Cloud Tech – Page 13 of 54

Cray, Intel will build the first U.S. “exascale” supercomputer for the Department of Energy

The first U.S. supercomputer capable of processing 1 quintillion calucations each second will be built for the U.S. Department of… Read More

Report: Amazon testing new program that connects outside investors with startups that use AWS

Amazon wants to connect startups using its cloud computing platform with deep-pocketed investors, according to a new report from CNBC.… Read More

Seattle startup Igneous raises $25M to help companies manage their unstructured data

Seattle startup Igneous has reeled in a $25 million investment round to fuel growth of its software that helps companies… Read More

Microsoft adds new back-end game developer tools, unites services under ‘Game Stack’ program

Microsoft is doubling down on gaming inside its cloud division, bringing together several developer tools and services under one umbrella… Read More

Service mesh funding heats up as Buoyant snags new $10M round from Google’s investment arm

Over the last few years the service mesh has drawn increasing amounts of attention from the cloud-native computing world, and… Read More

F5 Networks paying $670M to acquire NGINX, a web server that runs a big chunk of the internet

F5 Networks says it is acquiring NGINX, one of the most popular web servers on the internet today, for $670… Read More

Okta acquires Seattle’s Azuqua for $52.5M to marry identity management with no-code development platforms

Okta, which helps companies manage how employees access sensitive corporate resources, has agreed to acquire Seattle’s Azuqua for $52.5 million… Read More

Microsoft’s South African data centers are now open for Azure business

Microsoft is ready to start serving Africa with local data centers, bringing its previously announced South African data centers online… Read More

Former spouse’s allegations against Portland startup CEO ripple through tech community

As most people in Portland were getting ready for New Year’s Eve in late 2017, PDX Women in Tech was… Read More

Salesforce beats Q4 earnings expectations, but investors frown at its Q1 outlook

Salesforce vowed to double its yearly revenue by the end of its 2023 fiscal year and reported fourth-quarter earnings better… Read More

Amazon fuels Harvard hospital’s machine learning research program

Amazon thinks the cloud can make hospitals run better. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit is sponsoring a program at… Read More

Nintex acquires business bot company EnableSoft, filling a key gap in its workflow automation platform

Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex has acquired EnableSoft, a Robotic Process Automation company that offers bots for handling a business’s… Read More

Amazon Web Services will no longer require security pros running penetration tests on their cloud-based apps to get permission first

Amazon Web Services recently changed a policy that required security researchers to get permission before testing applications running on some… Read More

Microsoft unveils new Azure Sentinel cloud security service to help manage threat detection and analysis

Ahead of next week’s big RSA security conference, Microsoft plans to introduce a new cloud service Thursday that will help… Read More

Microsoft reportedly exploring new partnership with VMware as Windows Server 2008 deadline looms

One of the biggest obstacles to the growth of cloud computing is inertia, as companies that spent tens of millions… Read More

Decision on the $10B JEDI cloud contract likely delayed after Pentagon agrees to review bias charges against Amazon employee

Those closely watching the battle for a ten-year $10-billion cloud computing contract on offer from the Department of Defense were… Read More

Microsoft expands partnership deal with Telefonica with edge computing in mind

Microsoft’s annual Spanish holiday in Barcelona will include a revamped partnership agreement with Madrid-based telecom provider Telefonica, the companies plan… Read More

JFrog acquires Seattle’s Shippable to improve its DevOps product line

Seattle DevOps startup Shippable has been acquired by JFrog, a larger Bay Area software company focused on helping companies ship… Read More

Arm unveils next-generation server processor designs, emphasizing performance in hopes of cloud momentum

The long wait for a viable Arm server processor finally ended in 2018. The chip design company is hoping 2019… Read More

Google acquires data migration startup Alooma in hopes of easing customers into its cloud

It’s easier to win cloud business when it’s easier for potential customers to move their data into your cloud, and… Read More

After paying out $250,000 in 2018, GitHub plans to boost bug bounty bonuses

Bug bounties have transformed the way enterprise tech companies think about security, and now that it’s part of Microsoft, GitHub… Read More

After new licensing sparked a huge open-source debate, database vendor Redis Labs raises $60M

App fashions will come and go, but databases will always be one of the most fundamental parts of software development.… Read More

Microsoft Teams kicks off the week by going down for several hours

Microsoft Teams went down for several hours Monday morning after infrastructure problems forced some traffic to be diverted, giving users… Read More

Steve Ballmer’s Los Angeles Clippers sign cloud deal with Microsoft rival Amazon Web Services

Imagine Lakers legend Kobe Bryant selling season tickets for the Los Angeles Clippers. That’s a little bit like what happened… Read More

IBM Watson will now run on third-party clouds like Amazon Web Services

Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence service, is taking its act on the road. IBM plans to announce later Tuesday at its… Read More

Chef hires cloud industry veteran Brian Goldfarb as chief marketing officer

Chef has tapped Brian Goldfarb, who has held prominent marketing roles inside several notable enterprise tech companies, as its newest… Read More

Strange bedfellows: American Media appears to host the National Enquirer on Amazon Web Services

Here’s a complexifier for you: the parent company of the National Enquirer, under fire from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff… Read More

Microsoft joins open-source foundation that is trying to simplify the software supply chain

The OpenChain Project, which is attempting to bring a little more clarity to the turbulent world of modern open-source licensing,… Read More

Microsoft: Almost all our commercial cloud revenue is sold through partners

There’s very little about enterprise software that cloud computing has left untouched, and that includes the relationship between enterprise tech… Read More

Google boosts capital expenditures in Q4 by 80 percent to $6.8B as it chases cloud rivals

Google continued to plow the profits from its search advertising business into cloud computing capacity and headcount during the fourth… Read More