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Alluxio adds Posix and S3 support for faster analytics across its distribute file system
Distributed file system developer Alluxio Inc. today added interfaces to Posix and Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage to its open-source Data Orchestration Platform, in a bid to make it easier for business intelligence and model training to be conducted using popular machine learning and analytics frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Specifically, Alluxio 2.5 adds ...
Report documents growing nation-state cyberattacks on commercial enterprises
A new study sponsored by HP Inc. finds that nation-state cyberattacks are becoming more common and that bad actors are increasingly targeting enterprises. Nation-States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit documents a 100% rise in “significant” nation-state incidents between 2017-2020 with 35% of attacks targeting large businesses, followed by cyberdefense agencies (25%) and media and ...
Tasktop ropes in $100M from a single investor to advance the case for value stream management
Tasktop Technologies Inc. today marked a major milestone in its efforts to validate its technology for tying software development to business outcomes. The company announced a $100 million investment from Sumeru Equity Partners LP, a private equity firm that mostly invests in growth-oriented software, technology services and hardware companies. The infusion is more than triple ...
In autistic people, tech firms find long-overlooked talent trove
Nicole Radziwill graduated from Pennsylvania State University at the age of 18 and went on to earn an MBA and a Ph.D. in technology management and quality systems. She taught data science at the university level for 11 years, did a stint as editor-in-chief of the academic journal Software Quality Professional and has been a ...
$110M late-stage funding vaults Redis Labs valuation past $2 billion
Less than eight months after closing a $100 million late-stage funding round that valued the company at more than $1 billion, Redis Labs Inc. is further bulking up its coffers with $110 million in financing led by a new investor, Tiger Global Management LLC. The infusion brings Redis’s total funding to $347 million and its valuation ...
Doh! Poor password management still rampant in U.S. workplaces, survey finds
Despite years of warnings about the risks of using weak passwords and storing them in easily compromised locations, the majority of American workers still regularly scribble work-related passwords on sticky notes and most admit to having lost those notes at some point. That’s according to a new survey of 1,000 U.S. employees commissioned by Keeper ...
Yellowbrick ventures into the cloud with Kubernetes support, distributed data warehouse manager
Data analytics startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today announced a major expansion of its data warehousing platform along with a consolidated management dashboard and a new version of its multiprocessor-based data warehouse appliance. The enhancements for the first time separate the Yellowbrick software from the underlying hardware and permit multiple instances to be installed on customer-owned ...
VMware pitches new pricing plan and services as a multicloud bridge
VMware Inc. failed in its first attempt to establish a public cloud presence, but now it’s back with what it hopes is a better approach. Leveraging its reputation as a consistent layer that operates across multiple clouds and on-premises data centers, the VMware Cloud that the company is introducing today is a distributed platform that ...
Fungible unleashes ‘composable’ data center, claiming high performance and hyperscale efficiency
Well-funded data center startup Fungible Inc. today debuted an ambitious combination of hardware and software components that target a market that has been out of vogue recently: the corporate data center. The company is leveraging capabilities in its F1 data processing unit, or DPU, to deliver a composable package of data center infrastructure that it ...
Ahana adds caching, Apache Ranger integration to its Presto manage cloud service
Ahana Cloud Inc., which curates a commercial version of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today is announcing numerous updates to its recently introduced Presto managed service. Topping the list is an input/output caching capability that executives said increases performance up to five-fold. Based on the RubiX open-source lightweight data caching framework, the feature eliminates ...