AWS shoots for total cloud domination

screen-shot-2016-11-30-at-11-02-45-am AWS held its annual re:Invent customer conference this week — and as it revealed one new service after another, one thing became clear: the company with a marketshare lead that is by Gartner’s estimate 10 times bigger than its 14 closest competitors combined, has no plans to slow down or rest on its laurels.
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Amazon Glue solves sticky data prep problem in cloud

img_20161201_100233 Amazon announced Amazon Glue today at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The tool has been designed to help developers process data, whether the source is in the cloud or on prem. This is sometimes known as extract, transform, load (ETL) of data, and it’s generally considered one of the toughest parts of analytics. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explained today on stage at the… Read More Continue reading Amazon Glue solves sticky data prep problem in cloud→

Here’s everything AWS will announce today

img_20161130_104106 Amazon is hosting the second of two major keynotes at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. TechCrunch has received detailed notes on the contents of today’s keynote, which will be delivered by Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels. We already knew he was going to talk about DevOps and containers today, but here are a few more details of what to expect. The keynote is scheduled to… Read More Continue reading Here’s everything AWS will announce today→

YC grad Workramp lands $1.8 million seed round

Employees onboarding concept. HR managers hiring new workers for job. Recruiting staff or personnel in their business company. Workramp, a startup that wants to change the way companies onboard and train their employees, announced a $1.8 million seed round today. Investors include Susa Ventures, Initialized Capital, Haystack, Liquid 2, Wei Fund, Elad Gil, Adrian Aoun, Charlie Songhurst, and Y Combinator. The company is a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2016 class and previously raised $120,000. Workramp… Read More Continue reading YC grad Workramp lands $1.8 million seed round→

AWS goes after Oracle with new PostgresSQL support in Aurora

screen-shot-2016-11-30-at-12-47-50-pm There were a lot of jokes and comments at Oracle’s expense today at the AWS re:Invent conference, but perhaps the boldest statement came when AWS announced it  was adding PostgresSQL support to the AWS Aurora database, making it easier to move an Oracle database to the AWS cloud. Even as Oracle makes its own move to the cloud, it is still held up as the prime example of the… Read More Continue reading AWS goes after Oracle with new PostgresSQL support in Aurora→

AWS goes after Oracle with new PostgresSQL support in Aurora

screen-shot-2016-11-30-at-12-47-50-pm There were a lot of jokes and comments at Oracle’s expense today at the AWS re:Invent conference, but perhaps the boldest statement came when AWS announced it  was adding PostgresSQL support to the AWS Aurora database, making it easier to move an Oracle database to the AWS cloud. Even as Oracle makes its own move to the cloud, it is still held up as the prime example of the… Read More Continue reading AWS goes after Oracle with new PostgresSQL support in Aurora→

AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month

screen-shot-2016-11-30-at-11-35-02-am AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean’s bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month. The VPS service, called Lightsail, allows a customer to easily fire up a server in the cloud for a low price and hide the complexity of the underlying services being used. It’s been designed, according to AWS CEO Andy… Read More Continue reading AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month→

Strange days indeed

Two wooden figures holding hands in front of a lake. In a month of unexpected outcomes, we have also seen some tech partnership announcements, ones we thought we might never see. In fact, just this week we witnessed Microsoft joining the Linux foundation and Google joining Microsoft’s .NET foundation. You cannot minimize just how at odds these announcements are with what has been the reality of the tech industry over the last 20 years.… Read More Continue reading Strange days indeed→

Strange days indeed

Two wooden figures holding hands in front of a lake. In a month of unexpected outcomes, we have also seen some tech partnership announcements, ones we thought we might never see. In fact, just this week we witnessed Microsoft joining the Linux foundation and Google joining Microsoft’s .NET foundation. You cannot minimize just how at odds these announcements are with what has been the reality of the tech industry over the last 20 years.… Read More Continue reading Strange days indeed→

Dropbox for Business updates focus on increasing enterprise security credibility

dropbox image Dropbox is getting much more serious about its Dropbox for Business product, and today it announced a partnership with security vendor, Symantec, as part of a broader update to its business products designed to make it more attractive to larger businesses.
Rob Baseman, Dropbox’s head of product for pro, business and enterprise versions, says the idea behind the admin tool update is to… Read More Continue reading Dropbox for Business updates focus on increasing enterprise security credibility→