Microsoft today announced version 9.0 of its R Server, a product designed for data scientists working with large sets of information. The new software was one of several announcements the company… Read More
LAS VEGAS — If you’re involved in information technology and the cloud, you’ve heard it before: trade capital expense (capex) for operating expense (opex)! Save tons of money on the cloud! You… Read More
Amazon Web Services, now 10 years old, is by far the dominant public-cloud service, but can it retain its lead? More than 24,000 AWS customers and tire-kickers will be gathering… Read More
Despite his wishful predictions that Donald Trump would never become president, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested on Monday evening that people forget their anxiety and give Trump a chance – at least initially. Speaking at the Code… Read More
Kubernetes, an open-source container manager designed by Google in 2014 and then donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is now at version 1.4, and Microsoft has made it part… Read More
Cloud computing and electric vehicles have something in common: they both obscure the source of their power. Often EV owners are pleased to believe that their cars are environmentally friendly because… Read More
If Seattle’s prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is going to use cloud computing power to help eradicate cancer, then Matthew Trunnell — a soft-spoken Midwesterner and former carpenter — is… Read More
Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) — greater than Microsoft, Google and IBM’s shares combined, according to… Read More
The phrase “open source” nearly always modifies “software,” but it doesn’t have to be that way. Cloud-related hardware, too, can be developed using the open-source model, and Microsoft says it… Read More
Imagine this scenario: Amazon posts a $286 million operating loss for the third quarter, its sixth losing quarter in 2.5 years. Frustrated investors call for CEO Jeff Bezos’ head and punish the… Read More
Bob Kelly, a 21-year Microsoft vet who left that company in September to start as a managing partner with Seattle’s Ignition Partners this coming January, shared some of his views with… Read More
The days of cloud computing being only for early adopters are long past, as almost half (48 percent) of large organizations have moved an on-premises workload to the public cloud,… Read More
Just weeks after Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie declared that cloud pricing wars with Amazon Web Services were winding down, Microsoft’s cloud service has cut prices on several of its… Read More
Microsoft this morning unveiled a book titled “A Cloud for Global Good,” which CEO Satya Nadella called “a set of policy considerations to help guide technologies in the future.” Nadella and Microsoft… Read More
Microsoft has released version 1 of Bletchley template for Azure, which lets users create a distributed-ledger, or blockchain, network with minimal knowledge of Azure or Ethereum, a crowd-funded, cloud-based public software project. The… Read More
Microsoft has opened two more cloud regions, this time in Germany. These are the third and fourth new regions the company has debuted recently, following two in the UK earlier this month.… Read More
Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally licensed, on-premises database is launching itself as a faster, cheaper… Read More
A few years ago, most of the cloud-computing headlines were about price cuts, as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services battled to be low-price leaders. Those days are ending, according to Scott… Read More
Microsoft registered a “takeout” against Salesforce when it won a six-year contract yesterday to provide Dynamics CRM to HP Inc., said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of cloud and enterprise, in an on-stage… Read More
Microsoft will soon release a preliminary version of Azure Service Fabric for Linux, a free offering that brings to Linux the microservices-development abilities that have been available for Windows since last year.… Read More
Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has been experiencing significant outages overseas, leading to a torrent of angry Tweets from customers there. The problems started in western and northern Europe and later in the morning… Read More
Microsoft has opened two Azure cloud regions and an Office 365 region in the United Kingdom, with the intention of letting local customers keep data closer to them geographically. Keeping data… Read More
The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research said in a publication today. By those criteria, Amazon Web Services… Read More
In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that powered the online retailer’s growing e-commerce site. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos… Read More
Microsoft is phasing out its Azure RemoteApp over the next year in favor of relying on its partnership with Citrix — specifically, the XenApp “express” product currently under development, according… Read More
Microsoft today explained its reasoning for restricting the forthcoming Azure Stack to servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo — a restriction that caused some consternation among potential customers when it was announced last… Read More
Update: Google and Orbitera are not disclosing terms of the deal but TechCrunch reports the startup sold for just over $100 million. In the battle for the cloud, Google consistently… Read More
In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, published Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined some of the things he is doing to change the culture at Microsoft — and one of… Read More
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 of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, released today. Both… Read More
Revenue from Microsoft’s commercial cloud business, including Azure and Office 365, approached $10 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, up nearly 40 percent from the previous year, and more than three-fold over… Read More