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Document creation startup Templafy raises $25M
Denmark-based document creation and automation startup Templafy ApS announced today that it has raised $25 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to almost $70 million. Private equity firm Insight Ventures led the Series C round, with participation from Dawn Capital, Seed Capital and Damgaard Co. Templafy offers a rather ...
Amazon’s fully managed service for Apache Cassandra is now generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its Amazon Keyspaces for Apache Cassandra managed service is now generally available. The service was announced in preview at AWS re:Invent 2019 when it was known as Amazon Managed Cassandra Service. It’s essentially a cloud database that’s compatible with the existing open-source Cassandra database. The service notably supports the ...
As COVID-19 impact deepens, Google slashes marketing budget by 50%
Google LLC is reportedly planning to slash its marketing budget for the second half of this year by 50%, according to a leaked internal memo sent to employees this week. The report comes a week after Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., said in an email to employees that the company ...
Intel beats earnings forecast with strong data center chip sales but stock falls on outlook
Updated: Chipmaker Intel Corp. posted solid first-quarter results today, beating Wall Street’s expectations thanks in part to the strength of its Data Center Group, which saw revenue jump 43% from a year ago. The company reported a first-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.45 per share on revenue of $19.8 billion, up 23% ...
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 ...