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Managed cloud computing services company Rackspace Inc. today said it will offer colocation services for customers that wish to deploy their own hardware inside the company’s data centers. The data center colocation model offers enterprises an alternative to regular cloud computing. With …
AI-based supply chain company LevaData raises $12M in funding round
Artificial intelligence-based supply chain system provider LevaData inc. is eyeing new markets after closing on a new $12 million round. The Series B round, led by previous investor Tola Capital, brings its total funding to almost $20 million since 2014. LevaData has …
Google and Cisco tease hybrid-cloud play based on Kubernetes
Cisco Systems Inc. and Google Inc. Monday revealed more details about a planned hybrid cloud offering designed to help customers build apps that span on-premises data centers and the public cloud. The companies announced the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud last …
DevOps automation firm Puppet acquires Reflect for its data visualization tools
Cloud automation company Puppet Inc. will add data visualization capabilities to its list of services after acquiring a startup called Reflect Technologies Inc. Thursday. Founded in 2015, Reflect is based in Portland, Oregon, just like its new owner. The company previously raised $2.5 …
IBM and H2O.ai join forces to speed up machine learning training
IBM Corp. is teaming up with the artificial intelligence startup H2O.ai Inc. in an effort to speed up the training of machine learning models by using its latest POWER Systems servers. The companies today announced a partnership that involves running H2O’s Driverless …
Red Hat’s Buildah makes it easy to build container images
Red Hat Inc. is making it easier to slot software applications into a container with the release of a new open-source shell program Wednesday. The program, called Buildah, lets developers create Open Container Initiative and Docker compliant container images quickly and efficiently, …
Okta’s shares rise 4% as earnings come in above expectations
Identity management software provider Okta Inc. has pulled another successful quarter out of the bag, posting earnings that once again beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company, whose software allows employees to log in to multiple applications without using different passwords for each …
Streamlio adds real-time data stream processing to Apache Pulsar
Startup Streamlio Inc. today announced a major update to the Apache Pulsar publish-and-subscribe messaging platform, which serves as the main rival to the better-known Apache Kafka project. Publish-and-subscribe messaging systems such as Apache Pulsar are designed to provide a highly scalable way for …
SAP’s cloud platform is now available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud
Software giant SAP SE’s cloud platform is now generally available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Microsoft said at SAP’s Sapphire Now conference Tuesday that developers now can deploy Cloud Foundry based on SAP Cloud Platform to Azure in its West Europe region. …
Amazon fires up its Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
Amazon Web Services Inc. today caught up with its rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., announcing general availability of its managed Kubernetes service for managing software containers. Software containers have become a vital part of the application development infrastructure landscape, because they …