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Structured Query Language-based security analytics firm Uptycs Inc. said today it has raised a new round of $30 million. The Series B round of funding brings its total amount raised to date to $43 million. Sapphire Ventures led the latest round, which …
Palo Alto Networks debuts its machine learning-powered next-generation firewall
Network security platform provider Palo Alto Networks Inc. is expanding its product portfolio with the launch of what it says is the world’s first machine learning-powered Next-Generation Firewall. In addition, it also announced a version of the firewall for Kubernetes apps that …
Oracle beats revenue target but misses on profit
Database giant Oracle Corp.’s stock fell in after-hours trading today after it reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ targets. Not surprisingly, the database and business software giant blamed the shortfall on customers in certain industries affected by COVID-19, such as hospitality …
Google debuts new scale-out cloud storage tier for high-performance workloads
Google Cloud today announced beta availability of Filestore High Scale, a new file storage tier that adds a scale-out storage capability for customers running high-performance computing workloads. Described as the next step in the evolution of Google’s Cloud Filestore service, Filestore High …
Cisco boosts Webex capacity and security to support remote workforces
Cisco Systems Inc. announced some key updates to its Webex communications and collaboration platform at its Cisco Live digital event today, adding more security and compliance tools and integrating it with Box Inc.’s cloud content management services. Cisco said the updates are …
Box Relay gets pre-built templates to streamline workflow automation
Cloud content management company Box Inc. today added new features to its Box Relay workflow automation tools aimed partly at boosting collaboration and security for people working from home. Launched in 2016, Box Relay provides workers with tools to manage and track …
PlanetScale debuts fully managed database service for Kubernetes clusters
Database-as-a-service company PlanetScale Inc. today launched a new version of its database for Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration software. The beta version of PlanetScaleDB for Kubernetes gives organizations an easy way to run their database alongside their applications in the cloud, while ensuring all …
IBM buys Spanugo to bolster its financial services public cloud
IBM Corp. said today it’s acquiring the software assets of cloud cybersecurity posture management provider Spanugo Inc. It will use the assets to bolster the security of its financial services public cloud, which is an upcoming offering announced last year that will …
Amazon rolls out cloud computing instances with faster Arm-based Graviton processors
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced Thursday the general availability of two new cloud computing instances powered by its Arm-based Graviton2 processors, which it says deliver up to 40% better price/performance over its current Intel Corp. x86-based instances. The new AWS C6g instances …
Intel loses ‘rock star’ chip designer Jim Keller
Intel Corp. has lost one of its most talented chip engineers. Jim Keller, who joined the company from Tesla Inc. two years ago, has resigned from the company citing “personal reasons,” the tech giant said today. Keller (pictured) joined Intel in 2018 …