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Equinix says its bare metal service Equinix Metal is up and running
Data center infrastructure company Equinix Inc. said today it’s launching a new, fully automated and interconnected bare-metal computing service for its customers, based on the technology it obtained from Packet Hosting Inc. earlier this year. Equinix is a provider of digital infrastructure and colocation services. It owns a number of huge data centers that are ...
Intel and Sandia National Laboratories to collaborate on neuromorphic computing research
Intel Corp. said today it’s expanding its research efforts on future semiconductor technologies with the U.S. government’s National Nuclear Security Administration, signing a three-year deal with Sandia National Laboratories to explore the value of “neuromorphic computing” for scaled-up computational problems. Neuromorphic computing refers to a new method of computer engineering that’s modeled on the human ...
Cisco buys Kubernetes security startup Portshift
Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s expanding its reach into container management and DevOps security through the acquisition of Israeli startup Portshift Ltd. for an undisclosed amount. Portshift has built a Kubernetes-native security platform that’s focused on securing container applications for DevOps teams, Cisco said. Kubernetes is open-source software that’s used to manage large numbers of software ...
Nokia adds extreme automation to 4G and 5G network slicing
Nokia Corp, said today it’s adding new 4G and 5G network slicing automation capabilities that will make it faster for telecommunications firms to deliver new services to customers. Network slicing is used to optimize the allocation of networking resources to increase efficiency. It works by separating the control plane, which is the part of a ...
IBM sends its open-source space technology into orbit
IBM Corp. is getting into the space race. The company announced two new open-source projects today that are aimed at solving the growing problem of “space junk” and also help startups to build applications for satellite constellations. According to IBM, there are tens of thousands of human-made anthropogenic space objects, or ASOs, whizzing around the Earth, and ...
API infrastructure startup Solo.io raises $23M in Series B round
Cloud-native software company Solo.io Inc. said today it has bagged $23 million in new funding. The Series B round was led by Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures, bringing its total amount raised to $37 million to date. Solo was founded in 2017 and sells software that helps enterprises address the challenge of implementing microservices, which are ...
Despite challenges, enterprise software startups weather COVID-19 storm
The COVID-19 pandemic has had some far-reaching consequences for software companies, but overall the sector has managed to weather the storm by adjusting to a new normal of remote work and keeping costs down. That’s according to the findings of a new study by the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates, which surveyed companies across ...
Amazon brings its S3 storage service to AWS Outposts
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its Amazon Simple Storage Service is now generally available on its hybrid cloud service AWS Outposts. Announced during AWS re:Invent back in December, Outposts is a hybrid cloud platform that extends native AWS or VMware Cloud on AWS deployments to customers’ own data centers, effectively giving them an on-premises ...
TigerGraph debuts a free, full-featured on-premises version of its platform
TigerGraph Inc. announced at its Graph + AI World 2020 virtual conference today that it’s launching TigerGraph On Prem Free Tier, a new, free on-premises version of its platform for companies that want to try out the capabilities of its graph database offering. TigerGraph’s graph database is a kind of NoSQL database that represents data as connected ...
AI chipmaker Hailo accelerates deep learning at the edge
Artificial intelligence chip company Hailo Technologies Ltd. said today it’s launching two new acceleration modules that will boost the processing capabilities of edge devices that run its specialist hardware. Hailo burst onto the AI scene in 2019 with a customized processor for running deep learning workloads at the edge of the network. The company, which ...