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F5 Networks debuts new tool to protect against fake web traffic
With a new security service introduced today, network traffic management company F5 Networks Inc. said it’s helping its enterprise customers to protect themselves against malicious bots and other types of automated attacks on their websites. The fully managed service, called Silverline Shape Defense, is based on technology F5 acquired when it paid about $1 billion ...
Samsung expects second-quarter profits to grow 22% on chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. saw its stock price waver early today despite issuing strong second-quarter preliminary earnings guidance that comfortably beat analysts’ forecasts. The company said later Mondday that its operating profit is expected to rise by almost 23% to 8.1 trillion won (about $6.8 billion) compared with the same period a year ago. That’s well ...
AWS Outposts adds support for managed cloud database services
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its hybrid cloud platform AWS Outposts now supports its Amazon Relational Database Service, making it possible for customers to create RDS database instances inside their own data centers. Announced during the AWS re:Invent conference back in December, Outposts extends native AWS or VMware Cloud on AWS deployments to customers’ ...
Privacy advocates urge closer scrutiny of Google’s Fitbit acquisition
Google LLC’s proposed $2.1 billion acquisition of wearable fitness tracker device company Fitbit Inc. is coming under more scrutiny after several consumer advocacy groups from around the world joined forces to demand a closer investigation of the deal. Reuters reported today that the groups said they’re concerned that the acquisition of Fitbit could lead to ...
VMware buys Blue Medora’s True Visibility business unit
Software virtualization giant VMware Inc. today announced its second acquisition in as many days, saying it intends to buy the team and technology behind Blue Medora Inc.’s True Visibility Suite. The idea with the acquisition is to improve the self-driving operations capabilities of VMware’s artificial intelligence-powered vRealize Operations product, which helps information technology teams to run ...
Peter Thiel-backed defense technology startup Anduril raises $200M
Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. said today it has raised $200 million in a new funding round that takes its valuation to $1.9 billion. The funds, which came from several venture capital firms, including Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, will enable the company to expand its work with the U.S. military, Bloomberg ...
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 ...