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With new SDK, Zoom aims to get more developers to embed video into their apps
Zoom Video Communications Inc. on Monday made a number of announcements focused on software developers that should help to expand its video calling software ecosystem into more apps. The updates include an easier way for developers to access its software development kit to embed Zoom’s video services inside their applications. The new Buy Now option ...
Open-source robotic process automation firm Camunda raises €82M in new round
Open-source automation software company Camunda Services GmbH said today it has raised €82 million (about $100 million) in a new round of funding. Private equity firm Insight Partners led the Series B round, with participation from existing investors Highland Europe. Camunda is an emerging player in the red-hot robotic process automation market that involves using software robots ...
Box tightens its integration with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams
Cloud storage provider Box Inc. is stepping up its integrations with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams as it bids to make it easier for users of those platforms to access and collaborate on content. For example, today’s integrations enable Box notifications to appear directly within Microsoft Teams, so users can see any important updates to ...
VMware buys cloud-native observability platform startup Mesh7
Data center software giant VMware Inc. is beefing up its cloud-native security offerings with the acquisition of a startup called Mesh7 Inc. for an undisclosed price. Today’s deal reflects the growing importance enterprises are placing on securing their cloud-native applications and the microservices that are used to build them. Mesh7 is a cloud-native application security ...
Amazon S3 Object Lambda makes it easy to process same data for different apps
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new tool for customers that makes it simple to prepare the same dataset for multiple application requirements. The S3 Object Lambda tool works by retrieving data from the Amazon S3 Simple Storage service and automatically processing and transforming it for each app that needs to use it. AWS Chief ...
Google debuts A2 VMs powered by Nvidia A100 GPUs, its largest cloud instances yet
Google LLC announced general availability of a new family of Compute Engine A2 virtual machines today that are based on Nvidia Corp.’s Ampere A100 Tensor Core graphics processing units. The new VMs are the first in the world to pack 16 of Nvidia’s A100 GPUs into a single VM, making them the largest single-node GPU ...
PagerDuty reports solid earnings but stock falls on wider projected loss
Shares of incident response platform provider PagerDuty Inc. fell almost 5% in after-hours trading today after it projected a net loss for the next year that’s larger than Wall Street’s view. That came despite a strong fiscal fourth-quarter performance that saw the company beat expectations on earnings and revenue. The company reported a loss before certain ...
Samsung may not launch a new Galaxy Note this year as chip supply problems bite
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has become the latest technology giant to voice its concerns over a global shortage of semiconductor chips. The company, which is one of the largest chipmakers and consumer electronics firms in the world, said Wednesday that it’s struggling to address a “serious imbalance” in its chip supply. Samsung may even decide ...
In new developer preview, Android 12 gets more performance and security improvements
Not even a month after Google LLC released the first developer preview of Android 12, the company is sharing its second, updated preview of the mobile operating system. Announced today, the Android 12 Developer Preview 2 is said to be the next milestone build in this year’s release. It will give developers a chance to ...
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse release brings machine learning to the masses
Database giant Oracle Corp. announced a new release of its cloud-based Autonomous Data Warehouse service today, adding new capabilities that analysts say will help democratize machine learning. Overall, the release transforms Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse from a complex ecosystem of products into an “intuitive point-and-click, drag-and-drop experience” for data analysts and business users alike, the company ...