Latest Tech Launches in AI, Big Data, Cloud and More: Week of July 13, 2020

New products from Acquia, Adobe, Apple, Raspberry Pi, and more

Acquia Launches Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform

Digital experience company AcquiaOpens a new window has launched the Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform, a unified solution that analyses data and content to deliver a new digital experience. The new platform empowers developers to build, personalize, and orchestrate multi-experience customer journeys across all modes of customer interaction, such as touchscreens, chat, voice, and more.

Adobe Sign Brings e-Signature to Healthcare

With WFH becoming the new normal,Adobe has announced Adobe SignOpens a new window for the healthcare and life sciences industry. It includes readiness for industry standards in digital documents and e-signatures to enhance business productivity.

“Now more than ever, security and compliance is crucial in healthcare and life science. How information is gathered in a doctor’s office or research facility will need to change to reflect our new normal. That’s where e-signature solutions like Adobe Sign can help make signing easier and help businesses comply with strict, global regulations. The priority is to help providers focus on helping their remote teams stay productive right now, not the technology,” shared Craig Peasley, Director, Marketing, Adobe in a conversation with Toolbox.

Apple Brings iOS 14 Beta

Apple has now unveiled the beta version of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14- the next major version for iPhones and iPads. The company plans to launch the final version of the OS this fallOpens a new window .

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Intel’s Next_gen High-End Connectivity and Robots That Can Feel

Intel has launched Thunderbolt 4Opens a new window , a next-gen universal cable connectivity solution that delivers increased minimum performance requirements, expanded capabilities, and USB4 specification compliance.

A second announcementOpens a new window from the company revealed news about Robots that have the human capability to feel things. Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) researchers presented new findings highlighting how bringing a sense of touch to robotics can significantly improve capabilities and functionality.

MarkLogic Simplifies Data Integration with Data Hub Central

MarkLogic, the company delivering simplified cloud data integration, unveiled MarkLogic Data Hub CentralOpens a new window , to enable developers, architects, and business analysts to collaborate, integrate, and share consistent data assets tailored to business needs. It promises a simple user interface for self-service data integration.

NEC Makes UNIVERGE BLUE CLOUD SERVICE Available Generally

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, networking, and biometric solutions, announced that its agency partner model UNIVERGE BLUE CLOUD SERVICEOpens a new window is now generally available for use. It delivers customers and partners with a frictionless, comprehensive, and enhanced set of fully integrated, cloud-based “as a service” solutions.

Marc Hebner, Vice President of Enterprise Channel, NEC Corporation of America, shared with Toolbox, “With the Agency Partner Model officially launched, this completes our three-model offering through the channel with our Agency, Customer Ownership and Revenue Share models. This go to market strategy through the channel gives our partners the most flexible and channel-friendly offering in the industry. The Agency Partner Model provides our partners an easy entry to the cloud with a minimum investment leveraging NEC’s resources to help provide support to the end customer. Now, more than ever, MSP’s, Systems Integrators and full-stack IT shops are looking for ways to help their customers quickly and easily address work-from-home and collaboration challenges and this model provides them a quick and easy way to help those clients.”

Now Find PlanetScaleDB on Google Cloud Marketplace

PlanetScaleOpens a new window , creators of a database-as-a-service built on Kubernetes and Vitess, announced that users can now find PlanetScaleDB on Google Cloud Marketplace. PlanetScaleDB provides users with a transactional database that delivers the scalability, manageability, and reliability enterprises need for current and emerging mission-critical applications.

Jiten Vaidya, Co-founder & CEO of PlanetScale, shared with Toolbox, “We’re excited to make PlanetScaleDB available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Google Cloud customers can now deploy highly scalable, disaster resilient, MySQL compatible databases across four regions, us-central, us-west, europe-west and asia-southeast—this integration makes it easy to get started. PlanetScaleDB is powered by open source Vitess which was born at Google and ran on Borg, the blueprint for Kubernetes, making this a natural fit.”

Platform9 Builds On Kubernetes Experiences With New Features

Platform9Opens a new window , the provider of open-source SaaS managed solutions for private and edge clouds including Kubernetes and OpenStack, unveiled new features for enhancing user’s Kubernetes experience. The new features include the industry’s first managed Calico networking with API access, an application wizard for automated deployment of bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, and enhanced cluster monitoring and observability that provide better insights into all aspects of cluster behavior.

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Raspberry Pi Brings Khronos OpenVX 1.3 API to Single-board Computers

Raspberry PiOpens a new window announced that the company is deploying Khronos OpenVX 1.3 API, an open-source royalty-free API standard for cross-platform acceleration of computer vision applications to single-board computers. OpenVX enables performance and power-optimized computer vision processing, especially necessary in embedded and real-time use cases.

Scale Computing Brings Business Resilience Solution to Organizations

Scale ComputingOpens a new window , the company delivering edge computing, virtualization, and hyper-converged solutions, unveiled business resilience solutions to help organizations deal with unexpected threats to operations. The solution combines preventative availability and reactive recovery technologies to safeguard data, applications, and workers online against threats that can disrupt ongoing business operations and current investments in digital transformation projects.

Craig Theriac, Director of Product Management, Scale Computing, in conversation with Toolbox, said, “Built around the highly available HC3 platform, Scale Computing’s Business Resilience Solution brings together server virtualization, end-user computing, data protection, and threat mitigation into a single package. This includes complete VDI and remote-work infrastructure with built-in disaster recovery services, enhanced by Scale Computing’s partnership with Acronis® to offer best-of-breed ransomware protection and data backup.”

Sentry Brings Performance Monitoring to Developers

The application monitoring company SentryOpens a new window has launched agentless frontend performance monitoringOpens a new window for Python and JavaScript. The new solution helps development teams identify performance issues by tracing them to poor-performing API calls and related errors, all with just five code lines.

Milin Desai, CEO, Sentry, in a conversation with Toolbox said, “Over the past four months, customers across every vertical have relied heavily on Sentry to help their development teams be more productive as adoption and usage of their services continues to increase. Sentry’s frontend performance monitoring gives developers the context they need to confirm and quickly fix what’s slowing their app down to deliver quality digital experiences.”

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Unit4 Unveils Unit4 ERP for Better Agility and Faster Time to Value

Cloud enterprise software provider Unit4 has unveiled Unit4 ERPOpens a new window , a cloud platform for complex service-based organizations with capabilities to plan and resource projects to improve outcomes. The extension kit enables organizations to connect different business systems and create new workflows without the need to develop code.

“Unit4’s commitment to deliver a people-focused ERP is supported by its breadth of solutions and features. As indicated in this release, these features allow customers to coordinate global projects across multiple departments within an organization. This people-centric approach to ERP is vital for customers to maintain a competitive advantage in their industry,” Matthias Thurner, Chief Product Officer at Unit4, shared with Toolbox.

Yugabyte Brings YugabyteDB 2.2 For Easier Database Deployment

YugabyteOpens a new window , the open-source distributed SQL database company, made the YugabyteDB 2.2 available generally. The new version simplifies enterprise database deployments and day-to-day administration along with support for fully-transactional distributed backups as well as online index builds, deferred constraints, colocated tables, and more.

Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Founder and President, Product Development, Yugabyte, while speaking to Toolbox, said, “Most databases were never designed with the cloud or geo data distribution in mind. YugabyteDB 2.2 offers a rich depth of RDBMS features and SQL capabilities for relational workloads. At the same time, it simplifies the operation of cloud native data infrastructure with support for distributed backups and online index builds. With this release, YugabyteDB helps accelerate the delivery of new applications and services, while unlocking business value.”

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