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With latest product updates, Puppet speeds infrastructure automation
Puppet Inc. today unveiled new capabilities for its popular automation platform to help administrators find and seize upon opportunities to improve the efficiency of their companies’ infrastructure faster. The arguably biggest addition is Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise. As the name implies, the tool provides the ability to create continuous delivery pipelines, automated workflows for testing and rolling ...
High-performance database startup ScyllaDB reels in $10M from investors
ScyllaDB Inc., a database startup that boasts big-name users such as IBM Corp. and the European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN, today announced that it has raised $10 million in funding to take on the industry’s top cloud providers. Specifically, ScyllaDB plans to build a managed version of its database that will compete with similar ...
Tableau launches new visual data preparation tool to speed up analytics
Business intelligence heavyweight Tableau Software Inc. today bolstered its product lineup with a new visual tool for turning raw information into a form that lends itself to analysis. The appropriately named Data Prep focuses on easing the labor-intensive preparatory steps that analysts must perform before they can begin to search for insights in their records. Research ...
AWS launches IoT Analytics to help companies process their machine data
Like the other players in the public cloud market, Amazon Web Services Inc. is investing heavily to tap the revenue opportunities presented by companies’ increasing use of connected devices. The infrastructure-as-a-service giant today announced the general availability of AWS IoT Analytics, a service for processing the data generated by devices in the “internet of things.” ...
Amazon’s new shipping service will let users receive items in their car trunks
Amazon.com Inc. this morning launched Key In-Car, a novel package delivery option that it hopes will make online shopping even more convenient than it is now. The service allows eligible Amazon Prime members throughout 37 U.S. cities to have items dropped off in their car trunks. It’s an extension of Amazon Key, a program introduced ...
Splunk rolls out new AI features for preempting operational failures
Splunk Inc. today introduced a set of new artificial intelligence features for its widely used data analytics products that aim to help companies better identify issues with their technology infrastructure, as well as preempt future outages. The first offering that the company has updated is Splunk IT Service Intelligence. The new iteration of the tool ...
With new open-source Gimbal project, Heptio aims to ease Kubernetes adoption
Accel-backed infrastructure automation startup Heptio Inc. today released Gimbal, an open-source load balancer designed to remove a major obstacle standing in the way of enterprises looking to adopt Kubernetes. Kubernetes, which was developed by Heptio’s two co-founders during their time at Google LLC, which turned it into open-source software, is the go-tool system for managing ...
Report: Amazon is secretly developing a home robot that could launch in 2019
Today, users can have Alexa make purchases on Amazon.com, read out the latest weather report and perform a variety of other actions online. Soon, the virtual assistant may gain the ability to do chores around the house, too. Bloomberg reported this morning that Amazon.com Inc. is secretly developing a domestic robot set to hit the ...
Researchers’ low-power video streaming breakthrough could boost the IoT
University of Washington researchers have developed a method of transmitting video using up to 10,000 times less power than existing techniques that could enable the development of much more capable connected devices. To demonstrate the breakthrough, the team built a prototype implementation (pictured) that was announced on Wednesday. They also shared details about the system’s power ...
AMD ups the ante against Intel with next-generation Ryzen desktop chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today unveiled a new generation of desktop chips that up the ante against market leader Intel Corp. not only in performance but also in design. The four central processing units that AMD is introducing belong to the Ryzen series it launched last year, which has helped the company gain a considerable ...
