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Platform9 adds another open-source tool to the Kubernetes ecosystem
Private cloud services company Platform9 Systems Inc. is donating a new tool to the open-source community that makes it easier to deploy etcd clusters in the cloud, on-premises and in hybrid cloud environments. The tool, called “etcdadm,” is essentially a command-line interface that enables developers to configure, install and operate secure etcd clusters wherever they ...
Arcadia Data lands $15M Series B funding round to grow its visual analytics platform
Arcadia Data Inc., maker of a business intelligence platform that uses visualizations to make data analysis easier to understand, today said it has closed on a $15 million round of funding. The Series B round, led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Blumberg Capital, brings Arcadia Data’s total ...
Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, a framework to decentralize the internet and give back control to users
The founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has created an ambitious open source project called “Solid” that aims to decentralize the internet and restore power to the people. In a blog post on Medium Saturday, Berners-Lee (pictured) said the modern web has become “an engine of inequity and division,” with internet giants such as ...
Oracle’s Thomas Kurian has resigned, three weeks after taking extended leave
Oracle Corp. says one of its top executives, Thomas Kurian, has resigned from the company, three weeks after saying he was taking “extended time off” from the database and business software giant. “Mr. Kurian’s duties and responsibilities have been reassigned to other senior executives in Oracle’s development organization,” the company said in a filing with ...
Kubernetes 1.12 release introduces new security capabilities
One of the hottest open-source enterprise software projects got a major update today. Kubernetes version 1.12, announced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, comes with a host of new features, including a new TLS Bootstrapping security capability that developers have been working to implement for the past two years. Kubernetes releases are significant because the ...
Amazon partners with satellite communications firm Iridium to deliver IoT services from space
Satellite communications company Iridium Communications Inc. wants to enable connectivity for “internet of things” services from space in a new partnership with public cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. The company said it’s hoping to connect Amazon’s IoT services with its satellite network by next year. The idea is that Iridium’s constellation of telecommunications ...
Amazon rolls out High Memory Instances for in-memory databases
Amazon Web Services Inc. today offered some revved-up cloud computing instances aimed at customers running resource-intensive “in-memory” databases such as SAP SE’s HANA. The new High Memory EC2 instances offer a choice of 6, 9 and 12 terabytes of memory, with 18TB and 24TB options to arrive next year. AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr said in ...
IBM adds AI-powered features to its Cognos Analytics business intelligence platform
IBM Corp. today updated its Cognos Analytics suite with new artificial intelligence capabilities, including natural language dialogue, automatic pattern detection and storytelling features. Cognos Analytics is a cloud-based business intelligence platform that allows business users without technical knowledge to extract corporate data, analyze it and assemble reports. IBM said it’s updating the platform in order ...
Google’s DeepMind partners with Unity to train AI agents in virtual worlds
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence group DeepMind Technologies Ltd. said today it will research AI agents with 3-D game development company Unity Technologies Inc., which made the engine for the popular Pokemon Go game. The two companies plan to create a virtual test ground for AI agents that may eventually be used in fields such as autonomous ...
Flexera acquires cloud management and cost optimization firm RightScale
Flexera Software LLC says it wants to help enterprises keep a lid on their cloud spending, acquiring RightScale Inc. for an undisclosed price today to beef up its ability to do that. Flexera is a software asset management provider that sells tools that help enterprises to automate many of the tasks required to maintain compliance ...