Category Archives: Computing

AWS adds natural language search service for business intelligence from its data sets

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When Amazon Web Services launched QuickSight, its business intelligence service, back in 2016 the company wanted to provide product information and customer information for business users — not just developers. At the time, the natural language processing technologies available weren’t robust enough to give customers the tools to search databases effectively using queries in plain […] Continue reading AWS adds natural language search service for business intelligence from its data sets→

With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform

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Isovalent, a startup that aims to bring networking into the cloud-native era, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Google. In addition, the company today officially launched its Cilium Enterprise platform (which was in stealth until now) to help enterprises connect, observe and secure their […] Continue reading With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform→

Qualcomm Ventures invests in four 5G startups

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Qualcomm Ventures, Qualcomm’s investment arm, today announced four new strategic investments in 5G-related startups. These companies are private mobile network specialist Celona, mobile network automation platform Cellwize, the edge computing platform Azion and Pensando, another edge computing platform that combines its software stack with custom hardware. The overall goal here is obviously to help jumpstart […] Continue reading Qualcomm Ventures invests in four 5G startups→

AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances

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AWS today announced the launch of its newest GPU-equipped instances. Dubbed P4, these new instances are launching a decade after AWS launched its first set of Cluster GPU instances. This new generation is powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors and eight of NVIDIA’s A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances, AWS promises, offer up to 2.5x […] Continue reading AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances→

Enso Security raises $6M for its application security management platform

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Enso Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new application security platform, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures, with participation from Jump Capital. Angel investors in this round include HackerOne co-founder and CTO Alex Rice; Sounil Yu, the former chief security scientist at […] Continue reading Enso Security raises $6M for its application security management platform→

Contrast launches its security observability platform

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Contrast, a developer-centric application security company with customers that include Liberty Mutual Insurance, NTT Data, AXA and Bandwidth, today announced the launch of its security observability platform. The idea here is to offer developers a single pane of glass to manage an application’s security across its lifecycle, combined with real-time analysis and reporting, as well […] Continue reading Contrast launches its security observability platform→

Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform

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Data platform Splunk today announced that it has acquired two startups, Plumbr and Rigor, to build out its new Observability Suite, which is also launching today. Plumbr is an application performance monitoring service, while Rigor focuses on digital experience monitoring, using synthetic monitoring and optimization tools to help businesses optimize their end-user experiences. Both of […] Continue reading Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform→

The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation

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This has been a long time coming, but the OpenStack foundation today announced that it is changing its name to ‘Open Infrastructure Foundation,” starting in 2021. The announcement, which the foundation made at its virtual developer conference, doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Over the course of the last few years, the organization started adding […] Continue reading The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation→

Access an 8-bit Atari through Twitter

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Building a retro computer, or even restoring one, is a great way to understand a lot of the fundamentals of computing. That can take a long time and a lot of energy, though. Luckily, there is a Twitter bot out there that can let you experience an old 8-bit Atari …read more

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Kong launches Kong Konnect, its cloud-native connectivity platform

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At its (virtual) Kong Summit 2020, API platform Kong today announced the launch of Kong Konnect, its managed end-to-end cloud-native connectivity platform. The idea here is to give businesses a single service that allows them to manage the connectivity between their APIs and microservices and help developers and operators manage their workflows across Kong’s API […] Continue reading Kong launches Kong Konnect, its cloud-native connectivity platform→