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Google simplifies open-source software with Cloud Dataproc on Kubernetes
Google LLC is aiming to make it easier for its cloud customers to deploy and run open-source software projects such as Apache Spark via a new version, released today, of its Cloud Dataproc service running on Kubernetes. Cloud Dataproc is a four-year-old service that allows users take advantage of open-source data tools such as Apache ...
SADA Systems debuts fixed-price migration services for Google Cloud
Enterprise technology consultancy SADA Systems Inc. wants to help companies migrate to Google LLC’s public cloud platform with a full understanding of the costs involved. To do so, it announced today that it’s offering a range of flat-rate managed migration services to Google Cloud. Available for a fixed price, the services are meant to help ...
Adobe expands its data analytics tools to customer journeys
Adobe Inc. today added a new tool to its Adobe Analytics offering that’s meant to give companies more advanced insights into their customer’s behavior. The new offering, Customer Journey Analytics, draws on data from multiple enterprise systems to try to provide users with better perspectives on how customers engage with their brand. Adobe reckons that’s ...
Partnership on AI calls for softer immigration rules to enhance collaboration
The Partnership on AI, a nonprofit group researching the uses of artificial intelligence, is calling for a softening of immigration laws and visa rules to make it easier for AI experts to travel around the world. The PAI’s new policy paper, released today, addresses what it says is the impact of current restrictive visa laws ...
Microsoft adds satellite connectivity option to its private network service
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s enabling satellite connectivity on its Azure ExpressRoute private networking service for customers looking to improve the connectivity and performance of their remote facilities. Azure ExpressRoute is a service that provides a private connection between an organization’s on-premises infrastructure and the Microsoft Azure cloud. It’s generally used by customers that need ...
Red Hat beefs up Quay container registry service for hybrid cloud users
IBM Corp.-owned Red Hat is updating its Quay container registry service today, adding new functionality to help users store and share their container images more securely across hybrid information technology environments. Red Hat Quay is a private registry originally developed by CoreOS Inc. that’s used to store, build and deploy container images, which comprise the ...
Zoom delivers another strong quarter, but investor enthusiasm wanes
Zoom Video Communications Inc. might be wondering what it did wrong today after seeing its shares fall despite reporting solid financial results and a strong outlook. The company, which sells highly regarded video conferencing software that can run on every kind of device, reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 2 ...
DocuSign shares jump 20% on strong outlook
Investors are showing their appreciation for the e-signature company DocuSign Inc. today, despite a mixed second-quarter financial report that saw it beat expectations on revenue but fall short on profit. San Francisco-based DocuSign, which bills itself as a “digital transaction management” firm, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of a penny a ...
Atlassian announces new cloud product pricing plans
Enterprise productivity software provider Atlassian Corp. Plc. today announced some major changes that are designed to tempt more of its customers to adopt the cloud versions of its products. The company is announcing a major revamp of its product plans. That includes the introduction of new “premium” cloud-based versions of each of its tools, free versions ...
Google’s AI Hub gets more sharing and collaboration tools
Google LLC is making some improvements to its AI Hub, adding a revamped homepage and more collaboration tools for data scientists and artificial intelligence teams. Launched in beta in April, AI Hub is a cloud-hosted repository of plug-and-play AI components that can be used to create various types of AI models. The components include end-to-end AI pipelines ...