Cloud Tech – Page 16 of 54

With Firecracker, Amazon Web Services reinvents its serverless computing infrastructure and open-source reputation

LAS VEGAS — Early developer reaction to Amazon Web Services’ Firecracker project suggests the company has pulled off a big… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators

LAS VEGAS — Space is hard, and getting data to and from orbiting satellites can be even harder. Amazon Web… Read More

Microsoft Azure multi-factor authentication bug strikes again, causing issues for Office 365 users

For the second time in two weeks, Microsoft Azure’s multi-factor authentication system is down. ZDNet on Tuesday noted the outage, which prevents some… Read More

Amazon Web Services will now let companies set up internal IT-approved sets of cloud services in AWS Marketplace

LAS VEGAS – A lot of companies moving into cloud computing like to slow-play that transition, working with long-trusted partners… Read More

Network effects: Amazon Web Services touts improvements to its networking services that should boost app performance

LAS VEGAS – Amazon Web Services has built a state-of-the-art network around the world in order to serve its cloud… Read More

Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads

LAS VEGAS — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale… Read More

Amazon Web Services customers can now build applications for robots in the cloud

Companies using robots across a wide variety of industries will now be able to write cloud-based applications for those robots… Read More

What to expect at Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2018: serverless, open source, and traffic

Amazon Web Services will attempt to set the cloud-computing agenda for 2019 this week over four days of keynote speeches… Read More

Box CEO Aaron Levie on cloud consolidation, the future of AI, and Seattle vs. San Francisco

Box CEO Aaron Levie has seen a lot of change in enterprise technology since he co-founded Box on Mercer Island… Read More

As it gears up for re:Invent 2018, Amazon Web Services rolls out several new features that apparently didn’t make the keynotes

Improvements to its SageMaker machine-learning tool and new scaling options for cloud computing customers were among the new features rolled… Read More

Holy sheets: Multifactor authentication bug locks out Office 365 users

Microsoft Azure’s multifactor authentication system was down for an extended period of time Sunday evening into Monday morning, preventing users… Read More

Why some open-source companies are considering a more closed approach

At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an existential crisis. There’s no question that the concept of… Read More

Amazon Web Services tries to make it even harder to leave your cloud storage buckets unlocked

In hopes of preventing more customers from inadvertently releasing their secrets onto the internet, Amazon Web Services introduced a new… Read More

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene stepping down, to be replaced by former Oracle cloud exec Thomas Kurian

Three eventful years after veteran tech executive and longtime Google board member Diane Greene was brought in to run the… Read More

Salesforce makes undisclosed “strategic investment” in Docker, companies will cross-sell MuleSoft and Docker Enterprise

Salesforce Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount of money in container pioneer Docker as part of an extension of a… Read More

Chef cutting 10 jobs amid ongoing shift to new application-focused product strategy

Seattle’s Chef is eliminating ten jobs as it reorganizes the company around the ongoing shift to cloud computing, GeekWire has… Read More

Amazon Web Services promises to support OpenJDK through 2023 with release of internal tool as new open source project

Developers using the popular OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) software tool can breathe a little easier Wednesday after Amazon Web Services… Read More

Oracle’s protest of the $10B Pentagon cloud contract dismissed by federal auditors

The U.S. Government and Accountability Office has rejected a protest leveled by Oracle against the process for awarding the ten-year,… Read More

Microsoft plans to support Carnegie Mellon’s edge computing research with hardware, Azure services

Researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University are set to receive hybrid cloud hardware and service credits from Microsoft as it… Read More

Zendesk takes aim at Salesforce with new CRM features for its customer-service tools

Zendesk is best known for its customer support services, but it thinks it is ready to challenge larger players in… Read More

Crystal City just the latest addition to Amazon’s sprawling Northern Virginia cloud operation

Just a few miles away from Amazon’s proposed new headquarters in the soon-to-be created “National Landing” neighborhood split between Crystal… Read More

Former Azuqua CTO Craig Unger raising money for his new compliance startup, HyperProof

After almost four years at the company he co-founded, Craig Unger left Azuqua earlier this year to start his own… Read More

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta: Going private doesn’t change our growth mentality

Apptio will have more freedom to grow its IT spending management business as a private company, according to co-founder and… Read More

Vista Equity Partners to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio

Apptio’s run as a public company is coming to an end after just over two years. Private equity firm Vista… Read More

SAP snaps up Qualtrics for $8B days before its expected IPO, will keep Seattle office

After months of discussions between the two companies, SAP announced Sunday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire user experience… Read More

Microsoft Azure finds another retail customer, signs Gap to multiyear deal

Microsoft hasn’t really tried to hide one of its primary cloud strategies this year: courting retailers who are wary of… Read More

Qumulo co-founder and CTO Peter Godman has left the company

Peter Godman, co-founder and chief technology officer at storage startup Qumulo, is no longer with the company, GeekWire has learned.… Read More

Google wants to make it easier for cloud customers to find AI tools that fit their needs

Google plans to introduce a central repository for machine-learning tools Thursday, with the aim of making it easier for companies… Read More

With new support from Amazon Web Services, AMD unveils its best shot in years at denting Intel’s data center dominance

Chip watchers think the second generation of AMD’s Eypc server processors could finally inject some competition into the market for… Read More

As enterprise computing prepares for a multicloud world, cloud-native startups like Heptio will be attractive targets

“Cloud native” has always had the ring of yet another enterprise computing buzzword, one designed to sound impressive to people… Read More