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Cloudflare Announces Date of Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results

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Thursday, October 12, 2023
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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023 after the U.S. market closes on Thursday, November 02, 2023.

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  • Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023 after the U.S. market closes on Thursday, November 02, 2023.
  • Cloudflare will host an investor conference call that day at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time (5:00 p.m. Eastern time) to discuss the results.
  • Interested parties can access the call by dialing (877) 400-4517 from the United States or (332) 251-2620 internationally with conference ID 3723782.
  • A live webcast of the conference call will be accessible from the Cloudflare investor relations website at cloudflare.NET.

Cloudflare Helps Discover New Online Threat That Led to Largest Attack in Internet History

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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To help mitigate the impact of this new threat for the entire Internet ecosystem, Cloudflare developed technology purpose-built to automatically block any attack leveraging Rapid Reset for its customers.

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  • To help mitigate the impact of this new threat for the entire Internet ecosystem, Cloudflare developed technology purpose-built to automatically block any attack leveraging Rapid Reset for its customers.
  • “Successfully mitigating this threat for every critical infrastructure organization, customer, and the Internet at-large is the lifeblood of what Cloudflare stands for.
  • “Rapid Reset” provides threat actors with a powerful new way to attack victims across the Internet at an order of magnitude larger than anything the Internet has seen before.
  • Based on Cloudflare's data, several attacks leveraging Rapid Reset were nearly three times larger than the largest DDoS attack in Internet history.

Pulumi Makes Cloud Configuration Simple and Secure with Pulumi ESC

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Infrastructure as code leader Pulumi today announced Pulumi ESC, a new solution to manage Environments, Secrets, and Configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications.

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  • Infrastructure as code leader Pulumi today announced Pulumi ESC, a new solution to manage Environments, Secrets, and Configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications.
  • We are thrilled that Pulumi ESC will help us manage these at scale more robustly with a simple and secure approach.”
    Modern cloud applications are dynamic and rely on many different cloud and SaaS services.
  • Pulumi ESC solves these problems by providing a simple and secure way to manage environments:
    Define Anywhere, Consume Anywhere: ESC can pull configuration and secrets from any source, and consume them in any application.
  • With Pulumi ESC, our community can now bring additional critical aspects of infrastructure management into their Pulumi workflow,” said Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi.

Cloudflare Named a Top 100 Most Loved Workplace in 2023 by Newsweek and the Best Practice Institute for the Second Consecutive Year

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Thursday, October 5, 2023
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Cloudflare is ranked #55, described as being a Most Loved Workplace giving its teams the choice to work remotely, in-person, or hybrid, with competitive benefits to support them.

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  • Cloudflare is ranked #55, described as being a Most Loved Workplace giving its teams the choice to work remotely, in-person, or hybrid, with competitive benefits to support them.
  • “We are proud to once again be recognized as a Most Loved Workplace, especially amid today’s competitive economy.
  • In order to support the Internet, we know we need to support the team behind it,” said Scott Tomtania, Head of Recruiting at Cloudflare.
  • To learn more about the Cloudflare team including career opportunities, please check out the resources below:

Cloudflare Delivers all Connectivity Elements of Single-Vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE); Magic WAN Connector Available to All

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced that all connectivity elements of Cloudflare’s single-vendor SASE platform, Cloudflare One , are now generally available.

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  • Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced that all connectivity elements of Cloudflare’s single-vendor SASE platform, Cloudflare One , are now generally available.
  • Cloudflare’s SASE offering addresses both security and networking transformation requirements without adding complexity, a crucial differentiator in protecting today’s hybrid workforce.
  • Cloudflare One allows customers to adopt SASE as it fits their existing deployments including native single-vendor deployments with Cloudflare, or by leveraging existing SD-WAN deployments.
  • Administrator and user experience: Cloudflare One is built on its unified connectivity cloud, massively improving performance for in-office, remote, or hybrid workers.

Pulumi Raises $41M in Series C Funding to Expand Infrastructure as Code Market

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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Pulumi , the leading open source Infrastructure as Code platform, today announced $41 million in Series C funding led by Madrona with participation from NEA , Tola Capital , and Strike Capital .

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  • Pulumi , the leading open source Infrastructure as Code platform, today announced $41 million in Series C funding led by Madrona with participation from NEA , Tola Capital , and Strike Capital .
  • Pulumi will use the investment to make cloud infrastructure easily accessible to everyone – innovating on its open source platform, advancing infrastructure security and bringing the power of generative AI to cloud engineers and developers.
  • “Pulumi is critical to global enterprises now that it is the leading open source Infrastructure as Code provider,” said S. Somasegar, Managing Director of Madrona and Pulumi board member.
  • “Pulumi has created incredible fans and a loyal following among cloud engineers and developers.”
    Pulumi recently announced Pulumi Insights , which provides analytics and search across cloud infrastructure, and Pulumi AI , which allows developers to generate infrastructure as code using natural-language.

Cloudflare Powers Privacy Enhancing Features in Microsoft Edge Secure Network

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced that Microsoft Edge is leveraging Cloudflare’s Privacy Proxy technology, a key part of Cloudflare’s privacy stack , to enable its Edge Secure Network feature.

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  • Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced that Microsoft Edge is leveraging Cloudflare’s Privacy Proxy technology, a key part of Cloudflare’s privacy stack , to enable its Edge Secure Network feature.
  • This integration will allow Microsoft Edge users who opt in to browse the Internet more privately, without being tracked across websites.
  • Cloudflare’s privacy-first approach, paired with Microsoft Edge Secure Network, supercharges Internet users’ ability to access potentially unsafe URLs – such as those served over an insecure HTTP connection – securely, routing traffic through an encrypted tunnel.
  • Location privacy: Using Microsoft’s Edge Secure Network, users’ traffic will appear as if coming from a Cloudflare IP address, while still maintaining location accuracy for their search results, directions for maps, and social media content.

Cloudflare Makes Every Local Database Global; Revolutionizes Database Performance with Hyperdrive

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced Hyperdrive to make every local database global.

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  • Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced Hyperdrive to make every local database global.
  • Hyperdrive makes accessing data from across the globe faster and more efficient, no matter where the data or end-users are.
  • With Hyperdrive, developers can build globally distributed applications on Cloudflare Workers that are not held back by their existing regional database infrastructure.
  • Hyperdrive works with the existing database tools developers use today and:
    Enables database connection pooling to Workers, turning what can be half a second to set up a database connection on every request into near-zero when re-used.

Cloudflare Collaborates with Microsoft to Enable AI Models to Run Anywhere

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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As inference tasks become more and more distributed, this collaboration will enable businesses to seamlessly deploy AI models across a computing continuum that spans device, network edge, and cloud environments – maximizing the benefits of both centralized and distributed computing models.

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  • As inference tasks become more and more distributed, this collaboration will enable businesses to seamlessly deploy AI models across a computing continuum that spans device, network edge, and cloud environments – maximizing the benefits of both centralized and distributed computing models.
  • “Together, Cloudflare and Microsoft will build the railroad tracks that AI traffic and tasks will move on, to tailor AI inference to the exact needs and demands of every organization,” said Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder, Cloudflare.
  • Navigate changing needs: Run models in all three locations and adjust or fall back based on availability, use case, and latency requirements.
  • Deploy on Cloudflare in a few clicks: Access easy deployable models and ML tooling capabilities on Workers AI through Microsoft Azure Machine Learning.

Cloudflare Powers Hyper-Local AI Inference with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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It will also feature NVIDIA’s full stack inference software —including NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and NVIDIA Triton Inference server — to further accelerate performance of AI applications, including large language models.

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  • It will also feature NVIDIA’s full stack inference software —including NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and NVIDIA Triton Inference server — to further accelerate performance of AI applications, including large language models.
  • Starting today, all Cloudflare customers can access local compute power to deliver AI applications and services using fast and more compliant infrastructure.
  • AI inference is how the end user experiences AI and is set to dominate AI workloads.
  • “With NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA AI software available on Cloudflare, businesses will be able to create responsive new customer experiences and drive innovation across every industry.”
    Today, Cloudflare is making generative AI inferencing accessible globally, and without up-front costs.