Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Cloud communications company 8×8 acquires Wavecell

By Mike Wheatley Jul 17, 2019

8×8 Inc. said today it’s acquiring Wavecell Co. Ltd., which sells a Communications Platform-as-a-Service offering, for about $125 million. 8×8 sells a variety of chat, contact center, voice and video communications tools to enterprises,…

Cloud

Dropbox integrates with popular media services

By Mike Wheatley Jul 17, 2019

Cloud storage company Dropbox Inc. is expanding its strategy of closer collaboration with other service providers, announcing new integrations with various popular audio, video and transcription tools. The company said today that it’s integrating…

Policy

Google has abandoned Project Dragonfly, the censored search engine for China

By Mike Wheatley Jul 17, 2019

Google LLC this week revealed that the company has stopped working on Project Dragonfly, which was said to be an effort to build a censored version of its search engine specifically for China. The…

AI

Uber unveils a conversational AI platform called Plato

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

Uber Technology Inc. has open-sourced a conversational artificial intelligence engine called the Plato Research Dialog System that’s set to compete with similar offerings such as Google LLC’s Dialogflow, Microsoft Corp.’s Bot Framework, and Amazon.com…

Infra

Arm lets startups try before they buy with new Flexible Access IP licensing

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

British semiconductor design firm Arm Ltd. today pitched a new licensing option without any upfront costs for startups and other smaller companies that want to build central processing units and systems-on-a-chip using its chip blueprints. Intellectual…

Cloud

With new application service, Pivotal lets developers go ‘all-in’ on Kubernetes

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

Pivotal Software Inc. is doubling down on the popular Kubernetes container orchestration service with the alpha release today of a new version of its Pivotal Application Service. Pivotal Application Service is a software application…

Security

Symantec beefs up its cloud access tools to support ‘zero-trust’ security

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

Cybersecurity company Symantec Corp. is enhancing the cloud access controls in its Integrated Cyber Defense Platform today, giving enterprises a way to enforce so-called zero-trust security policies that govern how their cloud-based information technology systems are accessed.…

Cloud

Cohesity launches Runbook app to automate cloud workflow migration

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

Data storage company Cohesity Inc. has created a new application that gives enterprises a better template for moving workloads between on-premises information technology environments and the public cloud. The new app announced today, Cohesity Runbook,…

Apps

IBM open-sources Kabanero tools for collaborating on Kubernetes apps

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

IBM Corp. today pitched a new open-source project intended to help architects, developers and operations teams collaborate more closely on building Kubernetes-based software applications. The project, introduced at the O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference in Portland,…

Big Data

Behavioral data company Near lands $100M funding round

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

Big data analytics company Near Pte Ltd., which owns what it says is the world’s largest datasets on people’s behavior, is gearing up for expansion after landing $100 million in a new round of…

Mike Wheatley

Google has abandoned Project Dragonfly, the censored search engine for China

Uber unveils a conversational AI platform called Plato

Arm lets startups try before they buy with new Flexible Access IP licensing

Behavioral data company Near lands $100M funding round

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