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Oracle brings flagship Autonomous Database to on-premises Cloud@Customer deployments
Oracle Corp. is taking an important step toward its goal of becoming a top-tier cloud infrastructure provider today with the announcement that its flagship Autonomous Database will now be available for customers to use within their own data centers through the Exadata Cloud@Customer program. Oracle also announced that it will provide entire cloud regions in ...
Emergency responders finding SMS is a whole lot more than text messages
With lockdowns beginning to ease, government agencies are taking a hard look at their emergency management and alert systems and finding that there’s a lot more more power in Short Message Service than meets the eye. Text messaging may appear to be one of the least glamorous functions of a cell phone, but it’s potentially ...
Ahana bring PrestoDB distributed database to AWS and Docker Hub
Backed by $2.25 million in an initial funding round led by Google LLC’s GV Management Co LLC, Ahana Cloud Inc. today released the open-source version of the PrestoDB distributed database on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud platform and in a containerized version on Docker Inc.’s Docker Hub. Ahana, which was founded by two former executives from ...
The pandemic pivot: How IT groups are laboring to make remote working work
For Chris Conry, the sudden shift to working from home in March was a bit of a revelation. The chief information officer at cloud collaboration software provider Fuze Inc. had always been an inveterate office worker, commuting some 80 miles a day round-trip from his home in central Massachusetts to the company’s Boston headquarters. Three ...
HPE bundles software under Ezmeral brand and expands Greenlake packaged services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today is kicking off its Discover virtual conference by making a statement of sorts about its commitment to be a major software player, albeit in the corner of the market devoted to helping organizations run complex computing fabrics. Three years after selling off much of its software portfolio to U.K.-based Micro Focus International ...
Epsagon adds containers, Azure cloud to its observability platform
Epsagon Inc., a two-year-old startup that provides visibility into workloads built on serverless platforms, today announced new extensions to its core that target software containers, the self-contained operating environments that are increasingly favored by developers. The company, which raised $16 million in January on top of an earlier $4 million seed round, is expanding its ...
MetaCX bids to take CRM to the next level with outcomes-based sales platform
MetaCX Inc. yesterday launched what it calls an “outcomes-based” platform for managing customer relationships in sales scenarios involving digital products, saying it aims to close the loops that are often left open after a business-to-business transaction is completed. The software-as-a-service application provides shared spaces where software buyers and sellers can define and measure targeted goals ...
Arm yourself: The edge computing revolution may not be Intel-powered
Heads up, Intel Corp.: The future of enterprise computing is taking shape, and it doesn’t necessarily have an x86 processor at its core. That’s the conclusion of David Floyer, chief technology officer at SiliconANGLE sister research firm Wikibon, in an extensive new analysis. Floyer says processors based upon the reduced instruction set-based Arm designs that ...
JumpCloud extends cloud directory service with detailed user activity monitoring
JumpCloud Inc., which touts itself as the first directory-as-a-service provider, today extended administrative visibility into user accounts with a premium feature called Directory Insights that gives system administrators and security staff a centralized view of user activity around access to corporate resources. The software logs all user and administrative changes to access privileges, group membership, ...
Surveys find COVID-19 is stressing IT pros but also elevating their importance
Three recent surveys document the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on information technology professionals, ranging from long work hours to heightened stress levels caused by the need to support employees who are using new tools for the first time. Yet some are saying there has never been a better time for IT to ...