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IDC expects cloud spending to surpass noncloud infrastructure for first time this year
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments will surpass that of other scenarios for the first time later this year, according to a forecast by International Data Corp. In its latest Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, IDC said such spending rose 17.2% in the first quarter from a ...
Alibaba Cloud’s Energy Expert helps customers reduce their carbon emissions
Alibaba Cloud is following rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud with the launch of a new tool for customers to measure the carbon emissions associated with their business. Energy Expert is a software-as-a-service offering offered by Alibaba Cloud, which is the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd. ...
Amazon EKS Anywhere gets bare-metal server support
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced that Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports bare-metal servers, those without an operating system or applications installed, meaning customers can simplify and standardize Kubernetes deployments on their self-managed bare-metal infrastructure. Launched in September, Amazon EKS Anywhere is an extension of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service that enables companies to run ...
Gartner estimates PC sales to drop by almost 10% this year
Makers of personal computers are going to have to brace themselves for a sudden drop in sales, if Gartner Inc.’s latest forecast proves accurate. The analyst firm said in a report today that it believes global PC shipments will decline by 9.5% in 2022 from a year earlier, with consumer demand likely to fall by ...
Micron offers weak earnings outlook, blaming soft demand for PCs and smartphones
Shares of the computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. are trading lower today after it warned that its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue will likely fall some distance short of Wall Street’s estimates. Analysts had already been expecting a soft forecast, but the severity of Micron’s miss was likely to have shocked investors. Indeed, the company ...
Cloudera brings Apache Iceberg data lake format to its Data Platform
Big-data analytics provider Cloudera Inc. today announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg within its flagship Cloudera Data Platform, giving customers access to a 100% open table format developed by the Apache Software Foundation. CDP is the product suite that encompasses Cloudera’s flagship data management and analytics services. It’s used by companies to collect business ...
Oracle announces first cloud infrastructure region in Mexico
Database pioneer Oracle Corp. announced the opening of its first cloud infrastructure region in Mexico today, becoming the first major cloud services provider to establish a dedicated cloud region there. The Oracle Querétaro region is the company’s 39th worldwide and will provide local and Central American customers, partners and developers with faster and more seamless ...
Snowplow Analytics raises $40M to grow its behavioral data crunching platform
Snowplow Analytics Ltd., a startup that helps businesses collect and own their customer data, said today it has closed on a new $40 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $55 million. Today’s Series B round was led by the venture capital firm NEA, with participation from existing investors Atlantic Bridge ...
Helios raises $5M to simplify distributed app development with easier troubleshooting
A startup called Heliosphere Ltd. is hoping to make life easier for developers by simplifying troubleshooting during application development, after closing on a $5 million seed funding round. Today’s round was co-led by Entrée Capital and Amiti VC, and saw participation from numerous angel investors too, such as Benny Schnaider, co-founder of Salto Labs and ...
DataStax launches Astra Streaming for continuous processing of real-time data streams
Database company DataStax Inc. is boosting its offerings with the launch of its Astra Streaming data streaming service in general availability. Astra Streaming, built atop the open-source Apache Pulsar project, is designed to help enterprise customers get more value from their real-time data streams by analyzing that information as it’s created. Often considered a rival ...
