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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 ...
Accenture, AMD, Facebook and Nvidia sign up to advance ‘Confidential Computing’
An industry group called the Confidential Computing Consortium, which aims to standardize the way that data is encrypted while in use, said today it’s adding 10 more members to its community. The Linux Foundation-backed project said it’s welcoming a raft of big names to its community, including Accenture Plc, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Facebook Inc. ...
AMD latest chips smash power efficiency goals set in 2014
Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today it has met a target it set for itself back in 2014 to boost the power efficiency of its Accelerated Processing Units by 25 times by 2020. In fact, the company said, it has beaten that target by some distance, claiming that its latest Ryzen 7 4800H mobile processors ...
Gartner says container adoption will grow rapidly, but it won’t be that profitable
Gartner Inc. today delivered its first-ever forecast for the software container management software and services market, saying that although adoption of the technology will be widespread, it’s unlikely to generate massive amounts of cash. Software containers have enjoyed massive growth in recent years. Popular with developers, they provide way for applications to be built once and ...
Databricks hands its MLflow machine learning platform to the Linux Foundation
Databricks Inc., the big-data and machine learning company that leads the commercial development of Apache Spark, today put its MLflow project into the hands of the Linux Foundation. MLflow is a machine learning operations or MLOps platform that the company first open-sourced two years ago. The software gives developers a programmatic way to handle all of the ...