Cloud Tech – Page 32 of 55

Nov 5, 2017, 7:49 AM

The new world of tech: How Amazon and Google ended up inside a Microsoft database conference

Delivering the keynote address at the PASS Summit 2017 in Seattle this week, Microsoft’s general manager of database systems, Rohan… Read More

Nov 3, 2017, 10:34 AM

Uber AI Labs releases a programming language, its first public project

Uber is sharing the fruits of its research into self-driving cars and artificial intelligence in general, releasing a new programming… Read More

Nov 1, 2017, 12:16 PM

Microsoft plans to triple Azure cloud computing capacity in China over the next six months

The company that operates Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing business in China is planning a huge increase in capacity heading into… Read More

Nov 1, 2017, 10:02 AM

IBM launches new version of its private cloud with built-in Kubernetes support

Companies that want the benefits of modern cloud computing without the cloud turn to private cloud services in order to… Read More

Oct 31, 2017, 4:51 PM

Now that’s scary: Slack goes down on Halloween

A major outage took out Slack’s services for what appeared to be a large portion of its userbase Tuesday afternoon.… Read More

Oct 30, 2017, 3:43 PM

Apptio beats revenue expectations again during its third quarter

Apptio’s third-quarter earnings results showed that the company is still on a path of strong revenue growth and narrowing losses.… Read More

Oct 30, 2017, 10:22 AM

New project from The Linux Foundation hopes to make AI tools more accessible

The Linux Foundation introduced a new project Monday called the Acumos Project, an effort backed by AT&T and India’s Tech… Read More

Oct 26, 2017, 1:37 PM

Amazon Web Services crosses $1B in operating profit as revenue jumps 42 percent to $4.6B

Amazon Web Services continues to grow quite strongly despite its size, and it crossed an interesting milestone during the third… Read More

Oct 26, 2017, 1:15 PM

Microsoft hits its $20 billion commercial cloud revenue run-rate goal ahead of schedule

Three quarters before a self-imposed deadline to achieve $20 billion in annualized revenue from its commercial cloud products and services,… Read More

Oct 26, 2017, 10:31 AM

Amazon Web Services launches powerful new cloud instances for AI research backed by Nvidia’s GPUs

All the major cloud vendors are betting that artificial intelligence services will become a crucial part of cloud computing over… Read More

Oct 26, 2017, 7:00 AM

The incredible shrinking operating system: How containers and serverless computing are changing the cloud

Hang around enterprise computing types long enough, and you’ll wind up talking about “the stack” at some point. It’s a… Read More

Oct 25, 2017, 4:39 PM

Cutting-edge Microsoft data center fuels a new vision for global energy efficiency

In an industrial Seattle warehouse with plywood walls and exposed pipes, a group of about 60 people gathered Wednesday to… Read More

Oct 25, 2017, 4:31 PM

OpenStack’s public cloud dreams are still dreams, but emerging tech trends offer new hope

OpenStack, an open-source project that early backers once thought could provide an alternative to Amazon Web Services, has fallen decidedly… Read More

Oct 25, 2017, 1:24 PM

F5 Networks tops Q4 estimates after cutting costs, but revenue outlook disappoints investors

Seattle’s F5 Networks ended its 2017 fiscal year on an up note, posting revenue and net income that exceeded analyst… Read More

Oct 24, 2017, 4:10 PM

HashiCorp raises a $40M Series C round as more businesses realize they need help with the cloud

Moving your applications to the cloud isn’t always as easy as those selling cloud services would like you to believe.… Read More

Oct 24, 2017, 8:48 AM

New version of Microsoft’s Azure Container Service offers managed Kubernetes, with free clusters

Microsoft plans to step up its support for Kubernetes, announcing plans Tuesday for a new managed Kubernetes service that promises… Read More

Oct 24, 2017, 12:00 AM

Two new open-source security projects are joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The organization at the heart of modern open-source cloud-computing standards has taken another two projects under its umbrella, tackling container… Read More

Oct 23, 2017, 7:53 AM

Cray teams up with Microsoft to offer Azure customers new supercomputing options

Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to… Read More

Oct 19, 2017, 1:09 PM

Wall Street likes databases, as MongoDB soars over 30 percent in its IPO

Shares of fast-growing cloud database provider MongoDB closed well above the initial asking price of $24, finishing the day at… Read More

Oct 18, 2017, 2:31 PM

Google’s Deepmind AI unit releases new version of AlphaGo that learns on its own

Deepmind, the artificial intelligence research organization owned by Google, announced some stunning results Wednesday from research into the next generation… Read More

Oct 18, 2017, 10:32 AM

New partnership between Apple and GE another sign the industrial internet is getting real

Software developers interested in creating applications that use GE’s Predix cloud-based industrial analytics services have a new mobile outlet for… Read More

Oct 17, 2017, 8:22 AM

Docker acknowledges reality, adds support for Kubernetes to its container technology

Docker was one of the few companies attempting to compete with the white-hot Kubernetes container-orchestration open-source project, but when you… Read More

Oct 17, 2017, 5:00 AM

Microsoft unveils Azure Government Secret to help U.S. agencies handle classified data

More and more government agencies are realizing the benefits of cloud computing, and Microsoft is poised to unveil several new… Read More

Oct 16, 2017, 6:59 PM

Oracle expanding in Seattle with big new office lease, escalating cloud battle with Amazon

Post updated with comments from Oracle Oracle is significantly boosting its presence in Amazon’s backyard with a new lease in… Read More

Oct 13, 2017, 3:15 PM

Amazon Web Services chief Jassy on HQ2 plans: ‘That’s above my pay grade’

As cities across the U.S. fall all over themselves to pitch themselves as the best destination for Amazon’s second headquarters,… Read More

Oct 12, 2017, 10:55 AM

New open-source project led by Google aims to help companies track the history of their software

A large amount of modern software development involves re-using components from older applications, open-source projects, and across teams within a… Read More

Oct 11, 2017, 11:23 AM

How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella got Wall Street to look past its cloud battle with Amazon Web Services

About a year after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella became the third chief executive officer in the company’s history, he outlined… Read More

Oct 10, 2017, 1:38 PM

How do you succeed in tech? ExtraHop CEO Arif Kareem thinks you must invest in people

Tech startups tend to break through in their early days with a game-changing product or an irresistible service, but companies… Read More

Oct 10, 2017, 9:20 AM

Google and Puppet strike partnership deal designed to ease migration to the cloud

Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their… Read More

Oct 10, 2017, 5:00 AM

New Salesforce IoT Explorer Edition lets marketing automate campaigns generated by IoT data

As the Internet of Things becomes a thing, adopters are generating lots of data that isn’t necessarily making its way… Read More