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Google announces beta of Istio service mesh on its Kubernetes Engine
Google LLC has just announced beta availability of what it says is a critical tool for managing a relatively new kind of software emerging in the cloud computing era. The public cloud computing giant is one of the main developers of Istio, the open-source “service mesh” is used to connect, manage and secure microservices, which in ...
Oracle pitches new serverless computing options for developers
Oracle Corp. is pitching a new serverless computing platform under the umbrella of its Cloud Native Framework services bundle, which was released today. The serverless offering, called Oracle Functions, is based on the open source Fn Project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The Fn project is a cloud-agnostic serverless platform that’s designed to ...
Application monitoring startup LogDNA lands $25M round
Application and infrastructure monitoring company LogDNA Inc. is hoping to play with the big boys after landing a new $25 million round of funding. Announced today, the Series B round was led by new investor Emergence Capital, with participation from Initialized Capital, Y Combinator Continuity Growth, and Providence Equity. LogDNA might not be such a well-known ...
Streamlio brings Apache Pulsar to Google’s cloud
Startup Streamlio Inc. is making its Apache Pulsar-based publish-and-subscribe messaging platform available as a cloud-native “Kubernetes application” on the Google Cloud Platform. The Streamlio Community Edition is a fast, highly scalable and low-latency messaging platform that provides a way for software applications to communicate with one another. It runs on commodity hardware and provides both ...
Pivot3 automates data protection for hyperconverged infrastructures
Hyperconverged infrastructure company Pivot3 Inc. today said it’s adding new policy-based security capabilities to its platform, with an aim to help its users to automate the process of protecting sensitive data. Pivot3’s Intelligence Engine is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform that integrates data center resources such as compute, storage and virtualization into a single system, so they ...
Iguazio and Google partner on retail inventory tracking system at the cloud’s edge
Data analytics company Iguazio Systems Ltd. is teaming up with Google LLC and Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd. to provide real-time supply chain and inventory management services for the retail sector. Iguazio sells a serverless data platform-as-a-service product that’s focused on delivering real-time intelligence at the network edge. It consolidates data into a repository and makes it ...
Mirantis brings Kubernetes to bare-metal servers
Private cloud infrastructure company Mirantis Inc. today updated its Mirantis Cloud Platform, enabling its customers to run Kubernetes on bare-metal servers or in on-premises data centers for the first time. Mirantis launched its Cloud Platform back in April 2017, delivering OpenStack, the private cloud platform, and Kubernetes, the container orchestration software, as a single integrated package ...
Twistlock moves to address hybrid cloud security worries
Container security startup Twistlock Ltd. wants to provide more safeguards for enterprises that run hybrid cloud information technology environments. The new Twistlock 18.11 release gives companies a way to discover which cloud-native services they’re running across multiple clouds so they can better protect themselves against threats across these environments. In addition, the company is throwing in some new ...
Network switches and router market delivers biggest-ever quarterly sales
The market for networking switches and routers has just seen its biggest-ever quarterly sales, with third-quarter revenue topping the $11 billion mark for the first time, according to data from Synergy Research Group. The analyst firm said today it reckons the market has grown by just 1 percent overall this year, so it’s not exactly ...
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8cx processor for Windows 10 laptops
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. made its name as the world’s biggest suppliers of microprocessor chips, but in recent years the company has taken a shot across the bow of Intel Corp., muscling into its territory with a class of chips designed to power personal computers. Today, the company stepped up its Intel attack with a brand-new ...
