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Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out more cloud instance types, this time for its AWS Lightsail service. AWS Lightsail is a private virtual server offering introduced in 2016, aimed at small businesses and developers that either cannot afford to pay for, …
Big-data firm Splunk’s stock surges 17% on strong earnings
Updated: Big-data company Splunk Inc.’s share price is spiking again after another successful quarter. The company today posted a fiscal second-quarter net loss of 71 cents per share on revenue of $388.3 million, up 39 percent from the same period a year ago. …
Intuit replaces CEO Brad Smith with EVP Sasan Goodarzi
Finance software provider Intuit Inc. saw its share price take a hit today on the news that its chief executive officer and chief technology officer are both stepping down at the end of the year. Intuit CEO Brad Smith said on Thursday …
Red Hat aims to help companies migrate to a modern IT infrastructure
Business enterprises aren’t shy about their desire embrace “digital transformation,” and the companies that provide much of their information technology infrastructure are falling over themselves to help make it happen. Red Hat Inc., which supplies a wide range of IT tools and …
Fluree launches FlureeDB, a graph database for building custom blockchains
Blockchain startup Fluree PBC today shipped the first production release of its FlureeDB blockchain “graph database” following a successful beta testing period. FlureeDB is at root a graph database, which uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges and properties to represent …
Microsoft extends its lead in fast-growing software-as-a-service market
Software as a service keeps growing like a weed, with Microsoft Corp. extending its lead in the key cloud computing market. That’s according to Synergy Research Group latest research published Tuesday. SaaS refers to a software licensing and delivery model in which software is …
HPE adds container service tricks to its OneSphere hybrid cloud manager
Software containers have emerged as a useful tool to build cloud-native applications that can be built just once and run anywhere, while Kubernetes software has zoomed to prominence as the way to deploy those apps at large scale. But those tools both …
Amazon claims better price performance with its new ‘burstable’ T3 instances
Always looking to stay ahead of its rivals, Amazon Web Services Inc. has updated its “burstable general-purpose instances” for its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service in order to provide better performance for next-generation software applications. Amazon’s new T3 instances are the successor …
C3 IoT’s industrial ‘internet of things’ platform lands on Google’s cloud
Industrial “internet of things” startup C3 Inc., usually known as C3 IoT, is teaming up with Google LLC to deploy its platform-as-a-service on Google’s public cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2009 by Chairman and Chief Executive Thomas M. Siebel, C3 IoT offers an …
After landing $17M round, Robin Systems launches first hyperconverged Kubernetes platform
Container-based cloud infrastructure provider Robin Systems Inc. is marking a new round of funding with a major new product release focused on the Kubernetes orchestration tool. The company today announced what it says is the industry’s “first hyperconverged Kubernetes platform.” It enables …