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Pay-as-you-go MongoDB Atlas now available on Google Cloud

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:00:23 +0000

Database pioneer MongoDB Inc. said today it’s doubling down on the cloud with a new pay-as-you-go MongoDB Atlas offering that’s available in the Google Cloud Console. The new version of its cloud database is meant to give developers a more simplified subscription experience, and therefore a more simpler choice by which they can adopt MongoDB on […]

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Box debuts Box Canvas, a visual collaboration tool for hybrid workers

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:00:03 +0000

Cloud content company Box Inc. is going big on teamwork today with the launch of a new virtual whiteboard and visual collaboration tool called Box Canvas. To be announced at the digital Box Content Cloud Summit on April 14, Box Canvas is a new capability that’s built directly into Box. It’s designed to connect hybrid teams securely […]

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Observe.ai lands $125M in funding for its intelligent call center software

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:00:04 +0000

The intelligent contact center software provider Z21 Labs Inc., which does business as Observe.ai, announced today it has raised $125 million in a new round of funding. The Series C round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund and saw participation from Zoom Video Communications Inc., plus existing investors Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Nexus […]

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Cloud services provider Sungard AS files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Duncan Riley — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:36:15 +0000

Cloud services provider Sungard Availability Services LP has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy some three years after settling a previous Chapter 11 filing. Reuters reports the company filed its paperwork with the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas with about $424 million in secured debt In a statement today, the company said that it […]

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Perforce acquires IT infrastructure automation startup Puppet

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 21:15:49 +0000

Developer tooling maker Perforce Software Inc. is acquiring Puppet Inc., which provides software that companies use to automate the management of their information technology infrastructure. Perforce announced the deal this morning. The acquisition’s financial terms were not disclosed. Minneapolis-based Perforce provides a collection of software products designed to help application development teams become more productive. […]

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IT management software provider Kaseya acquires Datto for $6.2B

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:25:10 +0000

Kaseya Ltd., a provider of software tools for managing information technology infrastructure, today announced that it is acquiring fellow software maker Datto Inc. in a $6.2 billion deal. The acquisition price amounts to $35.50 per Datto share, a 52% premium to the price at which the company’s stock closed on March 16. Kaseya will finance […]

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Google Cloud and SADA launch expanded partnership with $2.5B cloud sales goal

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:00:33 +0000

Google LLC’s cloud business and SADA Systems Inc., a major technology consultancy, today announced an expanded partnership aimed at broadening enterprise adoption of Google Cloud. At the center of the partnership is a new three-year revenue growth initiative. The goal of the initiative, the companies said, is to encourage joint customers to purchase $2.5 billion […]

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Stacklet launches managed version of its cloud governance platform

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:00:56 +0000

Cloud governance startup Stacklet Inc. today introduced Stacklet SaaS, a new software-as-a-service product aimed at helping companies operate their public cloud environments more efficiently. The new service is a managed version of the startup’s flagship Stacklet Platform. The latter offering is based on a popular open-source tool called Cloud Custodian, which was created by Stacklet […]

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Gartner forecasts global tech spending to hit $4.4 trillion this year, up 4%

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:13:05 +0000

The respected analyst firm Gartner Inc. said today in its latest forecast that worldwide information technology is expected to top $4.4 trillion in 2022, rising by 4% from the year before. Gartner Distinguished Research Vice President John-David Lovelock said 2022 is already proving to be one of the “noisiest years on record” for chief information […]

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IT observability startup Grafana Labs raises $240M funding round

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:16:19 +0000

Startup Grafana Labs Inc., which helps companies such as Salesforce.com Inc. spot and fix issues in their information technology infrastructure, today announced that it has closed a $240 million late-stage funding round. Led by GIC with participation from J.P. Morgan, the Series D round comes only seven months after Grafana Labs closed its previous $220 […]

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Boeing heads for the cloud with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:00:48 +0000

The Boeing Co. announced today it has signed deals with all three major cloud computing providers — Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC — to expand its cloud operations and reduce its reliance on on-premises systems. In a blog post, Boeing explained that although it already has relationships with all three companies, the […]

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Carto and AWS team up for real-time spatial data analytics

Amy Roberts — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:00:51 +0000

Data analytics has conventionally been the last step in the data collection process, taking place after the event, sale or interaction. But with the scalable, cost-effective power of cloud-native analytics and the rise of spatial SQL, businesses can make data-informed decisions in real time. “Data as code is when an organization has moved from doing analysis after […]

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AWS Heroes Panel offers insight into data mesh and quantum for handling computational challenges

Mark Albertson — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:30:00 +0000

The use of genomics for drug discovery and personalized treatment has allowed scientists to develop more targeted therapies. It has also created enormous quantities of data. One human genome sequence produces approximately 200 gigabytes of raw data, and 100 million sequenced genomes will ultimately account for 20 billion gigabytes. Cloud computing has become an important […]

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Remote raises $300M for its remote workforce management platform

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:06:53 +0000

Workforce management startup Remote Technology Inc. is now valued at nearly $3 billion after closing a $300 million funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Accel, Sequoia and a half dozen other institutional investors also participated in the Series C round, which was announced this morning. The investment comes less than a year after […]

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Microsoft announces preview of its first Arm-based Azure virtual machines

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:09:42 +0000

Microsoft Corp. said today it’s making its first-ever batch of Azure virtual machines powered by Ampere Computing LLC’s Arm-based Altra server chips available in preview. The company said the new VMs, which are essentially computers in software, include the general-purpose Dpsv5 and the memory-optimized Epsv5, which can deliver a price-performance boost of up to 50% […]

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LinkSquares raises $100M for its AI-powered contract management platform

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:56:12 +0000

LinkSquares Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to help companies more easily manage contracts, has raised $100 million in funding at a $800 million valuation. LinkSquares announced the funding round this morning. G Squared was the lead investor, and G2 Venture Partners and a number of returning backers participated as well. A large enterprise produces […]

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Three ways to build cost resilience into your cloud

David Wright — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:19:14 +0000

Data center outages are expensive. Many organizations actually rush to migrate to the cloud, in part, to obtain the 99.9% or more availability that public cloud providers promise them. In their haste, those same organizations often fail to guard against the potential cost of “unexpected uptime” in the cloud. Because leaders of infrastructure and operations, or […]

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As danger looms, the C-suite taps the brakes on tech spending

Dave Vellante — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:25:49 +0000

The tech spending party’s over — at least for now. Fresh survey data from Enterprise Technology Research shows a clear deceleration in spending and a more cautious posture from technology buyers. Just this week we saw sell side downgrades in hardware companies such as Dell Technologies Inc. and HP Inc., and revised guidance from highflier […]

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Database competition heats up as AWS, Oracle and Snowflake reshape the landscape

Mark Albertson — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:24:42 +0000

For many years, the database market was a staid, sleepy part of the information technology landscape, occupied by a few large companies that generated infrequent innovation. Times have changed. Oracle Corp.’s recent announcement of enhancements for its MySQL HeatWave database marked the third time the company has added new capabilities to the offering in just […]

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Microsoft acquires process mining startup Minit

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:33:41 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired Minit j.s.a., a startup focused on helping organizations make their business operations more efficient. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Slovakia-based Minit previously raised more than $10 million in funding from investors that included Salesforce.com Inc.’s venture capital arm. Minit provides a process mining platform […]

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Docker founders launch DevOps software deployment startup Dagger with $20M funding

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:30:30 +0000

DevOps software deployment startup Dagger today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding alongside the public beta launch of its platform that automates management for software supply chains. The Series A round follows a $3 million pre-seed round and $7 million seed round that brings the total funding for the company raised to $30 […]

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DOD delays JWCC cloud contract awards to December

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:08:01 +0000

The U.S. Department of Defense will award contracts as part of its JWCC cloud computing procurement program in December instead of April as previously planned, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The JWCC, or Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, program was announced last year. It’s a procurement initiative designed to modernize the Pentagon’s information technology operations using public […]

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DevOps startup Garden.io raises $16M to improve cloud software delivery cycles

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:15:42 +0000

Kubernetes tooling startup Garden Germany GmbH, which does business as Garden.io, said today it has raised $16 million in a new round of funding aimed at helping it fulfill its mission of improving developer productivity. Today’s Series A round was co-led by 468 Capital and Sorenson Ventures and included participation from existing backers Crowberry Capital, […]

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Application testing startup LambdaTest raises $45M in funding

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:44:26 +0000

Startup LambdaTest Inc., which helps developers at companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. develop software faster, today announced that it has raised $45 million in funding. The Series C funding round was led by Premji Invest. Returning LambdaTest investors Sequoia Capital India, Telstra Ventures, Blume Ventures and Leo Capital participated as well. […]

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3 insights you might have missed from the ‘Cisco: Simplifying Hybrid Cloud’ event

Mark Albertson — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Hybrid and edge computing environments are expanding, which is leading to new distributed cloud models for IT. As hybrid and edge ecosystems expand, enterprises must deal with a wide range of compute resources in an operating model that has become significantly more complex. Cisco Systems Inc. made several recent announcements to address this issue by […]

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Oracle raises the temperature for its MySQL HeatWave database offering

Mark Albertson — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:23:31 +0000

Oracle Corp. is adding more wood to the MySQL database fire that it started in 2020 with the introduction of HeatWave. The company released details today of several new enhancements for its MySQL HeatWave database technology. In an exclusive interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming video studio, Nipun Agarwal (pictured), senior vice president of MySQL, […]

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VMware to offer fully managed cloud storage-as-a-service

Paul Gillin — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:00:41 +0000

VMware Inc. today is breaking out the technology it uses for its Cloud Disaster Recovery service and selling it as a cloud storage service. Cloud Flex Storage is described as a scalable, elastic and cloud-native offering that is fully managed by VMware and delivered with pay-as-you-go pricing on the VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services […]

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Six insights you might have missed from AWS re:Invent

Mark Albertson — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:00:59 +0000

After four straight days of interviews on two TV production sets and more than 100 interviews at a Las Vegas venue, theCUBE’s coverage of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent 2021 is in the books. AWS made a significant number of announcements and covered a great deal of ground during what has become one of the […]

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Inside AWS’ decision to make its own custom chips

Brian Njuguna — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:15:53 +0000

Having been in existence for the past 15 years, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 houses more than 475 instances and continues to be one of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s most potent weapons. EC2 is eyeing 500 instances by the end of the year, and its key drivers entail optimizing price performance and supporting new […]

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Q&A: AWS is on the edge, and that’s where its customers want to be

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:15:42 +0000

A common Amazon Web Services Inc. tagline is that the company is “wherever its customers want it.” And increasingly, where customers want compute power is at the edge. AWS Chief Executive Officer Adam Selipsky highlighted the company’s focus on edge computing in an interview with SiliconANGLE Media. And while at re:Invent, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Technology […]

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