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GreenLake expansion moves HPE closer to goal of ubiquitous ‘as-a-service’ availability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced a broad expansion of its GreenLake platform that advances the company’s promise to eventually make its entire product portfolio available as a service. GreenLake is a portfolio of hardware and software products that enterprises can buy on a pay-as-you-go basis instead of purchasing everything upfront. Highlights include the convergence of ...
Red Hat boost Nvidia support in OpenShift to encourage AI workload migration
IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary today announced new certifications and features for Red Hat OpenShift, its on-premises version of the Kubernetes service for managing the portable software environments called containers. Announcements include certification of OpenShift with Nvidia Corp.’s AI Enterprise 2.0 and the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.10. Noting that Gartner Inc. has said ...
COBOL modernization startup CloudFrame bags $7M Series A funding
Mainframe modernization startup CloudFrame Inc., today is announcing that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round, bringing its total financing to $8.5 million. The New York-based company has developed a technology that converts applications written in the COBOL programming language that was mainstream in business data processing until the mid-1980s into what ...
Global employer of record Omnipresent raises $120 million
Omnipresent Group Ltd., the developer of a global employment platform that it delivers as a service, has raised $120 million in a Series B funding round to bring its total financing to nearly $138 million. The company is taking advantage of the new openness by businesses to employ people outside the workplace and even half ...
Dell releases reference designs for 3D software development in the metaverse
Dell Technologies Inc. today announced two new validated designs for use by organizations that are building software for the three-dimensional virtual environments that characterize the metaverse. The metaverse is a network of 3-D virtual worlds that encompasses technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital twins and smart objects. Markets such as ...
Cloud giants conquered the data center. Now they aim to transform every industry
Truist Financial Corp. is on a mission to change the way banking is done, and it’s looking to cloud platform providers to help it along. The firm, which was created when BB&T Corp. acquired SunTrust Banks Inc. in late 2019, is banking on a patent-pending cloud technology it created that gives customers of both of ...
Oracle cloud enhancements stress flexibility and simplicity
Oracle Corp. is expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offering today with new compute, networking and storage services and enhanced flexibility to control costs. The new services automatically optimize resources to match application requirements and provide a simpler price structure. Oracle has been growing its global presence, with seven more regions launched in the last five months, ...
Redis ups JSON support and targets document database leaders
Redis Ltd., which sells a commercial version of the in-memory database management system, today announced full support for JavaScript Object Notation with the release of RedisJSON 2.0. The new version comes with native indexing, querying and full-text search capabilities of JSON documents, bringing it to parity with other file formats that Redis supports. The announcement ...
Databricks expands vertical thrust with healthcare platform
Distributed data analytics vendor Databricks Inc. today debuted its third vertical-industry product in as many months with a platform for healthcare and life sciences. The Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences provides datasets and libraries for healthcare-specific applications of data management, analytics and artificial intelligence in areas such as disease prediction, medical image classification ...
Zoho makes its low-code toolset more enterprise-friendly
Zoho Corp., which develops a wide range of business productivity applications delivered as a service, today updated its low-code Zoho Creator Platform with features intended to support a broader range of uses. Zoho, which claims its low-code suite enables deployment up to 10 times as fast as competing platforms, said it’s aiming to appeal to ...