AWS gets a no-code ML service
AWS today announced a new machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker Canvas. Unlike its existing machine learning services, the target audience here isn’t highly technical data scientists and engineers but any engineer or business user inside a company. The promise of SageMaker Canvas is that
Amazon launches preview of new AWS Private 5G managed service
At Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service that aims to make it easy to deploy and manage your own private network. The launch is meant to address the challenges companies are facing with leveragin
AWS introduces a solution to get customers off their mainframes more quickly
At Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced a new platform for mainframe migration and modernization called simply “AWS Mainframe Modernization,” which aims to help AWS customers get off their mainframes “as fast as they possibly can” in or
New AWS Marketplace option lets you launch containerized apps on prem or in cloud
As containers proliferate, developers are using them to deliver software, and depending on the environment, on prem or in the cloud, that can present a set of challenges for your users when it comes to installing the container. To help solve that issue, AWS announced AWS Marketplace for Containers
AWS targets the energy industry with launch of the AWS Energy Competency Program
Amazon today announced a new program that will formally identify AWS Partners who develop specialized solutions aimed at the energy industry. The new AWS Energy Competency Program, as it’s called, will identify these specialized partners who have already demonstrated the technical expertise a
AWS launches Karpenter, an open source autoscaler for Kubernetes clusters
Today at AWS re:Invent, the company’s customer conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, AWS announced a new open source autoscaling tool for Kubernetes clusters called Karpenter.
One of the advantages of cloud computing is the ability to scale automatically to meet your required resour
CloudTrucks raised $115M Series B to help truck entrepreneurs manage their business
CloudTrucks wants to use technology to help trucking entrepreneurs operate their business: The California-based startup sells business management software that helps owner-operators manage cash flow and costs, generate revenue, handle insurance, and more, and it just raised a $115 million Series B.
AWS launches Data Exchange for APIs to update changing data automatically
Developers often build machine learning models with the help of a third-party data set, which they add to their model, and they’re done. But data isn’t always static. That means building some sort of pipeline to collect the data at regular intervals, creating extra work.
Today at AWS re
Abacum, a SaaS for finance teams, adds $25M in Atomico-led Series A
Abacum, a SaaS maker geared toward upgrading midsized companies’ financial planning and analysis tools, has fast-followed the $7 million seed it raised in April with a $25 million Series A round. The latest funding brings its total raised to date to $32 million.
The Series A is led by Europea
LG Energy Solution gets Korea Exchange's nod for planned IPO
LG Energy Solution, the battery unit wholly owned by LG Chem, has received preliminary approval for an initial public offering, the Korea Exchange said in a statement on Tuesday.
LG Energy Solution is reportedly planning to submit its IPO application to Financial Supervisory Service as early as thi
AWS adds user monitoring and A/B testing to CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch was introduced way back in 2009 to help AWS customers view data about their cloud usage and spending. Today at the dawn of AWS re:Invent, the company’s cloud customer conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, the cloud division announced a couple of enhancements to the
Product-led growth and signal substitution syndrome: Bringing it all together
A few years back, my former colleagues and I at SiriusDecisions introduced what we called the Intent Data Framework (IDF). About a year ago, we updated the model to include non-behavioral signals and called it the Buyer Signals Framework (BSF).
Already, it's clear we left something out of the I
Upbound nabs $60M to grow its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management project
Companies today want to avoid the lock-in they faced in the past with a single vendor. As a result, they are hedging their bets with a multi-cloud strategy, but this creates a new problem around finding a single tool for managing it all. That’s where Upbound comes in with its open source Cros
Inside the rapid rise of usage-based pricing
It's not just your imagination — usage-based pricing (UBP) is seemingly everywhere in 2021.
SaaS companies have been ditching traditional subscription pricing in favor of usage-based models that better align with modern buying behavior and the value delivered by their products. UBP, also know