VMware releases blockchain service
VMware has released its blockchain product. With VMware Blockchain, companies can set up networks and decentralised applications.
With the new product, VMware focuses mainly on the financial market. The blockchain is intended to ensure that different parties can safely exchange information, with... Read more
IBM plans to acquire app monitoring startup Instana
IBM announced that it is planning to acquire the Chicago-based application monitoring startup, Instana. The startup has raised more than $50 million from investors like Meritech Capital Partners and Accel.
No terms of the deal have been disclosed. Instana’s platform is named after the company ... Read more
Snowflake data warehouse gets Informatica’s data integration features
Informatica’s line of data integration and governance tools for Snowflake is expanding. The company launched serverless data integration pipelines, a collaborative marketplace of data analytics tools, and a portal for creating user profiles.
Informatica is one of the largest data integration p... Read more
Apple lowers App Store commission for small developers
Apple has announced that it will reduce commission in the App Store for developers that earn less than a million dollars a year. For such apps, the commission will decrease from 30 to 15 percent.
App Store Small Business Program
The announcement is part of Apple's 'App Store Small Business Pr... Read more
AWS launches AWS Network Firewall to protect VPCs
Move signals Amazon's expansion into the cybersecurity sector.
AWS this week expanded its presence in the cybersecurity market with the introduction of AWS Network Firewall. The new product is a high availability, managed network firewall service for virtual private clouds (VPC).
In a blog p... Read more
Dropbox bolsters Spaces for businesses with remote workers
The company announced changes concerning Dropbox Spaces, a product it introduced last year. It is a collaboration and project management tool designed with the work requirements of a pandemic in mind.
Timothy Young, the president of Dropbox, says that the company has always focused on making it ... Read more
Red Hat Extends Open Hybrid Cloud to the Edge
The new capabilities are designed to deliver more consistent, enterprise-ready innovation, according to RedHat.
This week, Red Hat announced a series of updates that further extend the reach of the Red Hat OpenShift platform to edge computing deployments. The announcement came during the online ... Read more
Tab hoarders get some extra love in newest Chrome update
Google has released version 87 of Chrome. The new version comes with performance improvements for when you have a lot of tabs open at the same time. Google has also started to roll out a tab search feature.
Javascript Timer
Google has been able to achieve some extra speed by reducing the numb... Read more
Microsoft developing successor to Trusted Platform Module
Microsoft is working on a new chip to protect the security keys used by a machine. The so-called Pluton chip serves as a successor to the TPM chips but should be more secure because the chips are mounted on the processors themselves.
The existing Trusted Platform Modules take on a number of secu... Read more
Salesforce Customer 360 Truth is now generally available
One year after Salesforce announced its Customer 360 Truth package, all of its components are now publicly available. This mainly concerns the 360 Audience service, which took a bit longer to be released.
With Customer 360 Audiences, administrators can build unified customer profiles based on pe... Read more