Cloud Tech – Page 51 of 55

Aug 18, 2016, 1:15 PM

Amazon Web Services and Google tout support for users of Microsoft’s products

What a wonderful new world it is! Or does this mean war? Today both Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web… Read More

Aug 18, 2016, 8:14 AM

Microsoft debuts Linux PowerShell scripting language, with competitors AWS and VMware as launch partners

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more… Read More

Aug 17, 2016, 2:32 PM

Cisco, hurt by the cloud, will cut 5,500 jobs after a 2-percent quarterly revenue decline

Cisco, a maker of routers, switches and data-center gear whose sales are jeopardized by the movement to cloud computing and by… Read More

Aug 16, 2016, 11:19 AM

Google Cloud Platform releases new database services, fighting AWS and Azure for corporate customers

Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they’re ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud… Read More

Aug 16, 2016, 9:53 AM

Salesforce buys analytics firm BeyondCore, adding new artificial intelligence capabilities

Pursuing its stated goal to make software smarter, Salesforce has made yet another acquisition, this time agreeing to buy BeyondCore, a… Read More

Aug 15, 2016, 3:31 PM

Adam Selipsky, sales and marketing head at Amazon Web Services, leaving company

Adam Selipsky, the head of sales and marketing at Amazon Web Services and a lieutenant to AWS CEO Andy Jassy,… Read More

Aug 15, 2016, 8:08 AM

IBM touts multi-year cloud deal with SaaS finance and HR firm Workday

Finance and HR software-services firm Workday, of Pleasanton, Calif., will put its primary development and testing on IBM’s cloud under… Read More

Aug 12, 2016, 3:19 PM

Microsoft winding down Azure RemoteApp in favor of XenApp ‘express,’ developed with Citrix

Microsoft is phasing out its Azure RemoteApp over the next year in favor of relying on its partnership with Citrix… Read More

Aug 12, 2016, 2:26 PM

Poll of 300 container developers shows most prefer Google Cloud Platform for host and registry

More developers use Google Cloud Platform to run their containerized applications (52 percent) than either Microsoft Azure (49 percent) or… Read More

Aug 11, 2016, 1:07 PM

Microsoft explains why Azure Stack will initially work on only a handful of servers

Microsoft today explained its reasoning for restricting the forthcoming Azure Stack to servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo — a… Read More

Aug 11, 2016, 10:35 AM

Amazon Web Services announces Layer 7 application load balancer, 47% cut in cost of Elastic Block Store ‘snapshots’

Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new application load balancer as part of the… Read More

Aug 8, 2016, 10:44 AM

Google acquires cloud commerce company Orbitera, embracing ‘multi-cloud world’

Update: Google and Orbitera are not disclosing terms of the deal but TechCrunch reports the startup sold for just over… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 4:48 PM

Reality check: Despite copious ‘cloud’ rhetoric, little software is being offered as a service

Despite the almost reflexive use of the word “cloud” in the computing industry, relatively little software was actually being used in that… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 2:51 PM

Will you click this headline? DimensionalMechanics’ first cloud-based AI products already know

DimensionalMechanics, a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup that just emerged from stealth mode in March, today released beta software aimed at specific groups of customers… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 9:10 AM

Microsoft Azure just behind Amazon Web Services in Gartner’s new IaaS rankings; Google is a distant third

For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 7:24 AM

After stints at Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, tech vet Adam Bosworth joins Amazon

Adam Bosworth has had a long and distinguished career in tech, starting at Microsoft where he pushed the organization to… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 6:00 AM

Okta enterprise ID company sets up Seattle-area office, drawn to region by AWS and Microsoft

Okta, a San Francisco-based enterprise online identity-management firm, has opened its first dedicated office in the Seattle region — leasing space… Read More

Aug 3, 2016, 12:37 PM

Amazon Web Services specialist Engine Yard reaches ‘huge milestone’ with new version of AWS orchestration product

Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) company, has released version 5 of its eponymous development environment —… Read More

Aug 3, 2016, 9:00 AM

Microsoft releases Operations Management Suite Security, bringing Azure security analytics to hybrid cloud environments

Microsoft this morning announced the general availability of Operations Management Suite Security, which brings to hybrid cloud environments the same security… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 1:31 PM

Supercomputer stalwart Cray reports declining revenue, big loss in quarter ended June 30

Supercomputer-maker Cray Inc. today reported diminished revenue and a big though anticipated loss for the quarter ended June 30. CEO Peter… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 12:54 PM

Amazon Web Services releases version 5.0.0 of Elastic MapReduce, which updates eight Hadoop projects

Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which Amazon said quickly processes very… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 10:59 AM

Hewlett Packard Enterprise shakes up its cloud business, cloud leader Bill Hilf leaving company

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is undergoing another management and organizational shift as the company seeks to find its place in the cloud-driven world dominated… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 10:34 AM

New stats: Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue nears $10B a year

Revenue from Microsoft’s commercial cloud business, including Azure and Office 365, approached $10 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, up… Read More

Aug 1, 2016, 2:46 PM

Salesforce buying Quip, a cloud-based chat and commenting application for shared documents

Customer relations-management giant Salesforce is buying Quip, the San Francisco-based maker of a cloud-based tools for document management and collaborative writing,… Read More

Aug 1, 2016, 9:00 AM

Microsoft’s Azure faces new challenges in streaming Rio Olympics coverage

This year’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which run August 5-21, won’t be the first time NBC has used Microsoft’s Azure… Read More

Jul 28, 2016, 2:16 PM

Amazon Web Services sales climb 58%, hit new record of nearly $2.9B

Amazon Web Services posted record revenue and operating income in the second quarter ended June 30, as the world’s largest cloud-services organization continued… Read More

Jul 28, 2016, 10:56 AM

Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3 billion, bolstering cloud efforts amid increasing competition

Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy cloud company NetSuite for about $9.3 billion in cash, furthering its efforts in… Read More

Jul 27, 2016, 3:25 PM

IBM releases Graph, a service that can outperform SQL databases

IBM today announced the general availability of Graph, a service for the Bluemix cloud offering that the company said helps set… Read More

Jul 27, 2016, 3:17 PM

Amazon Web Services tops Microsoft, Google and everyone else in Gartner’s new public cloud ratings

Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services,… Read More

Jul 27, 2016, 1:17 PM

Microsoft strengthens Azure’s ties to Google Drive, Dropbox and other services with new ‘connectors’

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure Logic Apps and the North American general availability of Azure Active Directory… Read More