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Amazon’s Quantum Ledger Database is now generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. Tuesday announced general availability of its Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, which is a managed blockchain service that provides an immutable, cryptographically verifiable ledger for applications that require a central trusted authority. Amazon announced AWS QLDB at its re:Invent conference late last year. It was introduced alongside Amazon Managed Blockchain, which is a ...
Netifi, Facebook and others team up to advance ‘reactive programming’ technologies
Cloud-native application platform company Netifi Inc. Tuesday said it’s teaming up with some big names, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Facebook Inc., Pivotal Software Inc. and Lightbend Inc. to form the Reactive Foundation, which aims to accelerate the development of new technologies for building microservices-based applications. One of those technologies is Rsocket, an open source application ...
Google teams up with Mayo Clinic on AI-powered medical research
Google LLC said Tuesday it’s embarking on a 10-year strategic partnership with the Mayo Clinic. The idea is that Google’s public cloud infrastructure will serve as the cornerstone of the Mayo Clinic’s digital transformation initiatives. The Mayo Clinic will also leverage Google’s artificial intelligence systems and tools to advance its medical research efforts. “Health care ...
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 ...