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Qubole teams up with Snowflake Computing to enable faster training of AI models
Having tackled the challenge of making the big-data management software Hadoop easier to user and providing more organizations with access to comprehensive data analytics, Qubole Inc. now wants to do the same with the streaming data management software Apache Spark. To that end, the company today said it’s teaming up with cloud data warehouse firm ...
Deepfence pitches ‘security as a microservice’ to shore up container defenses
Application security startup Deepfence Inc. is pitching a novel way to protect software containers with the launch today of a new “Security-as-a-Microservice” product. Software containers are an emerging technology increasingly popular with developers and large enterprises in general, because they provide an easy way to build applications that can run on any hardware or operating ...
Google brings its Accelerated Mobile Pages feature to email
Google LLC is expanding the capabilities of its open-source Accelerated Mobile Pages framework that’s designed to make mobile web pages more interactive and faster to load. The AMP framework was initially targeted at publishers as a way of making their content more accessible, and now Google wants to bring its features to email as well. ...
Pivotal Software and VMware launch new container service
Pivotal Software Inc. and its Dell Technologies Inc. sibling VMware Inc. today announced the general availability of their Kubernetes-based Pivotal Container Service following an initial beta release last year. PKS, as the service is called, is designed to enable companies easily create software containers, which bundle software applications together in a way that they can be run ...
Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for HPC environments
Startup Sylabs Inc. today announced the commercial release of its open-source Singularity container engine software for high-performance computing. Called Singularity Pro, the platform has been optimized specifically for running software containers on HPC infrastructure, or supercomputers that aggregate computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could get out of a typical ...
Amazon adds encryption at rest to DynamoDB database service
Amazon Web Services Inc. today added a new encryption feature to its DynamoDB database service in order to help better secure users’ data. DynamoDB is Amazon’s NoSQL database service, which is designed for storing and retrieving unstructured data, and is typically used for big-data workloads and analysis. With the new update, Amazon says users can choose ...
LinkedIn open-sources Dynamometer, a new tool for testing big-data performance
Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking site LinkedIn is open-sourcing another new project. Dynamometer is a new tool is focused around stress-testing large Hadoop big-data deployments without using massive amounts of infrastructure. In a blog post today, LinkedIn senior software engineer Erik Krogen said the company built Dynamometer back in 2015 in response to an issue that cropped up when it ...
Periscope Data adds support for Python and R programming languages
Data analytics software provider Periscope Data Inc. is updating its Unified Data Platform with support for the Python and R programming languages, as well as the Structured Query Language that’s used for managing relational databases. With the update, Periscope users will be able to perform far more complex statistical analyses and visualize the results of ...
Flash memory chip prices to stabilize in 2018 thanks to more production
Technology firms’ spending on semiconductors rose by 17 percent in 2017 thanks to rising demand for memory chips for data centers and “internet of things” devices, but to the likely relief of buyers, the hot market is likely to cool this year. The chip market is likely to see a further increase in spending in ...
Workday creates $250M venture fund for emerging tech such as AI and blockchain
Cloud business software provider Workday Inc. has become the latest technology firm to create its own investment arm. The company today announced the launch of a $250 million venture fund that will focus on new technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning and augmented and virtual reality. Workday said the launch of its new venture fund builds ...