Monthly Archives: February 2016

Three Reasons AWS Just Bought Italian SaaS Firm NICE

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed an agreement to acquire NICE, a software-as-a-service company based in Italy that helps customers optimize and centralize their HPC, cloud and visualization resources. Continue reading

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Acquia to Drive Drupal 8 Adoption with Free Training

Six months after closing a $55 million funding round, Acquia has launched a new online learning curriculum, called Acquia Academy, aimed at preparing developers and marketers for the newest version of Drupal, Drupal 8. Continue reading

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Verizon Shutting Down Public Cloud, Gives Users One Month to Move Data

Verizon Communications, which several years ago had huge public cloud ambitions, is shutting down its public cloud service, which competes head to head with giants like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Continue reading

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Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure

It’s done and dusted. Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services, from streaming video to managing its employee and customer data. Continue reading

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Google Cloud Platform Debuts Lambda-Like ‘Cloud Functions’ that Respond to Events

This week, the Google Cloud Platform debuted Google Cloud Functions, a way to create lightweight, single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events without having to manage a separate server or a runtime environment. Continue reading

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