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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 ...
SAP’s cloud platform is now available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud
Software giant SAP SE’s cloud platform is now generally available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Microsoft said at SAP’s Sapphire Now conference Tuesday that developers now can deploy Cloud Foundry based on SAP Cloud Platform to Azure in its West Europe region. “We’re working with SAP to enable more regions in the months ahead,” Microsoft ...
Amazon fires up its Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
Amazon Web Services Inc. today caught up with its rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., announcing general availability of its managed Kubernetes service for managing software containers. Software containers have become a vital part of the application development infrastructure landscape, because they give developers a way to build their apps once and run them on ...
Oracle’s cloud migration service Soar has landed
Oracle Corp. today unveiled a new suite of services called Oracle Soar designed to make it easier for customers to migrate their applications to its cloud platform. The move is designed to persuade customers to adopt the cloud-based Oracle Database 18c it launched last year. Oracle Soar pairs automated migration tools with professional consulting to create a comprehensive ...
Skytap study finds enterprises still struggle with cloud migrations
Public cloud provider Skytap Inc. says many enterprises are choosing the most difficult and arduous path to migrate their most critical, legacy applications to the cloud. As a result, many of these organizations are making a meal of things, creating more challenges around technical complexity and recruitment as they do so. These are the main ...
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 ...
