Last week, Sencha announced details of ExtReact, a platform that enables React developers to create visually appealing, data-intensive web applications. ExtReact streamlines and simplifies the addition of impressive user interface components to SaaS applications by rendering available more than 115 user interface components. Developers can use ExtReact to manage keyboard navigation, focus management, layout and data management. ExtReact enables developers to quickly and efficiently create impressive user interface components such as customized menus, trees, tabs, grids, forms, calendars and da ..read more

On May 16, Crate.io announced the availability of CrateDB 2.0, an open source SQL database that specializes in IoT and machine data. The innovation of CrateDB consists in leveraging SQL to aggregate and perform real-time analytics on IoT and machine data instead of the NoSQL databases commonly used in the industry for related use cases. CrateDB’s ability to accommodate the ingestion of high velocity streams of data and to perform queries on rapidly changing datasets, with impressive levels of scalability and latency, allows developers to combine their familiarity with SQL alongside a solution ..read more

Datos IO recently announced the release of RecoverX 2.0, a data management platform designed for the cloud that enhances the ability of customers to deliver data protection solutions as well as workload migration functionality, operational monitoring and enterprise policy management. RecoverX 2.0 expands the purview of Datos IO’s backup and recovery solutions from non-relational databases to relational databases and deepens its support for cloud-based applications and datastores. At the core of Datos IO’s mission is a commitment to supporting the management of applications and data within priv ..read more

Bonsai, an innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, recently revealed details of the Bonsai Early Access Program that provides customers with training, consultative support and collaborative design and development for customer-specific AI applications. Bonsai absolves customers of the complexity specific to building AI apps using Google’s TensorFlow or APIs to platforms such as IBM Watson by using Inkling, a programming language that allows developers to create artificial intelligence models called BRAINs at a higher level of abstraction as compared to low-level machine learning ..read more

OVH has finalized the acquisition of VMware vCloud Air’s business and specifically, vCloud Air customers, support team and data center and customer operations. VMware vCloud Air will now be branded “VMware vCloud Air Powered by OVH” and continue to provide services related to its three core offerings, namely, disaster recovery, data center replacement and data center extension. Existing vCloud Air customers stand to benefit from complementing their existing vCloud Air datacenters with OVH datacenters as well as OVH’s portfolio of private cloud and public cloud offerings, in addition to OVH’s e ..read more

Cloud data backup and recovery startup Rubrik has announced the finalization of $180M in funding led by Institutional Venture Partners with additional participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. Rubrik delivers backup and recovery software that runs on both on-premise IT infrastructures as well as public clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Rubrik specializes in hybrid cloud backup and recovery software solutions that recognize the needs of customers to manage, automate and orchestrate backup and recovery deployments across on-premise and cloud-base ..read more

Paycor has announced the availability of Workforce Insights, a platform that delivers workforce-related business intelligence to HR and Operational leaders about employees within an organization. Workforce Insights provides analytics into data related to topics such as overtime pay, turnover, contract labor and resource management. Customers can use Workforce Insights to understand discrepancies between scheduled and overtime pay per business unit as well as correlations between OSHA safety incidents and overtime as illustrated below: Paycor’s Workforce Insights absolves customers of the chal ..read more

On April 10, pharmaceutical giant Merck announced the launch of the Alexa Diabetes Challenge, a competition aimed at encouraging the development of software applications that use Amazon’s Alexa technology to help patients with a recent diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes. The competition builds upon Merck’s exploration of the capabilities of Amazon Lex, the machine learning technology that undergirds Amazon Alexa by facilitating the development of “conversational interfaces” for applications, to enhance and enrich capabilities to manage and ameliorate chronic diseases. Kimberly Park, Vice President ..read more

Mist recently announced the release of its Asset Visibility Service, a platform that empowers organizations to track mobile devices by means of the Mist wireless platform. The Mist Asset Visibility Service enables companies in any vertical to identify the location of mobile devices for mobile device management, supply chain optimization, workforce management and inventory management use cases. By leveraging Mist’s revolutionary Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, companies can use Mist to track the location of strategic assets such as laptops, vehicles, machinery and associates. Mist’s Asse ..read more

On April 4, DigitalOcean announced the availability of a monitoring service that gives developers enhanced insight into the operational health of their DigitalOcean Droplets. Capabilities of the monitoring service include the ability to monitor the CPU of each Droplet in addition to disk utilization, network traffic and top processes. The new, free monitoring service means that DigitalOcean customers now have access to real-time data about the health of their deployments by means of the platform’s automated capabilities to deliver performance-related data regarding their Droplets. Available vi ..read more