Wednesday December 25, 2024

Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, A Managed Spark And Hadoop Big Data Service

 Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The new Google Cloud Dataproc service sits between managing the Spark data processing engine or Hadoop framework directly on virtual machines and a fully managed service like Cloud Dataflow, which lets you orchestrate your data pipelines on […]

Trello Launches Revamped Business Offering With Third-Party Integrations

 Back in 2013, project management service Trello launched its ‘Business Class’ service as a basic paid offering for teams that needed extra features like Google Apps integration and more granular administrative controls. Today, the company is launching a revamped version of its business offering that introduces new features like third-party integrations with tools like Slack, […]

Salesforce Launches App Cloud, Integrated Mobile Development Platform

 Salesforce, which will have a flurry of announcements in the coming days with its annual Dreamforce user conference coming up next week, gave us a teaser ahead of the show, launching the Salesforce App Cloud today. The App cloud is an offshoot of the company’s Salesforce 1 platform, designed specifically for enterprise crowd. It has several components […]

Google Classroom Launches Chrome Extension So Teachers Can Instantly Share Links With The Entire Class

 Google calls Classroom a “mission control for teachers,” allowing them to access all of Google Apps for Education within one central place. Teachers can use the product to chat with students, help students with their work and keep track of the daily goings on in the classroom. Today, the product is introducing something really nifty […]

Microsoft Launches Third Technical Preview Of Windows Server 2016, Adds Built-In Container Support

 Microsoft today published the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. As promised, this is also the first version of Windows Server to natively support Windows Server Containers — that is, Microsoft’s version of Linux containers that can be managed both through Powershell and Docker’s command-line tools. Read More Tweet This […]

Microsoft Launches New Windows 10 Build, Vows To Keep Its Early Access Program Alive

 Microsoft released a new Windows 10 build to its testing community today, noting in the process that the developers and fans in its ‘Insider’ program will continue to receive builds ahead of the general public. The gist is that after the formal launch of Windows 10 to the public — more on that here — […]

Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project

 It’s 2015 and you might think of the mainframe as a vestige of an earlier computing era, but these mega machines still play a role inside large institutions running intensive workloads. And as though to prove its ongoing utility, The Linux Foundation announced it was launching the Open Mainframe Project today, an open source endeavor devoted to helping companies using mainframe… Read […]

Trello Launches Enterprise Service With Single Sign-On Support, Brings Two-Factor Authentication To All Users

 Trello, the kanban-style project management service that was spun out of Fog Creek Software last year, launched its enterprise service today. While the company quietly introduced this new service tier a few months ago and started testing it with a number of customers, it’s only now making it official. Read More Tweet This Post

Translate.com Launches Its Enterprise Translation Platform

 Emerge Media’s Translate.com, which launched about four years ago, has probably the best domain name you can have if you’re in the translation business. Until now, though, the service mostly offered a front-end to its — partly Microsoft-powered — translation tools for consumers and wasn’t actively going after the huge and lucrative enterprise market. Read […]

CoreOS Launches Preview Of Tectonic, Its Commercial Kubernetes Platform

 Earlier this year, CoreOS announced Tectonic, its commercial distribution that combines the CoreOS operating system with Kubernetes, Google’s container management and orchestration tool. Today, as Kubernetes hits 1.0, the company launched the first preview of this new service. Tectonic subscribers will get 24×7 support for the whole stack, which, among other things, includes… Read More […]