Cloud
IBM cloud lands big customers in the energy sector
IBM Corp. might not carry the same kind of clout in the public cloud as rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but it’s managing to compete in specific niche industries…
Cloud
UK newspaper The Telegraph goes all-in on Google’s cloud
Google LLC is highlighting some of the capabilities of its public cloud infrastructure after landing a major new customer: Telegraph Media Group Ltd., which publishes The Telegraph, one of the U.K.’s most popular newspapers.…
Cloud
Red Hat intros CodeReady Workspaces for Kubernetes-native container app development
Red Hat Inc. is trying to make life easier for developers who build their applications using software containers and manage them with Kubernetes. The company, which will soon be acquired by IBM Corp., today announced…
Big Data
Tableau Software beats earnings forecast as it switches to new accounting standard
Tableau Software Inc. reported fourth-quarter results today that beat Wall Street’s expectations on both profit and revenue, but its stock still fell slightly in after-hours trading. The business intelligence analytics software company’s shares were…
Big Data
Doubling down on data science, Databricks lands massive $250M round
Big-data company Databricks Inc. is topping up its war chest with a hefty $250 million late-stage round of funding. The Series E round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Coatue Management, Microsoft Corp. and New…
Cloud
Rancher Labs now supports multicluster Kubernetes apps
Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. today added an important new capability to its platform, providing support for “multicluster” Kubernetes applications for the first time. The company said it’s the first platform of its kind…
Cloud
Slack rival Mattermost lands $20M to grow its DevOps-focused collaboration platform
Aiming to pinch business away from its larger rival Slack Technologies Inc., collaboration platform provider Mattermost Inc. today said it has landed $20 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by Redpoint Ventures,…
Big Data
Data management startup Komprise raises $24M
Komprise Inc., a startup in the emerging data management market, is looking to grow its business after landing a $24 million round of funding that doubles its total capital raised to $42 million. Top…
Cloud
Microsoft delivers Azure cloud capabilities to the ‘tactical edge’
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with Dell Technologies Inc.’s Dell EMC subsidiary to deliver cloud services to the “tactical edge,” by which they mean remote locations where network connectivity leaves a lot to be…
Cloud
Google launches Cloud Firestore database for mobile app developers
Google LLC has finally made its Cloud Firestore database for mobile, web and “internet of things” applications generally available, more than a year after it was launched in beta. Cloud Firestore is a serverless,…