Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Say hello to Microsoft’s new $3,500 HoloLens with twice the field of view

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Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its HoloLens ‘mixed reality’ headset at MWC Barcelona today. The new HoloLens 2 features a significantly larger field of view, higher resolution and a device that’s more comfortable to wear. Indeed, Microsoft says the device is three times as comfortable to wear (though it’s unclear how Microsoft measured this). […] Continue reading Say hello to Microsoft’s new $3,500 HoloLens with twice the field of view→

Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again

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Redis Labs, fresh off its latest funding round, today announced a change to how it licenses its Redis Modules. This may not sound like a big deal, but in the world of open-source projects, licensing is currently a big issue. That’s because organizations like Redis, MongoDB, Confluent and others have recently introduced new licenses that […] Continue reading Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again→

Mixmax brings LinkedIn integration and better task automation to its Gmail tool

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Mixmax today introduced version 2.0 of its Gmail-based tool and plugin for Chrome that promises to make your daily communications chores a bit easier to handle. With version 2.0, Mixmax gets an updated editor that better integrates with the current Gmail interface and that gets out of the way of popular extensions like Grammarly. That’s […] Continue reading Mixmax brings LinkedIn integration and better task automation to its Gmail tool→

Google’s managed hybrid cloud platform is now in beta

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Last July, at its Cloud Next conference, Google announced the Cloud Services Platform, its first real foray into bringing its own cloud services into the enterprise data center as a managed service. Today, the Cloud Services Platform (CSP) is launching into beta. It’s important to note that the CSP isn’t — at least for the […] Continue reading Google’s managed hybrid cloud platform is now in beta→

Arm expands its push into the cloud and edge with the Neoverse N1 and E1

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For the longest time, Arm was basically synonymous with chip designs for smartphones and very low-end devices. But more recently, the company launched solutions for laptops, cars, high-powered IoT devices and even servers. Today, ahead of MWC 2019, the company is officially launching two new products for cloud and edge applications, the Neoverse N1 and E1. […] Continue reading Arm expands its push into the cloud and edge with the Neoverse N1 and E1→

Why Daimler moved its big data platform to the cloud

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Like virtually every big enterprise company, a few years ago, the German auto giant Daimler decided to invest in its own on-premises data centers. And while those aren’t going away anytime soon, the company today announced that it has successfully moved its on-premises big data platform to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. This new platform, which the […] Continue reading Why Daimler moved its big data platform to the cloud→

Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma

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Google today announced its intention to acquire Alooma, a company that allows enterprises to combine all of their data sources into services like Google’s BigQuery, Amazon’s Redshift, Snowflake and Azure. The promise of Alooma is that handles the data pipelines and manages for its users. In addition to this data integration service, though, Alooma also helps […] Continue reading Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma→

Redis Labs raises a $60M Series E round

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Redis Labs, a startup that offers commercial services around the Redis in-memory data store (and which counts Redis creator and lead developer Salvatore Sanfilippo among its employees), today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series E funding round led by private equity firm Francisco Partners. The firm didn’t participate in any of Redis […] Continue reading Redis Labs raises a $60M Series E round→

Peltarion raises $20M for its AI platform

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Peltarion, a Swedish startup founded by former execs from companies like Spotify, Skype, King, TrueCaller and Google, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Euclidean Capital, the family office for hedge fund billionaire James Simons. Previous investors FAM and EQT Ventures also participated, and this round brings […] Continue reading Peltarion raises $20M for its AI platform→

Zoho’s office suite gets smarter

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As far as big tech companies go, Zoho is a bit different. Not only has it never taken any venture funding, it also offers more than 40 products that range from its online office suite to CRM and HR tools, email, workflow automation services, video conferencing, a bug tracker and everything in-between. You don’t often […] Continue reading Zoho’s office suite gets smarter→