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Google debuts Memorystore for Memcached in beta test
Google LLC is making life easier for people using the open-source Memcached in-memory data store, announcing today a new, fully managed service that reduces the burden of infrastructure management and maintenance. Memcached is a popular in-memory data store that’s used to accelerate workloads such as application programming interface rate limiting, gaming leaderboards, session stores, streaming analytics ...
Autonomous driving startup Phantom AI raises $22M
Autonomous driving startup Phantom AI says it’s on a mission to democratize the use of driver assistance and safety technology after announcing today it has raised $22 million in a new round of funding. Celeres Investments led the Series A round, which also saw the participation of Ford Motor Co. and KT Corp., the largest telecommunications ...
AMD’s 2nd Gen EPYC processor chips to power IBM’s cloud servers
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is expanding its presence in the cloud computing market, teaming up with IBM Corp. to make its latest central processing units available on IBM Cloud’s bare-metal servers. The announcement is yet another milestone for AMD, which has in the last year has managed to break rival chipmaker Intel Corp.’s stranglehold ...
Rancher Labs’ new release scales Kubernetes to the network edge
Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. is looking to extend deployments of Kubernetes beyond data centers and cloud-native architectures. The company sells a lightweight Kubernetes distribution called K3s that’s meant to address growing demand for smaller clusters running on x86, Arm64 and Armv7 processors in edge computing environments. Kubernetes is the most popular tool ...
Amazon’s Detective service for investigating security incidents now generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its new security service Amazon Detective is now generally available, three months after it was launched in preview. Announced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas in December, Amazon Detective uses artificial intelligence, statistical analysis and graph theory to boost alert systems. It does so by providing details ...
In coronavirus fallout, Xerox abandons its bid to acquire HP
Xerox Corp. said late today it has decided to give up its pursuit of printing business rival HP Inc. because of the ongoing economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it will formally withdraw its tender offer to acquire HP, as well as its proposal to replace HP’s board of directors with nominees ...
New PlanetScaleDB release delivers multicloud support
Database-as-a-service provider PlanetScale Inc. today launched a new version of its product based on the Kubernetes container orchestration software. The database, called PlanetScaleDB, is unique in that it can run across multiple public cloud platforms, helping to insure against any loss of service if one cloud provider goes down. “With the new release of PlanetScaleDB, we’re ...
D-Wave offers free quantum computing resources to coronavirus researchers
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc. is the latest technology firm to volunteer its expertise to researchers working on a response to the coronavirus outbreak. The company announced today the immediate availability of free access to its quantum systems via its Leap quantum cloud service. D-Wave is well placed to help out with coronavirus research, ...
Micro Focus announces major update to its Vertica data analytics platform
Micro Focus International plc-owned Vertica today announced a major update to its Vertica 10 Analytics Platform. The platform now offers new features aimed at facilitating machine learning, plus more storage options for Vertica in Eon Mode, a version of the product that leverages elastic compute and scalable storage capabilities in the cloud. The announcement came ahead ...
DataStax debuts Kubernetes operator to scale up Cassandra databases
Database company DataStax Inc. today announced the release of code for an Apache Cassandra Kubernetes operator it has developed, with a goal to help enterprises scale out their cloud-native databases. The company said the Cassandra Kubernetes operator is being made available for the whole of the Cassandra community to use. Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed ...