cloud infrastructure

Estonia-based Warren, a self-service distributed cloud platform has secured a $1.4 million seed round to help regional cloud infrastructure solution providers to compete against industry giants. The round was closed by Passion Capital and also included Lemonade Stand and angel investors like former Nokia Vice President Paul Melin and Marek Klisa, co-founder of funds Superangel and NordicNinja.  Major industry players are already quite aggressive in the industry in expanding teams and data centers around the world.…

New features speed scale, synchronization, automation, and compliance across dynamic server fleets Okta, Inc., the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today at Okta Showcase, announced major advancements to Okta Advanced Server Access to accelerate scalability and compliance of cloud infrastructure. DevOps teams building in the cloud can now integrate with providers like Terraform to scale identity-driven infrastructure and build no-code automation through Okta Workflows. Additionally, Okta…

New certifications provide government agencies with stronger security and compliance controls Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, today announced Government Cloud Plus, a dedicated instance of Salesforce's industry-leading multi-tenant cloud infrastructure specifically isolated for U.S. federal, state, and local government customers, U.S. government contractors, and federally funded research and development centers. Government Cloud Plus has achieved a FedRAMP Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) at the High…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is empowering the Slack DevOps team to innovate faster on the front-end, and secure their back-end infrastructure. In return, Slack Calls will now connect to Amazon Chime- Amazon’s Voice Conferencing and Online meeting platform.

Zoom deploys Oracle Cloud within hours; enables millions of meeting participants within weeks Oracle announced that Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is turning to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support its growth and evolving business needs as the enterprise video communications company continues to innovate and provide an essential service to its extensive customer base. "We recently experienced the most significant growth our business has ever seen, requiring massive increases in our service capacity. We explored…

Lucid, the creators of Lucidchart and Lucidpress, announced that it has closed a $52 million round of funding led by ICONIQ Capital with participation from Meritech Capital, Spectrum Equity and new investor, Cross Creek. The company also announced that it has passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue as its flagship product, Lucidchart, establishes its place as the leading visual workspace, driving greater productivity and collaboration across over 100,000 companies. With 20 million users in 180 countries worldwide,…