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Gartner now says global semiconductor revenue will decline in 2020
Research firm Gartner Inc. today revised its forecast for the global semiconductor market, saying it now expects revenues to decline as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Gartner had previously forecast the semiconductor industry to grow by around 12.5% this year, but it now says the market will decline 0.9%, representing a percentage change of 11.6 points. Gartner ...
CNCF to host Dragonfly, a cloud-native file distribution system for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing today announced its second incubation-level hosted project this week: Dragonfly, an open-source, cloud-native image and file distribution system for Kubernetes users. Dragonfly was created in 2015 by engineers at Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The goal was to improve the way images and files are distributed ...
Mozilla names Chairwoman Mitchell Baker its new CEO
Mozilla Corp., the nonprofit group behind the open-source Firefox browser, today named Chairwoman Mitchell Baker its new chief executive officer. She replaces former CEO Chris Beard, who stepped down at the end of last year. The appointment of Baker (pictured) is a logical choice for Mozilla given that she has been with the organization since 2003. ...
Amazon makes massive dataset available to coronavirus researchers
Amazon Web Services Inc. is throwing more resources at the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, hosting and curating a massive public dataset relating to the coronavirus. The company announced today that it’s making available an AWS COVID-19 dataset, which it says is a centralized repository of data and other information regarding the spread of the novel ...
Sysdig brings its monitoring capabilities to IBM’s public cloud
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today expanded its integration with IBM Corp. to include the breadth of its cloud services, infrastructure and application development tools. The expanded integration gives admins and developers access to a fully managed, enterprise-grade monitoring service that spans IBM’s entire public cloud portfolio. Sysdig sells tools for securing container environments that are used to host ...
Box’s Shield security service gets new malware detection tools
Cloud storage company Box Inc. today added new automated malware detection and controls to its Box Shield security tools, which are used to protect content hosted in its cloud. Box Shield, announced last August and launched in December, enables company administrators to protect their data by automatically or manually setting security classifications and policies for specific types of files ...
Solo.io open-sources its Service Mesh Hub for microservices
Cloud-native software company Solo.io Inc. said today it’s open-sourcing an internal project called Service Mesh Hub, which provides a unified dashboard for companies that want to install, operate and extend a single service mesh or group of meshes. Founded in 2017, Solo is a company that sells software that helps to address the challenges faced ...
Cisco buys Fluidmesh Networks to boost IoT connectivity
Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. today revealed its intent to acquire Fluidmesh Networks LLC, which makes a wireless backhaul system for connecting “internet of things” devices. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Cisco was keen to impress on the value of Fluidmesh’s technology, which enables zero loss of data transfer when assets such ...
Linux Foundation to host seL4, a secure operating system for critical computing systems
The Linux Foundation said today it’s hosting an initiative called the seL4 Foundation, a nonprofit organization that’s behind the development of the seL4 microkernel that aims to ensure the reliability, safety and security of critical computer systems. The seL4 Foundation was founded by Data61, which is the digital research arm of Australia’s national science agency, ...
Healthcare security provider CyberMDX raises $20M
Cybersecurity startup CyberMDX Technologies Inc. reckons it can take some of the pressure off healthcare providers after raising $20 million in funding. The round, announced today, was led by Sham (Relyens Group), while existing investors Pitango Venture Capital and Qure Ventures also participated. CyberMDX sells risk management and security software that helps healthcare organizations secure ...