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EnterpriseDB to deliver distributed PostgreSQL as a highly available cloud service
EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, today announced that its distributed PostgreSQL version is now available as a fully managed service on the company’s EDB BigAnimal platform. The announcement comes six months after the company announced version 5.0 of EDB PostgreSQL Distributed with high availability features that ...
Dell’s edge operations platform enters general release
Dell Technologies Inc. today announced the availability of NativeEdge, an operations platform it introduced in May with the aim of simplifying, securing and automating edge infrastructure and applications. The market for edge computing, which Dell defines as “the practice of moving responsibility for data processing away from centralized data centers to clients and devices from the ...
Google applies AI to speed threat intelligence and tighten Workspace security
Google LLC is applying artificial intelligence to security across a wide range of use cases and announcements this week at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco. The enhancements target both end-users and security professionals, led by applications of the company’s Duet generative artificial intelligence engine to the Mandiant Corp. threat intelligence platform that Google ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Cloud giants eye a potential windfall in AI at the network edge
David Linthicum is enjoying a well-earned “I told you so.” Six years ago the chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting LLP predicted that the then-fledgling edge computing market would create a significant growth opportunity for cloud computing giants. That went against a popular tide of opinion at the time that held that distributed edge ...
Salesforce boosts field service support features
Salesforce Inc. today is extending the features of its Service Cloud to better support field service workers like technicians, skilled tradespeople and service and repair technicians. The artificial intelligence-powered features enable companies to implement customer self-booking capability through the channels of their choice, better predict job durations, ensure that field workers have the equipment and ...
Fauna’s new query language is custom-built for its serverless database
Serverless database developer Fauna Inc. today released a query language inspired by TypeScript along with new web and local development capabilities and a declarative database schema. The company says the language is optimized for use with its cloud-delivered document-relational database management system to save developers time, improve collaboration and deliver better performance. Fauna’s namesake distributed ...
VMware repackages cloud offerings as part of a campaign to simplify multicloud management
VMware Inc. is kicking off its annual Explore user conference today with a bushel of new and enhanced products designed to simplify multicloud management, support evolving edge use cases and streamline the administration of end-user computing environments. VMware Cloud, which combines the company’s Cloud Foundation software and Cloud Services, is being repackaged into five editions ...
VMware tunes Tanzu app modernization suite for the multicloud
VMware Inc. today announced enhanced multicloud deployment capabilities in a new version of its Tanzu application development platform. Tanzu is an application modernization toolkit that packages together components for building, deploying and managing applications that run in software containers coordinated by the Kubernetes orchestrator. Enhancements announced today will provide for better visibility, more proactive optimization ...
Pico MES reels in $12M to automate the factory floor at small manufacturers
Pico MES Inc., a software company that helps small and midsized manufacturers better manage their factory floors, today said it has raised $12.35 million early-stage investment round, bringing the company’s total funding to $20 million. Participants in the Series A round notably include the venture capital arms of two large manufacturers: Bosch GmbH and Schneider ...
AlmaLinux leader says Red Hat code crackdown isn’t a threat
Red Hat Inc.’s announcement last month that it would impose restrictions on the availability of source code for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system created a stir among developers and Linux users who have relied on no-cost alternatives AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, which were built to be “bug-for-bug compatible” with RHEL. Red Hat’s decision ...