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CockroachDB 2.0 lands just in time to help companies comply with EU’s GDPR regulations
The company behind the highly scalable CockroachDB SQL database has announced its second major release of the platform. Cockroach Labs Inc. said that with the update, CockroachDB 2.0 can now handle ten-times the throughput of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Aurora database. In addition, the platform also gains new compliance features that helps customers adhere to ...
Apple has just hired Google’s former AI and search chief John Giannandrea
In a big addition to its artificial intelligence efforts, Apple Inc. today said that it has hired John Giannandrea, Google LLC’s former head of search and AI. News of the hire comes just a day after Google said Giannandrea (pictured) was “stepping down” from his role at the company, with his duties being taken over ...
Google is building a new undersea cable linking Australia to Japan
Google LLC is expanding its undersea cable infrastructure, making a significant investment in a new network that will link Australia with Japan via the U.S. island territory of Guam. In a blog post published early Wednesday, Michael D. Francois, Google’s head of global network infrastructure, said the new Japan-Guam-Australia Cable System will hook up with ...
Big-data bomb: Cloudera’s stock crashes 40% on slower-growth outlook
Big-data management company Cloudera Inc. saw its stock take a huge beating in after-hours trading, falling by more than 28 percent thanks to lower-than-expected guidance on revenue growth this year. Update: On Wednesday, investors hammered shares even harder, as the stock fell 40 percent for the day. The company reported a loss after certain costs ...
Alcide launches security platform to safeguard multicloud IT environments
Cybersecurity startup Alcide, a subsidiary of Alcid.IO Ltd., said today that its new network-based security platform designed to safeguard hybrid and multicloud environments is now generally available. Alcide’s cloud-native security platform is designed to protect modern data center environments, including software containers, virtual machines, bare metal servers and serverless infrastructure. The platform works by monitoring ...
Google’s search and AI chief John Giannandrea steps down
Google LLC is shaking things up at the executive level amid reports that its search and artificial intelligence chief John Giannandrea is stepping down. Computer scientist Giannandrea (pictured) took over the unit when Google’s search and AI divisions were merged in February 2016. Now, with his departure, Google is splitting the two groups up again ...
Microsoft finally brings availability zones to the Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp. last week switched on the first availability zones for its Azure cloud platform, providing new backup and reliability options for customers running workloads in its data centers in Iowa and Paris. The move follows an announcement last year that the company was introducing availability zones in preview. In a blog post Friday, Tom Keane, ...
No flash in the pan: Memory chip revenues could see record growth in 2018
The global semiconductor industry recorded its best year in more than a decade in 2017, with annual revenue jumping by 22 percent over the previous year, to $429.1 billion. That’s according to new data from the U.K.-based analyst firm IHS Markit Ltd., which attributed the rise to a massive spike in demand for processing power ...
CNCF adds 3 new open-source projects aimed at boosting container security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced it’s taking three new open-source projects under its protective wing. The new projects include the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, or “SPIFFE,” and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment, known simply as “SPIRE.” The other new project is called the Open Policy Agent or OPA. All three are said to ...
Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types
Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places. The geography and stocks data types allow users to pull information from Microsoft’s extensive Knowledge Graph and insert it inside their spreadsheets. The general idea is to make Excel ...
