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IBM bolsters OpenWhisk serverless compute platform with software management tools
IBM Corp. has updated its OpenWhisk serverless computing service to provide high-order management functions for developers building application programming interfaces. APIs are one of the most common use cases for serverless compute platforms, which are designed for developers who don’t want to worry about the underlying infrastructure they’re using. The best-known serverless compute platform is ...
Rackspace expands managed services for Amazon Web Services cloud
Rackspace Inc. is stepping up its new strategy piggybacking on the success of Amazon Web Services with a new managed services offering aimed at helping enterprises get the best out of the cloud platform. The company on Thursday launched Professional Services for AWS with what Rackspace says deep, customized expertise for the AWS cloud. Rackspace ...
Atlassian tops earnings estimates but shares stay flat
Australian enterprise collaboration software maker Atlassian Corp. Plc. shrugged off last weekend’s hack of its HipChat communications platform, posting strong fiscal third-quarter earnings and updating future guidance that helped bump up its share price a notch. Atlassian posted revenue of $159.9 million for the period, up 36 percent from a year ago to surpass Wall ...
Google targets India with improved translation tools and language support
Google Inc. is ramping up its effort to get more Indians online with the introduction of improved language support across multiple products. Internet users in the Indian subcontinent currently number around 400 million, but Google has made no secret of its desire to increase this number. Last year at its second Google India event, the ...
HPE discontinues its OpenSDN networking product suite
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has apparently shut down its OpenSDN software-defined networking platform, though it made no official announcement about the decision. The OpenSDN suite’s products include the HPE OpenSDN 1.0 Data Center Networking Controller, the HPE OpenSDN SD-VPN and the HPE OpenSDN SFC solution. Word of the move comes by way of The Register, ...
ServiceNow shares surge on strong first-quarter earnings
ServiceNow Inc. today pulled another successful quarter out the bag, posting first-quarter earnings that once again surpassed analyst’s expectations. The company, which sells software for automating workflows and tracking business processes, announced a profit of 24 cents a share on revenue of $416.8 million, before certain costs such as stock compensation. That compares with Wall Street’s ...
OverOps lands $30 million to tell developers why their apps crash
OverOps Inc., an Israeli company that provides tools for developers to monitor their applications and understand the root cause of errors, has just raised $30 million in a Series C funding round. The company says it will use the money to expand its products into the enterprise software market. The round was led by existing investor ...
Oracle is creating a new startup focused on emerging tech
Better late than never appears to be the mantra at Oracle Corp., at least when it comes to embracing the latest hot technologies. The database giant, which was famously late to embrace cloud computing and is still playing catchup, is now said to be creating a “new startup organization” focused on emerging technologies such as ...
Security concerns accelerate Windows 10 adoption, Gartner says
Microsoft Corp.’s efforts to showcase Windows 10’s security credentials appear to be paying off, as enterprises deploy the operating system at a much faster pace than they did when shifting from Windows XP to Windows 7. Gartner Inc.’s latest survey on Windows 10 migration shows that 85 percent of companies are set to deploy the ...
George Soros fund buys Violin Memory out of bankruptcy
All-flash memory storage supplier Violin Memory Inc. has finally emerged from bankruptcy after selling itself to Quantum Partners LP, a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC. Violin’s assets were acquired in a bankruptcy auction that saw it exchange $26 million in unsecured debt for $15 million in equity in the reorganized company. The ...