Cloud Tech – Page 44 of 55

Feb 7, 2017, 6:00 AM

Microsoft’s AI group debuts customizable speech-to-text technology, rapidly expanding ‘cognitive services’ for developers

Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, a major new engineering and research division formed last year inside the Redmond… Read More

Feb 2, 2017, 4:42 PM

Snap’s IPO filing reveals $2B, five-year Google Cloud deal — and it was finalized this week

Snap Inc. disclosed a major contract to use Google Cloud Platform as part of its $3 billion IPO filing today. RELATED As… Read More

Feb 2, 2017, 1:24 PM

Amazon Web Services posts $3.5B in sales, up 47% from last year, reaches $14B annual run rate

Amazon’s cloud computing arm continues to generate billions in revenue and help the tech giant post a profit. Amazon Web Services… Read More

Feb 1, 2017, 9:30 PM

Google vows to build leading cloud for enterprise Windows, swiping at Microsoft’s core business

Google is going after a core part of Microsoft’s cloud business, aiming to expand Google Cloud Platform’s appeal to big companies that run the… Read More

Feb 1, 2017, 10:40 AM

Apple touts ‘record results’ for iCloud storage business as services revenue tops $7B

Here’s a sign of the times: Apple made almost as much revenue on its services businesses in the December quarter… Read More

Jan 27, 2017, 3:20 PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: How Azure will fend off Amazon Web Services in the enterprise

Microsoft believes that its unique combination of cloud offerings will hold off market-leading public-cloud service Amazon Web Services in Microsoft’s… Read More

Jan 26, 2017, 2:08 PM

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate tops $14B for first time, driven by Azure and Office 365

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate exceeded $14 billion for the first time during the December quarter, driven by Office 365 and Microsoft… Read More

Jan 26, 2017, 12:48 PM

Amazon Web Services and Azure expand IPv6 offerings, to add security and handle more devices

Amazon Web Services has implemented IPv6 support in virtual private clouds running under its basic computing service (Elastic Compute Cloud,… Read More

Jan 26, 2017, 8:00 AM

LendingRobot launches hedge fund that uses blockchain and machine learning — with no human intervention

LendingRobot, an automated online investment-management service that calls itself a “robo-advisor,” is launching a hedge fund that the company says is… Read More

Jan 25, 2017, 9:00 AM

Startup uses Microsoft technology to translate text messages in real-time for world leaders at Davos

The roughly 3,000 leaders from science, economics, politics and business who attended the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, this month may… Read More

Jan 23, 2017, 3:10 PM

Federal judge in a ‘dilemma’ over Microsoft’s legal case against government secrecy orders

Microsoft today got its first chance to be heard in open court in its landmark lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s ability… Read More

Jan 19, 2017, 10:49 AM

Amazon Web Services’ secret weapon: Its custom-made hardware and network

It’s not unusual for internet and software giants to design and even make their own hardware, to increase efficiency and build a competitive advantage.… Read More

Jan 18, 2017, 3:43 PM

Inside Salesforce’s new 70K square-foot Bellevue office: Mindfulness zones, social spaces, and more

One of the world’s fastest growing enterprise software companies today opened the doors to its new home in the Seattle area. San… Read More

Jan 18, 2017, 2:41 PM

What HPE won in buying SimpliVity for $650M: one less competitor and a bigger market

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s agreement to buy hyperconverged-infrastructure provider SimpliVity for $650 million in cash, announced Monday, gives HPE one less… Read More

Jan 18, 2017, 2:24 PM

IBM scores cloud contract with U.S. Army that could be worth $62M

[Editor’s Note: A reference in the headline to the financial value of the contract has been corrected since the original post.] Big… Read More

Jan 17, 2017, 10:48 AM

Technology’s frantic speed will create ‘digital refugees’ with no clear fix, Salesforce’s Benioff warns at Davos

“This year, my heart has been with so many migrants and refugees, 65 million refugees across the world, and thinking… Read More

Jan 17, 2017, 7:41 AM

Oracle to open 3 new cloud regions this year, escalating challenge to AWS and Azure

Database giant Oracle today moved to strengthen its position as a full-service cloud provider, using CloudWorld, a one-day conference convening in New York… Read More

Jan 16, 2017, 9:00 AM

Oracle opens second cloud accelerator program, attempting to court startups

Database giant and cloud contender Oracle has opened a cloud accelerator program in Tel Aviv, with the aim of helping… Read More

Jan 16, 2017, 8:18 AM

Salesforce’s Quip buys Unity&Variety to add visual elements to document-management tools

Quip, a maker of cloud-based document-management tools that is owned by Salesforce, has acquired Unity&Variety, a small San Francisco maker of productivity tools,… Read More

Jan 13, 2017, 10:05 AM

Microsoft buys Canadian deep-learning startup Maluuba to advance in natural-language processing

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company that uses deep learning to develop natural-language understanding, especially question-answering and… Read More

Jan 13, 2017, 8:04 AM

Amazon Web Services and Azure win higher federal security ratings to deal with national-security data

The public-cloud services offered by both Amazon and Microsoft have received new, higher levels of federal authorization to deal with… Read More

Jan 12, 2017, 10:20 AM

New Amazon Web Services initiative aims to build supply of trained AWS workers in UK

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest public-cloud company, has created enormous demand for AWS expertise at the growing number companies that… Read More

Jan 12, 2017, 9:00 AM

Microsoft releases StaffHub, an Office 365 app for shift workers without desks or computers

Microsoft today debuted StaffHub, a no-extra-cost Office 365 application meant to help staff workers manage their work day through shift-schedule management,… Read More

Jan 11, 2017, 3:38 PM

The ‘internet of oysters’: Microsoft Azure system uses underwater sensors and AI to boost shellfish yields

Tired of hearing about the internet of things? Well, how about the internet of oysters? The Yield, an agricultural-technology firm… Read More

Jan 11, 2017, 10:30 AM

Google Cloud looks to improve security with new encryption key-management services

Google Cloud Platform is moving to improve its cloud security, beta testing a variety of encryption key-management services that would let… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 3:48 PM

Greenpeace USA slams Amazon, lauds Microsoft and Google for their renewable-energy use

Public-cloud giant Amazon Web Services, along with Netflix and Samsung, is still lagging in its use of renewable energy, Greenpeace… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 1:42 PM

Enticed by market projections, wireless carriers start vying to serve the ‘internet of things’

The emphasis within the much-hyped “internet of things” is often on the things themselves, whether those are sensors, self-reading electric… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 11:59 AM

Seattle startup lands role in hit musical ‘La La Land,’ but not how you’d think

I haven’t seen multiple Golden Globe-winner “La La Land” yet, but according to everyone who has, the opening scene is… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 8:24 AM

Thriving application-container market to grow 40% per year, hitting $2.7B by 2020, researcher says

The move toward containers — bundled application components that simplify developing and deploying software across different platforms and devices — is… Read More