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Ahana delivers Presto distributed query engine as a service on the AWS cloud
Ahana Cloud Inc., the commercial curator of the Presto distributed query engine, today announced a cloud-native offering of Presto as a service on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The company also said it raised an additional $2.3 million in seed financing, coming on top of the $2.5 million it raised in June. Presto is ...
Hysolate delivers centrally managed secure endpoint VMs as a service
Hysolate Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based provider of isolated virtual workspaces, today announced a version of its product delivered as a service. The Isolated Workspace-as-a-Service is intended for companies that need to control employee workstation security closely in remote work environments by providing operating system-isolated endpoints that can be managed centrally from the cloud. Hysolate addresses ...
The newest e-learning platform leaves topics and pricing up to instructors
U Inc., a spinoff from gig economy software development platform Koder Inc., today launched an online learning platform that enables anyone to teach classes and earn money from fees they set. U provides a digital platform using Zoom Inc. video and live chat that prospective instructors can employ to do live classes as well as set ...
Ambiq says new processors use one-tenth the power of rival chips
Ambiq Micro Inc., one of a host of well-funded startups that are vying to build microprocessors to power a new generation of smart devices, today introduced the fourth generation of its Apollo processor line. The company says it can enable some wearable, tracking and healthcare devices to run for months on a single charge. The ...
Talend integrates trust metrics into its data integration platform
Bidding to break from the pack in a crowded market, data integration provider Talend SA today is introducing an algorithm that evaluates data trust based upon such factors as data quality, popularity and user-defined rankings. Talend Trust Score instantly assesses the reliability of an organization’s data to help companies resolve data integrity issues across increasingly ...
Hasura raises $25 million in funding and expands GraphQL database support
Hasura Inc., a startup that sells a commercial version of the open-source GraphQL data management language aimed at developers, yesterday announced that it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round just six months after closing a $9.9 million Series A round. The company also said it added support for the open-source MySQL database and early ...
IBM, Red Hat boost OpenShift with dedicated marketplace
IBM Corp. and its Red Hat Inc. subsidiary are doubling down on Kubernetes, the orchestrator for software containers, with the introduction today of a software marketplace dedicated to applications that run across hybrid information technology infrastructure and multiple clouds. The Red Hat Marketplace, which was introduced today, is billed as a “one-stop-shop to find, try, ...
Progress Software acquires infrastructure automation pioneer Chef
Progress Software Inc. today said it plans to acquire infrastructure automation firm Chef Software Inc. for $220 million, or about twice the $105 million in funding Chef has raised to date. The Bedford, Mass.-based Progress said the addition of Chef will contribute to Progress’ efforts to “build, deploy, manage and secure applications in modern multicloud and ...
Google binds no-code tools, API management and serverless computing into new development platform
Placing a bet on the red-hot low-code/no-code market, Google LLC today debuted its new Business Application Platform category of software encompassing application programming interface management, no-code application development, process automation and business analytics. Google said it aims to create more consistent ways for users to access services, data and functionality via APIs while disguising the ...
VMware’s app modernization chief: ‘We’ve put to bed the debate about containers versus virtual machines’
VMware Inc. kicked off the Spring One virtual conference today, celebrating the Spring Java development framework whose commercial version it picked up with the acquisition of Pivotal Software Inc. late last year. It’s also an anniversary party of sorts for Tanzu, the application modernization portfolio that VMware introduced in August 2019. With Tanzu, VMware threw ...