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AWS Chatbot launches, sending important alerts directly to Slack
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its AWS Chatbot service for sending notifications to DevOps teams is now generally available. Launched in beta in June 2019, AWS Chatbot enables security, billing and system stability alerts to be sent to DevOps teams via the popular collaboration tool Slack. The service delivers alerts from several important AWS ...
Amazon debuts AppFlow, a new service for sharing software-as-a-service data with its cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new service called Amazon AppFlow that developers can use to manage the flow of data between AWS and other software-as-a-service applications such as Google Analytics, Marketo, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Snowflake and Zendesk. The fully managed service enables users to create and automate bidirectional data flows without needing to write ...
Xilinx beats earnings forecasts despite Huawei impact
Computer chipmaker Xilinx Inc. today turned in a strong fourth-quarter performance, beating expectations by posting a profit of 78 cents per share on revenue of $756 million. Wall Street had Xilinx down for a 69-cent profit on revenue of $752.5 million. For the full year, the company’s profit was $3.35 per share on a 3% rise in revenue, to ...
GitHub Actions gets new enterprise-grade features
Open-source software repository provider GitHub Inc. todayk announced some important updates to GitHub Actions, which is a set of prebuilt commands that enable developers to automate their software workflows. Launched about six months ago, GitHub Actions is meant to help to shape how communities build and share automation for software development. It includes a full continuous ...
Google Anthos now supports multiple clouds – including Amazon’s
Google LLC today announced some key updates to its Anthos application platform, enabling it to support more workloads in different computing environments at a reduced cost. Google Anthos is a hybrid cloud application development platform that runs atop the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration software. It’s designed to host applications that can run unmodified on both ...
With Project Astra, NetApp aims to enable true portability for Kubernetes-based applications
Data storage specialist NetApp Inc. today announced Project Astra, its vision of an enterprise-class storage and data services platform for Kubernetes that enables both application and data portability. Kubernetes is an open-source project that’s used to orchestrate large clusters of software containers, which host the components of modern applications that can run on any kind of computing ...
Google’s new ‘carbon-intelligent’ data center maximizes renewable energy use
Google LLC today is rolling out a new “carbon-intelligent computing platform” for its data centers. The technology is designed to shift the timing of certain kinds of compute tasks so as to maximize how its facilities use renewable energy from low-carbon power sources such as wind and solar. Google said that by shifting the timing of non-urgent ...
AWS and Facebook join on new open-source projects for PyTorch
Amazon Web Services Inc. and Facebook Inc. jointly announced a couple of new open-source projects today for PyTorch, a popular open-source machine learning framework used to train artificial intelligence models. PyTorch was created by Facebook’s AI research group as a machine learning library of functions for the programming language Python. It’s primarily designed for use ...
Red Hat debuts RHEL 8.2 enterprise Linux with intelligent monitoring capabilities
Linux software company Red Hat Inc.today pushed out a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, one week before its annual Red Hat Summit 2020 event kicks off in digital form. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is the latest version of the company’s flagship operating system for business users. RHEL, as it’s ...
Cloud infrastructure management startup env0 raises $3.3M
“Infrastructure-as-code” startup envZero Inc. is launching its self-service cloud management platform in beta today after securing $3.3 million in funding. The round was led by Boldstart Ventures and Grove Ventures, while Guy Podjarny of Snyk Ltd. participated as an angel investor. Env0, as the company is known, has high hopes for its platform, which offers ...