Amazon spins out ‘lifecycle management’ tools for cloudy devs
Amazon Web Services Inc. considers itself to be quite the expert when it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, and it’s just underlined that point with the launch of a new range of…
More gov’t agencies turn to AWS to save taxpayers money| #reinvent
More government agencies are using Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) to get more done while their budgets remain stagnant. Aaron Hughes, systems architect at the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, said that…
Amazon strategy emphasizes ease of use and ecosystem partners | #reinvent
“Our customers don’t win unless the ecosystem wins,” said Terry Wise, Director of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS). This realization, he said, has lead to a “tweaking” of the…
The new Raspberry Pi A+ is here: smarter, smaller and cheaper
By Saroj Kar
For sale in 2012 at a price of only $35, the Raspberry Pi revolutionized the world of low-cost Linux-based developer platforms. Since then the vendor, Adafruit Industries, has sold more than four million, a figure that…
GitHub boosts its enterprise business edition with AWS support
By Saroj Kar
The goal of GitHub is to do almost everything possible for developers such as hosting code, managing tasks, authentication, and finally providing a space to test, analyze, and host and display production results. The code…
Splunk embraces AWS, continues to offer hybrid alternatives | #reinvent
As more customers begin to migrate production workloads to the Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud, Splunk seeks to provide customers with “service assurance,” said Splunk, Inc. SVP and GM of Cloud, Marc…
Oculus VR announces Mobile SDK and the Gear VR headset at $199
By Kyt Dotson
Oculus VR has just gone live with the mobile SDK aimed at bringing developers to the Samsung Gear VR–a mobile device that is essentially someone strapping a Galaxy Note 4 to their face. The…
Smart parking, solar bike path launch in Europe
This week’s Smart City roundup looks at expected annual revenues of wireless control systems for smart buildings, another city implementing smart parking technology, and the opening of a solar highway in the Netherlands. . The…
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Unified snags theCUBE alumnus Shawn Douglass as CTO
Cloud-based marketing specialist Unified Inc. scored a major strategic victory this week after hiring long-time enterprise technologist Shawn Douglass to lead its product strategy. In his new role, the industry veteran will focus on…
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NetApp brings its storage OS and backup service to AWS in hybrid cloud push
NetApp Inc. is bringing two of its most strategic software solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in hopes of tapping into the cloud juggernaut’s growing enterprise momentum. The move comes amid faltering demand for…