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Google Maps is getting an ‘Immersive View’ that’s like flying a low-altitude drone
Google Maps is getting a new feature called Immersive View that lets users experience a kind of drone-level aerial view of some of the world’s best-known cities. Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said during his Google I/O 2022 keynote today that Immersive View relies on “billions of photos” and processes them with artificial intelligence ...
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a PostgreSQL-compatible database for mission-critical workloads
Google Cloud is looking to take on rivals such as Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. in the database arena with AlloyDB, a new, fully managed and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service for top-tier workloads. Announced today at the Google I/O virtual conference, AlloyDB is built atop the open-source PostgreSQL database management system and powered ...
Pure Storage and Snowflake team up to offer rapid data analytics in the cloud
Pure Storage Inc. and Snowflake Inc. said today they’re working together to enable joint customers to take data that’s stored on-premises and analyze it in the cloud. Under the new initiative, companies that use Pure Storage’s arrays to store sensitive, on-premises data within their own corporate data centers will soon be able to connect those ...
IBM migrates more than 500 servers and 375 terabytes of data to SAP’s S/4HANA
IBM Corp. said today it’s migrating the bulk of its business processes to SAP SE’s S/4HANA enterprise resource planning software running on its own cloud infrastructure. The migration will see IBM shift more than 375 terabytes of data to IBM Power systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud, tapping the expertise of its ...
Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform
Application observability provider Observe Inc. said today it has closed on a $70 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $114.5 million. The Series A-2 round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures, Capital One Ventures and Madrona Ventures, came as the company announced a series of key updates to its platform. Observe ...
GlobalFoundries delivers record profit and revenue
Contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc. is riding high today, its stock up more than 4% in extended trading after reporting first-quarter earnings and profit that topped analysts’ forecasts as it reaps the benefit of ongoing industry shortages. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 42 cents per share on revenue ...
Rackspace is looking to sell itself and exit the public markets, again
Rackspace Technology Inc. looks to be doing another U-turn. Less than two years after the company returned to the public market, it signaled today that it’s looking for a buyer for all or a part of its business. Rackspace helps enterprises design, build and operate cloud environments and manage services on platforms such as Amazon ...
Docker boosts features of Docker Desktop with third-party extensions
Docker Inc., a provider of software development tools, announced new features and partnerships at its DockerCon 2022 event today that it said will create more seamless workflows and boost developer productivity. The biggest announcement of the day is the launch of Docker Extensions, a new feature that allows developers to discover and use various third-party ...
IBM lays out plans for 4,000-qubit chips in updated quantum computing roadmap
IBM Corp. today announced a new roadmap that it says will usher in a new era of large-scale and practical quantum computing. The plan involves creating new modular architectures and networking systems to support more powerful quantum processors with higher qubit counts. At the same time, the company will design a more intelligent software layer ...
DevOps company JFrog adds new customers and its revenue grows 41%
Shares of the DevOps company JFrog Ltd. ticked upward in after-hours trading today after it posted mixed results for its fiscal first quarter. The company reported break-even earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation, with revenue coming to $63.7 million, up 41% from the same period a year ago. That resulted in a net ...
