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The Cloud in 2017: Seven key trends, from AWS and Azure to voice services and machine learning

Here’s a no-brainer: 2017 will be a big year for the cloud. Cloud computing is an innovation rivaling the advent of… Read More

‘OpenStack is not going to be an Amazon killer’: Open-source cloud tech faces U.S. market realities

The year 2016 has been huge for the big public-cloud providers, with Amazon Web Services on track to a $12-billion… Read More

2016’s parting gift is an extra second of time — and Amazon has a last-minute cloud fix

Look, we all know it’s been a tough year. A divisive presidential campaign; celebrity deaths including David Bowie, Prince and Leonard… Read More

Microsoft wins $927M support contract from U.S. Defense Department

Microsoft has won a $927-million, five-year contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The company earlier… Read More

Shipping-simplifier Globatom scores new investment and execs, and goes all in with Microsoft Azure

Globatom, a software-as-a-service startup aimed at improving the process of shipping goods, has overhauled its executive team, received new venture… Read More

Azure in the car: Microsoft and TomTom partner on location services for U.S. automakers

Microsoft has partnered with TomTom, a Dutch firm specializing in electronic navigation and mapping, to help build up location-based services… Read More

Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand

Cisco will abandon its InterCloud cloud-computing offering on March 31 and will move any InterCloud workloads to other, unnamed cloud… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands yet again, this time in London, as cloud movement thrives

Amazon Web Services has opened a London region, offering UK-based companies and their end-users lower latency than they may have… Read More

Why the data center isn’t dead yet: Explaining the rise of the ‘pragmatic hybrid cloud’

Amazon Web Services’ recent re:Invent conference in Las Vegas highlighted the excitement and momentum that public-cloud computing is generating these… Read More

Microsoft releases R Server 9.0, improved Azure interface and more

Microsoft today announced version 9.0 of its R Server, a product designed for data scientists working with large sets of information.… Read More

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Prices depend on discounts and customer acuity, analysis shows

LAS VEGAS — If you’re involved in information technology and the cloud, you’ve heard it before: trade capital expense (capex) for operating… Read More

What’s next for Amazon Web Services? Public cloud leader to reveal plans at giant Las Vegas event

Amazon Web Services, now 10 years old, is by far the dominant public-cloud service, but can it retain its lead?… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Trump, Twitter and what soured his relationship with Microsoft

Despite his wishful predictions that Donald Trump would never become president, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested on Monday evening that people forget their anxiety… Read More

Microsoft Azure integrates open-source container manager Kubernetes, born inside Google

Kubernetes, an open-source container manager designed by Google in 2014 and then donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is… Read More

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

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

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

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

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

Q&A: Soon-to-be VC Bob Kelly on Microsoft-Amazon rivalry, cloud computing in Seattle and Alice in Wonderland

Bob Kelly, a 21-year Microsoft vet who left that company in September to start as a managing partner with Seattle’s… Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft bringing Azure microservices to Linux, continuing to cozy up to open-source OS

Microsoft will soon release a preliminary version of Azure Service Fabric for Linux, a free offering that brings to Linux the microservices-development… Read More

Microsoft Azure hit with widening outages in Europe and India

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has been experiencing significant outages overseas, leading to a torrent of angry Tweets from customers there. The problems started… Read More