D-Wave ups its quantum annealing game to 2000 qubits

 Universal quantum computers don’t exist, but that hasn’t stopped D-Wave from carving out its own place in the…

Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds Linkerd as its fifth hosted project

 The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source group that’s also the home of the…

Alibaba is now the official cloud services provider of the Olympics

 Today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Alibaba and the International Olympic Committee announced that…

Salesforce opens engineering office in Microsoft’s and Amazon’s backyards

 Salesforce announced today that it plans to open an engineering and innovation hub in the Seattle area,…

Cloud security startup ProtectWise raises another $25 million

 ProtectWise, a security startup that records all your network traffic DVR-style, and saves it in the…

HPE acquires SimpliVity for $650M in cash

 HPE today announced that it has acquired data management platform SimpliVity for $650 million in cash. SimpliVity…

Sequoia invests $100 million in Zoom video conferencing service

 Zoom, the cloud video conferencing service, announced a $100 million Series D round, entirely funded by…

The year in analytics

 Well, 2016 is officially in the past. Between the election drama, the stock markets tossing and…