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Application monitoring firm New Relic Inc. today debuted new artificial intelligence operations capabilities aimed at helping DevOps, network operations and site reliability engineering teams to identify and resolve problems with their information technology infrastructure more quickly. The idea is to boost the capabilities of New …
Seeqc raises $5M to develop a hybrid quantum computer
New York-based quantum computing startup Seeqc Inc. today said it has closed on a $5 million round of funding from M Ventures, the venture capital arm of German pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. As part of the deal, Merck will become a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …