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Container startup Portworx brings persistent storage to Amazon container service
Portworx Inc., a provider of cloud-native storage technologies for containerized software, said today it has been chosen as a launch partner for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes. The partnership means that Amazon’s EKS customers can use Portworx’s persistent storage services to manage certain Kubernetes workloads better, the company said. The services ...
Databricks platform updates speed up AI and machine learning workloads
Big-data analytics company Databricks Inc. is sharpening its focus on artificial intelligence workloads, announcing today a major update to its Unified Analytics Platform that should help to unlock the siloed data needed to power these workloads and simplify machine learning processes. Databricks said it has identified some of the major problems that prevent organizations from ...
Zuora aims to simplify subscription management in new release
Cloud subscription management services firm Zuora Inc. today is making what it calls its “biggest product announcement ever” with the launch of the Spring ‘18 version of its Zuora Central Platform. The Zuora Central Platform is a software-as-a-service offering that’s used to automate businesses’ subscription order-to-cash operations in real time. Organizations use the platform to ...
Quick Base’s ‘low-code’ apps can now automate more business tasks
“No-code” software application development platform company Quick Base Inc. today added new automation capabilities to its platform, enabling users to automate a variety of mundane business tasks. Quick Base provides an easy to use platform for workers to create software applications in just a few clicks. It works by configuring existing functions from other platforms and ...
Facebook has built a new data center cooling system for hot, arid climates
Facebook Inc. today revealed a new data center cooling system designed for harsh climates that it claims can reduce its water usage by up to 90 percent. Like most data center operators, Facebook has traditionally built the majority of its facilities in cooler regions where the environmental conditions ensure its servers and systems can be ...
AWS and SAP partner on highly secure government cloud offering
SAP National Security Services Inc., a subsidiary of enterprise software giant SAP SE that offers services for the U.S. national security and critical infrastructure sectors, is teaming up with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a “highly secure” commercial cloud platform. The partnership fuses SAP’s HANA Cloud with the AWS GovCloud. The SAP HANA Cloud Platform ...
Data management firm Druva acquires AWS backup and disaster recovery specialist CloudRanger
Cloud data protection and management company Druva Inc. is acquiring a startup called CloudRanger that specializes in providing backup and disaster recovery services for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. Druva, which sells cloud-based services for backing up and managing corporate files, said the acquisition would help it to expand its own offerings. The company ...
Google integrates G Suite with rival services to boost collaboration
In a nod to the fact that most company employees rely on an increasingly large number of collaboration tools, Google Inc. is adding more integrations with G Suite to ensure a smoother and more productive experience. G Suite, Google’s collection of enterprise productivity tools, includes programs such as Google Docs, Sheets, Hangouts and Calendar. The suite ...
Rookout aims to make it easy to debug serverless code on AWS Lambda
Israeli startup Rookout Inc. is hoping to fill a niche in the market for debugging software, providing application code monitoring tools for Amazon Web Services’ serverless computing platform Amazon Lambda. Growing in popularity among software developers, serverless computing allows them to run their software in the cloud without worrying about creating or maintaining infrastructure such ...
Microsoft buys open-source icon GitHub for $7.5B to boost its cloud
In what could be a big boost for its cloud computing business, Microsoft Corp. Monday morning confirmed reports over the weekend that it’s acquiring the open-source software development platform GitHub. The purchase price is a stunning $7.5 billion, close to four times GitHub’s most recent valuation of $2 billion following a funding round in 2015. The ...
