Docker and Amazon partner to accelerate application delivery
Docker has partnered with Amazon Web Services to increase application delivery speeds. The companies are offering a workflow with a more straightforward design, for developers who would like to use Docker Compose, to build apps that can run on Amazon Elastic Container Service and on Amazon ECS on A...
Rackspace officially applied for an IPO
Rackspace has officially applied for an IPO. It will be the second time the company will be listed on the stock exchange after Rackspace left in 2016 following a 4.3 billion deal dollar with venture capitalist Apollo Global Management.
Rackspace has not disclosed the size of its equity portfolio...
Freshworks acquires Flint, to bring automation and IT orchestration to their platform
Freshworks announced that they acquired Flint, an IT orchestrator and management platform for the cloud. This new acquisition is a move by Freshworks to add more value and functionality to their Freshservice IT support service.
Flint brings aboard new automation tools and propels Freshworks clou...
Unit4 upgrades cloud-based ERP solution
Unit4 has released version 7.7 of its Unit4 ERP solution. The added functionality should provide better planning and management to complex service-oriented companies.
The latest release of Unit4's cloud-based ERP platform should primarily help companies in these times of uncertainty to provide m...
AWS makes IoT SiteWise publicly available
AWS is making its monitoring service for IoT applications AWS IoT SiteWise generally available in some cloud regions in the United States and Europe. This allows companies to get more value out of their industrial IoT applications.
AWS IoT SiteWise has been available in beta since the end of 201...
Alibaba Cloud expands in Europe via Equinix data centres
Alibaba Cloud will further expand the reach of its public cloud environment through Equinix's data centers. With this partnership Alibaba gets better coverage in in Europe. Both parties recently signed a partnership agreement for this purpose.
As part of the partnership, the public cloud environ...
Microsoft adds APIs to its Azure Cognitive Services for developers
Microsoft is including more Cognitive Services APIs to its Azure cloud platform in a bid to widen its array of Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.
Azure Cognitive Services is used by developers to add Artificial Intelligence cpabilities such as speech understanding, image identification and ...
Microsoft adds new Teams features, like AI-powered virtual spaces
Microsoft unveiled a couple of new features for Microsoft Teams as demand continues to rise due to the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing workplace changes.
First in the list of the new Teams' features is what Microsoft has called "Together mode." According to Microsoft, this feature will change ...
Not many enterprises can depend on their supply chains right now
Just before coronavirus pandemic disrupted world economies, one in ten enterprises were working on a robust, and resilient customer-centred supply chain which could facilitate growth. This is according to Accenture’s recent research which concludes that not many companies can depend on their supp...
Oracle Autonomous Database now also available on-premise
Oracle is now making the Autonomous Database solution available within its on-premise Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer portfolio. This provides companies with a fully managed and automated Oracle database environment and platform.
The newly announced service Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cl...
SUSE acquires Kubernetes-startup Rancher Labs
SUSE acquires the Kubernetes-startup Rancher Labs to further expand its portfolio of Linux business solutions and cloud tools. The company wants to become a serious competitor to Red Hat.
The acquisition provides the open-source giant with a software platform that helps companies more easily set...
Oracle delivers complete Oracle Gen 2 Cloud environment on-premise
Oracle allows customers to use its complete Oracle Gen 2 Cloud environment stack and portfolio in their own data centers with the introduction of Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. This gives customers a complete managed option of all services and functionality offered by Oracle's public cloud region...