Cloud Tech – Page 17 of 54

Dropbox Extensions another sign that walled gardens won’t fly in enterprise SaaS

Dropbox plans to unveil several new ties between popular document formats and enterprise-software applications later on Tuesday, part of an… Read More

VMware acquires Seattle’s Heptio to double down on Kubernetes

VMware’s ongoing transition into the cloud era took a big step Tuesday with the acquisition of Heptio, a startup that… Read More

Microsoft and Walmart will kick off their cloud partnership with joint engineering center in Austin

Two of Amazon’s strongest rivals are planning to start formally working together on cloud services early next year deep in… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Rekognition image analysis tool can now locate objects within a photo

Amazon Web Services released new capabilities for its Rekognition image and video analysis service Friday that will allow companies trying… Read More

HashiCorp raises $100M and becomes the newest cloud unicorn at a valuation of $1.9B

With the value of cloud computing firmly established, attention is turning to companies that can help businesses hedge their bets… Read More

How a 43-second outage on a key network connection staggered GitHub’s services for a day

One of the first things GitHub did under its new owner over the past week was put the finishing touches… Read More

Report: Microsoft picks new chip maker for AI co-processors on Azure, cutting Intel’s business in half

Xilinx is reportedly the beneficiary of a decision by Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure wizards to add another chip supplier to its… Read More

Docker hires former Microsoft exec Neil Charney as CMO, also taps new CTO from VMware

Docker added three enterprise computing veterans to its executive roster Tuesday, filling the chief technology officer role vacated by its… Read More

Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Blair Hanley Frank, principal analyst at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.] IBM’s… Read More

Revenue from Apptio’s SaaS financial management tools jumps 26 percent, beats expectations

Companies that move their IT operations to the cloud often find themselves confused by the pricing options they can encounter,… Read More

IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat a bet that cloud holdouts want old-school partners

IBM announced Sunday that it has agreed to purchase Red Hat, one of the first and most prominent open-source server… Read More

Microsoft defends bid for $10B Pentagon cloud contract amid criticism over government use of technology

Microsoft will not pull out of the competition for a $10 billion cloud contract for the Department of Defense, despite… Read More

The cost of the cloud: Amazon takes a breath, while Microsoft and Google plunge ahead

Building and maintaining a modern cloud computing service requires billions of dollars in capital expenditures every quarter. Microsoft and Google… Read More

Amazon Web Services revenue up 46 percent to $6.7B, operating income up 77 percent

It sure does look like Amazon Web Services is going to turn into a nice business for Amazon. RELATED: Amazon… Read More

Amazon Web Services to open its first data center in Africa, with service from Cape Town in 2020

In around a year and a half, Amazon Web Services will open its first cloud computing region in Africa, another… Read More

F5 delivers full-year revenue and EPS growth at or ahead of earlier projections during transitional year

F5 Networks started out the calendar year by warning investors that revenue growth would be fairly slow as it continues… Read More

Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue jumped 47 percent in its fiscal Q1, but Azure growth slows

Microsoft’s transformation into a cloud computing company continued apace in during its first fiscal quarter, which saw a 47 percent… Read More

Report: Cloudflare plans to go public in the first half of 2019

Cloud security company Cloudflare plans to pursue an initial public offering in 2019, according to a report, as it continues… Read More

Amazon Web Services pitched ICE on using its Rekognition face-recognition cloud service

Amazon Web Services pitched the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on using its Rekognition video analysis service, which it… Read More

Igneous rolls out new hybrid cloud services for managing large amounts of unstructured data

Igneous Systems plans to introduce two new products Tuesday for hybrid cloud customers working with massive data sets, in yet… Read More

Seattle’s Versive acquired by eSentire for its AI-powered security analysis platform

After several twists and turns along the way during its six years working on artificial intelligence technology, Versive has been… Read More

GitHub recovering after a widespread outage caused by networking and database issues

Software teams were stymied late Sunday and early Monday by a widespread GitHub outage that prevented developers from using the… Read More

Pulumi raises $15M in Series A funding, launches its SaaS multicloud app deployment service

It didn’t take long for the ex-Microsoft engineers behind Pulumi to prove their software development platform for multicloud computing was… Read More

Google turns on integrations with popular services like Box, Dropbox, and others in Gmail

Google has made a lot of improvements to Gmail this year as it continues to build out its G Suite… Read More

Atlassian’s overhaul of Jira is complete, with a more user-friendly interface for the cloud-native era

The process of developing software has gone through incredible changes since 2002, when Atlassian first unveiled its Jira bug-tracking software.… Read More

Anonymous employee calls on Amazon Web Services to stop selling face-recognition technology to police departments

More than 450 Amazon employees have now signed a letter originally addressed to CEO Jeff Bezos and other senior executives… Read More

GitHub introduces GitHub Actions to further automate the art of software development

GitHub isn’t content with being the storage locker for your code: it thinks it has come up with a better… Read More

According to an SEC filing, Docker has raised $92M of a $192M funding round

As it continues to transition from a technology-driven platform company into a sales-driven services company, Docker is raising more money… Read More

As storms gather over upcoming Saudi tech conference, Google says Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene will no longer attend

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene joined the increasing list of prominent U.S. technology and business executives distancing themselves from the… Read More

VMware doubles down on Bellevue as its partnerships with cloud providers deepen

VMware plans to expand its presence in Bellevue with enough space to double its headcount in the region its two… Read More