Author Archives: Ron Miller

RunSafe could eliminate an entire class of infrastructure malware attacks

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RunSafe, a Mclean Virginia startup, got started doing research for DARPA on how to defend critical infrastructure. They built a commercial product based on that initial research that they claim eliminates an entire class of attacks. Today, the company released a product called Alkemist that enables customers to install the solution without help from RunSafe. […] Continue reading RunSafe could eliminate an entire class of infrastructure malware attacks→

Oracle open sources Graphpipe to standardize machine learning model deployment

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Oracle, a company not exactly known for having the best relationship with the open source community, is releasing a new open source tool today called Graphpipe, which is designed to simplify and standardize the deployment of machine learning models. The tool consists of a set of libraries and tools for following the standard. Vish Abrams, […] Continue reading Oracle open sources Graphpipe to standardize machine learning model deployment→

Twistlock snares $33 million Series C investment to secure cloud native environments

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As the world shifts to a cloud native approach, the way you secure applications as they get deployed is changing too. Twistlock, a company built from the ground up to secure cloud native environments, announced a $33 million Series C round today led by Iconiq Capital. Previous investors YL Ventures, TenEleven, Rally Ventures, Polaris Partners […] Continue reading Twistlock snares $33 million Series C investment to secure cloud native environments→

New Uber feature uses machine learning to sort business and personal rides

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Uber announced a new program today called Profile Recommendations that takes advantage of machine intelligence to reduce user error when switching between personal and business accounts. It’s not unusual for a person to have both types of accounts. When you’re out and about, it’s easy to forget to switch between them when appropriate. Uber wants to […] Continue reading New Uber feature uses machine learning to sort business and personal rides→

Microsoft stands up Azure Stack for government as JEDI contract looms

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Microsoft announced today that it’s released Azure Stack for Azure Government at a time when it’s battling rivals at Amazon and other cloud companies for the massive winner-take-all $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract known as JEDI. Azure Stack provides customers with a similar set of cloud services that they would get in the public cloud, […] Continue reading Microsoft stands up Azure Stack for government as JEDI contract looms→

Blissfully grabs $3.5 million seed investment to help companies get their SaaS in gear

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Blissfully, a New York City startup that helps companies understand their SaaS usage inside their organizations, announced it has received a $3.5 million seed round. The investment was led by by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Hubspot, Founder Collective, and several unnamed pre-seed investors also participated. They got a $1.5 million pre-seed investment, bringing the total […] Continue reading Blissfully grabs $3.5 million seed investment to help companies get their SaaS in gear→

Prometheus monitoring tool joins Kubernetes as CNCF’s latest ‘graduated’ project

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) may not be a household name, but it houses some important open source projects including Kubernetes, the fast-growing container orchestration tool. Today, CNCF announced that the Prometheus monitoring and alerting tool had joined Kubernetes as the second “graduated” project in the organization’s history. The announcement was made at PromCon, the […] Continue reading Prometheus monitoring tool joins Kubernetes as CNCF’s latest ‘graduated’ project→

IBM teams with Maersk on new blockchain shipping solution

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IBM and shipping giant Maersk having been working together for the last year developing a blockchain-based shipping solution called TradeLens. Today they moved the project from Beta into limited availability. Marie Wieck, GM for IBM Blockchain says the product provides a way to digitize every step of the global trade workflow, transforming it into a real-time communication […] Continue reading IBM teams with Maersk on new blockchain shipping solution→

Oracle’s database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud success

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Yesterday Oracle announced a new online transaction processing database service, finally bringing its key database technology into the cloud. The company, which has been around for over four decades made its mark selling databases to the biggest companies in the world, but as the world has changed, large enterprise customers have been moving increasingly to […] Continue reading Oracle’s database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud success→

Oracle launches autonomous database for online transaction processing

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Oracle executive chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, first introduced the company’s autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it announced the next step with the launch of the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service. This latest autonomous database tool promises the same level of autonomy — […] Continue reading Oracle launches autonomous database for online transaction processing→