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Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

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Neon , a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and angel investors. Many developers opt for a fully managed platform.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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“Internally, we’ve consolidated a lot of our infrastructure and driven it to the cloud in places where we can actually get more green energy, renewable energy,” says Koushik. What the bigger cloud providers can do is negotiate better contracts with clean energy providers. “By

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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Role growth: 30% of companies have added cloud architect roles as part of their cloud investments, according to Foundry’s survey. Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure.

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MoneyGram profits from mainframe move to multicloud

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Still, more than 90% of the company’s workloads are running on Google Cloud Platform and AWS. According to IDC’s Cloudpath survey data, payment processing is the most frequently cited workload that financial institutions have deployed in the cloud so it’s a no-brainer that a firm like MoneyGram has invested in cloud computing.

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How companies adopt and apply cloud native infrastructure

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Survey results reveal the path organizations face as they integrate cloud native infrastructure and harness the full power of the cloud. How Companies Adopt and Apply Cloud Native Infrastructure. O'Reilly survey results reveal the path organizations face as they integrate cloud native infrastructure.

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

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From artificial intelligence to serverless to Kubernetes, here’s what on our radar. Knative vs. AWS Lambda vs. Microsoft Azure Functions vs. Google Cloud. The advantages of serverless are numerous: it saves money and allows organizations to scale and pivot quickly, and better manage development and testing.

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Momento launches out of stealth with a serverless cache

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Not content to stop there, Shams and Miao left AWS to co-found Momento , a Seattle-based startup that’s today emerging from stealth with a “serverless cache” optimized for cloud computing. What’s a serverless cache, you ask? million on the public cloud each year.