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Accenture Plc and Amazon Web Services Inc. are deepening their business partnership with an expanded menu of services announced today at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The services, which range from cloud migration to blockchain deployment, are provided by Accenture’s AWS …
Okera brings intelligent schema management to S3 data lakes
Okera Inc., a startup founded by two former Cloudera Inc. executives to simplify the management of large heterogeneous data stores at scale, today is introducing a schema management tool designed to make it easier for companies to find, access and structure data …
TigerGraph brings its graph database to the cloud
TigerGraph Inc. is bringing its graph database to the cloud in announcement being made today at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference. The company, which launched a little over a year ago with $31 million in funding, claims to have the world’s …
Now, cloud companies want to run the rest of your business
Technology giant Siemens AG hires 35,000 people each year, sorting through some 2 million applicants for positions in 120 countries in 20 languages. Search is essential to such a massive recruiting process, but language, cultural and industry differences have long been a …
Sigma Computing marries spreadsheets, SQL for cloud data warehouse access
More than 750 million people worldwide use spreadsheets, and that’s why Sigma Computing Inc. thinks the familiar row-and-column metaphor is a good way to work with data warehouses as well. The company recently introduced an analytics tool that provides live access to data in …
BlackBerry furthers IoT push with $1.4B acquisition of security firm Cylance
Continuing its pivot away from its traditional smartphone market and into cybersecurity, BlackBerry Ltd. announced its biggest acquisition ever this morning, picking up security firm Cylance Inc. for $1.4 billion in cash. Cylance, which focuses on manufacturing and “internet of things” applications, …
IBM, ServiceNow team up to expedite customers’ multicloud migrations
IBM Corp. is stepping up its pitch to be the preferred multicloud manager for enterprise businesses. The computer and services giant today announced a partnership with workflow automation and service management software provider ServiceNow Inc. and enhancements to its Cloud Migration Factory. …
Alfresco brings its content/process management platform to Amazon Kubernetes and Glacier
Alfresco Software Inc. is bringing its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services platform to the Amazon Web Services Inc. Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS and adding support for Amazon Glacier archival storage in a new release announced …
ClearSky raises $20M, partners with Equinix to expand its storage as a service
ClearSky Data Inc. said today it has raised $20 million in venture financing and signed a partnership with colocation provider Equinix Inc. that will expand its footprint across the U.S. and eventually internationally. ClearSky sells a storage-as-a-service platform that provides guaranteed performance and …
Red Hat tightens container integration with latest OpenShift release
Red Hat Inc. is upping its Kubernetes game with the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14, the latest version of its infrastructure-as-a-service product. The new version announced early today, which is based upon the OpenStack “Rocky” community version, improves integration with …