Snowflake raises another $450 million in new investment round
Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse, raised 263 million dollars earlier this year on an investment round. CEO Bob Muglai then speculated that the company might not need any more extra money in preparation for an IPO. If we fast-forward by nine months and arrive at today, this speculation does not ap... Read more
IBM protests against JEDI plans by U.S. Department of Defense
IBM protests against the idea of the U.S. Department of Defense to make one company fully responsible for its transition to the cloud. Within the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, one company receives a ten-year contract that is worth ten billion dollars.
But more and more companies ... Read more
Cloud Foundry takes additional steps to support Kubernetes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation takes on a number of open-source projects, where it helps to apply the Kubernetes containers more widely within its developer platform. This was about time, because despite the fact that Cloud Foundry is used to build container-based apps, the adoption of Kubernetes did ... Read more
Symantec expands cloud security portfolio to protect cloud apps
Security company Symantec has announced the further expansion of its cloud security portfolio. The extensions are designed to help organizations protect their cloud applications and infrastructure. As a result, the company claims to be able to offer broader and deeper cloud protection.
Customers sho... Read more
Microsoft launches campaign for controversial cloud project U.S. government on
Microsoft seems to be doing its utmost to win a major cloud contract from the U.S. government. Just before the deadline for companies to bid on JEDI expires, the company emphasizes the certifications it has. With this, Microsoft seems to be doing everything in its power to win the contract.
Yesterda... Read more
Google no longer competes for controversial cloud project U.S. defense
Google is not taking part in the battle for JEDI, a gigantic cloud contract offered by the US Department of Defense and potentially worth ten billion dollars. Google has decided not to participate, because the contract may not be in line with the principles it applies to the way artificial intellige... Read more
Cloudera and Hortonworks go together in a $5.2 billion deal
Cloudera and Hortonworks, two leading Hadoop providers, will merge. The deal is worth $5.2 billion and should help companies offer a new generation of data platform across multiple clouds, on-premises and Edge computing. The two companies already have the same approach and customers.
Under the terms... Read more
Fujitsu develops a high-speed prototype for data processing of servers
Fujitsu Laboratories in Japan wants to catch up with the trend of systems having to process more and more data. Today, the company announces that it has developed a new technology that can help with the rapid processing of big data in distributed storage systems in which information is stored on mul... Read more
“Companies will have spent more than $1.3 trillion on cloud computing in 2022.
According to new research by Gartner, more than 1.3 trillion dollars will be spent on cloud computing in 2022. Currently, approximately 19 percent of the most important IT expenditure goes to the cloud.
By 2022, however, that number should rise to 28%, says Silicon Angle. The main reason is that ent... Read more
NetApp acquires StackPointCloud for easier management of Kubernetes platforms
NetApp announced today that it is taking over StackPointCloud. That's a Seattle startup, which makes the use of Kubernetes easier. Kubernets are the main framework for managing clusters of software containers.
Kubernets have proven to be an essential part of modern cloud environments, especially as... Read more