Cloud Tech – Page 46 of 55

Dec 14, 2016, 1:39 PM

Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand

Cisco will abandon its InterCloud cloud-computing offering on March 31 and will move any InterCloud workloads to other, unnamed cloud… Read More

Dec 14, 2016, 9:01 AM

Amazon Web Services expands yet again, this time in London, as cloud movement thrives

Amazon Web Services has opened a London region, offering UK-based companies and their end-users lower latency than they may have… Read More

Dec 14, 2016, 6:00 AM

Docker donates a core piece of its container technology, an effort to fuel innovation by others

Docker, the venture-backed maker of the most popular offering for creating containerized applications, is donating a vital piece of its software to… Read More

Dec 13, 2016, 11:15 AM

New version of container orchestrator Kubernetes advances support for Windows containers

Just weeks after Amazon Web Services entered the container-management space with Blox, the leading open-source container-management product, Kubernetes, has moved… Read More

Dec 13, 2016, 10:55 AM

Amazon Web Services expands to offer cloud IT services to big companies

Amazon Web Services continues to chew its way upward through the “stack” of computing services that organizations require, moving from… Read More

Dec 13, 2016, 8:54 AM

Starbucks hires Amazon Web Services and Microsoft vet to build cloud-based ‘digital flywheel’

Tal Saraf, a veteran of Cisco, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, has joined Starbucks as its senior vice president of engineering… Read More

Dec 12, 2016, 12:55 PM

Why the data center isn’t dead yet: Explaining the rise of the ‘pragmatic hybrid cloud’

Amazon Web Services’ recent re:Invent conference in Las Vegas highlighted the excitement and momentum that public-cloud computing is generating these… Read More

Dec 11, 2016, 12:45 PM

Guest post: The biggest trends at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference

The momentum continues to build and scale in leaps and bounds. That was the overwhelming observation and feeling at the… Read More

Dec 8, 2016, 2:01 PM

Moving to the cloud requires (and attracts) scarce, expensive talent, say 3 big AWS users

Moving to Amazon Web Services is proving pricey for Matson, a Honolulu-based shipping company that last month announced it has abandoned its… Read More

Dec 8, 2016, 11:56 AM

Amazon Web Services expands with its first Canadian region

Amazon Web Services has opened a region in Canada, its first in that country. The Canada (Central) region, located in Montreal,… Read More

Dec 7, 2016, 1:16 PM

Microsoft releases R Server 9.0, improved Azure interface and more

Microsoft today announced version 9.0 of its R Server, a product designed for data scientists working with large sets of information.… Read More

Dec 7, 2016, 10:00 AM

‘It’s fun!’ Microsoft vet Bob Muglia speaks out on competing with Amazon, his first CEO post, and his stint in Redmond

It takes a certain amount of courage to compete with public-cloud giant Amazon Web Services — especially when your own product… Read More

Dec 6, 2016, 8:33 AM

Google to achieve 100% renewable power next year, relying mostly on the wind

With 2.6 GW (gigawatts) of renewable energy purchased, Google is on pace to reach 100 percent renewable energy next year,… Read More

Dec 6, 2016, 7:00 AM

Smartphone app uses multiple Amazon Web Services to cut emergency response time after crashes

U.S. traffic fatalities are spiking for the first time in 50 years, and Agero Inc., of Medford, Mass., is using… Read More

Dec 6, 2016, 6:00 AM

Data-linking service Usermind expands to help companies connect to their partners’ data

Seattle startup Usermind has released enhancements to its eponymous application- and data-integration service that let companies include their partners’ data as well.… Read More

Dec 5, 2016, 10:24 AM

The busiest Amazon ’employee’ ever? Execs explain their plan to put Alexa everywhere

Amazon is crafting its Alexa voice-based digital assistant to be like one of its employees, and now, with the introduction… Read More

Dec 2, 2016, 8:51 AM

Amazon Web Services and Salesforce deepen relationship through new IoT and Alexa links

Cloud leader Amazon Web Services and CRM giant Salesforce will expand their strategic alliance — delivering five new service integrations and making… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 11:43 AM

AWS cheat sheet: Here are the key re:Invent announcements to know about today

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services unleashed another wave of technologies today at its re:Invent conference during a keynote by… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 10:15 AM

Amazon enables AWS CodeBuild, a managed service to build applications

While many developers use build servers running in AWS, typically those build environments are deployed, configured and managed by the… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 9:59 AM

Amazon unveils AWS X-Ray and Personal Health Dashboard to help monitor application health in the cloud

Developers who deploy applications on AWS now have a new set of tools from Amazon to help them monitor and… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 9:33 AM

Amazon Web Services unveils ‘Shield’ to protect sites from crippling online attacks

A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties,… Read More

Dec 1, 2016, 9:24 AM

AWS serves up new Chef integration, boosting Seattle-based software automation startup

LAS VEGAS — This morning at the fifth annual re:Invent user’s conference, Seattle-based software-automation firm Chef announced that the full capabilities… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 2:37 PM

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy ‘optimistic’ AWS will become a $100B business, but no spinoff plans

LAS VEGAS — After his two-hour keynote at re:Invent 2016 this morning, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy fielded questions from… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 10:47 AM

Amazon reveals AWS Snowmobile, a 45-foot semi-trailer that moves exabytes of data to the cloud

LAS VEGAS — Snowball, a physical device introduced by Amazon last year to quickly move 50 TB of data out… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 10:13 AM

New Amazon Athena service enables SQL queries on data stored in Amazon S3

Amazon introduced a new SQL query service called Amazon Athena at the re:invent conference in Las Vegas this morning. Athena… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 9:47 AM

Amazon debuts new AWS features: FPGA instances, Elastic GPUs, virtual private servers, and more

LAS VEGAS — Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a host of new AWS features that make its online-computing rental simpler for basic… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 9:39 AM

Amazon launches Amazon Lightsail with low-cost $5 virtual private servers

Providers of low-costs virtual private servers (VPS) are facing a major new competitor this morning, as AWS announced the new… Read More

Nov 30, 2016, 12:55 AM

AWS Storage Gateway adds virtual on-premises file server and lowers pricing

Amazon Web Services wants enterprises to move their data storage to the cloud, replacing on-premise file servers, SANs and backup… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 11:45 PM

How cloud computing boosts NASA’s quest to explore the final frontier

When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the cloud-computing geeks at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, you can bet… Read More

Nov 29, 2016, 11:19 PM

Amazon Web Services says open-source MXNet will be the ‘foundation’ of future AI services

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services is making MXNet its deep-learning framework of choice, a top executive said this evening at… Read More