Cloud Tech – Page 52 of 55

Jul 26, 2016, 2:26 PM

BlackBerry moves customers’ apps to Microsoft Azure as it tries to rekindle its moribund handset business

Corporate America and the U.S. Senate may have fallen out of love with the BlackBerry, but as its maker tries to resurrect… Read More

Jul 26, 2016, 9:57 AM

Can Amazon Web Services keep up its torrid pace? Cloud juggernaut eyes $10B in yearly revenue

Amazon Web Services has been essential in keeping Amazon profitable. Last quarter, the cloud computing platform accounted for 56 percent of… Read More

Jul 26, 2016, 9:00 AM

ExtraHop hires former Fluke president as CEO in bid to become next major enterprise tech company

ExtraHop Networks, a Seattle-based company that monitors complex computer networks in real-time, has appointed former Fluke Networks President Arif Kareem as… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 1:50 PM

Data-warehousing veteran Teradata buys U.K.-based consultancy to increase international reach

Teradata, a long-time player in the massively parallel data warehouse space, has purchased Big Data Partnership, a London-based provider of… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 11:25 AM

Amazon says 26 AWS services meet tough new credit-card security standard

Twenty-six services within the Amazon Web Services cloud offering have been certified as conforming to a stringent credit-card security standard… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 9:05 AM

Internet security company StackPath emerges from stealth mode with big funding round

The major cloud services are busy beefing up their security services, but as cloud use increases, they’re not alone in… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 6:00 AM

Virtuozzo’s new Kernel-based Virtual Machine for ISPs is a ‘huge thing,’ years in the making

Virtuozzo, a Seattle-based virtualization firm, today released Virtuozzo 7, which incorporates an “optimized” version of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) that “gives… Read More

Jul 22, 2016, 2:11 PM

Microsoft will spend up to $2.5B for 1.7M square-foot data center in Iowa, its largest in U.S.

Microsoft will spend $1.5-to-$2.5 billion to build a 1.7 million-square-foot data center on 200 acres in West Des Moines, Iowa,… Read More

Jul 21, 2016, 1:52 PM

Datadog adds monitoring support for IT stalwart Azure SQL

Cloud metrics firm Datadog now allows monitoring of the cloud-based version of an old IT standby: the Azure SQL relational database. Database technology… Read More

Jul 21, 2016, 9:00 AM

Microsoft makes one Azure security service available, prepares to release two more

Microsoft today announced the immediate or pending general availability of three security-related services for its Azure cloud. They are Security Center, Active… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 5:27 PM

New products galore from F5 Networks as CEO John McAdam contemplates retirement, again

F5 Networks is releasing an unprecedented burst of new software and hardware products, responding to encouragement from once and current CEO John McAdam, he… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 1:38 PM

F5 Networks beats its own quarterly goals, sets CEO search and hires CMO

F5 Networks, the Seattle-based network infrastructure and security technology company, reported revenue of $496.5 million for the third quarter of its… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 10:58 AM

Amazon Web Services makes Device Farm smartphone-testing service generally available

Amazon Web Services today opened up generally availability of its Device Farm remote access service, which allows for testing of… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 10:06 AM

Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region, cutting latency for users

Google Cloud Platform today opened its first West Coast cloud region, named us-west1, in The Dalles, Ore. Testing shows the new… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 9:57 AM

Cray and Deloitte harnessing supercomputers to help organizations fend off intruders

Supercomputing firm Cray is working with consultancy Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services to offer a subscription service intended to protect… Read More

Jul 19, 2016, 1:26 PM

Cloud powers Microsoft earnings as run rate tops $12B in Q4

Microsoft this afternoon posted an annualized run rate for its cloud offerings of more than $12.1 billion based on its… Read More

Jul 19, 2016, 10:51 AM

Gartner study: Amazon Web Services edges out Microsoft Azure for Infrastructure as a Service

Amazon Web Services scored slightly higher than Microsoft’s Azure in Gartner’s comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service assessment, released by the research… Read More

Jul 19, 2016, 10:13 AM

Is it you or the servers? Datadog offers website for checking on Pokémon Go status

As many players of Pokémon Go can attest, the augmented-reality mobile game’s astounding popularity has caused numerous server issues. The servers have been… Read More

Jul 18, 2016, 3:20 PM

IBM sees strong cloud growth in Q2, but revenue dips as hardware sales slow

IBM this afternoon reported revenue of $20.2 billion for its second quarter ending June 30, sliding 2.6 percent from the year-ago period as the company… Read More

Jul 18, 2016, 10:46 AM

Microsoft Azure wins big piece of Boeing’s cloud computing business

Boeing will adopt Microsoft Azure for many of the commercial analytical aviation applications that the aerospace giant has built for more than… Read More

Jul 14, 2016, 5:34 PM

How your future car’s virtual driver will take advantage of computing in the cloud

The car of the future may well be controlled by a certified virtual driver that relies on the cloud for… Read More

Jul 14, 2016, 11:30 AM

Microsoft refines Azure’s motion-detection service and offers DIY usage-tracking project

Microsoft has upgraded the motion-detection features of Azure Media Services, the company said in a blog post today. Rather than detecting motion… Read More

Jul 14, 2016, 9:24 AM

Amazon Web Services buys Cloud9, a maker of online development tools

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a privately held company that sells an online, collaborative integrated development… Read More

Jul 14, 2016, 5:00 AM

Algorithmia aims to democratize deep learning with expansion of its marketplace for algorithms

Deep learning — attempts to make software mimic the functions of the human brain — is one of the most… Read More

Jul 13, 2016, 12:58 PM

Azure SQL Data Warehouse goes GA, offering key IT service – well after its competitors

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a data-analysis service that many companies are likely to find important.… Read More

Jul 13, 2016, 10:06 AM

‘The cloud is the new normal’: Microsoft urges partners to get on board on third day of Toronto conference

Microsoft turned to legal issues, the environment and the nuts-and-bolts of selling its wares today as several execs addressed a… Read More

Jul 12, 2016, 2:25 PM

IBM, alone among major cloud providers, launches Infrastructure as a Service in Pakistan

IBM and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. have agreed to offer public cloud services in Pakistan, the companies announced. They will use servers… Read More

Jul 12, 2016, 11:27 AM

Unexpected hardware limits on Microsoft’s Azure Stack vex some developers

Azure Stack, the important hybrid-cloud product that Microsoft announced in January, will be more limited than some developers hoped. Now in… Read More

Jul 12, 2016, 10:04 AM

‘Microsoft got cool again’: Office 365 lands Facebook in big customer win

Facebook has agreed to use pieces of Office 365 software as a service, vindicating the usefulness of Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite for a high-profile,… Read More

Jul 12, 2016, 6:04 AM

Datadog hit by security breach affecting some Amazon Web Services customers

Cloud metrics firm Datadog has revoked all stored passwords and notified customers via email that a database containing the passwords… Read More