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AWS debuts pay-as-you-go interactive query service for Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services Wednesday announced the availability of its new Amazon Athena tool. The new service enables serverless queries of massive amounts of data stored in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, without needing to set up data warehouses or spin up Hadoop clusters first. AWS said the idea behind Amazon Athena is that it can simplify ...
Datapipe launches Trebuchet to simplify DevOps
Cloud services company Datapipe Inc. has launched a new beta solution called Trebuchet that’s designed for organizations that want to apply automation and grow into a DevOps lifecycle. Datapipe’s pitch is that while DevOps, a method of creating software faster inside information technology organizations, is becoming increasingly popular, very few companies actually possess the knowledge ...
American Airlines lands on IBM’s cloud
American Airlines Group Inc. is teaming up with IBM Cloud in a deal that will see the airline move some enterprise applications to Big Blue’s cloud computing platform. The two companies have a relationship that stretches back more than 50 years,to IBM’s development of American Airlines’ original, centralized electronic reservation and ticketing system, which went ...
Small cloud providers must become brokers or risk losing out, says 451 Research
Public cloud service providers will need to adopt a flexible approach that includes offering products from their competitors if they’re to survive in the long term, says a new report by 451 Research Inc. The research firm says in its “Managed Infrastructure Market Overview 2016” report that with users increasingly adopting a multi-cloud approach to service ...
Splice Machine boosts hybrid capabilities of its Big Data platform
Splice Machine Inc. has beefed up its relational database management system’s hybrid workload capabilities with the release of version 2.5 of its platform, which is powered by Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. Specifically, Splice Machine’s platform is a dual-engine RDBMS that specializes in something called hybrid transactional and analytical processing. What this means is that ...
Fugue debuts free cloud migration tool for Amazon Web Services
Cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc. has just introduced a free version of its flagship cloud orchestration tool at Amazon Web Services’ AWS re:Invent conference. Fugue’s product attempts to simplify some of the most pressing challenges that companies face when they move their infrastructure to the cloud, which is finding experienced personnel who know how ...
ScaleArc brings load balancing tools to Amazon’s Aurora cloud database
Database performance monitoring specialist ScaleArc Inc. is integrating its software with Amazon Web Services’ Aurora database service in order to help customers boost the performance and availability of their most critical applications. ScaleArc sells database load balancing software that sits between database servers and the application, directing traffic into the database on behalf of the ...
SwiftStack adds Cloud Sync to ease hybrid cloud adoption
Object storage platform provider SwiftStack Inc. is doing its bit to ease hybrid cloud adoption with a new capability called Cloud Sync that serves as onramp to the public cloud. Hybrid cloud is rapidly emerging as the most sensible strategy for hundreds of enterprises that need to consider the benefits of the cloud in the ...
HPE demos first working prototype of ‘The Machine,’ its attempt to reinvent computers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has hit a new milestone in its plans to reinvent the computer. The company says it has finally built a working prototype as part of its ongoing research project, The Machine. HPE ultimately hopes to revolutionize the way computers are built so they can process data much faster than is possible ...
IT services firm Presidio files for IPO, hopes to raise $400M
IT infrastructure services provider Presidio Inc. is looking to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering that could potentially raise the company’s value to $3 billion. In its filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Presidio didn’t indicate a share price, but said it’s looking to raise $100 million. However, the ...
