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GitLab’s gone: Another company bails out of the public cloud
While most enterprises seem to be racing headlong into the cloud as fast as they can, a few have come to the realization that cloud computing isn’t always the Holy Grail for all their infrastructure needs. GitLab Inc., the software developer platform that rivals the better-known GitHub Inc., has become the latest to revert back ...
Zugata lands $7M round to automate employee performance reviews
Palo Alto-based startup Zugata Inc. has just landed $7 million in a Series A funding round as it bids to do away with hated annual performance reviews at large companies. Venture capital firm Canaan Partners led the round, with participation from General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. Zugata says the plan is to use the cash ...
Amazon Web Services announces new price cuts for its virtual servers
Amazon Web Services is leading the way with yet another round of price cuts for its instances, which are virtual servers in Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing service. Amazon’s chief evangelist Jeff Barr said the cuts are about passing on cost savings to customers, and will cover multiple regions, prepaid reserved plans and full-machine dedicated host instances, ...
Pivotal’s open source Cloud Foundry lands on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Corp. has announced the general availability of Pivotal Software Inc.’s open source cloud service Cloud Foundry on the software giant’s Azure cloud computing platform, in a move that marries cloud Java with .NET applications. Microsoft previously added support for Cloud Foundry on Azure last May. In an announcement, Microsoft said that Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry platform will ...
Russia to block LinkedIn for refusing to store user data inside the country
Social networking site LinkedIn.com is set to be blocked in Russia “within days” for refusing to store user’s data within the country. The likely move comes after Russia’s government passed new laws that require any personal data submitted by Russian citizens to be stored in data centers within the country. Federal Law 526-FZ was adopted ...
Google hits back at European Union’s antitrust allegations
Google Inc. is pushing back strongly on European Union allegations that it abused the dominance of its Android smartphone operating system in order to favor its own applications and services. In April, Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s outspoken competition commissioner, filed a long list of antitrust charges against the Internet giant. These included the claim that ...
Report: The Internet of Things is still mostly hype
Market research firm IDTechEx has poured scorn on the Internet of Things, claiming the concept is mostly just hype because real-world deployments and spending have reached only a small fraction of what many experts predicted. In a new report,”Internet of Things (IoT) 2017-2027“, IDTechEx said that although companies spend billions of dollars on the IoT ...
Report: Simple economics will make edge computing vital for Internet of Things
The excessive cost of moving data means the vast majority of Internet of Things use cases will need to adopt a hybrid cloud solution where data is processed at the edge. That’s according to a new report from David Floyer, chief technology officer at Wikibon, the research analyst group owned by the same company as ...
Microsoft soups up Azure SQL database with new in-memory capabilities
Microsoft Corp. has made its Azure SQL in-memory capabilities generally available, enabling rapid and advanced data analytics atop of its cloud service. In-memory refers to data being stored in the RAM as a way of accelerating database performance, as it allows information to be accessed much more rapidly than traditional databases can do when they ...
Global cloud traffic to increase almost fourfold by 2020, Cisco says
Companies are adopting cloud architectures at such a rapid rate that cloud traffic will account for 92 percent of the globe’s total data center traffic by 2020, according to a new report from Cisco Systems Inc. The networking giant predicts in its latest Global Cloud Index report that cloud traffic will increase by 3.7 times, ...
