Cloud Tech – Page 48 of 55

Nov 7, 2016, 6:28 AM

Greening the cloud: How Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pursuing the goal of renewable power

Cloud computing and electric vehicles have something in common: they both obscure the source of their power. Often EV owners are… Read More

Nov 4, 2016, 11:30 AM

Worst Word of the Week: ‘Hyperconvergence’ integrates all that’s awful about the tech industry

I’ve been covering technology and computing since the client-server days of the early 1990s. A lot has changed since then.… Read More

Nov 4, 2016, 12:01 AM

How’s your data flow? Seattle startup APImetrics creates single-number indicator for API health

There’s a big but hidden business out there connecting corporate consumers of data with suppliers of data, and Seattle-based APImetrics has devised… Read More

Nov 2, 2016, 2:58 PM

Patching desktops and wrangling genomes: Meet the pioneering CIO who’s bringing the fight to cancer at Fred Hutch

If Seattle’s prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is going to use cloud computing power to help eradicate cancer, then… Read More

Oct 31, 2016, 12:38 PM

Study: AWS has 45% share of public cloud infrastructure market — more than Microsoft, Google, IBM combined

Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) —… Read More

Oct 31, 2016, 11:50 AM

Microsoft to share early-stage server hardware designs in ‘unprecedented’ open-source initiative

The phrase “open source” nearly always modifies “software,” but it doesn’t have to be that way. Cloud-related hardware, too, can… Read More

Oct 31, 2016, 11:06 AM

Amazon without AWS? Online retailer would have posted big loss if not for booming cloud business

Imagine this scenario: Amazon posts a $286 million operating loss for the third quarter, its sixth losing quarter in 2.5 years. Frustrated… Read More

Oct 27, 2016, 1:30 PM

Amazon Web Services third-quarter sales climb 55%, reaching a record $3.2 billion

Amazon Web Services generated a record-breaking 9.9 percent of its parent company’s net sales for the quarter ended Sept. 30,… Read More

Oct 25, 2016, 10:39 AM

Big DDoS attacks affect some Amazon Web Services customers, but AWS chief Andy Jassy assures cloud is secure

Some Amazon Web Services customers were affected by Friday’s massive DDoS internet attacks, AWS chief Andy Jassy acknowledged today during… Read More

Oct 25, 2016, 8:00 AM

Microsoft Azure’s new data-analysis service embraces competing databases and visualization tools

Microsoft is set to expand its Azure public cloud by launching Analysis Services as a technical preview today. The new offering runs a range… Read More

Oct 24, 2016, 9:07 AM

Amazon Web Services expands its budgeting feature, aiming to help cut cloud-computing costs

The days of cloud computing being only for early adopters are long past, as almost half (48 percent) of large… Read More

Oct 22, 2016, 12:43 PM

Microsoft closes week at all-time stock high of $59.66, eclipsing previous 1999 record and signaling new era

It took 17 years, but Microsoft has eclipsed its all-time stock high. The company, under the leadership of CEO Satya… Read More

Oct 21, 2016, 9:33 AM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touts Azure’s advantages over market-leading Amazon Web Services

Microsoft shares hovered around an all-time high this morning after Thursday’s strong quarterly earnings report that beat expectations and was bolstered in large part… Read More

Oct 20, 2016, 4:00 PM

Microsoft’s cloud computing business posts $6.4B in Q1 revenue, accounts for 29% of total sales, run rate tops $13B

Microsoft’s cloud computing business continued to fuel growth for the software giant in its most recent quarter ending Sept. 30, as it produced $6.4 billion… Read More

Oct 20, 2016, 11:49 AM

Puppet provides closer links to VMware, Docker to ease rapid software production and deployment

Portland-based software-automation firm Puppet today announced tighter integrations with virtualization firm VMware and container powerhouse Docker. The announcements came in conjunction… Read More

Oct 20, 2016, 8:44 AM

Google Cloud Platform simplifies storage options and cuts prices in bid to compete with Amazon

Google Cloud Platform today moved to compete more directly with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, revamping its storage offerings,… Read More

Oct 19, 2016, 2:45 PM

Q&A: Uber’s machine learning chief says pattern-finding computing fuels ride-hailing giant

Under the simple skin of Uber lies complexity you may not have considered: the logistics of predicting how long it… Read More

Oct 19, 2016, 6:00 AM

EnergySavvy raises $14 million in funding, revamps services for utilities

EnergySavvy, a Seattle startup that helps utilities better relate to their customers, has released what it called its fifth generation of products,… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 8:42 AM

Software giant SAP will put its HR package on Microsoft’s cloud as well as its own

Microsoft has expanded its partnership with German enterprise-software giant SAP, agreeing to put SAP’s SuccessFactors software on the Azure cloud within… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 7:03 AM

Amazon Web Services adds Ohio region, for lower latency throughout middle and eastern U.S.

Amazon Web Services has added a new U.S. region, this one in Ohio, designed to cut latency among customers in… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 3:36 PM

Hewlett Packard Enterprise cuts staff as it struggles to keep pace in the cloud

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a cloud, server and storage company that split from Hewlett Packard in late 2015, laid off an… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 2:02 PM

Bing and Azure both gain speed from Microsoft’s new use of field-programmable gate arrays

Pretty much anybody in technology knows about CPUs (central processing units), the backbone of computers. And most people also know about GPUs… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 9:12 AM

Surveillance, drones and crime prediction: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services tout cloud services at law enforcement show

Video surveillance-as-a-service in Detroit, automatic crime prediction in California and live-streaming police drones — all with a cloud connection —… Read More

Oct 14, 2016, 11:45 AM

Salesforce declines to bid for Twitter, leaving it bereft of suitors

Salesforce will take a pass on buying Twitter, according to a Financial Times report on Friday quoting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.… Read More

Oct 14, 2016, 8:31 AM

Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy dismisses diatribe by Oracle’s Larry Ellison

A month after Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison spent the better part of an hour trash-talking Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Oct 13, 2016, 1:27 PM

Virtualization meets the cloud: VMware strikes wide-ranging alliance with Amazon Web Services

Virtualization giant VMware is partnering with market-leading public cloud provider Amazon Web Services to offer a version of VMware’s virtualization… Read More

Oct 12, 2016, 9:01 PM

IBM says its new Cloud Object Storage allows easily moving and splitting data

IBM has announced Cloud Object Storage, a service it said lets organizations store large volumes of unstructured data on any combination… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 3:03 PM

Microsoft unveils features of Dynamics 365, its new bid to bring AI to the business world

Microsoft in an extensive demo today unveiled the capabilities of its Azure-based Dynamics 365 service announced in July — describing it as a significant undertaking combining its… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 8:00 AM

Cloud-management startup CloudCoreo scores $2.9M in seed round

CloudCoreo, a Seattle-based startup in the cloud-management arena, has received a $2.9 million seed-stage investment led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Oct 7, 2016, 3:33 PM

Third-party Amazon Alexa-enabled devices get key ‘wake word’ capability thanks to Seattle startup

Amazon makes it easy to create new “skills” for its Alexa voice-command system that work on its own devices, with step-by-step tutorials… Read More