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Apple Inc. has bought a company called Fleetsmith Inc., which makes tools that help companies to deploy iPhones, iPads and Mac computers to their workers more easily. The announcement was made in a blog post today on Fleetsmith’s website. Although Apple primarily sells phones …
AWS for everyone: Amazon jumps into low-code app development with Honeycode
Amazon Web Services Inc. is getting into the low-code software development game with today’s launch of its latest new service, Amazon Honeycode. It’s a fully managed service that enables enterprise employees to build mobile and web-based applications without any programming skills. Amazon said customers …
Databricks buys Redash and debuts Delta Engine, a fast query tool for data lakes
Big-data company Databricks Inc. wants to help enterprises dig into their vast troves of data even faster, so today it launched a new, high-performance query engine for cloud-based data lakes. The company also announced the acquisition of an Israeli startup called Redash …
Nutanix delivers a way for companies to manage cloud infrastructure remotely
Data center company Nutanix Inc. today introduced some new services that can help pandemic-affected companies to deploy, upgrade and troubleshoot their cloud infrastructure from anywhere, in order to support their remote workforces. The company said that with many employees now being forced to …
Salesforce and Siemens partner on post-pandemic, touch-free office technology
Salesforce.com Inc. and Siemens AG are teaming up to deliver new, touch-free office products for employees returning to the workplace. Announced today, the partnership combines Salesforce’s Work.com products with smart infrastructure services delivered by Siemens, including its Comfy and Enlighted “internet of …
Qualcomm’s new RB5 robotics platform brings 5G connectivity to drones
Semiconductor maker Qualcomm Inc. has been busy working on specialized chips for artificial intelligence workloads, but unlike rival chipmakers Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp., it’s focusing more on smaller devices and connectivity. That’s the case with the company’s latest RB5 AI-enabled 5G …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $175M fund to promote racial equality
Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar Pichai today announced that the internet giant will spend more than $175 million on racial equality initiatives, with the main focus on financing black-owned businesses and supporting black entrepreneurs. The funding was announced alongside various other changes …
Amazon launches AWS Snowcone for data processing at the edge
Amazon Web Services Inc. today added a new product to its family of data migration devices, introducing a secure edge computing and data transfer device it calls AWS Snowcone. The small, ultraportable and rugged 4.5-pound device offers up to 8 terabytes of usable storage …
Pensando Systems’ edge computing platform lands on HPE servers
Edge computing hardware startup Pensando Systems Inc. announced today that its flagship Distributed Services Platform is now available as a “factory-supported option” on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s ProLiant, Apollo and Edgeline Server Platforms. In addition, Pensando DSP is now available as well on …
Cisco adds more security and analytics for software-defined networking
Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s boosting its networking portfolio to help customers become more flexible, productive and secure, and reduce their network maintenance times. The announcements, made during the networking giant’s Cisco Live digital event, cover Cisco’s software-defined wide-area network platform, …