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Microsoft announces support for SAP’s S4/HANA software on Azure
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its long-running partnership with German enterprise software giant SAP SE. The Redmond-based firm announced Tuesday it has engineered SAP’s cloud and enterprise resource planning software to run on its Azure cloud, as it bids to steal some of the limelight from Amazon Web Service Inc.’s cloud conference this week. Microsoft and ...
With broadcaster Turner, Amazon bags another marquee enterprise customer for its public cloud
Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. has landed another major broadcast customer: Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the media conglomerate that owns popular TV channels such as CNN, NCAA, TBS, TNT and the Cartoon Network. Amazon announced the move at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, saying that Turner has chosen it as its ...
Co-working space provider WeWork will acquire Meetup
Updated Tuesday: Co-working space provider WeWork Inc. Tuesday said it has acquired Meetup Inc., the 15-year-old company behind the popular community platform of the same name. News of the deal was reported Monday by Crunchbase News, which said Meetup co-founder and Chief Executive Scott Heiferman confirmed the deal in an internal announcement to the company’s employees, and ...
HeadSpin launches with mobile app testing and experience monitoring platform
Mobile application testing platform HeadSpin Inc. launched Monday with a new service for developers that it promise will provide quality assurance through every stage of the development process. HeadSpin said the main purposes of its platform are to accelerate application release cycles, build apps for complex user environments and alert developers instantly whenever their code ...
A growing complexity of services is hampering enterprises’ multicloud strategies
Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud deployment strategies, but few are seeing any benefits thanks to the growing complexity of cloud service providers’ product portfolios. 451 Research Inc.’s latest Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation Study shows there’s a growing appetite for the mix-and-match approach towards cloud services, with 69 percent of enterprises showing an interest ...
Baffle enables cloud-based apps to use encrypted data without breaking
Data encryption-as-a-service company Baffle Inc. is beefing up its product suite with a new data protection service for applications running on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The idea is to ensure those cloud-based applications can run while using encrypted data without breaking. Baffle’s main encryption-as-a-service software is designed to ensure that data breaches remain ...
CloudPassage adds new tools to plug leaky software containers
Cloud infrastructure security specialist CloudPassage Inc. is attempting to plug leaky software containers with the latest update to its Halo platform, which provides security controls across data centers, private and public clouds and virtual machines. The company today announced general availability of Container Secure, which provides a range of compliance and security controls for container ...
Sumo Logic intros new monitoring capabilities for Docker and Kubernetes
Log management and analytics startup Sumo Logic Inc. is the latest company to fall under the sway of software application containers. Today it announced a new unified logs and metrics feature for its platform that provides intelligence into applications running on the Docker Engine and Kubernetes. Software application containers are used by developers to abstract their ...
Amazon jumps into virtual reality with Sumerian for building VR apps in the cloud
Immersive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality could soon become much more commonplace thanks to the launch early Monday morning of a new development platform by Amazon Web Services Inc. The public cloud computing giant took the wraps off its new Amazon Sumerian service, which provides a platform for developers to create realistic ...
With new AWS Elemental Media Services, Amazon ups its video production game
Amazon Web Services Inc. is stepping up its video production capabilities as it bids to become the platform of choice for companies focused on creating video-based content. The company announced early Monday at its AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas that it’s expanding the scope of its popular AWS Elemental Media Services suite with five new services designed ...