Cloud Tech – Page 43 of 55

Mar 1, 2017, 10:57 AM

Microsoft’s ‘Azure Stack’ for on-premises servers will use pay-as-you-go cloud pricing model

Microsoft this morning released a third technical preview for its Azure Stack hybrid technology, which will let businesses and developers run a version of… Read More

Feb 28, 2017, 3:14 PM

Amazon Web Services outage reveals critical lack of redundancy across the internet

The digital snow day is over, as Amazon Web Services has fixed the issues with its Simple Storage Service, or… Read More

Feb 28, 2017, 10:48 AM

Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites

An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and… Read More

Feb 28, 2017, 9:12 AM

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of… Read More

Feb 27, 2017, 4:33 PM

Tech industry groups warn G20 countries against protectionism, urge free flow of data across borders

Technology industry groups from around the world are uniting to urge the largest countries to improve privacy and data protection for consumers,… Read More

Feb 27, 2017, 10:50 AM

Cloud exits: How the M&A and IPO markets are changing expectations for cloud tech companies

Cloud technology companies have increasingly become acquisition targets rather than IPO candidates, according to a new research report. But investors… Read More

Feb 24, 2017, 10:14 AM

Report: Amazon may launch new AWS productivity suite to take on Microsoft and Google

Amazon Web Services is considering bundling its email, file storage, and video conferencing apps into a productivity suite that would… Read More

Feb 22, 2017, 6:39 PM

What ‘Chime’ is it? Amazon sued over name of its new online conferencing technology

A New York-based tech company has filed a federal trademark suit against Amazon Web Services over the name of the cloud giant’s newly launched Chime online… Read More

Feb 22, 2017, 10:59 AM

Adobe escalates DocuSign challenge with new cloud-based digital signatures built on open standards

Adobe is introducing new ways to scan, read and digitally sign documents on smartphones and tablets with the latest updates to… Read More

Feb 21, 2017, 6:00 AM

Microsoft Azure broadens support for popular open-source Kubernetes container manager

Microsoft is making the popular open source Kubernetes container orchestration service, originally designed by Google, generally available for use on… Read More

Feb 20, 2017, 5:00 PM

Microsoft rolls out Azure at new Korean data centers, continuing global expansion

Microsoft is making the next move in the cloud industry’s rapid global expansion with the news today that its Azure cloud platform… Read More

Feb 20, 2017, 7:13 AM

Microsoft strikes exclusive cloud deal with Flipkart, Amazon’s biggest online retail rival in India

Flipkart, the top online marketplace in India, has agreed to adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform, augmenting its own… Read More

Feb 18, 2017, 10:54 AM

Microsoft doubled its Azure cloud revenue to $2.7B last year, analysts estimate

Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform more than doubled in 2016, reaching $2.7 billion, according to an estimate from… Read More

Feb 17, 2017, 2:44 PM

Reality check: Some of Trump’s plans could help the tech industry, big league

The technology industry may not be broadly supportive of President Donald Trump — and many tech leaders actively opposed his recent… Read More

Feb 17, 2017, 8:04 AM

Higher Logic acquires Portland workplace collaboration startup Kavi

Cloud-based community platform Higher Logic has acquired the startup Kavi WorkSpace, the companies announced Thursday. It’s the second acquisition for… Read More

Feb 16, 2017, 3:56 PM

Cash or Watson? IBM and Visa bringing AI-based purchasing to cars, running shoes and other objects

IBM is partnering with credit card giant Visa to spread the use of its IBM Watson supercomputing and artificial intelligence… Read More

Feb 15, 2017, 4:28 PM

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

With the cloud revolution underway, everyone wants to know what computing will look like — and where the biggest market… Read More

Feb 14, 2017, 5:00 AM

DDoS denied: ExtraHop’s newest product detects security breaches and other network anomalies with machine learning

Last October, when a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks knocked out major websites like Amazon and Twitter, one… Read More

Feb 13, 2017, 5:45 AM

Salesforce adds ‘Einstein’ artificial intelligence tools to its customer service platform

Call centers ain’t what they used to be. That’s because customers rely on an increasingly wide range of tools to… Read More

Feb 11, 2017, 9:17 AM

Amazon cloud leader Andy Jassy sizes up the competition in rare public remarks about rivals

Amazon likes to say that it focuses on customers, not competitors, which means it’s rare for the company’s top executives to talk about their rivals publicly.… Read More

Feb 10, 2017, 9:47 AM

SAP President Steve Singh says cloud computing is yesterday’s news — ‘microservices’ are the future

Cloud computing is so 2016. Sure, migration from client servers to the cloud is an ongoing megatrend, but tech moves… Read More

Feb 10, 2017, 7:23 AM

Alexa in the warehouse? What enterprise cloud company Acumatica learned from this experiment

Acumatica, the privately held enterprise cloud technology company led by former Microsoft executive Jon Roskill, is coming off a year of 83 percent… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 2:16 PM

Apptio posts record revenue of $44M in its second quarter as public company

Apptio exceeded analyst expectations for revenue and profit during its second-ever quarter as a public company. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company posted… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 12:30 PM

Shares of Marchex spike 17% after ad analytics company inks cloud partnership with Facebook

Seattle-based marketing company Marchex has had a rough past year. The company’s CEO and board chairman departed last fall after… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 11:40 AM

Judge lets Microsoft proceed with suit vs. DOJ, challenging federal secrecy orders

A federal judge in Seattle ruled today that Microsoft can move forward with a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of… Read More

Feb 9, 2017, 7:43 AM

Snap commits to spend $1B on Amazon Web Services over next five years

Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants… Read More

Feb 8, 2017, 10:57 AM

Cloud software monitoring startup Sensu raises $2.5M from Foundry Group

What started as an open source software project more than five years ago has turned into a legitimate startup that… Read More

Feb 8, 2017, 8:38 AM

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised last year that public cloud titan Amazon Web Services would achieve $10 billion in sales for 2016, reaching that milestone… Read More

Feb 7, 2017, 4:18 PM

Microsoft, AT&T join in $25M funding round for SnapRoute, networking startup founded by Apple engineers

SnapRoute, a networking startup formed by Apple engineers, announced Tuesday that it secured $25 million in a Series A venture… Read More