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Google lifts the lid on how it deletes data from its cloud platform
Google LLC today published an extensive white paper outlining how it deals with user requests to delete data on its cloud platform. The white paper explores how Google handles such requests on its Google Cloud Platform, as well as the processes the company itself goes through to delete user’s data. Google’s cloud security and privacy product ...
LinkedIn open sources TonY for running TensorFlow on Hadoop
LinkedIn Corp. is donating another internally created software project to the open-source community. The now-Microsoft Corp.-owned company has a long history of open-source software contributions, including popular projects such as Apache Kafka and its more recent Dynamometer tool. Its latest effort, called “TensorFlow on YARN,” or “TonY” for short, is designed to help connect the ...
Nodle lands $1.5M seed funding to scale its decentralized network for IoT devices
A novel “internet of things” startup called Nodle.io is emerging from stealth mode today backed by $1.5 million in a seed funding round. The startup plans to use the money to expand its alternative IoT network that works by crowdsourcing connectivity from smartphones to connect devices to the web. In addition, Nodle is also entering ...
NetApp partners with Lenovo on new products and joint venture in China
Data storage company NetApp Inc. is plotting an expansion into China by teaming up with Lenovo Group Holding Ltd. The companies today announced a new technology partnership and plans to create a joint venture company that will allow NetApp to sell its products and services to Chinese firms. The international technology partnership will see the companies collaborate ...
Public cloud revenue to grow 17.3 percent in 2019, Gartner says
In its latest forecast for the worldwide public cloud services market released Wednesday, Gartner Inc. said it expects revenue to keep shooting up, by 17.3 percent, to top $206 billion next year. The analyst firm said infrastructure as a service, which includes the bulk of the public cloud services offered by companies such as Amazon Web ...
Pivotal Software stock crashes despite earnings and guidance beat
Updated: Pivotal Software Inc. must be wondering what it did wrong today after seeing its share price plunge by more than 25 percent in after-hours trading. The stock drop came after beating Wall Street’s estimates on both earnings and guidance in its second quarterly earnings report since going public in April. The company, which makes software ...
Container monitoring and security firm Sysdig raises $68.5M round
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today announced a beefy $68.5 million late-stage round of funding that brings its total capital raised to $121.5 million. Insight Venture Partners led the Series D round, which also saw participation from previous investors, Bain Capital Ventures and Accel. Sysdig’s backers are betting on the company’s “unified approach” to container security, which ...
Developer cloud startup Packet lands $25M round and three new high-profile execs
There has been a flurry of activity behind the scenes at bare-metal automation platform company Packet Hosting Inc. in recent weeks, and now the startup is ready to reveal what’s up. Packet announced today a major update to its “bare-metal” cloud platform, which provides server capacity with no software preinstalled. The company also landed a ...
Microsoft launches Azure DevOps to succeed Visual Studio Team Services
Microsoft Corp. Monday effectively rebranded its Visual Studio Team Services software suite for developers, rolling up its tools into a new service called Azure DevOps. VSTS is a service used by developers to collaborate on code development and deployment. Among its features are Git repositories for storing code and source control, tools for planning and ...
Google appoints Carnegie Mellon’s Andrew Moore new AI chief, replacing Fei-Fei Li
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence unit is getting ready for a transition with the news that Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud and a Stanford University professor, is stepping down from the role at the end of the year. Li will be replaced by Dr. Andrew Moore (pictured), the current dean of the ...