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Dell acquires Israel’s cloud services start-up Cloudify for 0 million

Dell acquires Israel’s cloud services start-up Cloudify for $100 million

by | Jan 26, 2023 | Technology







Dell Technologies has acquired Israeli startup Cloudify that is known for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation.


According to reports, Dell spent close to $100 million in buying the startup to boost its its cloud services business, specifically its offerings in DevOps.


A company spokesperson told TechCrunch that Dell Technologies “has completed the acquisition of Cloudify.


“This transaction allows Dell to continue to innovate our edge offerings,” said the spokesperson.


In a US SEC filing, Dell refered to issuing of Class C common stock “in respect of certain outstanding and unvested options to acquire the ordinary shares of Cloudify Platform Ltd., an Israeli private liability company.”


Cloudify is an open source, multi-cloud orchestration platform featuring unique technology that packages infrastructure, networking, and existing automation tools into certified blueprints.


Originally the startup was spun out from GigaSpaces in 2017. The startup raised less than $8 million, according to PitchBook data.


Cloudify’s environment-as-a-service packages infrastructure, networking, and automation tools into certified blueprints that it says its customers can use to manage heterogeneous cloud environments at scale, and to help bridge the gap between DevOps and IT service management (ITSM).


Cloudify includes in its technology ecosystem such partners as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, F5, Wind River Software, and ServiceNow.


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India Stack 2.0 to be more nuanced, intelligent: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

India Stack 2.0 to be more nuanced, intelligent: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

by | Jan 26, 2023 | Technology







India Stack will become more nuanced, intelligent and sophisticated in its next avatar, as more and more enterprises and countries across the world innovate and integrate, execute, and implement digital transformation, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State of Electronics and IT, has said.


Addressing the first ‘India Stack Developer Conference’ in the Capital, Chandrasekhar said the objective is to increase access and adoption of India Stack for countries that are keen to adopt and integrate it as per their requirements and to create a robust ecosystem of startups, developers and system integrators working around it on next-generation innovation.


“Our mission as a nation is to offer India Stack or the part of the stack to those enterprises and countries across the world who want to innovate and further integrate, execute, and implement digital transformation,” said the Minister.


The conference, organised on Wednesday, also saw participation from Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY; Debjani Ghosh, President, Nasscom and Abhishek Singh, CEO, National e-Governance Division (NeGD), along with more than 100 digital leaders and delegates of G20 countries.


“What we have today is IndiaStack 1.0. It will become more nuanced, intelligent and sophisticated, and will keep evolving with time. Using data datasets and AI will be part of the innovation journey of India Stack,” said Chandrasekhar.


Ghosh said that India Stack brought digital transformation in the country.


She shared that India using digital means has achieved financial inclusion for 80 per cent of the population in 6 years as compared to the projected figure of 46 years.


Sharma added that Digital India has truly empowered the Indian society and contributed to making a knowledge economy.


New and next-generation services for India Stack solutions for digital initiatives like Aadhaar, DigiLocker, UPI, UMANG, DIKSHA and e-Sanjeevani were discussed at the event.


India Stack is a set of open APIs and digital public goods that aim to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data, and payments at population scale, like Aadhaar, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Digilocker, CoWin Vaccination Platform and more.


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Global app downloads on Apple Store, Google Play reach 35.5 bn in Q4 2022

Global app downloads on Apple Store, Google Play reach 35.5 bn in Q4 2022

by | Jan 26, 2023 | Technology







Mobile app adoption has levelled off, with global app downloads on Apple App Store and Google Play waning 0.1 per cent year-over-year to reach 35.5 billion in Q4 2022, according to a new report.


Social media apps remain fiercely competitive, according to Sensor Tower.


Instagram held its position in the top three apps for the past seven quarters since Q2 2021, maintaining its rank as the number one app worldwide in Q4 2022.


TikTok and Facebook followed as the No. 2 and 3 apps worldwide, respectively.


While top mobile games saw overall global downloads decline quarter-over-quarter, events such as the World Cup may have helped spike downloads of football games.


FIFA Mobile and Soccer Super Star grew 137 per cent and 112 per cent Q/Q, respectively, in the fourth quarter.


Stumble Guys by Kitka Games was a standout mobile app, dominating download growth in 2022. The game was the fastest growing app of 2022 by downloads.


“It ranked No. 1 in Latin America and Europe, reaching more than 50 million downloads and 36 million downloads, respectively, in those regions in 2022,” said the report.


Meanwhile, a recent data.ai annual report also found that consumer spending on apps dropped 2 per cent to $167 billion in 2022, meaning the interest in the app ecosystem is on the wane.


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Google marks 74th Republic Day with doodle based on hand-cut paper art

Google marks 74th Republic Day with doodle based on hand-cut paper art

by | Jan 26, 2023 | Technology







Search giant Google has commemorated India’s 74th Republic Day with an artwork that uses intricately hand-cut paper and features iconic landmarks such as Rashtrapati Bhavan, India Gate, North Block and South Block, a contingent and motorcycle-borne ‘Daredevils’.


The doodle depicts the letters ‘g’, ‘o’, ‘g’, ‘l’ and ‘e’ in lowercase black fonts while a circle over the dome of the President’s House symbolically represents the other ‘o’ in ‘Google’.


A peacock and floral patterns add a layer of charm to the art in monochrome.


“Today’s doodle celebrating India Republic Day was illustrated by Ahmedabad, Gujarat-based guest-artist Parth Kothekar,” the software giant said in a note shared on the doodle on its website.


It also features a video of the doodle in the making.


“My inspiration was to create a portrait of India,” says the artist.


“Today’s doodle artwork is crafted from intricately hand-cut paper. Many elements of the Republic Day parade are represented in the artwork, including the Rashtrapati Bhavan (where the president resides), the India Gate, the CRFP marching contingent, and motorcycle riders. Happy Republic Day, India!” the note said.


On this day in 1950, India declared itself a sovereign, democratic, and republic state with the adoption of the Constitution.


“India gained its freedom from the British Empire in 1947 and began drafting its Constitution soon after. The India Constituent Assembly took two years to discuss, modify, and approve the governing document, and when adopted, India became the country with the longest constitution. The adoption of this document paved the way for democracy and empowered Indian citizens to elect their own representatives,” the note said.


“To celebrate the national holiday, there are various parades around the country, with the largest one taking place at Rajpath (now Kartavya Path), a ceremonial boulevard in New Delhi,” it said.


After a ceremonial wreath laying to honour fallen soldiers, regiments of India’s armed forces and tableaus representing cultural and historical heritage march through the street.


To conclude the festivities, the Beating Retreat ceremony takes place on the evening of January 29.

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‘For You’ tab to stay on users’ preferred timeline on Twitter for web

‘For You’ tab to stay on users’ preferred timeline on Twitter for web

by | Jan 26, 2023 | Technology







Twitter on Wednesday announced that the web version will now remember which timeline users were using last and default to it when they open it again.


“Were any of you (all of you) asking for your timeline to default to where you left it last?,” the company tweeted.


“Starting today on the web, if you close Twitter on the “For you” or “Following” tabs, you will return to whichever timeline you had open last,” it added.


The microblogging platform also said that the feature will also be coming to iOS and Android soon.


Earlier this month, the microblogging platform announced that the ‘Home’ and ‘Latest’ tabs will be replaced by “For you” and “Following” tabs on iOS.


The company tweeted from its @TwitterSupport account: “See the Tweets you want to see. Starting today on iOS, swipe between tabs to see Tweets recommended ‘For you’ or Tweets from the accounts you’re ‘Following’.


“The ‘For you’ and ‘Following’ tabs replace ‘Home’ and ‘Latest’ and will be pinned to the top of your timeline so you can easily switch between them. Swipe to switch timelines instead of tapping the star icon”.


Later, the company rolled out “For You” and “Following” tabs updates to the web interface.


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Thousands in India impacted as network outage hits Microsoft products

Thousands in India impacted as network outage hits Microsoft products

by | Jan 25, 2023 | Technology







Microsoft users in India too suffered the global outage that impacted the tech giant’s products such as Teams, Microsoft 365 and Outlook. In India thousands of users on Teams were impacted by the outage.


According to Downdetector.com around 3,900 people reported outages for Teams. There were reports of problems from Indian users of Microsoft across its other products as well.


Microsoft globally in a statement had said it was looking into the issue that caused services to go down for thousands of people across the globe. The problem was due to a network outage that took down Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure.


According to a Reuters report, the Azure status page showed services were impacted in US, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Only services in China and its platform for governments were not hit.




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