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Google and Cisco tease hybrid-cloud play based on Kubernetes
Cisco Systems Inc. and Google Inc. Monday revealed more details about a planned hybrid cloud offering designed to help customers build apps that span on-premises data centers and the public cloud. The companies announced the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud last year. At the time, they said the offering was designed to let companies ...
DevOps automation firm Puppet acquires Reflect for its data visualization tools
Cloud automation company Puppet Inc. will add data visualization capabilities to its list of services after acquiring a startup called Reflect Technologies Inc. Thursday. Founded in 2015, Reflect is based in Portland, Oregon, just like its new owner. The company previously raised $2.5 million in a seed capital funding round in 2016. The terms of the ...
IBM and H2O.ai join forces to speed up machine learning training
IBM Corp. is teaming up with the artificial intelligence startup H2O.ai Inc. in an effort to speed up the training of machine learning models by using its latest POWER Systems servers. The companies today announced a partnership that involves running H2O’s Driverless AI platform atop IBM’s servers, which have been fine-tuned for training and running ...
Red Hat’s Buildah makes it easy to build container images
Red Hat Inc. is making it easier to slot software applications into a container with the release of a new open-source shell program Wednesday. The program, called Buildah, lets developers create Open Container Initiative and Docker compliant container images quickly and efficiently, the company said. Red Hat said Buildah is useful because while it’s fairly easy ...
Okta’s shares rise 4% as earnings come in above expectations
Identity management software provider Okta Inc. has pulled another successful quarter out of the bag, posting earnings that once again beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company, whose software allows employees to log in to multiple applications without using different passwords for each of them, reported a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
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 ...