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Google adds support for Node.js on its developer App Engine platform
Google Inc. today announced support for Node.js on its App Engine cloud-based web framework for building software applications hosted on Google infrastructure. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for executing JavaScript code server-side that’s becoming increasingly popular for running data applications at scale. Google said that starting today, developers can now deploy applications built using ...
Online retailer Zulily moves to Amazon Web Services’ cloud
E-commerce company Zulily LLC said today that it’s moving the vast majority of its information technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud services in another big customer win for the public cloud giant. Zulily, which sells clothing, kids’ toys and home products via its online platform, is the latest in a string of big ...
Rackspace offers colocation services as a bridge to the cloud
Managed cloud computing services company Rackspace Inc. today said it will offer colocation services for customers that wish to deploy their own hardware inside the company’s data centers. The data center colocation model offers enterprises an alternative to regular cloud computing. With colocation, data center operators simply rent out space within their facility and provide ...
AI-based supply chain company LevaData raises $12M in funding round
Artificial intelligence-based supply chain system provider LevaData inc. is eyeing new markets after closing on a new $12 million round. The Series B round, led by previous investor Tola Capital, brings its total funding to almost $20 million since 2014. LevaData has built the Cognitive Sourcing Platform to help organizations in a range of industries, ...
Google and Cisco tease hybrid-cloud play based on Kubernetes
Cisco Systems Inc. and Google Inc. Monday revealed more details about a planned hybrid cloud offering designed to help customers build apps that span on-premises data centers and the public cloud. The companies announced the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud last year. At the time, they said the offering was designed to let companies ...
DevOps automation firm Puppet acquires Reflect for its data visualization tools
Cloud automation company Puppet Inc. will add data visualization capabilities to its list of services after acquiring a startup called Reflect Technologies Inc. Thursday. Founded in 2015, Reflect is based in Portland, Oregon, just like its new owner. The company previously raised $2.5 million in a seed capital funding round in 2016. The terms of the ...
IBM and H2O.ai join forces to speed up machine learning training
IBM Corp. is teaming up with the artificial intelligence startup H2O.ai Inc. in an effort to speed up the training of machine learning models by using its latest POWER Systems servers. The companies today announced a partnership that involves running H2O’s Driverless AI platform atop IBM’s servers, which have been fine-tuned for training and running ...
Red Hat’s Buildah makes it easy to build container images
Red Hat Inc. is making it easier to slot software applications into a container with the release of a new open-source shell program Wednesday. The program, called Buildah, lets developers create Open Container Initiative and Docker compliant container images quickly and efficiently, the company said. Red Hat said Buildah is useful because while it’s fairly easy ...
Okta’s shares rise 4% as earnings come in above expectations
Identity management software provider Okta Inc. has pulled another successful quarter out of the bag, posting earnings that once again beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company, whose software allows employees to log in to multiple applications without using different passwords for each of them, reported a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
Streamlio adds real-time data stream processing to Apache Pulsar
Startup Streamlio Inc. today announced a major update to the Apache Pulsar publish-and-subscribe messaging platform, which serves as the main rival to the better-known Apache Kafka project. Publish-and-subscribe messaging systems such as Apache Pulsar are designed to provide a highly scalable way for software applications to communicate with one another. Pulsar was first developed at Yahoo ...
