Cloud Tech – Page 51 of 55

Aug 4, 2016, 4:48 PM

Reality check: Despite copious ‘cloud’ rhetoric, little software is being offered as a service

Despite the almost reflexive use of the word “cloud” in the computing industry, relatively little software was actually being used in that… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 2:51 PM

Will you click this headline? DimensionalMechanics’ first cloud-based AI products already know

DimensionalMechanics, a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup that just emerged from stealth mode in March, today released beta software aimed at specific groups of customers… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 9:10 AM

Microsoft Azure just behind Amazon Web Services in Gartner’s new IaaS rankings; Google is a distant third

For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 7:24 AM

After stints at Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, tech vet Adam Bosworth joins Amazon

Adam Bosworth has had a long and distinguished career in tech, starting at Microsoft where he pushed the organization to… Read More

Aug 4, 2016, 6:00 AM

Okta enterprise ID company sets up Seattle-area office, drawn to region by AWS and Microsoft

Okta, a San Francisco-based enterprise online identity-management firm, has opened its first dedicated office in the Seattle region — leasing space… Read More

Aug 3, 2016, 12:37 PM

Amazon Web Services specialist Engine Yard reaches ‘huge milestone’ with new version of AWS orchestration product

Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) company, has released version 5 of its eponymous development environment —… Read More

Aug 3, 2016, 9:00 AM

Microsoft releases Operations Management Suite Security, bringing Azure security analytics to hybrid cloud environments

Microsoft this morning announced the general availability of Operations Management Suite Security, which brings to hybrid cloud environments the same security… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 1:31 PM

Supercomputer stalwart Cray reports declining revenue, big loss in quarter ended June 30

Supercomputer-maker Cray Inc. today reported diminished revenue and a big though anticipated loss for the quarter ended June 30. CEO Peter… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 12:54 PM

Amazon Web Services releases version 5.0.0 of Elastic MapReduce, which updates eight Hadoop projects

Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which Amazon said quickly processes very… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 10:59 AM

Hewlett Packard Enterprise shakes up its cloud business, cloud leader Bill Hilf leaving company

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is undergoing another management and organizational shift as the company seeks to find its place in the cloud-driven world dominated… Read More

Aug 2, 2016, 10:34 AM

New stats: Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue nears $10B a year

Revenue from Microsoft’s commercial cloud business, including Azure and Office 365, approached $10 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, up… Read More

Aug 1, 2016, 2:46 PM

Salesforce buying Quip, a cloud-based chat and commenting application for shared documents

Customer relations-management giant Salesforce is buying Quip, the San Francisco-based maker of a cloud-based tools for document management and collaborative writing,… Read More

Aug 1, 2016, 9:00 AM

Microsoft’s Azure faces new challenges in streaming Rio Olympics coverage

This year’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which run August 5-21, won’t be the first time NBC has used Microsoft’s Azure… Read More

Jul 28, 2016, 2:16 PM

Amazon Web Services sales climb 58%, hit new record of nearly $2.9B

Amazon Web Services posted record revenue and operating income in the second quarter ended June 30, as the world’s largest cloud-services organization continued… Read More

Jul 28, 2016, 10:56 AM

Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3 billion, bolstering cloud efforts amid increasing competition

Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy cloud company NetSuite for about $9.3 billion in cash, furthering its efforts in… Read More

Jul 27, 2016, 3:25 PM

IBM releases Graph, a service that can outperform SQL databases

IBM today announced the general availability of Graph, a service for the Bluemix cloud offering that the company said helps set… Read More

Jul 27, 2016, 3:17 PM

Amazon Web Services tops Microsoft, Google and everyone else in Gartner’s new public cloud ratings

Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services,… Read More

Jul 27, 2016, 1:17 PM

Microsoft strengthens Azure’s ties to Google Drive, Dropbox and other services with new ‘connectors’

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure Logic Apps and the North American general availability of Azure Active Directory… Read More

Jul 26, 2016, 2:26 PM

BlackBerry moves customers’ apps to Microsoft Azure as it tries to rekindle its moribund handset business

Corporate America and the U.S. Senate may have fallen out of love with the BlackBerry, but as its maker tries to resurrect… Read More

Jul 26, 2016, 9:57 AM

Can Amazon Web Services keep up its torrid pace? Cloud juggernaut eyes $10B in yearly revenue

Amazon Web Services has been essential in keeping Amazon profitable. Last quarter, the cloud computing platform accounted for 56 percent of… Read More

Jul 26, 2016, 9:00 AM

ExtraHop hires former Fluke president as CEO in bid to become next major enterprise tech company

ExtraHop Networks, a Seattle-based company that monitors complex computer networks in real-time, has appointed former Fluke Networks President Arif Kareem as… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 1:50 PM

Data-warehousing veteran Teradata buys U.K.-based consultancy to increase international reach

Teradata, a long-time player in the massively parallel data warehouse space, has purchased Big Data Partnership, a London-based provider of… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 11:25 AM

Amazon says 26 AWS services meet tough new credit-card security standard

Twenty-six services within the Amazon Web Services cloud offering have been certified as conforming to a stringent credit-card security standard… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 9:05 AM

Internet security company StackPath emerges from stealth mode with big funding round

The major cloud services are busy beefing up their security services, but as cloud use increases, they’re not alone in… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 6:00 AM

Virtuozzo’s new Kernel-based Virtual Machine for ISPs is a ‘huge thing,’ years in the making

Virtuozzo, a Seattle-based virtualization firm, today released Virtuozzo 7, which incorporates an “optimized” version of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) that “gives… Read More

Jul 22, 2016, 2:11 PM

Microsoft will spend up to $2.5B for 1.7M square-foot data center in Iowa, its largest in U.S.

Microsoft will spend $1.5-to-$2.5 billion to build a 1.7 million-square-foot data center on 200 acres in West Des Moines, Iowa,… Read More

Jul 21, 2016, 1:52 PM

Datadog adds monitoring support for IT stalwart Azure SQL

Cloud metrics firm Datadog now allows monitoring of the cloud-based version of an old IT standby: the Azure SQL relational database. Database technology… Read More

Jul 21, 2016, 9:00 AM

Microsoft makes one Azure security service available, prepares to release two more

Microsoft today announced the immediate or pending general availability of three security-related services for its Azure cloud. They are Security Center, Active… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 5:27 PM

New products galore from F5 Networks as CEO John McAdam contemplates retirement, again

F5 Networks is releasing an unprecedented burst of new software and hardware products, responding to encouragement from once and current CEO John McAdam, he… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 1:38 PM

F5 Networks beats its own quarterly goals, sets CEO search and hires CMO

F5 Networks, the Seattle-based network infrastructure and security technology company, reported revenue of $496.5 million for the third quarter of its… Read More