Cloud Tech – Page 21 of 55

Jul 25, 2018, 1:28 PM

F5 Networks bests Wall Street expectations, posting $542M in revenue amid cloud shift

F5 Networks beat Wall Street expectations for its third quarter as the company continues to transition its business to focus… Read More

Jul 25, 2018, 9:00 AM

Google rolls out Gmail redesign to G Suite customers, plus new Google Voice beta

A few months after unveiling a new design for Gmail, Google is ready to roll that out to G Suite… Read More

Jul 25, 2018, 9:00 AM

Google adds machine-learning capabilities to its BigQuery cloud data warehouse

Google’s history of machine-learning research increasingly informs its cloud product development strategy, and it introduced a preview of machine-learning capabilities… Read More

Jul 25, 2018, 9:00 AM

How Google is turning its own difficult security lessons into tools for its cloud customers

If you have been one of the biggest tech companies on the planet for over a decade, a lot of… Read More

Jul 25, 2018, 9:00 AM

Google bolsters edge computing strategy with new version of its TPU AI chips for edge devices

Now that the internet of things is really a thing, Google plans to release a version of its machine-learning chips… Read More

Jul 24, 2018, 11:59 AM

Google’s serverless computing strategy starts to take shape as it chases Amazon Web Services and Microsoft

While Google’s cloud business enjoyed some natural advantages as containerized applications became popular over the last few years, things are… Read More

Jul 24, 2018, 9:00 AM

Google doubles down on the service mesh and hybrid cloud as it kicks off its big cloud event

As Google has committed itself to becoming an enterprise technology vendor, it has followed a path it knows very well… Read More

Jul 24, 2018, 9:00 AM

Google introduces new security tool for G Suite customers that helps identify internal threats

Customers of Google’s G Suite office productivity software will soon be able to access an investigative tool that lets them… Read More

Jul 23, 2018, 2:55 PM

Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors

Target is one of Google Cloud’s newest big customers, furthering a trend of major retailers opting to join up with… Read More

Jul 23, 2018, 2:08 PM

Google nearly doubles spending on capital projects as it continues major cloud investment

Google parent Alphabet spent a whopping $5.5 billion on capital expenditures in the most recent quarter, nearly doubling that output… Read More

Jul 19, 2018, 1:33 PM

Updated: Microsoft records 23% jump in Intelligent Cloud revenue, Azure revenue up 89% but undisclosed

Microsoft’s cloud division remains one of the primary architects of its comeback in recent years, posting a 23 percent jump… Read More

Jul 19, 2018, 12:51 PM

Report: Amazon underestimated traffic demands for Prime Day, scrambled to add servers in hopes of fixing widespread glitches

Even though it has the world’s leading cloud-computing service within the corporate family, Amazon engineers have to configure its retail… Read More

Jul 18, 2018, 4:50 PM

Evolving cloud services need flexible chips, and Portland’s Megh Computing thinks it can contribute

The artificial-intelligence renaissance of the last few years has transformed data center design at both cloud providers and inside self-managed… Read More

Jul 18, 2018, 4:02 PM

According to Cisco, Amazon Web Services isn’t making a “commercial” networking switch. It still could be making a switch

A week after a report that Amazon Web Services was building its own bare-bones networking switch in a potential threat… Read More

Jul 18, 2018, 12:11 PM

Amid the 20th anniversary of open source, Tim O’Reilly warns that platform companies built on open-source software have lost their way

PORTLAND – It’s rare to hear Chinese philosophy quoted on stage at a software-development conference. But O’Reilly Media founder and… Read More

Jul 17, 2018, 2:51 PM

Spotify, Snapchat taken offline by networking problems at Google Cloud

Google took a turn in the cloud doghouse Tuesday afternoon, after several issues forced popular consumer sites like Spotify, Snapchat,… Read More

Jul 17, 2018, 12:29 PM

Why Amazon’s Prime Day glitches shouldn’t hurt future Amazon Web Services sales

If you overcook the roast, it’s not the oven’s fault. That’s one way to think about Amazon Web Services’ connection… Read More

Jul 16, 2018, 10:58 PM

Walmart signs sweeping cloud deal with Microsoft, joining forces against Amazon

Last year’s acquisition of Whole Foods raised tensions between Amazon and the retail community to new heights, and Walmart, the… Read More

Jul 15, 2018, 4:52 PM

How to deal with SaaS slackers: CIOs share lessons from unreliable Software as a Service vendors

Most enterprise software is delivered as a service these days because paying an expert to manage a complex application just… Read More

Jul 13, 2018, 12:07 PM

Amazon Web Services might be courting hybrid cloud customers in an interesting way

There are lots of companies that understand the benefits of cloud computing but, for a variety of good reasons, can’t… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 11:55 AM

Top Microsoft chip researcher shifts to mysterious new Azure hardware division

When Microsoft shuffled the deck of cards that makes up its Azure cloud computing division a few months ago, it… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 11:00 AM

As cloud competition heats up, Microsoft will pitch its partners on new Azure and Power BI features

Visiting Las Vegas in the middle of July seems like a questionable idea, but thousands of Microsoft partners will descend… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 3:00 AM

Hot cloud database startup Snowflake Computing, born on Amazon Web Services, adds support for Microsoft Azure

After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data warehousing market on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Computing… Read More

Jul 11, 2018, 1:22 PM

Usermind lays off some employees amid pivot in sales strategy for its marketing software

After realizing that it stood a better chance selling its customer-support software as part of larger deals, rather than generating… Read More

Jul 11, 2018, 5:00 AM

Salesforce wants to give customer service workers using Service Cloud better AI-powered tools

Salesforce continues to build out the non-salesy parts of its software-as-a-service portfolio, making new features for its Service Cloud generally… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 9:35 AM

Slack addresses one of its major weaknesses with search improvements

Workplace collaboration app Slack is great for chatting with co-workers and discussing project plans in the moment, but if you… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 8:00 AM

Amazon Web Services’ Peter DeSantis sheds more light on the cloud giant’s custom chip strategy

Evolving cloud workloads are going to require evolving hardware strategies to anticipate those future demands, and Amazon Web Services continues… Read More

Jul 6, 2018, 8:00 AM

Microsoft Azure CTO: AI and machine learning “are going to transform every industry”

Now that the basic appeal of cloud computing has been established — compute and storage resources managed by your vendor… Read More

Jul 5, 2018, 4:45 PM

Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes… Read More

Jul 5, 2018, 8:00 AM

Even Morgan Stanley’s conservative estimate of the next five years of cloud growth looks pretty good

We already know cloud computing is going to be a huge business; that’s why we devoted a full day to… Read More