Cloud Tech – Page 43 of 55

Mar 7, 2017, 8:45 AM

Two decades later, Microsoft’s Visual Studio looks to secure its role in a new world of technology

Microsoft this morning released Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of its integrated development environment — continuing its expansion beyond traditional Windows… Read More

Mar 7, 2017, 5:00 AM

Salesforce rolls out ‘Einstein Vision’ as part of broader artificial intelligence push

Salesforce is introducing a new wave of artificial intelligence technologies under its Einstein initiative this morning, including the first AI technology… Read More

Mar 6, 2017, 5:14 PM

Amazon Web Services makes another deal, acquiring Thinkbox media rendering tech company

Amazon Web Services has acquired Thinkbox Software, which makes technology used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms… Read More

Mar 6, 2017, 2:08 PM

IBM and Salesforce connect Watson and Einstein in new artificial intelligence alliance

IBM and Salesforce will work together on artificial intelligence under a surprise partnership announced this afternoon. The companies will combine aspects… Read More

Mar 6, 2017, 10:45 AM

IBM plans to deliver ‘industry first’ quantum computers via the cloud

IBM today unveiled plans to build commercially-available quantum computer systems for business and science that will be accessed via the IBM… Read More

Mar 6, 2017, 8:54 AM

Microsoft Azure adds new data analytics, voice and facial recognition to its government cloud

Microsoft is beefing up its cloud capabilities for U.S. state and federal agencies, rolling out its PowerBI and HDInsight data… Read More

Mar 5, 2017, 12:59 PM

Analysis: Rethinking cloud architecture after the outage of Amazon Web Services

Editor’s Note: Brian Guy is Director of Cloud Services for Dev9, a custom software development firm focused on cloud services.… Read More

Mar 2, 2017, 3:50 PM

Hybrid cloud startup Midfin Systems gets CNBC honor, as AWS outage shows value of its approach

Cloud enterprise infrastructure company Midfin Systems of Redmond, Wash., landed on CNBC’s inaugural Upstart 25 list this week — on the same day,… Read More

Mar 2, 2017, 10:17 AM

Docker unveils new enterprise initiative, boosting software containers for big businesses

Docker is launching a new Enterprise Edition of its popular software container technology, along with an initiative to let partners certify their technology… Read More

Mar 2, 2017, 9:43 AM

Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes

Amazon has released an explanation of the events that caused the big outage of its Simple Storage Service Tuesday, also… Read More

Mar 2, 2017, 5:28 AM

Amazon Web Services cloud migration service 2nd Watch raises $19M

2nd Watch, which helps large organizations such as Crate & Barrel, Condé Nast, Coca-Cola North America and Lenovo build and… Read More

Mar 1, 2017, 5:27 PM

Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon

UPDATE: Amazon has released an explanation of what caused the big outage this week and has started putting safeguards in… Read More

Mar 1, 2017, 10:57 AM

Microsoft’s ‘Azure Stack’ for on-premises servers will use pay-as-you-go cloud pricing model

Microsoft this morning released a third technical preview for its Azure Stack hybrid technology, which will let businesses and developers run a version of… Read More

Feb 28, 2017, 3:14 PM

Amazon Web Services outage reveals critical lack of redundancy across the internet

The digital snow day is over, as Amazon Web Services has fixed the issues with its Simple Storage Service, or… Read More

Feb 28, 2017, 10:48 AM

Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites

An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and… Read More

Feb 28, 2017, 9:12 AM

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of… Read More

Feb 27, 2017, 4:33 PM

Tech industry groups warn G20 countries against protectionism, urge free flow of data across borders

Technology industry groups from around the world are uniting to urge the largest countries to improve privacy and data protection for consumers,… Read More

Feb 27, 2017, 10:50 AM

Cloud exits: How the M&A and IPO markets are changing expectations for cloud tech companies

Cloud technology companies have increasingly become acquisition targets rather than IPO candidates, according to a new research report. But investors… Read More

Feb 24, 2017, 10:14 AM

Report: Amazon may launch new AWS productivity suite to take on Microsoft and Google

Amazon Web Services is considering bundling its email, file storage, and video conferencing apps into a productivity suite that would… Read More

Feb 22, 2017, 6:39 PM

What ‘Chime’ is it? Amazon sued over name of its new online conferencing technology

A New York-based tech company has filed a federal trademark suit against Amazon Web Services over the name of the cloud giant’s newly launched Chime online… Read More

Feb 22, 2017, 10:59 AM

Adobe escalates DocuSign challenge with new cloud-based digital signatures built on open standards

Adobe is introducing new ways to scan, read and digitally sign documents on smartphones and tablets with the latest updates to… Read More

Feb 21, 2017, 6:00 AM

Microsoft Azure broadens support for popular open-source Kubernetes container manager

Microsoft is making the popular open source Kubernetes container orchestration service, originally designed by Google, generally available for use on… Read More

Feb 20, 2017, 5:00 PM

Microsoft rolls out Azure at new Korean data centers, continuing global expansion

Microsoft is making the next move in the cloud industry’s rapid global expansion with the news today that its Azure cloud platform… Read More

Feb 20, 2017, 7:13 AM

Microsoft strikes exclusive cloud deal with Flipkart, Amazon’s biggest online retail rival in India

Flipkart, the top online marketplace in India, has agreed to adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform, augmenting its own… Read More

Feb 18, 2017, 10:54 AM

Microsoft doubled its Azure cloud revenue to $2.7B last year, analysts estimate

Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform more than doubled in 2016, reaching $2.7 billion, according to an estimate from… Read More

Feb 17, 2017, 2:44 PM

Reality check: Some of Trump’s plans could help the tech industry, big league

The technology industry may not be broadly supportive of President Donald Trump — and many tech leaders actively opposed his recent… Read More

Feb 17, 2017, 8:04 AM

Higher Logic acquires Portland workplace collaboration startup Kavi

Cloud-based community platform Higher Logic has acquired the startup Kavi WorkSpace, the companies announced Thursday. It’s the second acquisition for… Read More

Feb 16, 2017, 3:56 PM

Cash or Watson? IBM and Visa bringing AI-based purchasing to cars, running shoes and other objects

IBM is partnering with credit card giant Visa to spread the use of its IBM Watson supercomputing and artificial intelligence… Read More

Feb 15, 2017, 4:28 PM

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

With the cloud revolution underway, everyone wants to know what computing will look like — and where the biggest market… Read More

Feb 14, 2017, 5:00 AM

DDoS denied: ExtraHop’s newest product detects security breaches and other network anomalies with machine learning

Last October, when a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks knocked out major websites like Amazon and Twitter, one… Read More