Koding bags $10m to boost cloud-native IDE

Independent development environment provider Koding closed $10m in series B funding this week in a round led by Khosla Ventures. Koding offers a platform that aims to bridge user-friendly collaboration…

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Media giant hoovers up analytics specialist for $500m

Advance/Newhouse, the parent company of Advance Publications – owner or majority stakeholder in some of the world’s largest digital publications including Condé Nast and Reddit – announced this week it…

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Networking the Future with SDN

The nature of business is constantly changing; customers are demanding faster, more responsive services, and as a result, firms need to ensure that their backend technology is up to scratch.…

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HMRC embraces PaaS, moves tax platform to the cloud

In a bid to offer a set of new and redesigned digital services HMRC is moving its tax platform to the cloud and rolling out automated infrastructure to support its…

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GE reveals Predix-based cloud for industrial Internet of Things applications

GE has launched a cloud service based on its industrial equipment monitoring and analytics platform, Predix, which it is aiming at industrial IoT applications in most of the verticals it…

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Storage tech provider Tintri bags $125m to take on EMC, NetApp

Storage specialist Tintri has secured $125m in a funding round the company said would go towards accelerating development of its virtualised storage solution. The latest funding round, led by Silver…

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WTA, SAP team on tennis analytics using HANA cloud

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and SAP have partnered to develop tennis analytics software for players and coaches based on SAP HANA. The cloud-based analytics platform will offer players and…

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Report: EMC mulls selling itself to its subsidiary VMware

Storage giant EMC is reportedly considering a buyout by its virtualization-focused subsidiary, VMware, at the behest of activist investor Elliott Manage according to multiple reports. The deal according to Re/Code,…

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Mirantis, CoreOS deliver Kubernetes on OpenStack

Pure-play OpenStack vendor Mirantis has teamed with CoreOS to integrate its distribution of the open source cloud software with Tectonic, CoreOS’ commercial Kubernetes distribution. Tectonic blends Kubernetes, an open source…

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Deutsche Telekom avoids US servers; another secure email shuts

Deutsche Telekom has said it will avoid routing customers’ email traffic through US hosted infrastructure and will step up email security in the wake of the NSA PRISM spying scandal.…

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