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Amazon Web Services will build its own public registry for Docker container images
Amazon Web Services Inc. is planning to create its own public container image registry in response to Docker Inc.’s decision to impose pull rate limits on Docker Hub. The public cloud infrastructure provider has also posted some advice on how customers can avoid their application deployments breaking because of the limits. The Docker Hub is ...
Aeva, which makes lidar sensors for autonomous cars, plans to go public via SPAC merger
A hot startup called Aeva Inc. that develops lidar-based technology for autonomous vehicles, said today it’s planning to go public in a “blank check” merger that will value it at over $2.1 billion. Aeva is planning to merge with a special purpose acquisition company called InterPrivate Acquisition Corp., Reuters reported. SPACs are entities that are ...
Amazon brings Nvidia’s powerful A100 GPUs to its cloud with its P4d instances
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its next-generation of graphics processing unit-based compute instances for high-performance computing and machine learning workloads are now generally available for all customers. The Amazon EC2 P4d instances are powered by Nvidia Corp.’s newest and most powerful A100 Tensor Core GPU (pictured) and are designed for advanced cloud applications such ...
Arista Networks soars on strong earnings beat
Cloud networking company Arista Networks Inc. is riding high today after reporting third-quarter earnings that easily topped expectations, plus strong guidance for the next quarter. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.42 per share on revenue of $605.4 million, down 7.5% from a year ago. Still, it was well ...
With new cloud offering, AIOps startup Moogsoft moves into IT observability
Moogsoft Inc. said today it’s expanding into artificial intelligence-based observability with the launch of its new Moogsoft Observability Cloud. The new offering enables DevOps teams, those in which software developers and information technology staff work together to create applications faster, and site reliability engineers to surface actionable insights from across their digital infrastructure, together with ...
StorCentric buys former flash storage darling Violin Systems
Data management software company StorCentric Inc. said today it has acquired the flash storage software provider Violin Systems LLC for an undisclosed price. StorCentric is already a strong player when it comes to block storage and file storage software, and the acquisition of Violin means that it can add high-performance NVMe storage software to its extensive portfolio. ...
Five9’s stock rises as it beats earnings targets yet again
Call center software provider Five9 Inc. has come up a winner yet again, comfortably beating Wall Street’s targets with its third-quarter financial results and delivering strong guidance on top of that. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 27 cents per share on revenue of $112 million, up 34% from ...
Despite topping earnings target, Atlassian sees shares plunge on lower guidance
Enterprise productivity software company Atlassian Corp. Plc. saw its share price take a nosedive today despite topping Wall Street’s targets with its first-quarter financial results as its guidance for the next quarter came in somewhat lighter than expected. The Australian company, which sells project management and collaboration software for developers and engineers, including products such ...
Samsung warns of profit decline as demand for memory chips wanes
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that its operating profit is likely to decline in the fourth quarter because of weak demand for its memory chips and stiff competition in the smartphone market. The company had just announced a 59% increase in its operating profit, to 12.35 trillion won (around $10.89 billion), in its third ...
Microsoft launches its industry-focused Cloud for Healthcare platform
Microsoft Corp. today launched its first vertical cloud platform for healthcare providers, bundling its Azure cloud infrastructure service with elements of Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will become generally available at the end of the month. The company said it will make it “faster and easier” for healthcare providers to ...