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Fugue lands $41M Series D round to push cloud management
Cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc. has just closed on a juicy $41 million Series D funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $75 million. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from previous investor Maryland Venture Fund and a new investor, Future Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Australia. ...
Amazon Web Services claims 16,000 database migrations to its cloud since March
Amazon Web Services has seen more than 16,000 migrations of databases off private data centers since the launch of its migration service last March. That’s according to a tweet from AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy about the company’s Database Migration Service. Of those migrations, Jassy reckons more than 2,000 have taken place since the end of ...
Red Hat adds hybrid cloud management features in new CloudForms
Red Hat Inc. has updated its hybrid cloud management platform CloudForms to provide enhanced capabilities for users of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, as well as Red Hat’s OpenStack platform. CloudForms is software that enables organizations to manage multiple cloud deployments, including both private and public clouds and software container-based platforms. The platform allows ...
IoT spending forecast to hit $1.29 trillion by 2020
Global spending on the Internet of Things will hit $1.29 trillion over the next three years, according to a revised prediction from research firm International Data Corp. IDC made the new forecast in an update Wednesday to its Worldwide IoT Spending Guide for the 2015-2020 period. In earlier editions of that guide, IDC said IoT spending would total $1.3 ...
Governments switched off the Internet more than 50 times in 2016
The Internet is becoming more accessible even in the remotest parts of the worlds. But with that prevalence comes more aggressive attempts to suppress it. Throughout 2016, governments around the world attempted to shut down the web on more than 50 occasions. Governments shut off access to the internet for a variety of reasons, including ...
Legal ruling could have ‘significant chilling effect’ on patent trolls
A federal judge struck a potentially lethal blow against so-called “patent trolls” last month after slapping a $500,000 bill on the troll’s lawyers and ruling that they, not their client, are responsible for paying it. Now, experts are saying the decision could have significant repercussions for the technology industry as it may make legal firms think ...
Playing cloud catch-up, Google woos data center operators with new guide
Google Inc. has published a guide for data center professionals aimed at tempting them to tap into its vast cloud computing infrastructure. The guide, which is aimed at those with minimal experience working with public clouds, details how Google’s cloud infrastructure substitutes each of the functions of current data centers. It comes after Google has ...
Windows 10 adoption climbs, reaching 24.5% of desktop computers
Last September Microsoft announced Windows 10 was installed on more than 400 million devices. The company hasn’t provided an update since then, but the end-of-year stats from NetMarketShare reveal that Windows 10 adoption is still growing steadily, and is now running on almost a quarter of all desktop machines. That percentage, 24.4 percent to be ...
Microsoft invites companies to test drive its Teams collaboration platform
Microsoft Corp. is offering companies a chance to “test drive” its new collaboration platform Microsoft Teams as it steps up its bid to take on Slack Inc. Microsoft announced the platform in November following rumors that it had seriously considered a bid to acquire Slack, which has taken the world of enterprise collaboration by storm. Microsoft ...
U.K. department store House of Fraser invests $43M in app-only banking startup Tandem
U.K.-based department store chain House of Fraser Ltd. has said it’s investing £35 million ($43 million) into an app-only banking startup called Tandem Bank Ltd. The investment is part of a tie up between Tandem and House of Fraser that will see the department store offer unspecified financial services to its customers via the banking ...