Gravitational has announced that its open-source, image-based Kubernetes packaging solution, Gravity, now supports Helm charts. Helm is a Kubernetes packaging format. According to the company, this will remove the need for developers to learn new configuration formats in order to convert their Kubernetes applications into self-deploying images. Developers will now be able to do things … continue reading
Stanford University wants to change the way the world views and develops AI. It has launched a new institute for advancing AI “research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.” The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) will build on the tradition of the university’s AI leadership and will focus on collaboration … continue reading
Pivotal is expanding the scope of its cloud-native enterprise platform with the release of Greenplum 6 and Pivotal Postgres. Announced today during the company’s Greenplum Summit in San Francisco, Pivotal says the new releases are part of a broader commitment to PostgreSQL. Greenplum 6 is more scalable and has greater concurrency over the previous iteration, … continue reading
Timescale has announced a new partnership with Microsoft Azure to support TimescaleDB on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This will enable customers to deploy production-ready instances of TimescaleDB on Azure. “We recognize that many of our users are modernizing their existing data infrastructure or building new IoT applications, and many of them want to do this … continue reading
Trifacta Inc., the global leader in data preparation, today announced a new set of capabilities specifically focused on making data quality assessment, remediation and monitoring more efficient. The new capabilities are designed to help organizations modernize their approach to addressing data quality issues that hinder the success of analytics, machine learning and cloud data management … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., visionary creator of the next-generation data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced the MapR AI Edge Program, an AI accelerator program that provides a free MapR enterprise license to NVIDIA Inception Startup members, enabling deployment agility with data management between and across edge, cloud, and on-premises for all ML and AI … continue reading
Data company Io-Tahoe announced today at Gartner Data & Analytics 2019 Summit the latest version of its Smart Data Discovery platform Smart Streaming Discovery. According to the company, this release introduces the ability to perform real-time data discovery on a range of streaming data. This will enable customers to discover personally identifiable information (PII) and … continue reading
Atlassian has announced that it is acquiring Agile planning software provider AgileCraft. According to Atlassian, AgileCraft enables organizations to create a ‘master plan’ for the strategic projects and workstreams. Business leaders can use AgileCraft to map projects to the distributed work that is required to deliver them, which provides better visibility into bottlenecks, risks, and … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the availability of the release candidate (RC) for TypeScript 3.4. TypeScript is Microsoft’s programming language that is a superset of JavaScript. According to Microsoft, TypeScript 3.4 is the first release that has had an iteration plan that outlines the plans for the release. This is intended to align with its 6-month roadmap … continue reading
Google has introduced a new design specification for app icons. App developers will be able to submit new icons to the Google Play Console starting in early April. After May 1, developers will no longer be able to submit icons that do not meet the new specifications. By June 24, all icons, new and old, … continue reading
API development solution provider Postman announced the latest version of its platform with new ways for developers and teams to manage access control. Postman 7.0 includes extended roles and permissions, allowing users to manage teammates on collection, team and workspace levels. According to the company, this is a major update that gives team leaders the … continue reading
LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform that software teams use to build better software faster, today announced $44 million in Series C financing led by new investor Ethan Kurzweil from Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors, including Redpoint, Vertex Ventures, DFJ, and Uncork Capital, also participated in the round. The Series C capital will be invested in … continue reading
