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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 ...
After raising $326M in IPO, Sumo Logic sees stock rise 22% on first trading day
Shares of Sumo Logic Inc. jumped more than 20% when they hit the stock market Thursday after the cloud-based machine data analytics firm raised at least $325.6 million in its initial public offering. Sumo Logic had priced its IPO late Wednesday at $22 a share, above its initial price range of $17 to $21 a share, offering 14.8 million common ...
Box streamlines the remote working experience and improves security
Box Inc. today introduced some planned new features that it says will help make users more productive, while keeping the information they collaborate on more secure. The updates, announced today during the company’s BoxWorks Digital event, include an extension of its annotations feature for mobile users, support for Apple Pencil and enhancements to Box’s Relay and Shield tools. They’re ...
Pure Storage buys Portworx for $370M to expand further into cloud-native storage
Pure Storage Inc. said today it’s acquiring data services platform Portworx Inc. as it looks to expand into the growing market for cloud-native and Kubernetes-based storage services. The company said it will pay about $370 million in cash to acquire Portworx in a deal that’s expected to be completed by the end of this month. Pure ...
With new Paris release, ServiceNow accelerates business resiliency and enterprise automation
ServiceNow Inc. announced some big changes today as part of the Paris release of its flagship Now Platform, saying they will help organizations to become more agile and resilient and boost productivity amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Now Platform is a cloud automation platform designed to help enterprises automate parts of their business that ...