Cisco’s cloud-native security platform SecureX, providing teams with ...
At Cisco Live, networking giant doubles down on its new architecture for the 5G era
Cisco Systems Inc. is forging ahead with its new networking architecture that it says will be essential for enterprises to deal with the massive surge in internet traffic that’s set to be ushered in by the 5G era. The company’s Routed Optical Networking infrastructure is designed to simplify the sprawling networks that have emerged with ...
Open-source AsyncAPI Initiative to be hosted by the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation said today that it has agreed to host a promising open-source project known as the AsyncAPI Initiative that has already been put to use by several big enterprise technology firms. The AsyncAPI Initiative includes both a specification and a set of open-source tools that are designed to work with asynchronous application programming ...
Google and Albertsons to use AI and cloud to enable more convenient grocery shopping services
Google LLC said today it’s partnering with the grocery and pharmacy firm Albertsons Companies Inc. to try to make food shopping easier and more convenient. Yet another showcase for Google Cloud’s capabilities, the partnership will make use of a wide gamut of its technologies. For example, under the multiyear partnership, the companies will use Google ...
Replicated open-sources its Outdated container image alert tool
On-premises software delivery company Replicated Inc. is beefing up security for cloud-native applications with the launch today of a free and open-source image version alert tool called Outdated that helps enterprises ensure they’re running the most up-to-date versions of their container images. Replicated sells tools that help enterprises run cloud-native apps based on Kubernetes on ...
Google bets on ‘systems on chip’ to power its next-generation cloud compute infrastructure
Google LLC today outlined its vision for custom computing, revealing that it’s planning to embrace a “systems on chip” infrastructure to replace the traditional motherboard as a key integration point. Up until now, Google has relied on the venerable motherboard to integrate the various components of its compute infrastructure, including its central processing units, networking, ...
Domo’s BI platform gets a dose of multicloud and embedded analytics
Business intelligence platform provider Domo Inc. announced a major platform update today at its Domopalooza 2021 virtual user conference, with enhanced embedded analytics capabilities, more multicloud proficiency and an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. among the highlights. The new capabilities in Domo Everywhere, the company’s hub of embedded analytics tools, are supposed to ...