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Canadian internet outage disrupts phones, 911 calls and financial services
Canadian telecommunications giant Rogers Communications Inc. suffered outages across its nationwide network today, silencing millions of wireless phones and disrupting internet connections to homes, automatic teller machines and even some 911 emergency lines. Customers began reporting lost connectivity as early as 4 a.m. EDT, according to the Wall Street Journal. At 3:20 p.m., the company ...
Gloat raises $90M Series D to build its internal talent marketplace
Gloat Inc., developer of an internal talent marketplace platform, today said it has raised $90 million in a late-stage Series D round that brings the company’s total funding to more than $192 million. Gloat’s “workforce agility” platform combines a talent marketplace with artificial intelligence-powered technology that analyzes employees’ skills at large scale and helps managers ...
HPE GreenLake expansion aimed at blurring lines between public and private clouds
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a broad range of enhancements and new cloud services aimed at on-premises computing environments under the banner of its GreenLake line of as-a-service infrastructure and software offerings. GreenLake is a portfolio of hardware and software products that enterprises can buy on a pay-as-you-go basis instead of purchasing everything upfront. The eight ...
Databricks donates Delta Lake framework and MLflow operations platform entirely to open source
Databricks Inc. opens its Data + AI Summit today with the announcement that it will release the entirety of its Delta Lake storage framework to open-source under the oversight of the Linux Foundation. That means there will no longer be any functional differences between the Databricks-branded Delta Lake and the open-sourced version. The company said it will ...
Opaque Systems nets $22M to bring collaboration to confidential computing
Opaque Systems Inc., which makes technology that enables collaborative analytics and artificial intelligence projects to be conducted on confidential computing platforms, today announced a $22 million Series A funding round that brings its total financing to $31.6 million. Founded by the developers of the MC2 collaborative analytics project at the University of California at Berkeley, ...
VMware adds cross-cloud management to core virtualization platforms
In a bid to erase distinctions between on-premises and cloud infrastructure VMware Inc. today introduced extensions to its vSphere virtualization platform and vSAN storage virtualization software that provide centralized cloud-based management of data center infrastructure. They also provide access to new cloud services that can be activated without requiring changes to existing applications or hardware. ...
Kyligence rolls out unified metrics platform for analytics
Kyligence Inc., the developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today announced a platform that organizations can use to store business metrics in order to align them better with analytics reports. Kyligence Zen is described as an “intelligent metrics store platform” that automates pipelines from data lakes or data warehouses ...
Starburst buys acceleration technology for its distributed query engine
Starburst Data Inc., developer of a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, today said it has acquired Varada Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based maker of a data lake analytics accelerator. The price wasn’t disclosed. Varada, which was formerly named Expandb Technologies, had previously raised $19.5 million in seed and venture funding, according to ...
Conquering ‘shadow IT’: How enterprises are trying to tame the cloud software beast
Like many companies, high-performance sporting equipment maker Catapult Sports Pty Ltd. used to give its employees wide latitude to choose their own software-as-a-service applications. But as its information technology department prepared a campaign to achieve compliance with a key security standard, its lack of visibility into the services employees was using became a liability. “There ...
Oracle introduces lower-cost version of its full on-premises cloud stack
Saying its Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer offering has been an unqualified success with large customers, Oracle Corp. today is introducing a lower-cost version of the on-premises cloud stack along with a rack-level package that delivers an assortment of cloud services customers can deploy in their data centers. Announced nearly two years ago, Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer delivers ...