Cloud Tech – Page 19 of 54

Microsoft updates its database story with SQL Server 2019 and new cloud database features

One of the most fundamental aspects of computing infrastructure will play a key role in Microsoft’s Ignite 2018 pitch to… Read More

Adobe acquires Marketo for $4.75 billion to add enterprise marketing customers to its mix

Adobe has been selling software to consumer marketing teams for decades, and it will start butting heads with enterprise marketing… Read More

NetApp acquires Seattle’s StackPointCloud for its multicloud Kubernetes expertise

If the multicloud movement has staying power, Kubernetes is the technology that will make it happen. NetApp added a Kubernetes… Read More

Salesforce’s Quip completes the office productivity trifecta with presentation slides

For all the advancement in technology we’ve seen over the past few decades, the holy trinity of the information worker… Read More

Ampere’s Arm-based server chip is ready to challenge Intel in the data center

One of the buzziest chip startups in recent memory is ready to start shipping its Arm-based data center processor, in… Read More

Financial analyst renews call for Amazon to spin off Amazon Web Services

With antitrust scrutiny growing around Amazon as it continues to impact nearly every sector of the economy, one financial analyst… Read More

SaaS at scale: Here’s how five cloud tech experts are building enterprise software empires

Until very recently, very few people actually liked the enterprise software they were forced to use at work, from the… Read More

Microsoft acquires Lobe, an AI startup working on easy-to-use deep-learning development tools

Artificial intelligence tools will never be widely used if it takes decades of expertise to put them into action, which… Read More

Oracle still can’t make up its mind about how it fits into the cloud era

Top Oracle executives apparently can’t agree on how to move the database company forward in the cloud computing era. Thomas… Read More

Pulumi releases software-development kit to unlock the multicloud potential of Kubernetes

Seattle cloud startup Pulumi plans to release a software-development kit Wednesday that advances the company’s mission to make the Kubernetes… Read More

Microsoft releases details on last week’s big Azure outage, during which servers were damaged but no data was lost

A severe lightning storm in the San Antonio area last week not only disrupted the power supply to Microsoft Azure’s… Read More

Beyond the cloud: Amazon Web Services hiring engineers for ‘big, audacious space project’

According to two recently deleted job postings on the internet, where nothing can ever really be deleted, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Power struggle: How a bitcoin mining boom is transforming apple country, one megawatt at a time

WENATCHEE, Wash. — “It all starts with power.” Malachi Salcido, bitcoin miner and founder of large-scale contracting firm Salcido Enterprises, made… Read More

Carnegie Mellon’s Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year

After an interesting year for Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon… Read More

Hortonworks plans to revamp Hadoop and its big data tools with cloud best practices in mind

One big disadvantage that comes with a hybrid cloud strategy is forcing your developers to learn and understand the different… Read More

Updated: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma plans to retire after building China’s biggest retail and cloud computing empire

Almost 20 years after he founded Alibaba, the Amazon of China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma plans to retire to focus… Read More

Some Microsoft Azure issues stretch into a second day, as Active Directory and Office 365 stabilize

A series of failures at Microsoft’s San Antonio data centers continued to cause issues for some customers stretching into the… Read More

Updated: Microsoft Azure’s southern U.S. data center goes down for hours, impacting Office365 and Active Directory customers

Some Microsoft Azure customers with workloads running in its South Central US data center are having big problems coming back… Read More

Is hybrid cloud the best of both worlds? Five experts explain how to get it right

Fervent cloud computing evangelists used to look down their noses at the notion of hybrid cloud, seeing the approach a… Read More

Report: Seattle’s Qualtrics is talking to bankers about an IPO

Qualtrics, which sells customer experience software as a service to companies looking to understand the best ways to keep their… Read More

Oracle’s quixotic quest to derail the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract continues

The Department of Defense won’t announce the winner of its ten-year $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing… Read More

Salesforce posts record Q2 revenue and raises revenue guidance, but Wall Street frowns at earnings outlook

Usually after a 27-percent jump in revenue that exceeded analyst expectations and set a record for the second fiscal quarter,… Read More

Box makes sure it plays nicely with other enterprise software apps as it shifts attention to larger buyers

Less than 24 hours after Box warned of slowing revenue growth over the next year or so, company executives took… Read More

Snowflake Computing hints at IPO plans with hire of former Talend CFO Thomas Tuchscherer

After raising $473 million in funding over the last few years, Snowflake Computing announced Wednesday that it has hired Thomas… Read More

After huge wind and solar energy purchases in 2018, Facebook sets goal of 100 percent renewable energy usage by 2020

Facebook committed itself Tuesday to powering its entire global operation with renewable energy sources by the end of the decade,… Read More

Amazon Web Services extends hybrid cloud push, reveals new database management service for VMware users

Amazon Web Services and VMware expanded their hybrid-cloud partnership Monday, announcing that AWS will ship a new version of its… Read More

As customers gather for VMworld, VMware unveils new security and hybrid cloud management tools

Companies that rely on VMware’s software to manage their own data centers as they dip their toes in the public… Read More

Five experts explain how software development and operations teams are adjusting to the rapid changes caused by cloud computing

While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting… Read More

Three Seattle cloud CEOs share tips on how to keep fighting in an ever-changing market

There’s never been a better time to be in the cloud computing business, and while that opportunity is bringing people… Read More

Google is now using AI to keep its data centers cool and save energy

Google is practicing what it preaches, handing control of one of the most vital components of its data center operation… Read More