Cloud Tech – Page 49 of 55

Oct 6, 2016, 11:12 AM

Testing out Amazon’s ‘Internet of Things’ button: Infinite possibilities, requiring infinite patience

You’ve probably seen those colorful Amazon “dash buttons” that will automatically reorder food, paper towels, detergent and even condoms with… Read More

Oct 6, 2016, 9:35 AM

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services to offer security, analytics and IoT

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services, letting joint customers use AWS’s cloud services over AT&T’s worldwide network. The multi-year deal — terms… Read More

Oct 5, 2016, 8:47 AM

Amazon Web Services will partner with VMware, Fortune reports

Fortune is reporting that rivals Amazon Web Services and virtualization firm VMware next week will make up and pledge to… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 2:53 PM

Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views

How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 10:41 AM

Salesforce agrees to buy Krux for $700m, to build up marketing-data segment

Salesforce.com Inc. has agreed to acquire San Francisco startup Krux, in a bid by the cloud-software giant to bolster its marketing-data and analytics… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 10:24 AM

Swiss engineering firm ABB chooses Microsoft Azure as its cloud partner

Microsoft will expand its partnership with ABB after the Swiss engineering firm designated Azure as its public cloud of choice, the… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 9:55 AM

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft likely to hang onto their cloud leads, journos say at GeekWire Summit

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will likely hang onto their first- and second-place rankings, respectively, in the public-cloud arena, three… Read More

Oct 3, 2016, 10:59 AM

Microsoft Azure cuts prices on its virtual machines

Just weeks after Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie declared that cloud pricing wars with Amazon Web Services were winding down,… Read More

Oct 3, 2016, 4:19 AM

Microsoft unveils 217-page book in bid to influence global cloud policy

Microsoft this morning unveiled a book titled “A Cloud for Global Good,” which CEO Satya Nadella called “a set of policy… Read More

Sep 30, 2016, 1:54 PM

Amazon announces plan to open Paris-area web services region

Amazon Web Services next year will add a new geographic region to its worldwide network of data centers, this one… Read More

Sep 30, 2016, 10:53 AM

Why the OpenStack private-cloud software is getting the attention of big companies

More than 200 IT professionals — mainly administrators, developer and executives — turned out today for the sold-out OpenStack Days… Read More

Sep 27, 2016, 3:06 PM

Adobe’s use of Microsoft Azure will complement, not replace, AWS and its own cloud

This week’s announcement that Adobe is embracing Microsoft’s Azure as its “preferred cloud platform” shows Adobe is spreading its computing load across multiple… Read More

Sep 27, 2016, 6:57 AM

How Microsoft’s new Adobe partnership brings its LinkedIn acquisition into clearer focus

ATLANTA, GA. — Microsoft’s ambitious acquisition of LinkedIn raised some eyebrows with its $26B price tag. Monday’s announcement of a strategic partnership… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 11:21 AM

Microsoft and Docker bet big on containerized apps with release of Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016, due out next month, will gain new capabilities thanks to its inclusion of the commercially supported Docker Engine… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 10:58 AM

Microsoft Ignite: How algorithms, the cloud, IoT and data are changing computing

Algorithms, the cloud, the internet of things, and data — a combination referred to as ACID — are changing the face… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 6:00 AM

Adobe partners with Microsoft to use Azure as ‘preferred solution’ for cloud services

ATLANTA, GA. — Technology giants Adobe and Microsoft announced a strategic cloud partnership at Microsoft Ignite on Monday, with each company throwing… Read More

Sep 26, 2016, 6:00 AM

Microsoft announces new versions of Windows Server and System Center, teases ‘AI supercomputer’

At its annual Ignite technology conference in Atlanta today, Microsoft announced the availability next month of System Center 2016 and… Read More

Sep 21, 2016, 1:08 PM

Microsoft sees ‘staggering’ potential for blockchain technology as it releases new ‘Bletchley’ template

Microsoft has released version 1 of Bletchley template for Azure, which lets users create a distributed-ledger, or blockchain, network with minimal knowledge… Read More

Sep 21, 2016, 12:01 AM

Microsoft opens two Azure regions in Germany, adhering to strict security laws

Microsoft has opened two more cloud regions, this time in Germany. These are the third and fourth new regions the company… Read More

Sep 20, 2016, 3:45 PM

Oracle’s Ellison rips Amazon Web Services on performance, price and openness

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison unleashed a flurry of punches against Amazon Web Services this afternoon at the OpenWorld users’ conference, making… Read More

Sep 20, 2016, 10:36 AM

Sorry, Microsoft: Cloud price wars are still raging and will continue, researcher says

Competition to offer lower-cost cloud services hasn’t ended — in fact, the price wars may just be getting underway, according to an analyst… Read More

Sep 19, 2016, 3:07 PM

Google buys Api.ai, a voice-command startup, to help build natural-language interfaces

Google has acquired Api.ai, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup that helps developers integrate voice-command capabilities into user interfaces. Financial terms of the… Read More

Sep 19, 2016, 2:37 PM

IBM focuses on a hybrid-cloud future with latest hardware and software

IBM today announced new hardware and software intended to help organizations embrace a hybrid-computing approach, including both on-premises and public-cloud computing.… Read More

Sep 19, 2016, 10:24 AM

Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Amazon’s lead in cloud is over

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally… Read More

Sep 16, 2016, 8:54 AM

Cloud price wars ending? Oracle chief Larry Ellison won’t be signing any truce

Some may think the cloud-computing price wars are waning — Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie said so just the other day — but… Read More

Sep 15, 2016, 8:49 AM

Salesforce hires Microsoft vet Tony Prophet as its first chief equality officer

CRM giant Salesforce has hired Tony Prophet, a veteran of Microsoft and HP, to become its chief equality officer, reporting to CEO… Read More

Sep 14, 2016, 10:40 AM

Microsoft Azure boss Scott Guthrie: Cloud price war with Amazon Web Services is winding down

A few years ago, most of the cloud-computing headlines were about price cuts, as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services battled… Read More

Sep 14, 2016, 8:30 AM

Microsoft partnering with Ping Identity to allow cloud-based secure access for more web apps

Microsoft is partnering with Ping Identity, a privately held, Denver-based firm, to provide cloud-based secure access to some on-premises web… Read More

Sep 13, 2016, 4:48 PM

Google sees Evernote as an ‘innovation partner’ as note-taking service moves to search giant’s cloud

Google plans to be an “innovation partner” with Evernote, the popular note-taking and productivity service that today said it will… Read More

Sep 13, 2016, 2:31 PM

Microsoft scored a ‘takeout’ against Salesforce with HP win, says cloud chief Scott Guthrie

Microsoft registered a “takeout” against Salesforce when it won a six-year contract yesterday to provide Dynamics CRM to HP Inc., said Scott Guthrie,… Read More