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AWS adds SaaS subscriptions option to its marketplace
Amazon Web Services has made a new store on the AWS Marketplace where customers can buy Software as a Service and Application Programming Interface products. The new AWS Marketplace Vendors program allows customers to buy up products and services as they need, and pay for the time or data used instead of being charged a ...
GE unveils new services for its Predix Industrial Internet of Things platform
General Electric Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a slew of new services and solutions for its cloud-based Predix Industrial Internet of Things platform, designed to bring “visibility, control and analytic insights to every part of industrial infrastructure and operations.” GE, which introduced the new solutions at its Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco, said they can run ...
Microsoft extends lifecycle, support for Azure Pack
Microsoft Corp. has said it will continue to develop its Windows Azure Pack product until 2022, while pledging to support it until 2027. Azure Pack is Microsoft’s first so-called “Azure-in-a-box” product that offers companies a “cloud-like” experience installed on-premises. The pack, which provides a first-generation Azure GUI, with Windows Server and System Center under the ...
Intel invests $250M in autonomous cars because ‘data is the new oil’
Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip maker Intel Corp., plans to invest more than $250 million into autonomous vehicles within the next two years. Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich made the announcement Tuesday at the LA Auto Show’s AutoMobility conference, where he suggested that “data” could have almost as big an impact on road transportation ...
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 ...