Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Google makes building digital assistants easier with Dialogflow Enterprise
Google LLC today offered up a cloud service that companies can use to build digital helpers similar to its own Google Assistant. Google said its Dialogflow Enterprise service, which has been in beta since November, is now generally available. The service, based on technology the company acquired when it bought a startup called API.AI Inc. ...
Applitools lands $31M funding to help market its vision-based software testing tool
New software development methodologies such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are growing in popularity with enterprises as they allow them to deliver updates much more quickly than with traditional methods. Now, a startup called Applitools Ltd. is pitching its Application Visual Management tool to help speed up these processes and get updates out of ...
DataStax says its enterprise-focused Cassandra database is now twice as fast
DataStax Inc. said today it’s updating its commercial version of the Apache Cassandra database with significant enhancements to performance and ease of use. DataStax Enterprise 6.0 is touted by the company as a high-availability, high-performance database that can be run in the cloud or on any on-premises hardware. Essentially it can be thought of as a ...
Microsoft doubles down on IoT security with Azure Sphere service
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its push into silicon chips as part of its new Azure Sphere service that combines a security chip design, a cloud service and — perhaps surprisingly for the creator of Windows — a Linux-based operating system to secure billions of “internet of things” devices. The company today announced Azure Sphere during the ...
Symantec seeks out targeted attacks with AI-based threat detection tool
Cybersecurity specialist Symantec Corp. says it’s targeting “targeted attacks” on enterprises with the launch of a new threat detection tool that was used to uncover some of the most infamous cyberattacks in history. Symantec’s new Targeted Attack Analytics tool was created by the company’s Attack Investigation team, which used the technology to uncover malware attacks ...
Microsoft’s new admin tool for cloud and on-premises workloads goes live
Microsoft Corp.’s “Project Honolulu” has moved into general availability and is now being called the Windows Admin Center. The new service delivers administrative tools via a web interface, which means users will need a browser such as Chrome or Edge to run it. Microsoft said Windows Admin Center is a hybrid information technology management tool ...
Amazon rivals, led by Oracle, call for multiple bidders to land lucrative Pentagon cloud contract
The scramble among cloud computing giants to land an extremely lucrative contract from the U.S. Defense Department is becoming more complicated and controversial by the day. The Pentagon on Thursday said it would soon release a revised list of requirements for the decade-long contract, which could be worth up to $10 billion for the company ...
Public cloud services market will hit $302B by 2021, Gartner says
The global market for public cloud services will be worth $302 billion by 2021, when just 10 companies will command almost three-quarters of the market’s sales, up from 50 percent in 2016. That’s according to Gartner Inc.’s updated public cloud revenue forecast, which it released today. Gartner breaks down the cloud market into five distinct segments and ...
Couchbase adds new features to help developers tame mobile data at the edge
Nonrelational database company Couchbase Inc. is updating its mobile data management platform with new capabilities that should make it easier for developers to build portable versions of business-critical applications. The company said Couchbase Mobile 2.0 is a “full-stack data platform for securely managing and syncing data from edge devices back to the cloud.” More specifically, Couchbase Mobile ...
NeuVector debuts incident response system for Kubernetes software deployments
With software containers growing increasingly popular in enterprise information technology deployments, securing them has taken on a much higher priority. With that in mind, Kubernetes security specialist NeuVector Inc. today is updating its container firewall with new capabilities, including an incident response system and other process and file system protections. NeuVector offers a security platform for ...