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VMware updates NSX-T network software to support software container development
VMware Inc. took to the stage at Pivotal Software Inc.’s SpringOne Platform conference in San Francisco today to announce an updated version of its NSX virtual networking software. The virtualization giant offers two different versions of its software-defined networking software. NSX is the better known and more widely used of the two. It integrates with ...
Google launches new machine learning services for analyzing video and text content
Google LLC is moving forward with its effort to help developers add more layers of intelligence into their software applications, announcing general availability of two new machine learning services. The new releases pertain to Google’s Cloud Video Intelligence and Cloud Natural Language Content Classification. In a blog post, Google engineers Wei Hua and Apoorv Saxena ...
Pivotal Software adds serverless compute, software containers to Cloud Foundry
Software and services company Pivotal Software Inc., a subsidiary of Dell Technologies Inc., today announced a major update to its Cloud Foundry product during its annual SpringOne Platform conference. The update adds new serverless computing capabilities to the popular developer platform, and it also integrates Pivotal’s new container service, announced during VMworld 2017 in August. Pivotal ...
CoreOS adds open-source infrastructure services to its Tectonic Kubernetes platform
Software container company CoreOS Inc. is updating its popular Tectonic platform, adding a number of open-source services that serve as alternatives to proprietary infrastructure components from public cloud companies. CoreOS’s Tectonic platform is essentially an enterprise-grade version of the Kubernetes container orchestration tool, which is used to manage clusters of software containers, which in turn ...
With solid customer growth, Nutanix beats earnings forecasts
Hyperconvered infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. today said it soundly beat market expectations with its fiscal first-quarter results. The company, which sells an enterprise cloud platform that converges servers, virtualization and storage into integrated product that can connect to public cloud services, reported a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of $24.7 million, or 16 ...
Box’s loss in line with Wall Street’s estimates but shares fall
Cloud content management company Box Inc. reported a larger third-quarter loss Wednesday thanks to higher spending on marketing as it looks to sign up more customers in what is becoming an increasingly competitive business. Box’s third-quarter results were largely in line with Wall Street’s estimates, but shareholders seemed less than impressed, with the company’s share price ...
Amazon announces new serverless and graph databases
Amazon Web Services Inc. is beefing up its database services in a big way. The company on Wednesday introduced a new offering at its AWS re:Invent conference that aims to boost the reliability, scale and usability of its Aurora database. In addition, it announced a brand-new service called AWS Neptune to help customers build and ...
Amazon steps up container support with Kubernetes and Fargate managed service
Following in the footsteps of public cloud rivals Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. for once, Amazon Web Services Inc. on Wednesday finally announced it’s supporting the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration engine. The company also introduced a new managed service called Fargate for running containers without worrying about the underlying servers or clusters. With the announcements, ...
Amazon extends enterprise grip with five new marquee customers
Amazon Web Services Inc. revealed at its AWS re:Invent conference it’s adding four more major enterprise customers to its cloud platform, following a similar deal with the media company Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Early today, Amazon said it had landed deals with The Walt Disney Co., online travel firm Expedia Inc., the National Football League and ...
AWS updates its Marketplace, intros new PrivateLink service for secure cloud connections
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference saw a flurry of activity on its second day Tuesday with the public cloud giant and a host of its partners falling over themselves to announce a range of new products and services. The main announcements were reserved for Amazon itself, which said it added new features to its ...