Cloud Tech – Page 20 of 55

Sep 15, 2018, 6:10 PM

SaaS at scale: Here’s how five cloud tech experts are building enterprise software empires

Until very recently, very few people actually liked the enterprise software they were forced to use at work, from the… Read More

Sep 13, 2018, 10:38 AM

Microsoft acquires Lobe, an AI startup working on easy-to-use deep-learning development tools

Artificial intelligence tools will never be widely used if it takes decades of expertise to put them into action, which… Read More

Sep 12, 2018, 10:36 AM

Oracle still can’t make up its mind about how it fits into the cloud era

Top Oracle executives apparently can’t agree on how to move the database company forward in the cloud computing era. Thomas… Read More

Sep 12, 2018, 8:00 AM

Pulumi releases software-development kit to unlock the multicloud potential of Kubernetes

Seattle cloud startup Pulumi plans to release a software-development kit Wednesday that advances the company’s mission to make the Kubernetes… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 3:45 PM

Microsoft releases details on last week’s big Azure outage, during which servers were damaged but no data was lost

A severe lightning storm in the San Antonio area last week not only disrupted the power supply to Microsoft Azure’s… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 1:42 PM

Beyond the cloud: Amazon Web Services hiring engineers for ‘big, audacious space project’

According to two recently deleted job postings on the internet, where nothing can ever really be deleted, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 8:26 AM

Power struggle: How a bitcoin mining boom is transforming apple country, one megawatt at a time

WENATCHEE, Wash. — “It all starts with power.” Malachi Salcido, bitcoin miner and founder of large-scale contracting firm Salcido Enterprises, made… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 8:57 AM

Carnegie Mellon’s Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year

After an interesting year for Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 6:00 AM

Hortonworks plans to revamp Hadoop and its big data tools with cloud best practices in mind

One big disadvantage that comes with a hybrid cloud strategy is forcing your developers to learn and understand the different… Read More

Sep 7, 2018, 4:19 PM

Updated: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma plans to retire after building China’s biggest retail and cloud computing empire

Almost 20 years after he founded Alibaba, the Amazon of China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma plans to retire to focus… Read More

Sep 5, 2018, 12:21 PM

Some Microsoft Azure issues stretch into a second day, as Active Directory and Office 365 stabilize

A series of failures at Microsoft’s San Antonio data centers continued to cause issues for some customers stretching into the… Read More

Sep 4, 2018, 9:22 AM

Updated: Microsoft Azure’s southern U.S. data center goes down for hours, impacting Office365 and Active Directory customers

Some Microsoft Azure customers with workloads running in its South Central US data center are having big problems coming back… Read More

Sep 2, 2018, 12:37 PM

Is hybrid cloud the best of both worlds? Five experts explain how to get it right

Fervent cloud computing evangelists used to look down their noses at the notion of hybrid cloud, seeing the approach a… Read More

Aug 31, 2018, 12:40 PM

Report: Seattle’s Qualtrics is talking to bankers about an IPO

Qualtrics, which sells customer experience software as a service to companies looking to understand the best ways to keep their… Read More

Aug 30, 2018, 10:59 AM

Oracle’s quixotic quest to derail the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract continues

The Department of Defense won’t announce the winner of its ten-year $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing… Read More

Aug 29, 2018, 2:50 PM

Salesforce posts record Q2 revenue and raises revenue guidance, but Wall Street frowns at earnings outlook

Usually after a 27-percent jump in revenue that exceeded analyst expectations and set a record for the second fiscal quarter,… Read More

Aug 29, 2018, 10:51 AM

Box makes sure it plays nicely with other enterprise software apps as it shifts attention to larger buyers

Less than 24 hours after Box warned of slowing revenue growth over the next year or so, company executives took… Read More

Aug 29, 2018, 10:36 AM

Snowflake Computing hints at IPO plans with hire of former Talend CFO Thomas Tuchscherer

After raising $473 million in funding over the last few years, Snowflake Computing announced Wednesday that it has hired Thomas… Read More

Aug 28, 2018, 9:46 AM

After huge wind and solar energy purchases in 2018, Facebook sets goal of 100 percent renewable energy usage by 2020

Facebook committed itself Tuesday to powering its entire global operation with renewable energy sources by the end of the decade,… Read More

Aug 27, 2018, 10:42 AM

Amazon Web Services extends hybrid cloud push, reveals new database management service for VMware users

Amazon Web Services and VMware expanded their hybrid-cloud partnership Monday, announcing that AWS will ship a new version of its… Read More

Aug 27, 2018, 5:00 AM

As customers gather for VMworld, VMware unveils new security and hybrid cloud management tools

Companies that rely on VMware’s software to manage their own data centers as they dip their toes in the public… Read More

Aug 19, 2018, 12:04 PM

Five experts explain how software development and operations teams are adjusting to the rapid changes caused by cloud computing

While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting… Read More

Aug 17, 2018, 1:30 PM

Three Seattle cloud CEOs share tips on how to keep fighting in an ever-changing market

There’s never been a better time to be in the cloud computing business, and while that opportunity is bringing people… Read More

Aug 17, 2018, 10:15 AM

Google is now using AI to keep its data centers cool and save energy

Google is practicing what it preaches, handing control of one of the most vital components of its data center operation… Read More

Aug 16, 2018, 6:00 AM

Salesforce plans to open-source the technology behind its Einstein machine-learning services

Salesforce is open-sourcing the method it has developed for using machine-learning techniques at scale — without mixing valuable customer data… Read More

Aug 15, 2018, 6:00 AM

Portland’s Twistlock raises $33M Series C round as demand for cloud-native security grows

As more and more companies start developing applications on top of cloud computing platforms, sometimes they need a little help… Read More

Aug 14, 2018, 3:19 PM

New Intel chip flaw resembles Spectre and Meltdown, but targets special chip security features

Even security products have security flaws, and chip researchers just found a big one in Intel’s chips that can be… Read More

Aug 13, 2018, 9:15 AM

With Pentagon cloud contract in the balance, Microsoft’s hybrid-cloud product, Azure Stack, now certified for government use

As the federal government reviews submissions from cloud computing companies for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud contract, Microsoft… Read More

Aug 11, 2018, 10:37 AM

Teaching the ghost in the machine: How cloud tech experts are managing the rise of AI

When it comes to the breakthroughs that brilliant scientists and engineers are working on in 2018, artificial intelligence technology somehow… Read More

Aug 9, 2018, 3:20 PM

Now you can see what the fish off the North Scotland coast think of Microsoft’s Project Natick undersea data center

If you’ve ever happened upon a conventional data center, you were probably underwhelmed: most resemble a supersized Wal-Mart with acres… Read More