Category Archives: Computing

Esri brings its flagship ArcGIS platform to Kubernetes

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Esri, the geographic information system (GIS), mapping and spatial analytics company, is hosting its (virtual) developer summit today. Unsurprisingly, it is making a couple of major announcements at the event that range from a new design system and improved JavaScript APIs to support for running ArcGIS Enterprise in containers on Kubernetes. The Kubernetes project was […] Continue reading Esri brings its flagship ArcGIS platform to Kubernetes→

Google Cloud joins the FinOps Foundation

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Google Cloud today announced that it is joining the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member. The FinOps Foundation is a relatively new open-source foundation, hosted by the Linux Foundation, that launched last year. It aims to bring together companies in the ‘cloud financial management’ space to establish best practices and standards. As the term implies, […] Continue reading Google Cloud joins the FinOps Foundation→

Testing platform Tricentis acquires performance testing service Neotys

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If you develop software for a large enterprise company, chances are you’ve heard of Tricentis. If you don’t develop software for a large enterprise company, chances are you haven’t. The software testing company with a focus on modern cloud and enterprise applications was founded in Austria in 2007 and grew from a small consulting firm […] Continue reading Testing platform Tricentis acquires performance testing service Neotys→

Slapdash raises $3.7M seed to ship a workplace apps command bar

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The explosion in productivity software amid a broader remote work boom has been one of the pandemic’s clearest tech impacts. But learning to use a dozen new programs while having to decipher which data is hosted where can sometimes seem to have an adverse effect on worker productivity. It’s all time that users can take […] Continue reading Slapdash raises $3.7M seed to ship a workplace apps command bar→

Amazon will expand its Amazon Care on-demand healthcare offering U.S.-wide this summer

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Amazon is apparently pleased with how its Amazon Care pilot in Seattle has gone, since it announced this morning that it will be expanding the offering across the U.S. this summer, and opening it up to companies of all sizes, in addition to its own employees. The Amazon Care model combines on-demand and in-person care, […] Continue reading Amazon will expand its Amazon Care on-demand healthcare offering U.S.-wide this summer→

Noogata raises $12M seed round for its no-code enterprise AI platform

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Noogata, a startup that offers a no-code AI solution for enterprises, today announced that it has raised a $12 million seed round led by Team8, with participation from Skylake Capital. The company, which was founded in 2019 and counts Colgate and PepsiCo among its customers, currently focuses on e-commerce, retail and financial services, but it […] Continue reading Noogata raises $12M seed round for its no-code enterprise AI platform→

Google Cloud launches a new support option for mission critical workloads

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Google Cloud today announced the launch of a new support option for its Premium Support customers that run mission-critical services on its platform. The new service, imaginatively dubbed Mission Critical Services (MCS), brings Google’s own experience with Site Reliability Engineering to its customers. This is not Google completely taking over the management of these services, […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches a new support option for mission critical workloads→

Aqua Security raises $135M at a $1B valuation for its cloud native security service

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Aqua Security, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based security startup that focuses squarely on securing cloud-native services, today announced that it has raised a $135 million Series E funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by ION Crossover Partners. Existing investors M12 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Greenspring Associates […] Continue reading Aqua Security raises $135M at a $1B valuation for its cloud native security service→

Airbyte raises $5.2M for its open-source data integration platform

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Airbyte, an open-source data integration platform, today announced that it has raised a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Accel. Other investors include Y Combinator, 8VC, Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, former Cloudera GM Charles Zedlewski, LiveRamp and Safegraph CEO Auren Hoffman, Datavant CEO Travis May and Alain Rossmann, the president of Machinify. The company […] Continue reading Airbyte raises $5.2M for its open-source data integration platform→

Microsoft Azure expands its NoSQL portfolio with Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra

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At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like Datastax. Microsoft describes the new service as a ‘semi-managed offering that will help companies bring more of their Cassandra-based workloads into its cloud. “Customers can easily take […] Continue reading Microsoft Azure expands its NoSQL portfolio with Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra→