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Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost-management market heats up
Apptio Inc., which makes software that helps companies get a tighter grip on their information technology expenses, has signed a deal to acquire Cloudability Inc., an eight-year-old startup that specializes in tracking costs across multiple clouds. Terms weren’t announced, but Apptio said the acquired company’s specialty fits snugly into its existing Apptio Cloud Business Management service ...
Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform
Open-source unicorn Confluent Inc. is ready to go head-to-head with cloud computing giants with the release of a cloud-native and fully managed service based upon the Apache Kafka streaming platform. The announcement today fills an important gap in Confluent’s product portfolio. Although the company has sold its streaming platform as a cloud service for some ...
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Digital transformation boom thrusts CIOs into media spotlight
For Bernie Gracy, the culmination of 20 years of speaking experience came last fall when he stepped on stage in front of 7,000 people at a Amazon Web Services Inc. conference in Chicago last summer. “This old dog had to learn some new tricks for that one,” said Gracy, chief digital officer at Agero Inc., ...
Red Hat rolls out OpenShift 4 with focus on scalability and automation
Calling it a common operating platform for the hybrid cloud, Red Hat, Inc. today rolled out version 4 of OpenShift, its version of the Kubernetes platform for container orchestration. The new version adds extensive automation features that Red Hat said enable administrators to provision and manage large container collections across a mix of infrastructure. Originally positioned ...
CEOs heap praise on open source as Red Hat opens final conference as an independent
In a scene that would have been surreal five years ago, Red Hat Inc. bookended the keynote session of what will likely be its last user conference as a public company with appearances by the chief executives of two companies that were once bastions of proprietary technology: IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. But the world ...
Microsoft, Red Hat team up on OpenShift service on Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp.’s love affair with open-source software marked another milestone today as the company joined with Linux provider Red Hat Inc. to announce the general availability of a native version of Red Hat’s OpenShift on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The companies said Azure Red Hat OpenShift is the first jointly managed OpenShift offering in the public ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Come and get it
Red Hat Inc. kicked off its Red Hat Summit conference in Boston today with the much-anticipated announcement that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is now available. The release comes nearly six months after the newest version of the company’s flagship platform entered beta testing and nearly five years after the last major release hit the ...
In a product blitz, Dell pushes edge, cloud, AI and hyperconverged buttons
Continuing a cavalcade of product rollouts at its Dell Technologies World conference this week in Las Vegas, Dell Technologies Inc. pushed many of the industry’s hottest buttons today with the announcement of new capabilities in cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure, edge computing and artificial intelligence. The assortment of new products and services runs the gamut from low-end ...
A year on, EU’s GDPR hasn’t changed data governance practices much, studies find
With the first anniversary of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation coming late next month, a pair of new studies find that the law’s onerous penalties for failure to protect personal information haven’t produced much change in corporate data governance. An annual audit published by data protection vendor Varonis Systems Inc. discovered that the average large company leaves ...
Okera ups its game in data lake governance
Data governance startup Okera Inc. today is adding attribute-based access control and automated business metadata tagging to the policy enforcement capabilities of its software for managing, securing and governing data access on data lakes at large scale. The company, which launched from stealth mode last spring, is tackling the problem of data governance in data ...
