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CloudHealth brings its monitoring capabilities to Amazon’s Elastic Container Service
Multicloud platform management provider CloudHealth Technologies Inc. is extending its product to customers using container orchestration services on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company is announcing general availability of its Container Module support for Amazon’s Elastic Container Service, which is used to run Docker containers on the AWS cloud. The idea is to ...
Microsoft and Accenture to deliver custom AI services for industry verticals
Microsoft Corp. says it’s building an array of custom artificial intelligence services for specific industries in partnership with Accenture Plc. Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial partner channels & programs, announced the initiative in a blog posted on LinkedIn. It said it builds on the customized virtual support agents it has built for ...
Facebook open-sources Katran, its latest network load balancing software
With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and technologies to do so simply don’t exist elsewhere. Not only that, but the company has a long history of sharing those developments, ...
Red Hat’s newest hyperconverged infrastructure links data centers to the network edge
Open-source software giant Red Hat Inc. is merging its Ceph Storage platform with its OpenStack distribution to create a new hyperconverged infrastructure product that combines compute and storage functions in a single, colocated private cloud environment. The new offering is called Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud, and it essentially bundles Red Hat OpenStack 13 ...
Cloudtenna debuts with new search software to tackle enterprise file sprawl
A startup called Cloudtenna Inc. is betting on its ability to tackle the problem of “file sprawl” in enterprises after landing $4 million in a seed funding. The round for the Sunnyvale, California-based company, announced today, was led by Blazar Ventures with participation from Citrix Systems Inc. Cloudtenna said its first product, called DirectSearch, is ...
Pivot3 aims to ease computing workload migration across AWS, Azure and Google clouds
Hyperconverged infrastructure company Pivot3 Inc. is adding new workload migration capabilities to its Intelligent Hybrid Cloud platform, a move intended to help companies move workloads among different public cloud providers more easily. In addition, the company is adding new disaster recovery capabilities for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Pivot3 said the ...
Tidelift lands $15M to deliver professional open-source support
Tidelift Inc. is raising $15 million as it looks to boost its unique open-source software model that sees companies pay for professional support of their favorite projects, allowing those that maintain them to get compensated too. The Series A round was led by the investment firms General Catalyst and Foundry Group, as well as former ...
Cloud operational intelligence firm SignalFX raises $45M
Operational intelligence for DevOps startup SignalFX Inc., a startup that does operational intelligence for the software development method DevOps, today said it has landed $45 million in a late-stage funding round. The Series D round was led by venture capital firm General Catalyst, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures. It brings ...
Micron and Intel unveil industry’s first quad-level-cell NAND flash chips
Chipmaking rivals and sometime partners Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. said today they’ve begun the production and shipment of the latest generation of their jointly produced NAND flash memory chips for solid-state drives. The companies unveiled what they say are the industry’s first quad-level-cell or QLC NAND flash chips, sporting a 64-layer 3-D structure that ...
Instaclustr delivers Apache Kafka as a managed service
Self-styled open-source-software-as-a-service company Instaclustr Pty Ltd. is adding to its lineup of managed services with the addition of the Apache Kafka publish-subscribe messaging system to its product suite. Apache Kafka is open-source stream-processing software first developed by LinkedIn Corp. that aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. It’s an extremely popular ...