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Microsoft fuels low-code app development with Power Platform updates
Microsoft Corp. announced today at its Ignite 2020 virtual event a host of new capabilities in its Power Platform that are designed to help companies become more resilient and weather today’s coronavirus-related economic challenges. Microsoft’s Power Platform is a suite of three products, namely Power BI, PowerApps and Power Automate. They can be used to ...
Microsoft aims to enable the future of work with new Teams features and devices
Microsoft Corp. is doubling down on what it says will be the “future of work” amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At its Ignite 2020 virtual event today, it announced a host of new products and services it says will help people to become more productive, whether they’re working remotely or simply being careful to maintain social ...
Google brings Anaplan’s business planning tools to its cloud platform
Google LLC said today it’s teaming up with the business planning software provider Anaplan Inc., in a partnership that will help that company’s customers take advantage of its unique cloud capabilities. Anaplan sells an enterprise platform of the same name that’s used for business planning. Its platform is centered on an in-memory database and calculation ...
Deep learning accelerator DeepCube raises $7M in new round
Israeli deep learning startup DeepCube Ltd., which has built software to accelerate the process of running machine learning models in the data center and on edge devices, said today it has raised $7 million in a new round of funding. The Series A round was led by Awz Ventures with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies ...
PagerDuty gets a dose of automation to help resolve issues more proactively
Incident response platform provider PagerDuty Inc. said today it’s adding new machine learning and automation capabilities to its digital operations management platform in what it calls its biggest set of upgrades in years. The updates will enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by proactively preventing service interruptions and reducing the time it takes ...
Ionir exits stealth with the promise of instant data mobility for Kubernetes apps
Container-based storage and data management provider Ionir is exiting stealth mode today with a new platform it says can better support Kubernetes workloads in private cloud and multicloud deployments. The company is backed by an $11 million Series A funding round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners, with participation from C5 Capital. Ionir has built a ...
IPO mania: Shares of game software maker Unity jump 44% in initial trading
Continuing the momentum of other tech companies going public in recent weeks, shares of video game software developer Unity Software Inc. shot up 44% today, opening at $75 a share, after its initial public offering. The San Francisco company had already priced its initial public offering above its expected range on Thursday, pricing its IPO at $52 per ...
Alibaba debuts a new cloud operating system and its first cloud computer
Alibaba Cloud launched the next iteration of its cloud computing platform during its virtual Apsara Conference today. Alibaba Group Chief Technology Officer Jeff Zhang introduced Alibaba Cloud 2.0, saying the new cloud operating system is aimed at making cloud technology available to everyone, “just like water and electricity is,” according to a report in ZDNet. Zhang said ...
Cloudera adds new engineering, analytics tools to its Data Platform
Cloudera Inc. said today it’s adding more “experiences” to its Cloudera Data Platform to make it easier for customers to extract more business value from their data. The Cloudera Data Platform is positioned as a one-stop-shop cloud service for organizations that want to perform analytics across hybrid and multicloud environments with enterprise-grade security and governance. ...
Google highlights its cloud capabilities with Deutsche Bӧrse and Bed Bath & Beyond
Google LLC highlighted the growing strength of its public cloud computing services this week, announcing a couple of new customer wins. On Wednesday it said the financial services giant Deutsche Bӧrse Group is in the process of migrating its on-premises VMware applications to the Google Cloud VMware Engine service. The Google Cloud VMware Engine provides ...