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New Relic buys CoScale to expand its Kubernetes monitoring tools
Software analytics leader New Relic Inc. today said it has acquired a Belgian startup called CoScale NV, which sells software for monitoring software container environments with a specific focus on Kubernetes. New Relic sells a digital intelligence platform that lets developers, operations and tech teams measure and monitor the performance of their applications and infrastructure. It ...
Google extends its identity and access management services to developers and legacy apps
Google LLC today extended the identity and access management features of its public cloud computing platform to developers, allowing them to build the same capabilities into their own applications. It’s also bringing those features to more traditional applications, enabling secure access to these via a single identity and access management platform. The updates build on ...
Google updates its cloud with new networking tools
Google LLC is adding new capabilities to its cloud networking portfolio in order to help customers manage, secure and modernize their applications more easily. The new features unveiled at Google’s Cloud Next conference in London early Thursday may not set the world alight, but they should help to give information technology admins more peace of ...
Cloud Foundry expands support for Kubernetes-based containers
The Cloud Foundry Foundation today said it’s adopting a pair of open-source projects to help integrate the Kubernetes container orchestrator with its namesake application development platform. The foundation is the governing body that leads the development of Cloud Foundry, which is a cloud platform as a service used by developers to build, deploy, run and scale ...
ServiceNow buys FriendlyData to boost its natural language processing skills
Workflow automation software company ServiceNow Inc. today made another acquisition, buying a startup called FriendlyData Inc. that has built a natural language interface for querying databases. FriendlyData’s interface does what its name suggests, making it easier for business workers without technical skills to query data in plain English and obtain insights. ServiceNow, which didn’t disclose the value ...
With a new $100 million fund, Micron plans to invest in AI startups and diversity
Computer chip maker Micron Technology Inc. said today it will throw $100 million at artificial intelligence startups as it seeks to create new markets for its semiconductor technology. The company announced the new fund during the opening day of its inaugural Micron Insight 2018 conference in San Francisco this week. It said the plan is to invest ...
CNEX Labs lands $23M funding round to optimize solid-state storage
Storage semiconductor startup CNEX Labs Inc. today said it has landed $23 million in a late-stage round of funding as it presses ahead with the development of a unique architecture for solid-state drive storage controllers that provide better optimization of flash memory. SSD controllers are a specialized type of processor that’s used by computers to communicate ...
Tresata becomes the latest tech unicorn after landing $50M in funding
Big data analytics company Tresata Inc. today said it has become the latest tech “unicorn” after securing $50 million in growth capital investment from GCP Capital Partners, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. Tresata sells what it calls “customer intelligence management” software that provides insights into business imperatives such as customer identity, marketing, risk and fraud. ...
Nvidia rides the RAPIDS to accelerate graphics chips for AI training
Nvidia Corp. is hoping to cement its lead in artificial intelligence with the launch early today of a new graphics processing unit acceleration platform that should enable greater amounts of data to be processed for deep learning and machine learning. The idea behind RAPIDS is to provide enterprises with a performance boost in order to ...
Google beefs up G Suite security and gives admins more control over cloud resources
Google LLC rolled out a couple more security updates to its cloud computing platform today, providing better protection of data and tighter control of the cloud resources its customers use. Google knows full well that security is always one of the uppermost concerns of information technology administrators, who need to stay on the alert for ...