Category Archives: Computing

Google Cloud gets a premium support plan with 15-minute response times

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Google Cloud today announced the launch of its premium support plans for enterprise and mission-critical needs. This new plan brings Google’s support offerings for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in line with its premium G Suite support options. “Premium Support has been designed to better meet the needs of our customers running modern cloud technology,” […] Continue reading Google Cloud gets a premium support plan with 15-minute response times→

Google brings IBM Power Systems to its cloud

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As Google Cloud looks to convince more enterprises to move to its platform, it needs to be able to give businesses an onramp for their existing legacy infrastructure and workloads that they can’t easily replace or move to the cloud. A lot of those workloads run on IBM Power Systems with their Power processors and […] Continue reading Google brings IBM Power Systems to its cloud→

Sisense nabs $100m at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics

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Sisense, an enterprise startup that that has built a business analytics business out of the premise of making big data as accessible as possible to users — whether it be through graphics on mobile or desktop apps, or spoken through Alexa — is announcing a big round of funding today and a large jump in […] Continue reading Sisense nabs $100m at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics→

Google details its approach to cloud-native security

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Over the years, Google’s various whitepapers, detailing how the company solves specific problems at scale, have regularly spawned new startup ecosystems and changed how other enterprises think about scaling their own tools. Today, the company is publishing a new security whitepaper that details how it keeps it cloud-native architecture safe. The name, BeyondProd, already indicates […] Continue reading Google details its approach to cloud-native security→

Satori Cyber raises $5.25M to help businesses protect their data flows

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The amount of data that most companies now store — and the places they store it — continues to increase rapidly. With that, the risk of the wrong people managing to get access to this data also increases, so it’s no surprise that we’re now seeing a number of startups that focus on protecting this […] Continue reading Satori Cyber raises $5.25M to help businesses protect their data flows→

Cisco acquires ultra-low latency networking specialist Exablaze

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Cisco today announced that it has acquired Exablaze, an Australia-based company that designs and builds advanced networking gear based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The company focuses on solutions for businesses that need ultra-low latency networking, with a special emphasis on high-frequency trading. Cisco plans to integrate Exablaze’s technology into its own product portfolio. […] Continue reading Cisco acquires ultra-low latency networking specialist Exablaze→

GitGuardian raises $12M to help developers write more secure code and ‘fix’GitHub leaks

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Data breaches that could cause millions of dollars in potential damages have been the bane of the life of many a company. What’s required is a great deal of real-time monitoring. The problem is that this world has become incredibly complex. A SANS Institute survey found half of company data breaches were the result of […] Continue reading GitGuardian raises $12M to help developers write more secure code and ‘fix’GitHub leaks→

AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform

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AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service. Like spot instances for the EC2 compute platform, Fargate Spot pricing is significantly cheaper, both for storage and compute, than regular Fargate pricing. In return, though, you […] Continue reading AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform→

AWS speeds up Redshift queries 10x with AQUA

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At its re:Invent conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy today announced the launch of AQUA (the Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift, the company’s data warehousing service. As Jassy noted in his keynote, it’s hard to scale data warehouses when you want to do analytics over that data. At some point, as your data warehouse or […] Continue reading AWS speeds up Redshift queries 10x with AQUA→

AWS expands its IoT services, brings Alexa to devices with only 1MB of RAM

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AWS today announced a number of IoT-related updates that, for the most part, aim to make getting started with its IoT services easier, especially for companies that are trying to deploy a large fleet of devices. The marquee announcement, however, is about the Alexa Voice Service, which makes Amazon’s Alex voice assistant available to hardware […] Continue reading AWS expands its IoT services, brings Alexa to devices with only 1MB of RAM→