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Here’s what caused yesterday’s O2 and SoftBank outages
It appears that most mobile carriers, including O2 and SoftBank, have recovered from yesterday’s cell phone network outage that was triggered by a shutdown of Ericsson equipment running on their networks. → Read More
Pivotal announces new serverless framework
Pivotal has always been about making open source tools for enterprise developers, but surprisingly up until now the arsenal has lacked a serverless component. That changed today with the alpha launch of Pivotal Function Service. → Read More
IBM selling Lotus Notes/Domino business to HCL for $1.8B
IBM announced last night that it is selling the final components from its 1995 acquisition of Lotus to Indian firm HCL for $1.8 billion. IBM paid $3.5 billion for Lotus back in the day. The big pieces here are Lotus Notes, Domino and Portal. → Read More
Ericsson software problem causing widespread cell phone outages
A problem with the software in Ericsson equipment is causing outages across the world including O2 users in Great Britain and Softbank users in Japan, according to a report in the Financial Times earlier today. → Read More
Linux Foundation’s OpenChain project welcomes Google, Facebook and Uber
The Linux Foundation’s OpenChain project helps company find ways to comply with open source licensing requirements. → Read More
Looker snags $103 million investment on $1.6 billion valuation
Looker has been helping customers visualize and understand their data for seven years now and today it got a big reward, a $103 million Series E investment on a $1.6 billion valuation. → Read More
Camunda hauls in $28M investment as workflow automation remains hot
Camunda, a Berlin-based company that builds open source workflow automation software, announced a €25 million (approximately $28 million) investment from Highland Europe today. This is the company’s first investment in its 10-year history. → Read More
Salesforce wants to deliver more automated field service using IoT data
Salesforce has been talking about the Internet of Things for some time as a way to empower field service workers. → Read More
FortressIQ raises $12M to bring new AI twist to process automation
FortressIQ, a startup that wants to bring a new kind of artificial intelligence to process automation called imitation learning, emerged from stealth this morning and announced it has raised $12 million. → Read More
Fivetran announces $15M Series A to build automated data pipelines
Fivetran, a startup that builds automated data pipelines between data repositories and cloud data warehouses and analytics tools, announced a $15 million Series A investment led by Matrix Partners. → Read More
Forethought scores $9M Series A in wake of Battlefield win
It’s been a whirlwind few months for Forethought, a startup with a new way of looking at enterprise search that relies on artificial intelligence. → Read More
AWS wants to rule the world
AWS, once a nice little side hustle for Amazon’s eCommerce business, has grown over the years into a behemoth that’s on a $27 billion run rate, one that’s still growing at around 45 percent a year. → Read More
New AWS tool helps customers understand best cloud practices
Since 2015, AWS has had a team of solution architects working with customers to make sure they are using AWS services in a way that meets best practices around a set of defined criteria. → Read More
AWS announces a slew of new Lambda features
AWS launched Lambda in 2015 and with it helped popularize serverless computing. You simply write code (event triggers) and AWS deals with whatever compute, memory and storage you need to make that work. → Read More
AWS is bringing the cloud on prem with Outposts
AWS has always been the pure cloud vendor, and even though it has given a nod to hybrid, it is now fully embracing it. Today in conjunction with VMware, it announced a pair of options to bring AWS into the datacenter. Yes, you read it correctly. → Read More
AWS Textract brings intelligence to OCR
One of the challenges just about every business faces is converting forms to a useful digital format. This has typically involved using human data entry clerks to enter the data into the computer. → Read More
AWS announces new Inferentia machine learning chip
AWS is not content to cede any part of any market to any company. → Read More
AWS launches new time series database
AWS announced a new time series database today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. The new product called DynamoDB On-Demand is a fully managed database designed to track items over time, which can be particularly useful for Internet of Things scenarios. → Read More
AWS tries to lure Windows users with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Amazon has had storage options for Linux file servers for some time, but it recognizes that a number of companies still use Windows file servers, and they are not content to cede that market to Microsoft. → Read More
AWS launches a base station for satellites as a service
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. → Read More