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Oracle launches high-performance cloud database service
Oracle Corp. today announced a new service that’s designed to help customers run their most challenging transaction processing and data analytics projects in the cloud, without making any changes to those apps. It’s an important development, Oracle says, because many of its customers have been reluctant to offload their most important workloads to the cloud ...
Cohesity partners with AWS on cloud-based data management
Data management software company Cohesity Inc. said today it’s creating a new cloud-based data management-as-a-service offering in partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. The new offering is aimed at enterprises and midsized businesses that want an easier way to back up, secure, govern and analyze their data. Cohesity said it will manage the DMaaS offering ...
With Zapps, Zoom brings popular apps into its ubiquitous meetings
Zoom Video Communications Inc. said today it’s planning to enable users to integrate third-party applications within its video collaboration platform by the end of the year. The new “Zapps” are applications that can be used directly within Zoom, thereby eliminating the need to switch among multiple apps during meetings. The idea is to boost productivity and ...
Frontegg debuts its ‘SaaS-as-a-service platform’
Frontegg Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today with the launch of a platform designed to help companies fast-track software-as-a-service development and innovation, backed by $5 million in seed funding. The seed funding round was led by Pitango, with participation from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Frontegg has built what it calls a “SaaS-as-a-service platform” ...
Nokia is moving its IT infrastructure to Google Cloud
Google LLC has landed a major customer in the shape of the Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia Corp., which said today it’s migrating its entire on-premises information technology infrastructure onto Google Cloud, including all of its data centers, servers and software applications. Nokia said the five-year strategic collaboration with Google reflects its own operational shift to ...
Facebook’s Open Catalyst Project uses AI to find new ways to store renewable energy
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit said today it has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Chemical Engineering on a collaborative project to use AI to accelerate quantum mechanical simulations. The idea is to discover new “electrocatalysts” that can provide a more efficient and scalable method of storing and using renewable energy. Facebook AI ...
With an app for small farmers, Agrolly wins IBM’s Call for Code Global Challenge
IBM Corp. said today the creators of an application that helps to connect and provide support for small farmers around the world have won the grand prize of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. Call for Code is an annual contest held by IBM that invites developers to create and deploy applications based on ...
Xilinx and Spline.ai use AI to enable COVID-19 detection at the edge
Chipmaker Xilinx Inc. said today it has teamed up with an artificial intelligence startup called Spline.ai to create a medical X-ray classification model that it says can improve prediction rates for COVID-19 and pneumonia using AI at the edge. The model was built using more than 30,000 verified pneumonia and 500 COVID-19 X-ray images that ...
Google adds new partners to its BeyondCorp Alliance
Google LLC said today it’s adding a bunch of new partners to its BeyondCorp Alliance, which brings together various security firms and data management providers to help extend its concept of the “zero-trust” security model. BeyondCorp is a security framework that involves shifting access controls from the perimeter to individual devices and users, thereby enabling ...
Multicloud networking startup Alkira raises $54M funding round
Networking-as-a-service startup Alkira Inc. said today it has raised $54 million in a funding round that brings its total amount raised to $76 million. Koch Disruptive Technologies led the Series B round, with participation from previous investors Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, plus a new investor, GV Management Co. LLC, which has Google LLC parent ...