Cloud Tech – Page 48 of 55

Oct 21, 2016, 9:33 AM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touts Azure’s advantages over market-leading Amazon Web Services

Microsoft shares hovered around an all-time high this morning after Thursday’s strong quarterly earnings report that beat expectations and was bolstered in large part… Read More

Oct 20, 2016, 11:49 AM

Puppet provides closer links to VMware, Docker to ease rapid software production and deployment

Portland-based software-automation firm Puppet today announced tighter integrations with virtualization firm VMware and container powerhouse Docker. The announcements came in conjunction… Read More

Oct 20, 2016, 8:44 AM

Google Cloud Platform simplifies storage options and cuts prices in bid to compete with Amazon

Google Cloud Platform today moved to compete more directly with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, revamping its storage offerings,… Read More

Oct 19, 2016, 2:45 PM

Q&A: Uber’s machine learning chief says pattern-finding computing fuels ride-hailing giant

Under the simple skin of Uber lies complexity you may not have considered: the logistics of predicting how long it… Read More

Oct 19, 2016, 6:00 AM

EnergySavvy raises $14 million in funding, revamps services for utilities

EnergySavvy, a Seattle startup that helps utilities better relate to their customers, has released what it called its fifth generation of products,… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 8:42 AM

Software giant SAP will put its HR package on Microsoft’s cloud as well as its own

Microsoft has expanded its partnership with German enterprise-software giant SAP, agreeing to put SAP’s SuccessFactors software on the Azure cloud within… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 7:03 AM

Amazon Web Services adds Ohio region, for lower latency throughout middle and eastern U.S.

Amazon Web Services has added a new U.S. region, this one in Ohio, designed to cut latency among customers in… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 3:36 PM

Hewlett Packard Enterprise cuts staff as it struggles to keep pace in the cloud

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a cloud, server and storage company that split from Hewlett Packard in late 2015, laid off an… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 2:02 PM

Bing and Azure both gain speed from Microsoft’s new use of field-programmable gate arrays

Pretty much anybody in technology knows about CPUs (central processing units), the backbone of computers. And most people also know about GPUs… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 9:12 AM

Surveillance, drones and crime prediction: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services tout cloud services at law enforcement show

Video surveillance-as-a-service in Detroit, automatic crime prediction in California and live-streaming police drones — all with a cloud connection —… Read More

Oct 14, 2016, 11:45 AM

Salesforce declines to bid for Twitter, leaving it bereft of suitors

Salesforce will take a pass on buying Twitter, according to a Financial Times report on Friday quoting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.… Read More

Oct 14, 2016, 8:31 AM

Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy dismisses diatribe by Oracle’s Larry Ellison

A month after Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison spent the better part of an hour trash-talking Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Oct 13, 2016, 1:27 PM

Virtualization meets the cloud: VMware strikes wide-ranging alliance with Amazon Web Services

Virtualization giant VMware is partnering with market-leading public cloud provider Amazon Web Services to offer a version of VMware’s virtualization… Read More

Oct 12, 2016, 9:01 PM

IBM says its new Cloud Object Storage allows easily moving and splitting data

IBM has announced Cloud Object Storage, a service it said lets organizations store large volumes of unstructured data on any combination… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 3:03 PM

Microsoft unveils features of Dynamics 365, its new bid to bring AI to the business world

Microsoft in an extensive demo today unveiled the capabilities of its Azure-based Dynamics 365 service announced in July — describing it as a significant undertaking combining its… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 8:00 AM

Cloud-management startup CloudCoreo scores $2.9M in seed round

CloudCoreo, a Seattle-based startup in the cloud-management arena, has received a $2.9 million seed-stage investment led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Oct 7, 2016, 3:33 PM

Third-party Amazon Alexa-enabled devices get key ‘wake word’ capability thanks to Seattle startup

Amazon makes it easy to create new “skills” for its Alexa voice-command system that work on its own devices, with step-by-step tutorials… Read More

Oct 6, 2016, 11:12 AM

Testing out Amazon’s ‘Internet of Things’ button: Infinite possibilities, requiring infinite patience

You’ve probably seen those colorful Amazon “dash buttons” that will automatically reorder food, paper towels, detergent and even condoms with… Read More

Oct 6, 2016, 9:35 AM

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services to offer security, analytics and IoT

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services, letting joint customers use AWS’s cloud services over AT&T’s worldwide network. The multi-year deal — terms… Read More

Oct 5, 2016, 8:47 AM

Amazon Web Services will partner with VMware, Fortune reports

Fortune is reporting that rivals Amazon Web Services and virtualization firm VMware next week will make up and pledge to… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 2:53 PM

Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views

How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 10:41 AM

Salesforce agrees to buy Krux for $700m, to build up marketing-data segment

Salesforce.com Inc. has agreed to acquire San Francisco startup Krux, in a bid by the cloud-software giant to bolster its marketing-data and analytics… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 10:24 AM

Swiss engineering firm ABB chooses Microsoft Azure as its cloud partner

Microsoft will expand its partnership with ABB after the Swiss engineering firm designated Azure as its public cloud of choice, the… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 9:55 AM

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft likely to hang onto their cloud leads, journos say at GeekWire Summit

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will likely hang onto their first- and second-place rankings, respectively, in the public-cloud arena, three… Read More

Oct 3, 2016, 10:59 AM

Microsoft Azure cuts prices on its virtual machines

Just weeks after Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie declared that cloud pricing wars with Amazon Web Services were winding down,… Read More

Oct 3, 2016, 4:19 AM

Microsoft unveils 217-page book in bid to influence global cloud policy

Microsoft this morning unveiled a book titled “A Cloud for Global Good,” which CEO Satya Nadella called “a set of policy… Read More

Sep 30, 2016, 1:54 PM

Amazon announces plan to open Paris-area web services region

Amazon Web Services next year will add a new geographic region to its worldwide network of data centers, this one… Read More

Sep 30, 2016, 10:53 AM

Why the OpenStack private-cloud software is getting the attention of big companies

More than 200 IT professionals — mainly administrators, developer and executives — turned out today for the sold-out OpenStack Days… Read More

Sep 27, 2016, 3:06 PM

Adobe’s use of Microsoft Azure will complement, not replace, AWS and its own cloud

This week’s announcement that Adobe is embracing Microsoft’s Azure as its “preferred cloud platform” shows Adobe is spreading its computing load across multiple… Read More