Cloud Tech – Page 19 of 55

Sep 28, 2018, 3:25 PM

After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company

Weeks after Oracle said its top cloud executive was taking a temporary leave of absence from the company, it confirmed… Read More

Sep 28, 2018, 10:18 AM

Volkswagen strikes cloud partnership deal with Microsoft, will open Seattle-area cloud office

Volkswagen has chosen Microsoft as its cloud partner, with plans to build a network of Azure-connected cars as well as… Read More

Sep 28, 2018, 9:30 AM

Failing up: Former Amazon engineers land $18M to help companies find weak spots in their apps

“Chaos engineering” is not the planning process for a Senate committee hearing, but a growing discipline within software engineering that… Read More

Sep 27, 2018, 2:06 PM

Iridium plans to launch CloudConnect satellite IoT system in partnership with Amazon Web Services

Iridium, the satellite communications network, announced Thursday that it intends to work with Amazon Web Services to connect the leading… Read More

Sep 26, 2018, 5:00 AM

Cloudflare enlists Microsoft and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs

With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group… Read More

Sep 25, 2018, 9:52 AM

Chef makes it easier for customers to move older applications onto Microsoft Azure

Seattle’s Chef released three new infrastructure management tools Tuesday designed to help customers who adopted Chef for their on-premises servers… Read More

Sep 25, 2018, 8:20 AM

Salesforce and Amazon Web Services strike new data-sharing deal between multiple cloud products

Companies that are using both Amazon Web Services and Salesforce as part of their enterprise computing needs will be able… Read More

Sep 25, 2018, 5:00 AM

Salesforce plans to make it easier for customers to share data across its consumer products with Salesforce Customer 360

Enterprise software companies are thinking along the same lines this week: a day after Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP committed to… Read More

Sep 24, 2018, 7:11 AM

Microsoft teams up with Adobe and SAP on Open Data Initiative to link data across their products

Modern enterprise technology generates a ton of valuable data, but putting that data together can be quite tricky. Microsoft introduced… Read More

Sep 24, 2018, 6:00 AM

Hybrid cloud customers are getting new services — and new hardware — from Microsoft Azure

It’s become pretty clear this year that cloud vendors have decided that the hybrid cloud is here to stay, and… Read More

Sep 24, 2018, 6:00 AM

Microsoft Azure customers will be able to make digital replicas of physical spaces with Digital Twins

Microsoft’s emphasis on the industrial internet of things this year has produced a new service that will let customers create… Read More

Sep 24, 2018, 6:00 AM

Microsoft makes its case that Azure and Microsoft 365 are the safest spaces in the cloud

Despite the fact that cloud vendors are very good at security, and your average IT department is not, worries about… Read More

Sep 24, 2018, 6:00 AM

Microsoft updates its database story with SQL Server 2019 and new cloud database features

One of the most fundamental aspects of computing infrastructure will play a key role in Microsoft’s Ignite 2018 pitch to… Read More

Sep 20, 2018, 1:52 PM

Adobe acquires Marketo for $4.75 billion to add enterprise marketing customers to its mix

Adobe has been selling software to consumer marketing teams for decades, and it will start butting heads with enterprise marketing… Read More

Sep 18, 2018, 9:30 AM

NetApp acquires Seattle’s StackPointCloud for its multicloud Kubernetes expertise

If the multicloud movement has staying power, Kubernetes is the technology that will make it happen. NetApp added a Kubernetes… Read More

Sep 18, 2018, 5:00 AM

Salesforce’s Quip completes the office productivity trifecta with presentation slides

For all the advancement in technology we’ve seen over the past few decades, the holy trinity of the information worker… Read More

Sep 18, 2018, 5:00 AM

Ampere’s Arm-based server chip is ready to challenge Intel in the data center

One of the buzziest chip startups in recent memory is ready to start shipping its Arm-based data center processor, in… Read More

Sep 17, 2018, 11:00 AM

Financial analyst renews call for Amazon to spin off Amazon Web Services

With antitrust scrutiny growing around Amazon as it continues to impact nearly every sector of the economy, one financial analyst… Read More

Sep 15, 2018, 6:10 PM

SaaS at scale: Here’s how five cloud tech experts are building enterprise software empires

Until very recently, very few people actually liked the enterprise software they were forced to use at work, from the… Read More

Sep 13, 2018, 10:38 AM

Microsoft acquires Lobe, an AI startup working on easy-to-use deep-learning development tools

Artificial intelligence tools will never be widely used if it takes decades of expertise to put them into action, which… Read More

Sep 12, 2018, 10:36 AM

Oracle still can’t make up its mind about how it fits into the cloud era

Top Oracle executives apparently can’t agree on how to move the database company forward in the cloud computing era. Thomas… Read More

Sep 12, 2018, 8:00 AM

Pulumi releases software-development kit to unlock the multicloud potential of Kubernetes

Seattle cloud startup Pulumi plans to release a software-development kit Wednesday that advances the company’s mission to make the Kubernetes… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 3:45 PM

Microsoft releases details on last week’s big Azure outage, during which servers were damaged but no data was lost

A severe lightning storm in the San Antonio area last week not only disrupted the power supply to Microsoft Azure’s… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 1:42 PM

Beyond the cloud: Amazon Web Services hiring engineers for ‘big, audacious space project’

According to two recently deleted job postings on the internet, where nothing can ever really be deleted, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Sep 11, 2018, 8:26 AM

Power struggle: How a bitcoin mining boom is transforming apple country, one megawatt at a time

WENATCHEE, Wash. — “It all starts with power.” Malachi Salcido, bitcoin miner and founder of large-scale contracting firm Salcido Enterprises, made… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 8:57 AM

Carnegie Mellon’s Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year

After an interesting year for Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon… Read More

Sep 10, 2018, 6:00 AM

Hortonworks plans to revamp Hadoop and its big data tools with cloud best practices in mind

One big disadvantage that comes with a hybrid cloud strategy is forcing your developers to learn and understand the different… Read More

Sep 7, 2018, 4:19 PM

Updated: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma plans to retire after building China’s biggest retail and cloud computing empire

Almost 20 years after he founded Alibaba, the Amazon of China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma plans to retire to focus… Read More

Sep 5, 2018, 12:21 PM

Some Microsoft Azure issues stretch into a second day, as Active Directory and Office 365 stabilize

A series of failures at Microsoft’s San Antonio data centers continued to cause issues for some customers stretching into the… Read More

Sep 4, 2018, 9:22 AM

Updated: Microsoft Azure’s southern U.S. data center goes down for hours, impacting Office365 and Active Directory customers

Some Microsoft Azure customers with workloads running in its South Central US data center are having big problems coming back… Read More