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Red Hat adds containerized services to its latest OpenStack Platform release
Red Hat Inc. is shipping out an updated version of its OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service platform that’s designed to bring the features of public clouds such as Amazon Web Services to private data centers. The company said Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 is based on the latest OpenStack Pike release that was shipped in August. One of ...
Bye-bye Bluemix: Big Blue dumps the brand in favor of ‘IBM Cloud’
IBM Corp. is killing off the “Bluemix” brand name for its platform-as-a-service offerings for creating cloud computing applications and instead will lump all of its cloud products under “IBM Cloud” badge. The move follows IBM’s decision last year to dump its old “SoftLayer” brand name, which was previously used to identify its infrastructure-as-a-service products such ...
Look out, Amazon: Alibaba’s cloud revenue is doubling annually
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. breezed past analysts’ expectations in its latest quarter, reporting revenue up 61 percent thanks to solid growth in its primary commerce business and its cloud computing arm. Alibaba said in a press release Thursday that its burgeoning cloud business saw revenues jump by 99 percent to $447 million for ...
Tableau Software’s stock tanks after missing earnings target
Tableau Software Inc. saw its stock crash today after reporting earnings that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. The Seattle-based company, which provides data visualization tools for enterprises, reported a profit of 8 cents per share on revenue of $214.9 million. Wall Street was hoping for 9 cents per share on $219.4 million in revenue. Tableau did ...
Google Cloud Platform gets lower latencies, faster connections
Google LLC announced some updates to its cloud platform today that should lead to a significant reduction in network latency for its customers and faster, more secure connections for those seeking higher availability. The first update relates to part of the core infrastructure of Google’s cloud. The internet giant said it’s updating the Andromeda software-defined ...
IBM updates Watson so it can feed data-hungry AI apps faster
IBM Corp. is looking to make data more accessible for its Watson Data Platform so it can be used by applications that leverage artificial intelligence. The company on Thursday said it’s adding new data cataloging and refining features to Watson that will make it easier for developers and data scientists to prepare and analyze data ...
Cybersecurity stocks tumble on disappointing outlooks
A number of high-profile cybersecurity firms have been left reeling as investors rushed to sell off their stocks after being disappointed by recent earnings results. The latest company to be hit is Symantec Corp., which saw its share price fall by 8 percent, to $29.58, in after-hours trading Wednesday. That came after the company reported a ...
VMware acquires VeloCloud in a bid to take on Cisco in networking
Updated Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. today announced it plans to acquire software-defined wide area network provider VeloCloud Networks Inc. in a move that suggests it’s squaring up to battle Cisco Systems Inc. for dominance in the networking world. No purchase price was revealed for the deal, which is expected to close in VMware’s fiscal ...
VMware’s new Photon OS boosts security and cloud app options
VMware Inc. is updating its Project Photon OS platform for running software containers with new security improvements and support for more packages for prototyping and deploying cloud-native applications. Photon OS is an operating system that has been optimized for software containers, cloud-native apps, public clouds and VMware’s infrastructure. Software containers are used as a way ...
Apache Kafka data streaming engine hits milestone as version 1.0 goes live
The Apache Kafka distributed data streaming engine has finally hit version 1.0, a milestone that indicates the platform is finally ready for mainstream business. “Apache Kafka is playing a bigger role as companies are moving to real-time streaming and embracing stream processing,” Jun Rao, vice president of Apache Kafka, said in a statement. “The 1.0.0 ...