Cloud Tech – Page 44 of 55

Feb 13, 2017, 5:45 AM

Salesforce adds ‘Einstein’ artificial intelligence tools to its customer service platform

Call centers ain’t what they used to be. That’s because customers rely on an increasingly wide range of tools to… Read More

Feb 11, 2017, 9:17 AM

Amazon cloud leader Andy Jassy sizes up the competition in rare public remarks about rivals

Amazon likes to say that it focuses on customers, not competitors, which means it’s rare for the company’s top executives to talk about their rivals publicly.… Read More

Feb 10, 2017, 9:47 AM

SAP President Steve Singh says cloud computing is yesterday’s news — ‘microservices’ are the future

Cloud computing is so 2016. Sure, migration from client servers to the cloud is an ongoing megatrend, but tech moves… Read More

Feb 10, 2017, 7:23 AM

Alexa in the warehouse? What enterprise cloud company Acumatica learned from this experiment

Acumatica, the privately held enterprise cloud technology company led by former Microsoft executive Jon Roskill, is coming off a year of 83 percent… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 2:16 PM

Apptio posts record revenue of $44M in its second quarter as public company

Apptio exceeded analyst expectations for revenue and profit during its second-ever quarter as a public company. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company posted… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 12:30 PM

Shares of Marchex spike 17% after ad analytics company inks cloud partnership with Facebook

Seattle-based marketing company Marchex has had a rough past year. The company’s CEO and board chairman departed last fall after… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 11:40 AM

Judge lets Microsoft proceed with suit vs. DOJ, challenging federal secrecy orders

A federal judge in Seattle ruled today that Microsoft can move forward with a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 7:43 AM

Snap commits to spend $1B on Amazon Web Services over next five years

Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants… Read More

Feb 8, 2017, 11:41 AM

Microsoft will give Azure customers access to 10,000 patents to fight lawsuits

Microsoft will help its cloud computing customers fight lawsuits from patent trolls. As an added benefit to those paying for Microsoft… Read More

Feb 8, 2017, 10:57 AM

Cloud software monitoring startup Sensu raises $2.5M from Foundry Group

What started as an open source software project more than five years ago has turned into a legitimate startup that… Read More

Feb 8, 2017, 8:38 AM

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised last year that public cloud titan Amazon Web Services would achieve $10 billion in sales for 2016, reaching that milestone… Read More

Feb 7, 2017, 4:18 PM

Microsoft, AT&T join in $25M funding round for SnapRoute, networking startup founded by Apple engineers

SnapRoute, a networking startup formed by Apple engineers, announced Tuesday that it secured $25 million in a Series A venture… Read More

Feb 7, 2017, 6:00 AM

Microsoft’s AI group debuts customizable speech-to-text technology, rapidly expanding ‘cognitive services’ for developers

Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, a major new engineering and research division formed last year inside the Redmond… Read More

Feb 6, 2017, 10:38 AM

‘AWS on premises’ provider Stratoscale acquires database-as-a-service company Tesora

Cloud infrastructure startup Stratoscale is expanding its database services platform. The Israel-based company has acquired database-as-a-service provider Tesora, the companies announced… Read More

Feb 2, 2017, 4:42 PM

Snap’s IPO filing reveals $2B, five-year Google Cloud deal — and it was finalized this week

Snap Inc. disclosed a major contract to use Google Cloud Platform as part of its $3 billion IPO filing today. RELATED As… Read More

Feb 2, 2017, 1:24 PM

Amazon Web Services posts $3.5B in sales, up 47% from last year, reaches $14B annual run rate

Amazon’s cloud computing arm continues to generate billions in revenue and help the tech giant post a profit. Amazon Web Services… Read More

Feb 1, 2017, 9:30 PM

Google vows to build leading cloud for enterprise Windows, swiping at Microsoft’s core business

Google is going after a core part of Microsoft’s cloud business, aiming to expand Google Cloud Platform’s appeal to big companies that run the… Read More

Feb 1, 2017, 10:40 AM

Apple touts ‘record results’ for iCloud storage business as services revenue tops $7B

Here’s a sign of the times: Apple made almost as much revenue on its services businesses in the December quarter… Read More

Jan 27, 2017, 3:20 PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: How Azure will fend off Amazon Web Services in the enterprise

Microsoft believes that its unique combination of cloud offerings will hold off market-leading public-cloud service Amazon Web Services in Microsoft’s… Read More

Jan 26, 2017, 2:08 PM

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate tops $14B for first time, driven by Azure and Office 365

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate exceeded $14 billion for the first time during the December quarter, driven by Office 365 and Microsoft… Read More

Jan 26, 2017, 12:48 PM

Amazon Web Services and Azure expand IPv6 offerings, to add security and handle more devices

Amazon Web Services has implemented IPv6 support in virtual private clouds running under its basic computing service (Elastic Compute Cloud,… Read More

Jan 26, 2017, 8:00 AM

LendingRobot launches hedge fund that uses blockchain and machine learning — with no human intervention

LendingRobot, an automated online investment-management service that calls itself a “robo-advisor,” is launching a hedge fund that the company says is… Read More

Jan 25, 2017, 9:00 AM

Startup uses Microsoft technology to translate text messages in real-time for world leaders at Davos

The roughly 3,000 leaders from science, economics, politics and business who attended the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, this month may… Read More

Jan 23, 2017, 3:10 PM

Federal judge in a ‘dilemma’ over Microsoft’s legal case against government secrecy orders

Microsoft today got its first chance to be heard in open court in its landmark lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s ability… Read More

Jan 19, 2017, 10:49 AM

Amazon Web Services’ secret weapon: Its custom-made hardware and network

It’s not unusual for internet and software giants to design and even make their own hardware, to increase efficiency and build a competitive advantage.… Read More

Jan 18, 2017, 3:43 PM

Inside Salesforce’s new 70K square-foot Bellevue office: Mindfulness zones, social spaces, and more

One of the world’s fastest growing enterprise software companies today opened the doors to its new home in the Seattle area. San… Read More

Jan 18, 2017, 2:41 PM

What HPE won in buying SimpliVity for $650M: one less competitor and a bigger market

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s agreement to buy hyperconverged-infrastructure provider SimpliVity for $650 million in cash, announced Monday, gives HPE one less… Read More

Jan 18, 2017, 2:24 PM

IBM scores cloud contract with U.S. Army that could be worth $62M

[Editor’s Note: A reference in the headline to the financial value of the contract has been corrected since the original post.] Big… Read More

Jan 17, 2017, 10:48 AM

Technology’s frantic speed will create ‘digital refugees’ with no clear fix, Salesforce’s Benioff warns at Davos

“This year, my heart has been with so many migrants and refugees, 65 million refugees across the world, and thinking… Read More

Jan 17, 2017, 7:41 AM

Oracle to open 3 new cloud regions this year, escalating challenge to AWS and Azure

Database giant Oracle today moved to strengthen its position as a full-service cloud provider, using CloudWorld, a one-day conference convening in New York… Read More