Google acquires Actifio for data backup and recovery on Google Cloud
Google is acquiring Actifio, a data management startup. With this acquisition, Google’s public cloud will benefit from better data recovery and data backup capabilities.
The data management platform by Actifio will reduce the amount of time it takes to back up information by a factor of 20 co... Read more
AWS introduces its own machine learning chip
Amazon has announced the AWS Trainium. It is a chip specially designed for machine learning tasks. The company claims that the chip is faster than competitors in the cloud.
Trainium offers support for TensorFlow, PyTorch and MXNet. According to AWS, instances with Trainium have a 30 percent high... Read more
Nutanix improved Objects and Files services
Nutanix has updated two of its storage products. New features have been added to both Objects and Files for better integration with the AWS products.
Objects
Objects now allows companies to shift data between their own servers and AWS. The new feature allows customers to cheaply store data th... Read more
Atlassian announces four new features for Devops teams
New additions to Jira will anhance visibility for enterprise developers.
Atlassian this week announced four new feature additions to its popular Jira project automation software. The new features will give enterprise DevOps teams greater visibility into development pipelines. They will also decr... Read more
GitHub: open source security vulnerabilities take years to detect
Research also shows that once detected, bugs are fixed quickly.
GitHub this week released its 2020 State of the Octoverse report. In it, they highlighted the increased important of open source tools and their growing role in software development.
The organisation spent 2020 following over 56 ... Read more
AWS unveils new tool for moving data from one data store to another
AWS has launched Glue Elastic Views, a new tool that developers can use to move data from one store to another. During the AWS re:Invent Keynote, the CEO, Andy Jassy, said that Glue Elastic Views is a service that programmers can use to move data in multiple data stores without any trouble.
The ... Read more
Lenovo puts dozens of NVMe SSDs in a single storage server
Lenovo has announced its new ThinkSystem DM5100F. The server has 48 slots for screwing NVMe SSDs into. The company claims that this should provide lower latencies than a server with SATA SSDs.
The ThinkSystem DM5100F is mainly advertised by Lenovo as a system on which customers can store their d... Read more
Android apps still exposed to a severe bug that was fixed in April
Security researchers have seen major Android apps vulnerable to a known flaw that gives attackers access to the users' phones and data. According to the research, the apps affected are some of the most used and well-known kind.
The affected apps include Bumble, Grindr, OkCupid, Cisco Teams, Moov... Read more
Microsoft announces Azure Purview and GA of Synapse Analytics
The dual announcements mark a giant leap forward for analytics on the Azure platform.
This week Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of the latest version of its cloud analytics service, Azure Synapse Analytics. It also announced the its new data governance service called Azure Purv... Read more
Cohesity now offers its data protection software as a service
New SaaS offerings deliver Data Management as a Service and provide increased flexibility.
Cohesity has announced the general availability of its DataProtect delivered as a Service. This SaaS-based offering is part of Cohesity’s comprehensive Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) solution that ... Read more