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Veritas, Manage Engine beef up ransomware protection for backups and endpoints
Two companies in the backup market are introducing new products intended specifically to address the scourge of ransomware attacks, which increased more than 150% in the first half of this year. Veritas Technologies LLC today said it will release Veritas NetBackup Recovery Vault later this year. It describes the storage-as-a-service offering as a fully-managed data ...
Dell expands edge product line with servers, gateways and laptops for remote deployment
Dell Technologies Inc. today is stepping up its push to gain a place at the edge of corporate networks with a set of new servers and special-purpose platforms designed to capture and process data in remote and extreme environments. Edge computing is a distributed architecture that places content, data and processing closer to the applications, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: GOOGLE CLOUD RISING
After fits and starts, Google’s cloud strategy is finally finding its footing
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC popularized the phrase, “We’re number two. We try harder.” But what do you do when you’re number four? That’s the challenge facing Google LLC in its drive to overcome a late start, a once questionable commitment and two dominant competitors in the market for public cloud services. With a market ...
Startup aims to apply AI to helping people overcome fear of public speaking
Seattle-based startup Yoodli Inc. has raised a $1 million pre-seed funding round to develop a novel application of artificial intelligence: helping people overcome their fear of public speaking. The company’s technology, which is still in development, uses a combination of machine learning and deep learning to analyze video clips of a speaker and call out ...
VMware ups its cross-cloud game and open-sources Tanzu app modernization toolkit
VMware Inc. is stepping up its multicloud game today and intensifying its embrace of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers with a set of announcements at the VMWorld conference opening today. Building on its large base of users of its hypervisor, the company is introducing VMware Cross-Cloud Services, a group of integrated services that let ...
Dell takes its Apex as-a-service across clouds with VMware integration
Looking to wring more value out of its VMware Inc. subsidiary’s multi-cloud strategy while advancing its own APEX composable infrastructure offering, Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a bundle that provides consistent operations across multicloud environments. The company is also adding an object storage option that works with the VMware software stack and rolling out a reference ...
Sigstore aims to close the trust gap in open-source software
One of the great virtues of open-source software – which is that anyone can contribute – is also one of its greatest weaknesses. The issue is that supply-chainlike process by which projects involving multiple contributors come together is based to a large degree on faith that no one will introduce malicious code or backdoors that ...
Amplitude shakes off Wall Street malaise as initial share price jumps 57%
Conventional wisdom says that behavior tracking firm Amplitude Inc. chose a terrible day to go public with the Nasdaq composite index down nearly 2.5% today, but the nearly 57% pop in the company shares indicates that investors are looking beyond the short term. The company, which makes software that tracks and analyzes customer interactions with ...
As a skills crisis mounts, tech leaders pivot: ‘It’s crazy the hiring spree they’re on’
For data scientists, Java developers and cloud computing experts, these are the best of times. For the companies looking to hire them? Not so much. The skills shortage that has been a constant background thrum in information technology industries for decades is now reaching crisis levels, fueled by the digital transformation craze and declining college ...
HPE beats earnings estimates, saying its ‘as-a-service’ model is winning over customers
A confident Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. today reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations on revenue that was in line with Wall Street estimates. The company raised its guidance on free cash flow and earnings per share for the year, the fourth such increase since last October, citing strength in its as-a-service and networking businesses ...