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Rackspace launches managed services offering for Amazon databases
Cloud computing company Rackspace Inc. is stepping up its managed services offerings for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company, which in recent years has transitioned from being a competitor of the cloud giant to a partner in its capacity as a professional services provider, today announced a new managed database service for AWS. The ...
Atlassian pops but then falls as it tops earnings estimates
Updated: Enterprise software company Atlassian Corp. Plc. was all smiles today as it delivered fiscal second-quarter financial results that cruised past expectations. Guidance for the next quarter was also encouraging, helping drive a big jump in firm’s share price in after-hours trading. In addition, Atlassian hit a major new milestone for the quarter ending Dec. 31, surpassing $1 ...
IBM and Vodafone create joint venture to boost multicloud connectivity
IBM Corp. is teaming up with Vodafone Ltd.’s Vodafone Business subsidiary on a new joint venture. The new company, announced today, will help joint customers that rely on IBM’s multicloud capabilities by enabling faster connectivity with Vodafone’s 5G, software-defined networking and edge technologies. The improved connectivity they will deliver is important because it will enable ...
Data catalog company Alation lands $50M funding round
Big-data company Alation Inc. has just landed a hefty $50 million later-stage round of funding as it looks to help more enterprises access corporate information buried deep within their computer systems. Sapphire Ventures is the main investor in the Series C round announced today, which also saw the participation of existing investors Costanoa Venture Capital, Data ...
Amazon announces automated AWS Backup service
Amazon Web Services Inc. says its customers will be able to automate the backup of data from both AWS services and on-premises systems faster and more easily with a new service called AWS Backup. Announced late today, the service enables data to be backed up across multiple cloud services, including block storage, databases, file systems and ...
Google hikes the price of annual G Suite subscriptions
Google LLC has decided to increase the subscription fees for some of its G Suite business packages. It’s said to be the first time ever that Google has increased its prices for G Suite, which is a set of productivity tools that competes with Microsoft Corp.’s Office 365 suite. The hikes mean that G Suite ...
Huawei under investigation by the DOJ over alleged theft of trade secrets
China’s beleaguered telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is in hot water again, the subject of a new investigation by federal prosecutors over allegations that it stole trade secrets from U.S. firms. The Wall Street Journal said the probe is already at an advanced stage, and that Huawei could soon find itself being indicted over the ...
Nvidia brings its Tesla T4 GPUs for machine learning to Google’s cloud
Google LLC today announced it’s making Nvidia Corp.’s low-power Tesla T4 graphics processing units available on its cloud platform in beta test mode. The move is significant because Nvidia’s GPUs are the most popular hardware used for machine learning. That’s a subset of artificial intelligence that uses software to emulate roughly how the human brain ...
Incident response platform provider PagerDuty files for IPO
Incident response startup PagerDuty Inc. has just filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a report late today in Bloomberg. The report cites “two people familiar with the matter” as saying that PagerDuty has chosen Morgan Stanley to lead the IPO. What isn’t clear is when PagerDuty plans to launch its offering, since the ...
Google to update G Suite apps with Material Design theme
Google LLC’s G Suite web apps are getting a shiny new makeover along the lines of its Material Design theme. The update, affecting Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, will be rolled out to G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, G Suite for Education, G Suite Enterprise for Education and G Suite ...