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Microsoft’s serverless Azure Service Fabric Mesh is now available for public testing
Following a successful period of private beta testing after its Build 2018 debut, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Service Fabric Mesh is being made available for more widespread public testing. Azure Service Fabric Mesh is basically a kind of serverless version of the more familiar Azure Service Fabric, which is one of the foundational technologies that powers ...
Periscope Data integrates with Amazon’s SageMaker to simplify machine learning
Data analytics company Periscope Data Inc. is working with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a new initiative to make it easier to create machine learning models for business decision-making. Under the initiative, Periscope Data is integrating its data analytics platform with Amazon SageMaker, which is a managed machine learning service that’s used to build and ...
Oracle’s cloud blockchain service is ready for prime time
Oracle Corp. is racing to latch onto one of the hottest trends in tech, announcing the general availability of its Blockchain Cloud Service that it announced last year. Blockchain is the distributed-ledger technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but it also has use cases beyond digital payments. The technology can be used to create tamper-proof contracts ...
Microsoft adds new data prep capabilities to Power BI
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday provided a sneak peak of some upcoming new features in its Power BI and Azure Cloud offerings, ahead of its Inspire partner conference that takes place in Las Vegas next week. With its analytics service Power BI, Microsoft is adding new features designed to streamline and expand data preparation, while also ...
Informatica collaborates with Google’s Apigee on API integration
Informatica LLC is teaming up with Google LLC’s Apigee product group to offer a new unified application programming interface and integration service. Informatica is a provider of enterprise-grade cloud data management products, while Apigee is an API platform available on Google’s cloud. It’s for enterprises to gain more visibility and control over the APIs that connect ...
Intel acquires eASIC to boost its programmable-chip business
Intel Corp. today said it’s buying a fabless chipmaker called eASIC Corp., which builds programmable computer chips that can be customized during the production process. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Intel said the price was “not material.” The deal will see about 120 of eASIC’s employees join Intel’s programmable solutions group, which ...
StackRox hardens its Kubernetes threat detection platform
Container security company StackRox Inc. is updating its Kubernetes threat-detection platform with new capabilities that should help to prevent incidents such as the recent hack of Tesla Inc. StackRox, which recently landed $25 million in funding, offers a cloud-based platform that provides continuous advanced threat detection for technologies such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, which ...
Most enterprises will re-evaluate their cloud strategies for the multicloud era
As large enterprises increasingly adopt multiple cloud computing platforms to host business critical software applications, almost three quarters of them are planning to re-evaluate their cloud strategies or implement an entirely new one. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Forrester Research Inc. on behalf of Dell Technologies Inc. company Virtustream Inc., released today. ...
Snowflake Computing’s cloud data warehouse lands on Microsoft Azure
Big-data startup Snowflake Computing Inc. is bringing its cloud data warehouse to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform, giving customers a second option besides running it on Amazon Web Services. Founded in 2012, Snowflake offers a data warehouse and analytics service hosted in the cloud, which organizations can use to store all their data in one ...
Fujitsu offers 5-day course to help businesses get started with blockchain
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu Ltd. is launching a new blockchain consultancy service for companies that would like to know whether their plans for a distributed digital ledger are viable. The company said its new service is “extremely rapid” and will provide proof-of-business and enable the “cocreation of a minimum viable product” in just five days. The ...