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Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield exits stealth
Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with a suite of tools it says companies can use to safeguard computer systems and other devices from quantum-based attacks. It also announced £5.5 million ($6.8 million) in seed funding from backers including Kindred Capital, Crane Venture Partners, Oxford Sciences Innovation and angel investor ...
Nvidia’s latest A100 graphics processor debuts on Google Cloud
Nvidia Corp. today announced the availability of its latest high-performance graphics processing unit on Google LLC’s public cloud platform. The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family on Google’s Compute Engine service. The company claims the new chip, built using Nvidia’s next-generation Ampere architecture, ...
VMware’s Contour becomes the CNCF’s latest incubation-level project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation said today it has accepted Contour, an open-source ingress controller for Kubernetes, as its latest incubation-level project. Contour was first built by a company called Heptio Inc., which was later acquired by VMware Inc. It’s designed as an easy-to-use control plane for Envoy, a popular edge and service proxy for ...
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 ...