Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Figma’s design and prototyping tool gets new enterprise collaboration features

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Figma, the design and prototyping tool that aims to offer a web-based alternative to similar tools from the likes of Adobe, is launching a few new features today that will make the service easier to use to collaborate across teams in large organizations. Figma Organization, as the company calls this new feature set, is the […] Continue reading Figma’s design and prototyping tool gets new enterprise collaboration features→

Microsoft acquires Citus Data

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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Citus Data, a company that focused on making PostgreSQL database faster and more scalable. Citus’ open source PostgreSQL extension essentially turns the application into a distributed database and while there has been a lot of hype around the NoSQL movement and document stores, relational database — and especially PostgreSQL […] Continue reading Microsoft acquires Citus Data→

Humio raises $9M Series A for its real-time log analysis service

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Humio, a startup that provides a real-time log analysis service for on-premises and cloud infrastructures, today announced that it has raised a $9 million Series A round led by Accel. It previously raised its seed round from WestHill and Trifork. The company, which has offices in San Francisco, the U.K. and Denmark, tells me that […] Continue reading Humio raises $9M Series A for its real-time log analysis service→

AWS launches WorkLink to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier

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If your company uses a VPN and/or a mobile device management service to give you access to its intranet and internal web apps, then you know how annoying those are. AWS today launched a new product, Amazon WorkLink,  that promises to make this process significantly easier. WorkLink is a fully managed service that, for $5 […] Continue reading AWS launches WorkLink to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier→

AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS

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Amazon’s AWS cloud computing service today launched Backup, a new tool that makes it easier for developers on the platform to back up their data from various AWS services and their on-premises apps. Out of the box, the service, which is now available to all developers, lets you set up backup policies for services like Amazon EBS […] Continue reading AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS→

Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud

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Google Cloud today announced that Nvidia’s Turing-based Tesla T4 data center GPUs are now available in beta in its data centers in Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo and the United States. Google first announced a private test of these cards in November, but that was a very limited alpha test. All developers can now take these new […] Continue reading Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud→

Campaign Monitor acquires email enterprise services Sailthru and Liveclicker

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CM Group, the organization behind email-centric services like Campaign Monitor and Emma, today announced that it has acquired marketing automation firm Sailthru and the email personalization service Liveclicker. The group did not disclose the acquisition price but noted that the acquisition would bring in about $60 million in additional revenue and 540 new customers, including […] Continue reading Campaign Monitor acquires email enterprise services Sailthru and Liveclicker→

AWS gives open source the middle finger

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AWS launched DocumentDB today, a new database offering that is compatible with the MongoDB API. The company describes DocumentDB as a “fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is designed to be compatible with your existing MongoDB applications and tools.” In effect, it’s a hosted drop-in replacement for MongoDB that doesn’t use any MongoDB […] Continue reading AWS gives open source the middle finger→

Baidu Cloud launches its open source edge computing platform

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At CES, the Chinese tech giant Baidu today announced OpenEdge, its open source edge computing platform. At its core, OpenEdge is the local package component of Baidu’s existing Intelligent Edge (BIE) commercial offering and obviously plays well with that service’s components for managing edge nodes and apps. Since this is obviously a developer announcement, I’m […] Continue reading Baidu Cloud launches its open source edge computing platform→

IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer

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At CES, IBM today announced its first commercial quantum computer for use outside of the lab. The 20-qubit system combines into a single package the quantum and classical computing parts it takes to use a machine like this for research and business applications. That package, the IBM Q system, is still huge, of course, but […] Continue reading IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer→