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So-called identity-defined security firm Ping Identity Corp. today launched new artificial intelligence capabilities to protect against attacks on application programming interfaces. The launch follows its acquisition of cybersecurity firm Elastic Beam Inc., also announced today. Elastic Beam provides security for hybrid clouds by using …
AtScale hires Christopher Lynch as its new CEO
Business intelligence abstraction platform company AtScale Inc. is reshuffling its leadership pack, hiring ex-Vertica Systems Inc. Chief Executive Christopher Lynch (pictured) as its new executive chairman and CEO. Lynch takes over the top spot from AtScale co-founder Dave Mariani, who will focus …
Cloud switch: GitLab migrates from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud
Google LLC has scored a small victory over Microsoft Corp. with the news Monday that GitLab Inc. is moving the entirety of its code repositories from the Azure cloud to Google Cloud Platform. GitLab provides a central code-control repository, issue-tracking environment, collaboration …
Data protection startup BigID lands its second major funding round this year
Data protection and privacy startup BigID Inc. today announced its second dose of funding this year, landing $30 million more in funding just five months after completing its $14 million Series A round. The Series B round was led by new investor Scale …
IDC report: Global spending on information and communications technology to slow
International Data Corp. said Thursday that worldwide spending on traditional hardware, software, services and telecommunications gear will rise by 3.7 percent to $4 trillion by the end of the year. But that represents a slight decline from growth of 4.2 percent in 2017, the …
Micron posts record profit as demand for flash memory stays strong
Chipmaker Micron Technologies Inc. posted record revenue and profits for its fiscal third quarter today as it rode a wave of continued demand for its memory products. The company reported a profit after certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.15 per share, …
Google’s digital assistant gets better at handling multiple requests
Google LLC is improving its digital assistant’s capabilities, adding a new feature that’s meant to enable more fluid and open-ended conversations. Continued Conversation for Google Assistant, announced at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, is designed to make follow-up questions feel more realistic, …
Rackspace and HPE team on pay-as-you-go Kubernetes and VMware private clouds
Managed services company Rackspace Inc. is adding the ability to pay-as-you-go to its Kubernetes and VMware private cloud services. The pay-as-you-go pricing options, which have long been available with public cloud services, are being made available thanks to a partnership with Hewlett …
Senzing uses real-time AI to hunt for insider threats
IBM Corp. spinout Senzing Inc. is launching what it calls the world’s first “entity resolution” software for fraud detection that uses artificial intelligence to detect bad actors accessing corporate data. Senzing’s bad guy hunting software is designed to identify “bad actors” who …
Lenovo unveils Neptune, a new liquid cooling system for data centers
The vast majority of data centers are kept cool using air-based data center cooling systems, but China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. is betting that things won’t always be that way, as it reckons water-based cooling tech will soon be a thing. Water-based cooling …