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Hyperconvered infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. today said it soundly beat market expectations with its fiscal first-quarter results. The company, which sells an enterprise cloud platform that converges servers, virtualization and storage into integrated product that can connect to public cloud services, reported a …
Box’s loss in line with Wall Street’s estimates but shares fall
Cloud content management company Box Inc. reported a larger third-quarter loss Wednesday thanks to higher spending on marketing as it looks to sign up more customers in what is becoming an increasingly competitive business. Box’s third-quarter results were largely in line with Wall …
Amazon announces new serverless and graph databases
Amazon Web Services Inc. is beefing up its database services in a big way. The company on Wednesday introduced a new offering at its AWS re:Invent conference that aims to boost the reliability, scale and usability of its Aurora database. In addition, …
Amazon steps up container support with Kubernetes and Fargate managed service
Following in the footsteps of public cloud rivals Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. for once, Amazon Web Services Inc. on Wednesday finally announced it’s supporting the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration engine. The company also introduced a new managed service called Fargate for …
Amazon extends enterprise grip with five new marquee customers
Amazon Web Services Inc. revealed at its AWS re:Invent conference it’s adding four more major enterprise customers to its cloud platform, following a similar deal with the media company Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Early today, Amazon said it had landed deals with The …
AWS updates its Marketplace, intros new PrivateLink service for secure cloud connections
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference saw a flurry of activity on its second day Tuesday with the public cloud giant and a host of its partners falling over themselves to announce a range of new products and services. The main announcements …
Microsoft announces support for SAP’s S4/HANA software on Azure
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its long-running partnership with German enterprise software giant SAP SE. The Redmond-based firm announced Tuesday it has engineered SAP’s cloud and enterprise resource planning software to run on its Azure cloud, as it bids to steal some of …
With broadcaster Turner, Amazon bags another marquee enterprise customer for its public cloud
Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. has landed another major broadcast customer: Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the media conglomerate that owns popular TV channels such as CNN, NCAA, TBS, TNT and the Cartoon Network. Amazon announced the move at its AWS re:Invent …
Co-working space provider WeWork will acquire Meetup
Updated Tuesday: Co-working space provider WeWork Inc. Tuesday said it has acquired Meetup Inc., the 15-year-old company behind the popular community platform of the same name. News of the deal was reported Monday by Crunchbase News, which said Meetup co-founder and Chief Executive Scott …
HeadSpin launches with mobile app testing and experience monitoring platform
Mobile application testing platform HeadSpin Inc. launched Monday with a new service for developers that it promise will provide quality assurance through every stage of the development process. HeadSpin said the main purposes of its platform are to accelerate application release cycles, …