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Data catalog company Alation lands $50M funding round
Big-data company Alation Inc. has just landed a hefty $50 million later-stage round of funding as it looks to help more enterprises access corporate information buried deep within their computer systems. Sapphire Ventures is the main investor in the Series C round announced today, which also saw the participation of existing investors Costanoa Venture Capital, Data ...
Amazon announces automated AWS Backup service
Amazon Web Services Inc. says its customers will be able to automate the backup of data from both AWS services and on-premises systems faster and more easily with a new service called AWS Backup. Announced late today, the service enables data to be backed up across multiple cloud services, including block storage, databases, file systems and ...
Google hikes the price of annual G Suite subscriptions
Google LLC has decided to increase the subscription fees for some of its G Suite business packages. It’s said to be the first time ever that Google has increased its prices for G Suite, which is a set of productivity tools that competes with Microsoft Corp.’s Office 365 suite. The hikes mean that G Suite ...
Huawei under investigation by the DOJ over alleged theft of trade secrets
China’s beleaguered telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is in hot water again, the subject of a new investigation by federal prosecutors over allegations that it stole trade secrets from U.S. firms. The Wall Street Journal said the probe is already at an advanced stage, and that Huawei could soon find itself being indicted over the ...
Nvidia brings its Tesla T4 GPUs for machine learning to Google’s cloud
Google LLC today announced it’s making Nvidia Corp.’s low-power Tesla T4 graphics processing units available on its cloud platform in beta test mode. The move is significant because Nvidia’s GPUs are the most popular hardware used for machine learning. That’s a subset of artificial intelligence that uses software to emulate roughly how the human brain ...
Incident response platform provider PagerDuty files for IPO
Incident response startup PagerDuty Inc. has just filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a report late today in Bloomberg. The report cites “two people familiar with the matter” as saying that PagerDuty has chosen Morgan Stanley to lead the IPO. What isn’t clear is when PagerDuty plans to launch its offering, since the ...
Google to update G Suite apps with Material Design theme
Google LLC’s G Suite web apps are getting a shiny new makeover along the lines of its Material Design theme. The update, affecting Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, will be rolled out to G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, G Suite for Education, G Suite Enterprise for Education and G Suite ...
Loon hires advisers to commercialize its balloon-based internet technology
Loon LLC, a subsidiary of Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc., has appointed a new advisory board as it looks to commercialize its stratospheric balloon technology that delivers internet connectivity to remote areas. In order to do that, the company has decided that the best way is to partner with mobile network operators or MNOs ...
Micron to buy Intel’s stake in 3D XPoint joint venture for $1.5B
Computer chip maker Micron Technology Inc. Monday confirmed plans to buy out rival Intel Corp.’s stake in their flash memory joint venture company IM Flash Technologies for $1.5 billion. The IM Flash joint venture owns a foundry in Lehi, Utah, which was setup in 2005 and is the world’s only producer of 3D XPoint memory technology. It’s a nonvolatile or ...
Google extends Android Enterprise Recommended program to mobility management firms
Google LLC today expanded its Android Enterprise Recommended program to so-called Enterprise Mobility Management providers that help large businesses manage and enable Android services at large scale. The Android Enterprise Recommended program was opened to smartphone makers last year, detailing several common requirements for devices and services deemed essential for business users, which are backed ...
