Today at AWS Re:invent in Las Vegas, AWS announced a new service for satellite providers with the launch of AWS Ground Station, the first fully-managed ground station as a service. With this new service, AWS will provide ground antennas through their existing network of worldwide availability zones, as well as data processing services to simplify […]
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AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced the launch of Arm-based servers for its EC2 cloud computing service. These aren’t run-of-the-mill Arm chips, though. AWS took the standard Arm cores and then customized them to fit its needs.The company says that its so-called AWS Graviton Processors have been optimized for performance and […]
View More AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2Amazon launches ‘Alexa-hosted skills’ for voice app developers
Amazon on Thursday launched a new service aimed at Alexa developers that automatically provisions and helps them to manage a set of AWS cloud resources for their Alexa skill’s backend service. The service is intended to help developers speed the time it takes to launch their skills, by allowing them to focus on their skills’ […]
View More Amazon launches ‘Alexa-hosted skills’ for voice app developersZendesk shifts to platform play with Zendesk Sunshine launch
Zendesk has always been strongly focused on customer service in the cloud. They began to look at this more broadly in September when they purchased Base to move into sales automation and CRM. Today, the company announced Zendesk Sunshine, a new platform for creating customer-focused applications on top of Zendesk’s toolset. All of this appears […]
View More Zendesk shifts to platform play with Zendesk Sunshine launchThe hybrid cloud market just got a heck of a lot more compelling
Let’s start with a basic premise that the vast majority of the world’s workloads remain in private data centers. Cloud infrastructure vendors are working hard to shift those workloads, but technology always moves a lot slower than we think. That is the lens through which many cloud companies operate. The idea that you operate both […]
View More The hybrid cloud market just got a heck of a lot more compellingBuilding a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention
Many entrepreneurs assume that an invention carries intrinsic value, but that assumption is a fallacy.
View More Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great inventionGoogle Slides gets real-time automated captions
Google is adding an interesting new feature to its Slides presentation tool today that allows you to enable real-time automated captions to your live presentations. That’s a great feature for those who are hard of hearing or deaf, as well as those who understand better when they can read instead of listen. The new feature […]
View More Google Slides gets real-time automated captionsRich-text editing platform Tiny raises $4M, launches file management service
Maybe you’ve never heard about Tiny, but chances are, you’ve used its products. Tiny is the company behind the text editors you’ve likely used in WordPress, Marketo, Zendesk, Atlassian and other products. The company is actually the result of the merger of Moxiecode, the two-person team behind the open source TinyMCE editor, and Ephox, the […]
View More Rich-text editing platform Tiny raises $4M, launches file management serviceCloudflare partners with Microsoft, Google and others to reduce bandwidth costs
Say hello to the Bandwidth Alliance, a new group led by Cloudflare that promises to reduce the price of bandwidth for many cloud customers. The overall idea here is that customers who use both Cloudflare, which is turning eight years old this week, and a cloud provider that’s part of this alliance will get a […]
View More Cloudflare partners with Microsoft, Google and others to reduce bandwidth costsAWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but over the course of the last two years, AWS added features like block storage, Windows support and additional regions. Today, the company announced it […]
View More AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private serversAmazon’s AWS continues to lead its performance highlights
Amazon’s web services AWS continue to be the highlight of the company’s balance sheet, once again showing the kind of growth Amazon is looking for in a new business for the second quarter — especially one that has dramatically better margins than its core retail business. Despite now running a grocery chain, the company’s AWS […]
View More Amazon’s AWS continues to lead its performance highlightsWalmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea
As competition between Walmart and Amazon intensifies, the acquisition of Shopify’s merchant marketplace may be the boost that the Walton family’s juggernaut needs to move ahead.
View More Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea