When it comes to web applications, midsize to large businesses are looking to cloud databases to help them gain efficiencies and, ultimately, gain a competitive edge over their market rivals. Traditionally, web applications run on a network of servers ...

An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool. At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog post the release of DBOS Cloud, “a transactional ...

Database administration includes responsibility for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an organization’s databases and the applications that access those databases. Traditionally, for the DBA, this has meant becoming an ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — With cloud computing services there are countless free or inexpensive services you can use. Xeround has made it easy for you and compiled a list of 43 of the best free cloud services for application developers.

Google Cloud said today it’s updating multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Spanner and Memorystore for Valkey 7.2, with new features that should make them more suitable for generative artificial intelligence applications. In a blog post, Andi ...

Data Cloud Vector Database will unify all business data, including unstructured data like PDFs, emails, and transcripts, with CRM data to enable grounding of AI prompts and Einstein Copilot, eliminating the need for costly and complex fine-tuning of LLM ...

Data backup startup Eon raises $300 in Series D funding, raising the company’s total financing to $500 million and boosting its valuation to $4 billion.

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Cloud software environments offer many advantages to their users over on-premises infrastructures, including flexibility, automated maintenance, and easy scalability. These benefits are why many individuals and organizations migrate from on-site to cloud ...

The total amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed globally is forecast to reach 463 exabytes by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum High Scalability report. An exabyte is 1,000 bytes to the sixth power. Facebook alone processes 2.5 ...

Firefly AI, the agentic cloud automation platform, is introducing its Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM) solution-designed to help enterprises take a proactive approach to cloud outages, cyberattacks,