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Amazon Web Services Inc. is strengthening its pole position in the public cloud market, adding Formula One Group as its latest marquee customer. The public cloud infrastructure provider said Formula 1 is moving the majority of its information technology systems to the …
VMware updates Pivotal Container Service with latest Kubernetes release
VMware Inc. and its Dell Technologies Inc. sister Pivotal Software Inc. are updating their jointly developed Pivotal Container Service with features aimed at addressing developer productivity, high availability, management and operations, and networking and security. The service, dubbed PKS, helps organizations easily create software …
Apple and Samsung’s seven-year design patent battle finally ends as they settle out of court
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have been slugging it out in the courts over alleged patent infractions for the best part of this decade, but that battle has finally come to its conclusion with Reuters reporting the two companies have …
Microsoft’s M12 VC fund backs DevOps startup Codefresh in $8M round
Israeli startup Codefresh Inc. is hoping to shake up the DevOps landscape after closing on an $8 million round of funding led by Microsoft Corp.’s new venture capital arm, M12. The Series B round, which also saw previous investors Hillsven Capital, Viola …
Google flags bigger open-source ambitions as it steps up commitment to the Linux Foundation
Google LLC has been a member of the Linux Foundation for quite some time, but only at the lower level, holding a silver membership since it first signed up. That changed today as the internet revealed that it’s upping its membership status to the …
Databricks makes it easier to build AI apps using the R programming language
Big-data analytics company Databricks Inc. is teaming up with RStudio Inc. in order to help developers write code for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications more easily using the R programming language. The partnership entails integrating Databricks’ popular Unified Analytics Platform with …
DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round
DevOps automation firm Puppet Inc.’s recent frenzy of activity is showing no signs of slowing down. The company, which automates the delivery and optimization of modern software applications, today said it has closed on a $42 million round of funding led by …
After $50M funding, big-data firm Celonis is Europe’s latest unicorn
German big-data company Celonis GmbH today said it has raised a hefty $50 million, bringing its valuation to a cool $1 billion. The company plans to use the proceeds from the Series B round to bolster its recent entry into the U.S. market, …
VMware brings Kubernetes container orchestration to multiple cloud platforms
Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. is stepping up its involvement in the software container movement, announcing today the availability in beta of its new VMware Kubernetes Engine. VMware is touting the platform as an enterprise-grade Kubernetes-as-a-service offering that helps companies to easily …
Quantum Xchange to build first quantum network in U.S. offering ‘unbreakable encryption’
Startup Quantum Xchange today said it has raised $10 million in a seed funding round timed to coincide with the launch of the first-ever quantum fiber optic network in the U.S. The network is designed to protect data in transmission from attacks powered …