Category Archives: Computing

Couchbase’s mobile database gets built-in ML and enhanced synchronization features

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Couchbase, the company behind the eponymous NoSQL database, announced a major update to its mobile database today that brings some machine learning smarts, as well as improved synchronization features and enhanced stats and logging support to the software. “We’ve led the innovation and data management at the edge since the release of our mobile database […] Continue reading Couchbase’s mobile database gets built-in ML and enhanced synchronization features→

Couchbase’s mobile database gets built-in ML and enhanced synchronization features

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Couchbase, the company behind the eponymous NoSQL database, announced a major update to its mobile database today that brings some machine learning smarts, as well as improved synchronization features and enhanced stats and logging support to the software. “We’ve led the innovation and data management at the edge since the release of our mobile database […] Continue reading Couchbase’s mobile database gets built-in ML and enhanced synchronization features→

With Kata Containers and Zuul, OpenStack graduates its first infrastructure projects

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Over the course of the last year and a half, the OpenStack Foundation made the switch from purely focusing on the core OpenStack project to opening itself up to other infrastructure-related projects as well. The first two of these projects, Kata Containers and the Zuul project gating system, have now exited their pilot phase and […] Continue reading With Kata Containers and Zuul, OpenStack graduates its first infrastructure projects→

Docker developers can now build Arm containers on their desktops

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Docker and Arm today announced a major new partnership that will see the two companies collaborate in bringing improved support for the Arm platform to Docker’s tools. The main idea here is to make it easy for Docker developers to build their applications for the Arm platform right from their x86 desktops and then deploy […] Continue reading Docker developers can now build Arm containers on their desktops→

Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations

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Google today announced that it has partnered with a number of top open-source data management and analytics companies to integrate their products into its Google Cloud Platform and offer them as managed services operated by its partners. The partners here are Confluent, DataStax, Elastic, InfluxData, MongoDB, Neo4j and Redis Labs. The idea here, Google says, […] Continue reading Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations→

On balance, the cloud has been a huge boon to startups

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Today’s startups have a distinct advantage when it comes to launching a company because of the public cloud. You don’t have to build infrastructure or worry about what happens when you scale too quickly. The cloud vendors take care of all that for you. But last month when Pinterest announced its IPO, the company’s cloud […] Continue reading On balance, the cloud has been a huge boon to startups→

Okta unveils $50M in-house venture capital fund

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Okta Ventures wants to fund the next generation of identity, security and privacy startups. Continue reading Okta unveils $50M in-house venture capital fund→

How to handle dark data compliance risk at your company

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Lisa Hawke Contributor Share on Twitter Lisa Hawke (@ldhawke) is VP of Security and Compliance at Everlaw, and Vice Chair of Women in Security and Privacy. Slack and other consumer-grade productivity tools have been taking off in workplaces large and small — and data governance hasn’t caught up. Whether it’s litigation, compliance with regulations like […] Continue reading How to handle dark data compliance risk at your company→

Pixeom raises $15M for its software-defined edge computing platform

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Pixeom, a startup that offers a software-defined edge computing platform to enterprises, today announced that it has raised a $15M funding round from Intel Capital, National Grid Partners and previous investor Samsung Catalyst Fund. The company plans to use the new funding to expands its go-to-market capacity and invest in product development. If the Pixeom […] Continue reading Pixeom raises $15M for its software-defined edge computing platform→

Vizion.ai launches its managed Elasticsearch service

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Setting up Elasticsearch, the open-source system that many companies large and small use to power their distributed search and analytics engines, isn’t the hardest thing. What is very hard, though, is to provision the right amount of resources to run the service, especially when your users’ demand comes in spikes, without overpaying for unused capacity. […] Continue reading Vizion.ai launches its managed Elasticsearch service→