Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging and running cloud-native applications easier

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Microsoft and Docker today announced a new joint open-source project, the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB), that aims to make the lifecycle management of cloud-native applications easier. At its core, the CNAB is nothing but a specification that allows developers to declare how an application should be packaged and run. With this, developers can define their resources […] Continue reading Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging and running cloud-native applications easier→

AWS launches a managed Kafka service

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Kafka is an open source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit easier for its users with the launch of Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka. That’s a mouthful, but it’s essentially Kafka as […] Continue reading AWS launches a managed Kafka service→

AWS launches a managed blockchain service

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It was only a year ago that AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that he wasn’t all that interested in blockchain services. Clearly something has changed over the course of the last year because today, the company is launching two new blockchain services: Quantum Ledger Database and Amazon Managed Blockchain. As the name implies, AWS Managed […] Continue reading AWS launches a managed blockchain service→

AWS Lake Formation makes setting up data lakes easier

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The concept of data lakes has been around for a long time, but being able to set up one of these systems, which store vast amounts of raw data in its native formats, was never easy. AWS wants to change this with the launch of AWS Lake Formation. At its core, this new service, which […] Continue reading AWS Lake Formation makes setting up data lakes easier→

Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa

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Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn’t closed yet and, in the meantime, Red Hat is still running independently and making its own acquisitions, too. As the company today announced, it has acquired Tel Aviv-based NooBaa, an early-stage startup that helps enterprises manage […] Continue reading Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa→

Canonical plans to raise its first outside funding as it looks to a future IPO

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It’s been 14 years since Mark Shuttleworth first founded and funded Canonical and the Ubuntu project. At the time, it was mostly a Linux distribution. Today, it’s a major enterprise player that offers a variety of products and services. Throughout the years, Shuttleworth self-funded the project and never showed much interest in taking outside money. […] Continue reading Canonical plans to raise its first outside funding as it looks to a future IPO→

Cognigo raises $8.5M for its AI-driven data protection platform

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Cognigo, a startup that aims to use AI and machine learning to help enterprises protect their data and stay in compliance with regulations like GDPR, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A round. The round was led by Israel-based crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, with participation from privacy company Prosegur and State of […] Continue reading Cognigo raises $8.5M for its AI-driven data protection platform→

The Ceph storage project gets a dedicated open-source foundation

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Ceph is an open source technology for distributed storage that gets very little public attention but that provides the underlying storage services for many of the world’s largest container and OpenStack deployments. It’s used by financial institutions like Bloomberg and Fidelity, cloud service providers like Rackspace and Linode, telcos like Deutsche Telekom, car manufacturers like […] Continue reading The Ceph storage project gets a dedicated open-source foundation→

Datacoral raises $10M Series A for its data infrastructure service

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Datacoral aims to make it easier for enterprises to build data products by abstracting away all of the complex infrastructure to organize and process data. The company today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A financing round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Social Capital, which also led its $4 […] Continue reading Datacoral raises $10M Series A for its data infrastructure service→

CircleCI launches Orbs, a package manager for software delivery automation

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DevOps platform CircleCI today announced a new partner program that will open up its platform and allow third-party tools to integrate with it. In addition, the company is launching Orbs, which it describes as “the world’s first package manager designed specifically for configuration of software delivery automation.” Fresh off its $31 million funding round earlier […] Continue reading CircleCI launches Orbs, a package manager for software delivery automation→