Cloud Tech – Page 17 of 55

Nov 14, 2018, 6:00 AM

Microsoft plans to support Carnegie Mellon’s edge computing research with hardware, Azure services

Researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University are set to receive hybrid cloud hardware and service credits from Microsoft as it… Read More

Nov 13, 2018, 9:00 AM

Zendesk takes aim at Salesforce with new CRM features for its customer-service tools

Zendesk is best known for its customer support services, but it thinks it is ready to challenge larger players in… Read More

Nov 13, 2018, 8:54 AM

Crystal City just the latest addition to Amazon’s sprawling Northern Virginia cloud operation

Just a few miles away from Amazon’s proposed new headquarters in the soon-to-be created “National Landing” neighborhood split between Crystal… Read More

Nov 13, 2018, 7:00 AM

Former Azuqua CTO Craig Unger raising money for his new compliance startup, HyperProof

After almost four years at the company he co-founded, Craig Unger left Azuqua earlier this year to start his own… Read More

Nov 12, 2018, 3:11 PM

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta: Going private doesn’t change our growth mentality

Apptio will have more freedom to grow its IT spending management business as a private company, according to co-founder and… Read More

Nov 11, 2018, 7:08 PM

Vista Equity Partners to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio

Apptio’s run as a public company is coming to an end after just over two years. Private equity firm Vista… Read More

Nov 11, 2018, 4:27 PM

SAP snaps up Qualtrics for $8B days before its expected IPO, will keep Seattle office

After months of discussions between the two companies, SAP announced Sunday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire user experience… Read More

Nov 9, 2018, 9:47 AM

Microsoft Azure finds another retail customer, signs Gap to multiyear deal

Microsoft hasn’t really tried to hide one of its primary cloud strategies this year: courting retailers who are wary of… Read More

Nov 8, 2018, 1:11 PM

Qumulo co-founder and CTO Peter Godman has left the company

Peter Godman, co-founder and chief technology officer at storage startup Qumulo, is no longer with the company, GeekWire has learned.… Read More

Nov 8, 2018, 8:00 AM

Google wants to make it easier for cloud customers to find AI tools that fit their needs

Google plans to introduce a central repository for machine-learning tools Thursday, with the aim of making it easier for companies… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 1:32 PM

With new support from Amazon Web Services, AMD unveils its best shot in years at denting Intel’s data center dominance

Chip watchers think the second generation of AMD’s Eypc server processors could finally inject some competition into the market for… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 10:53 AM

As enterprise computing prepares for a multicloud world, cloud-native startups like Heptio will be attractive targets

“Cloud native” has always had the ring of yet another enterprise computing buzzword, one designed to sound impressive to people… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 9:00 AM

Dropbox Extensions another sign that walled gardens won’t fly in enterprise SaaS

Dropbox plans to unveil several new ties between popular document formats and enterprise-software applications later on Tuesday, part of an… Read More

Nov 6, 2018, 7:23 AM

VMware acquires Seattle’s Heptio to double down on Kubernetes

VMware’s ongoing transition into the cloud era took a big step Tuesday with the acquisition of Heptio, a startup that… Read More

Nov 5, 2018, 8:55 AM

Microsoft and Walmart will kick off their cloud partnership with joint engineering center in Austin

Two of Amazon’s strongest rivals are planning to start formally working together on cloud services early next year deep in… Read More

Nov 2, 2018, 1:31 PM

Amazon Web Services’ Rekognition image analysis tool can now locate objects within a photo

Amazon Web Services released new capabilities for its Rekognition image and video analysis service Friday that will allow companies trying… Read More

Nov 1, 2018, 9:14 AM

HashiCorp raises $100M and becomes the newest cloud unicorn at a valuation of $1.9B

With the value of cloud computing firmly established, attention is turning to companies that can help businesses hedge their bets… Read More

Oct 30, 2018, 4:30 PM

How a 43-second outage on a key network connection staggered GitHub’s services for a day

One of the first things GitHub did under its new owner over the past week was put the finishing touches… Read More

Oct 30, 2018, 2:02 PM

Report: Microsoft picks new chip maker for AI co-processors on Azure, cutting Intel’s business in half

Xilinx is reportedly the beneficiary of a decision by Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure wizards to add another chip supplier to its… Read More

Oct 30, 2018, 10:21 AM

Docker hires former Microsoft exec Neil Charney as CMO, also taps new CTO from VMware

Docker added three enterprise computing veterans to its executive roster Tuesday, filling the chief technology officer role vacated by its… Read More

Oct 29, 2018, 7:28 PM

Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Blair Hanley Frank, principal analyst at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.] IBM’s… Read More

Oct 29, 2018, 1:42 PM

Revenue from Apptio’s SaaS financial management tools jumps 26 percent, beats expectations

Companies that move their IT operations to the cloud often find themselves confused by the pricing options they can encounter,… Read More

Oct 28, 2018, 1:45 PM

IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat a bet that cloud holdouts want old-school partners

IBM announced Sunday that it has agreed to purchase Red Hat, one of the first and most prominent open-source server… Read More

Oct 26, 2018, 12:00 PM

Microsoft defends bid for $10B Pentagon cloud contract amid criticism over government use of technology

Microsoft will not pull out of the competition for a $10 billion cloud contract for the Department of Defense, despite… Read More

Oct 26, 2018, 10:00 AM

The cost of the cloud: Amazon takes a breath, while Microsoft and Google plunge ahead

Building and maintaining a modern cloud computing service requires billions of dollars in capital expenditures every quarter. Microsoft and Google… Read More

Oct 25, 2018, 1:22 PM

Amazon Web Services revenue up 46 percent to $6.7B, operating income up 77 percent

It sure does look like Amazon Web Services is going to turn into a nice business for Amazon. RELATED: Amazon… Read More

Oct 25, 2018, 10:26 AM

Amazon Web Services to open its first data center in Africa, with service from Cape Town in 2020

In around a year and a half, Amazon Web Services will open its first cloud computing region in Africa, another… Read More

Oct 24, 2018, 2:17 PM

F5 delivers full-year revenue and EPS growth at or ahead of earlier projections during transitional year

F5 Networks started out the calendar year by warning investors that revenue growth would be fairly slow as it continues… Read More

Oct 24, 2018, 1:25 PM

Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue jumped 47 percent in its fiscal Q1, but Azure growth slows

Microsoft’s transformation into a cloud computing company continued apace in during its first fiscal quarter, which saw a 47 percent… Read More

Oct 23, 2018, 1:35 PM

Report: Cloudflare plans to go public in the first half of 2019

Cloud security company Cloudflare plans to pursue an initial public offering in 2019, according to a report, as it continues… Read More