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Mirantis expands OpenStack offerings with SUSE alliance
OpenStack distributor Mirantis Inc. has forged a new alliance with SUSE as it bids to become the “one-stop-shop” for all enterprise Linux users of the open-source cloud computing platform. The partnership means Mirantis gets to add a third Linux option, alongside its existing CentOS and Red Hat offerings. Mirantis is one of the major OpenStack ...
Google now offers self-destructing VMs at just $0.01 per hour
Google has gone and cut its cloud prices again, reducing the cost of virtual machines (VMs) to as little as $0.01 an hour. However, that price only applies to what Google calls “Preemptible VMs”, which are a special kind of VM that can only exist for 24 hours. And there’s a second caveat too, because ...
Redmonk analyzes the cost of the cloud
RedMonk analyst Rachel Stephens has just updated the firm’s analysis of the price differences among the top cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers for the first time in two years. The most striking thing about the report, IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends, is it shows that the trend of constant price cuts seems to have bottomed out. Stephens’ findings ...
Alibaba offers foreign tech firms a leg up in China
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., has hit upon a great way of attracting some extra business, by offering foreign companies a helping hand to establish themselves in China, a country that has grown increasingly hostile to non-domestic technology firms. The e-commerce company-cum-cloud provider is offering to help foreign firms sell their products in China while complying ...
Intel boosts AI capabilities with $400m Nervana Systems acquisition
Intel is investing heavily into deep learning with the acquisition of a startup called Nervana Systems, as it bids to play catch-up in the accelerating artificial intelligence space. Nervana, founded in 2014, operates a hosted platform for deep learning that’s geared towards solving “machine-learning problems,” the company says. The platform is optimized “from algorithms down ...
Twilio beats the street with solid Q2 earnings
Cloud communications provider Twilio Inc. posted its first earnings report since going public earlier this year, and the results were extremely positive with revenues rising by 70 percent and the number of active customers also increasing sharply. Twilio sells software for applications that allows organizations to interact with customers via a range of media, including ...
Rackspace offloads Cloud Sites web hosting business
Rackspace Inc. caused a bit of disappointment at its earnings call yesterday when it refused to confirm or deny rumors it might be selling itself to a private equity investor. But it did offload a chunk of its business yesterday, announcing the sale of its Cloud Sites business to web hosting services provider Liquid Web ...
Google acquires cloud commerce provider Orbitera
It’s quite rare for a company like Google, with more than 58,000 employees, to look outside its fiefdom for innovation. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday, when the Web giant acquired cloud services provider Orbitera Inc., which operates a next-generation platform for buying and selling cloud software. Google’s new buy provides software vendors with a suite ...
The Weather Company now provides forecasts for drone operators
The Weather Company is the latest organization to take to the skies, but instead of using drones to help provide weather reports, its idea is to provide drone operators with up to the minute forecasts, in line with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s new guidelines. Last week, the Weather Company, which was acquired by IBM ...
Windows 10 to get two major upgrades next year
Microsoft has said it plans to release two versions of Windows 10 in 2017, but there will be no further upgrades this year. The news was delivered as Microsoft began rolling out this summer’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which brings tons of great new features for consumers and enterprises alike, but alas, has apparently had ...