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Amazon launches its ultra-fast relational cloud database out of beta
Another week, another new service from Amazon Inc. hitting the market. Originally revealed at its re:Invent cloud conference last year, Aurora is a homegrown relational database with automated scaling that promises to provide five times the price-performance ratio of traditional alternatives, particularly the open-source MySQL system. In practical terms, that means that a single instance ...
Google to cloud buyers: No need to trust us, use your own encryption keys
The growing concern over privacy has finally caught up to Google Inc., at least in the public cloud, where its widely used infrastructure-as-a-service platform received a small but important update this morning that brings customers the ability to protect their data using their own encryption keys. That provides a much-needed alternative to the default security functionality It’s not ...
CliQr revamp its hybrid cloud portability platform for a containerized world
The shift towards containerized applications is causing major strategic changes even for vendors that have been early to recognize the demand for portability and fast release cycles that is driving the trend. The latest example is CliQr Technologies Inc., which debuted a new iteration of its flagship hybrid cloud management platform this morning that aims to ...
Yozio raises $7 million to help companies supercharge their mobile presence
Even though consumers now spend considerably more time on their smartphones and tablets than PCs, organizations often struggle to drive adoption for their mobile apps due to the lack of many of the marketing capabilities available on more traditional platforms. That’s according to a startup called Yozio Inc., which raised $7 million in funding this ...
IBM ups the scalability ante for its cloud-based data warehouse
After a series of high-profile investments in cloud-based data warehousing startups, IBM Corp. is joining the fray with an update to its own managed analytics platform aimed at leveling the playing field against the younger competition. The focus in the new iteration of dashDB Enterprise is scalability. The service combines the company’s homegrown in-memory storage management ...
What you missed in Big Data: Security smarts
Security took back the spotlight in the analytics world last week after Palantir Technologies Inc. raised another $450 million from investors in a round that brings its valuation to a reported $20 billion, an exceptional figure even in a time when Silicon Valley’s ten-figure club is at its biggest in recent memory. The capital will go straight ...
What you missed in Cloud: Productivity through integration
The public cloud became a much more productive place for enterprise workers last week thanks a series of major updates on the collaboration front, starting with Google Inc.’s introduction of a new extension that offers to plug its file sharing service into Office 365. The integration is the competitive equivalent of a trojan horse. The search ...
Palantir raises $450 million on massive $20 billion valuation
It may not be the most typical tech unicorn, but Palantir Technologies Inc. is now one of the most valuable thanks to a newly closed $450 million funding round that reportedly puts its net worth at $20 billion. That marks a tremendous milestone not only for the secretive outfit and its investors but the analytics ...
Google will give you 100 PETABYTES of free nearline storage to use its cloud platform
The public cloud is not new to price competition, but the latest offer from Google may just take the cake. Accompanying the launch of its ultra-low-cost cold nearline service into general availability this morning is a special promotion that will enable organizations to store up to 100 petabytes of their data in the hosted archive ...
IBM snaps up data automation startup Compose to bolster its developer cloud
Developers will soon have another strong reason to build their services on IBM Corp.’s public thanks to its newly announced acquisition of a startup called called Composite Inc. that has carved out a respectable niche for itself automating the deployment of modern databases. While that’s only one of the many priorities in a software project, it’s ...