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Keeping up its push to get more large enterprises to use its cloud, Google LLC today announced a new Premium Support plan for enterprises running mission-critical workloads on its cloud infrastructure. Google said the cost of the Premium Support plan will be based …
Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending will hit $3.9T this year
Gartner Inc. says global spending on information technology will rise to $3.9 trillion in 2020, up just a hair from $3.8 trillion last year, driven chiefly by enterprises buying more cloud software and the end of support for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 7 …
Mozilla lays off 70 staff in response to declining revenue
Firefox browser maker Mozilla Corp. today announced it’s laying off about 70 staff members in order to buy itself more time to start generating revenue from its newest products. Mozilla Chairwoman and interim Chief Executive Officer Mitchell Baker made the announcement in …
AtScale speeds up data accessibility with new release
Aiming to speed up the accessibility of companies’ vast data troves, data warehouse virtualization company AtScale Inc. today updated its flagship Adaptive Analytics platform. AtScale’s platform serves as an abstraction layer for Hadoop clusters and other back-end data stores such as Snowflake, Google …
Equinix acquires bare-metal infrastructure startup Packet
Data center company Equinix Inc. today said it’s buying bare metal cloud infrastructure startup Packet Hosting Inc. in a move aimed at allowing it to speed up the deployment of interconnected edge services. Equinix is a provider of colocation services through data centers …
Google buys ‘no code’ application development startup AppSheet
Google LLC today beefed up its cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Appsheet, which sells tools that enable so-called “citizen developers” to build data-based applications. AppSheet sells a “no code” application development platform that gives Google an easy way to help companies …
GitLab announces key executive hires ahead of public stock debut later this year
DevOps company GitLab Inc. today announced a couple of key executive hires as it prepares the ground for a planned initial public offering later this year. The appointments were announced this morning at the company’s annual GitLab Commit user conference in San …
CNCF launches Kubernetes bug bounty program
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced the creation of a new bug bounty program for the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration tool. The goal of the program is to secure what is one of the most widely used open-source technologies in the …
Google announces support for IBM Power Systems on its cloud
Google LLC is targeting older computing workloads by partnering with IBM Corp. to launch IBM Power Systems on its cloud infrastructure. The move, officially announced today, gives businesses an onramp for existing legacy infrastructure and workloads that can’t easily be replaced or …
Big-data survivor Cloudera names Rob Bearden as its new CEO
Big-data software company Cloudera Inc. has named former Hortonworks Inc. boss Rob Bearden as its new president and chief executive officer, replacing its previous CEO Tom Reilly, who stepped down from the company in July. Bearden is a seemingly safe option for …