Edge database startup pgEdge debuted in March, unveiling a fully distributed database based on PostgreSQL designed for the network edge. The startup raised a $9M seed round led by Sands Capital Ventures and Grotech Ventures. pgEdge joins the competitive edge
AWS Outposts – AWS Moves into the On-Premises Hardware Space Amazon Web Services is making its latest push into yet another part of the IT space with its imminent move into the on-premises hardware business. At re:Invent last month, AWS
The big cloud trio has each entered the Internet of Things (IoT) space and are each spending significant sums on new services and investing in their IoT platforms. All three are betting on the long-term potential for significant margins. The
Last week, Google Cloud held its latest Next conference in San Francisco, unveiling new AI features, partnerships, tools and technologies to build out its ecosystem and make its services more attractive to developers. The conference was Google Cloud’s largest to
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) will invest $4 billion in edge infrastructure. The software company’s new CEO and President, Antonio Neri, sees edge computing as a “revolution” in the computing era that represents a $28 billion market opportunity for HPE.
Vapor IO, an edge data center company, and Packet, a bare metal cloud provider for developers, are launching a 5G-as-a-Service (5GaaS) deployed to Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge micro data centers. The offering comprises of 5G capable infrastructure and connectivity, which
The web hosting company GoDaddy is “going all-in on AWS” as it migrates most of its infrastructure to Amazon’s cloud business, according to a recent announcement from AWS. The collaboration between the two former rivals in the small business space
Last October, Waterfront Toronto announced a new partnership with Alphabet subsidiaries Google and Sidewalk Labs that would see the redevelopment of 12 acres of southeastern waterfront within the city. Sidewalk Labs has already invested $50 million in the project and
Google is at work on a new video game service codenamed Yeti, which could be a gamechanger in the field. Yeti will let people play video games via a streaming service rather than using downloads or disks, which could ultimately
PacketZoom announced yesterday that it was partnering with Amazon CloudFront’s Web CDN, making it the first mobile app performance company to offer an end-to-end bundled mobile networking solution, the Mobile App Performance Management and Optimization (APMO). PacketZoom’s Mobile Expresslane service
Serverless computing, or FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) lets developers focus on building event-based applications on a function by function basis while it takes care of deploying, running and scaling the code. It doesn’t mean that no servers are involved, but rather that
UNSW engineers have made a quantum leap forwards in their complete design for a quantum computer chip. The team at the University of New South Wales UNSW) in Sydney, Australia last month unveiled their new design of the chip that
