Vendia Share launched for developers
Thursday, February 11, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Vendia announced a $15.5M Series A funding round and launched Vendia Share™ with a free tier for developers. The Series A round, which comes only six months after its initial $5.1M seed round, was led by Canvas Ventures with participation from BMW i Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, and Vendia’s seed stage investors.
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Embracing operational analytics for better development
Friday, November 8, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Operational analytics defines how we use business analytics to improve business operations. Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers have chosen DynamoDB as their database for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT and other applications that need low-late...
A serverless search engine for Data Scientists and Developers emerges
Friday, March 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
Rockset announced the general availability of a cloud service that allows developers and data scientists to put complex data sets to use in minutes instead of weeks.
Current trends in technology - smart devices, digital lending, fraud detection, omnichannel retail, machine learning, microservices, and real-time business dashboards - all require clean...
How NGINX could overpower Microsoft soon
Thursday, April 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
In 2016, NGINX experienced their largest gains as a web server vendor, having increased by 4.8 million active sites and 2.85 percentage points. Netcraft believes that if these trends continue in 2017, NGINX could possibly overtake Microsoft as the second largest vendor in the second half of the year.In a recent conversation with Faisal Memon, Product Marketing at NGINX,...
Replacing Scripted Software Deployments with a Jenkins Pipeline
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Franklin Ivey
When development begins on a new software project, it is often a popular choice to script many of the steps of the continuous integration (CI) process. As the project grows to require a more complex infrastructure, unit and end-to-end testing, and a robust, repeatable deployment procedure, simple scripts are no longer the best solution. To save a large hit on produ...
BlueData EPIC Software Platform on AWS for Enterprise Is Here
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released the enterprise edition of its BlueData EPIC software platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public clouds in the coming months including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.BlueData facilitates the deployment of Big Data infrastructure and applications, leveraging embedded Docker container technology. The BlueData EPIC software platf...
EdgeConneX Offers AWS Direct Connect for Portland Edge Data Center
Monday, May 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
EdgeConneX has announced the availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect in its Portland Edge Data Center. With AWS Direct Connect, companies in the Pacific Northwest can connect their IT infrastructure directly to Amazon Web Services, establishing a private connection to the cloud. The announcement marks the first metro offering for AWS Direct Connect in P...
Cohesity Makes New Updates to Its Hyperconverged Secondary Storage Platform
Friday, February 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Cohesity has released version 2.0 of its Cohesity Data Platform, a hyperconverged secondary storage solution which includes new performance, management, and security features for enterprise customers across a wide range of industries. The Cohesity Data Platform helps companies consolidate secondary storage use cases, such as disaster recovery, data protection, test...
Looker Expands Supported Data Warehouses to Now Include Presto and Spark SQL
Thursday, February 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
Looker has expanded its list of supported data warehouses to now include Presto and Spark SQL, as well as making updates to its support for Impala and Hive. Looker allows enterprises to describe, define and analyze the data where it lives, significantly eliminating the time, expertise, and the cost burdens of moving the data. The Looker platform speeds up data anal...
AWS Launches Beta of AWS IoT Cloud Services for Connected Devices
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The new beta AWS IoT offers a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With AWS IoT, applications can keep track of and commun...
Transfer Data Fast with the New AWS Snowball and Kinesis Firehose
Sunday, October 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon Web Services has released AWS Snowball and Amazon Kinesis Firehose both of which offer two new capabilities to help AWS users more quickly and cost-effectively transfer data of all types and sizes to the AWS Cloud. AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport appliance that can securely transfer 50 TB per appliance of data into and out of AWS. Amazon Kine...
AWS Offers Easier to Way Transfer Data Between iOS apps and Amazon S3
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
AWS has released the new Amazon S3 Transfer Utility for iOS, a new solution that allows an easier way for iOS Developers to transfer data between iOS apps and Amazon S3.The AWS team notes that the new S3 Transfer Utility for iOS is a move forward from the S3 Transfer Manager for iOS, which was one of the most used components in their SDK. Two of the most requested featu...
AWS Releases Updates to Lambda Platform for Scaling High Volume Production Applications
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AWS Lambda is a zero-admin compute platform that removes the need for developers to configure, launch, or monitor Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances; and have to consider scale and fault tolerance. Developers can instead create a Lambda function (using JavaScript / Node.js), set the appropriate permissions, and connect the function to AWS resources.The platfor...
New AWS Amazon Machine Learning Platform Takes on IBM’s Watson
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
AWS has introduced Amazon Machine Learning, a new service that helps developers to embed machine learning intelligence into their apps. Developers can build and fine-tune predictive models using large amounts of data, and then use Amazon Machine Learning to make predictions - in batch mode or in real-time - at scale. Amazon Machine Learning provides visualization t...
Amazon AWS Mobile SDK for Unity3D Game Development in Developer Preview
Friday, February 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s AWS recently launched an update to the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity developers. The AWS Mobile SDK for Unity helps games handle cloud storage along with identity and user state management directly from within the Unity developer environment.The SDK is currently available in Developer Preview containing a set of .NET classes that enables games written with Unity to ...
GA Release of AWS Mobile SDK Now Available
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
The AWS Mobile SDK for iOS, Android, and Fire OS has been released out of developer preview and is now generally available. The AWS Mobile SDK provides access to AWS services specifically designed to help mobile app developers with identity management & sync (Amazon Cognito), analytics (Amazon Mobile Analytics), and push notifications (Amazon SNS Mobile Push). ...
Basho Offers Amazon S3 Enhancements to Object Storage Software
Monday, August 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
Basho, the creator and developer of the Riak distributed NoSQL database, has introduced Riak CS 1.5 and Riak CS 1.5 Enterprise, Basho’s distributed object storage software. Riak CS (cloud storage) is open source software built on top of Riak, used to build public or private clouds, or, as storage to power applications and services. Riak CS 1.5 offers new ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Offers Mobile Developers New Services
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upped the ante in its efforts to woo mobile developers to use its services to build, deploy, and scale mobile applications. It has introduced a number of new services as part of the AWS platform.Amazon CognitoAmazon Cognito is a new service that provides user identity and data synchronization that lets developers create apps that authentica...
Amazon Releases Research on Success of Developers on the Amazon Appstore Platform
Monday, June 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon is trumpeting its success in convincing developers to utilize its platform with its latest announcement of an IDC study saying that developers are having positive results from the Kindle Fire platform. According to the IDC survey commissioned by Amazon, 65% of developers building apps and games for Kindle Fire are making at least as much money on t...
DreamFactory Launches Updated MBaaS Services Platform for Mobile Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory has introduced DreamFactory 1.5, a MBaaS platform that allows developers to connect mobile apps with back-end services.The platform focuses on two areas. First, it lets developers securely connect mobile users with existing enterprise databases and control record-level data visibility. Second, it offers new scripting functionality to customize the...
Amazon Web Services Enhances Elastic Beanstalk for Docker
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced Elastic Beanstalk with the ability to launch applications contained in Docker images or described in Dockerfiles. Docker provides a new runtime environment for Elastic Beanstalk, joining the existing Node.JS, PHP, Python, .NET, Java, and Ruby environments.With the launch, developers now have the ability to build...
Amazon Expands the Availability of Amazon Coins for Android Devices
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon has announced that customers in the US, UK and Germany can now buy, spend and earn Amazon Coins on their Android phones and tablets.Amazon users need to download the latest version of the Amazon Appstore and their existing Coins balances automatically appear. Existing Android users can upgrade to the latest version of the Amazon Appstore and new customers ca...
