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Dome9 brings context-aware security to public cloud environments
Cybersecurity firm Dome9 Security Ltd. is adding a new module to its Arc cloud security platform for public clouds. The Mountain View, California-based company said Dome9 Magellan brings “game-changing” capabilities to its platform, including enhanced threat intelligence, deep event correlation and policy-driven intrusion detection and forensics for cloud environments. Dome9’s Arc platform is a software-as-a-service offering ...
Amazon advances machine learning with new AI lab, image recognition services
Machine learning is the name of the game for Amazon Web Services Inc. this week, as it spills out a couple of major announcements ahead of its big re:Invent conference next week in Las Vegas. The public cloud computing giant said Wednesday it’s planning to open a new machine learning laboratory, called the ML Solutions ...
Qubole claims $140M in savings for AWS customers this year
Big-data-as-a-service company Qubole Inc. is making some big claims ahead of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS re:Invent conference next week, saying its data service platform has helped AWS users to save a serious $140 million in information technology costs. The announcement came as Qubole introduced what it calls “optimized support” for AWS’s per-second billing that ...
Box combines its content management services with Microsoft Azure’s cloud storage
Content management service provider Box Inc. is strengthening its partnership with Microsoft Corp with a new offering called Box Using Azure, which combines its services with Microsoft’s cloud storage. Box and Microsoft have been partners since 2016, when the pair announced a product integration that enables users to save Office files directly to Box from ...
Apache Spark rival Hazelcast Jet adds new APIs to boost developer productivity
Hazelcast Inc. is pitching an updated version of its open-source Hazelcast Jet big-data platform for stream processing. The headline feature is a new application programming interface for its in-memory data grid, which is a data structure that resides entirely in memory and is distributed among multiple servers. The company said the feature can help make the platform more accessible ...
Red Hat integrates its OpenShift container platform with AWS services
Red Hat Inc. is adding native integration with many of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud services to its OpenShift Container Platform. The OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat’s on-premises private platform-as-a-service product, built around a core of application containers powered by Docker, with orchestration and management provided by Kubernetes, on a foundation of Red Hat ...
Palo Alto Networks’ shares jump 9% on solid earnings
Palo Alto Networks Inc. saw its shares jump almost 9 percent in Tuesday morning trading after the cybersecurity company posted first-fiscal quarter results that sailed past Wall Street’s expectations. The company saw strong growth, posting revenue of $505.5 million, up 27 percent from a year ago. It also reported a profit after certain costs such as ...
Chipmaker Marvell buys Cavium for $6B to expand into networking gear
Updated: The semiconductor manufacturing industry is consolidating further with the news Monday that chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire Cavium Inc. for $6 billion. The acquisition, expected to close in mid-2018, will enable Marvell to diversify from a large business selling chips for storage gear by expanding into networking equipment with the acquisition. “As networking ...
Amazon backs ONNX, an open-source tool that makes deep learning models more flexible
Amazon Web Services Inc. is throwing its weight behind an open-source tool that makes it easier for artificial intelligence developers to switch their projects to different software frameworks without having to rewrite them from scratch. The Open Neural Network Exchange project is a format for deep learning neural networks, which enable machines to learn tasks ...
Facebook open-sources its Open/R networking development platform
Facebook Inc. has made the network routing software it uses to build new network applications and functions available via an open-source license. The software is called Open/R, and Facebook currently uses it to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies. “We have been working with external partners and operators to support ...