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Salesforce plans to open-source the technology behind its Einstein machine-learning services

Salesforce is open-sourcing the method it has developed for using machine-learning techniques at scale — without mixing valuable customer data… Read More

Portland’s Twistlock raises $33M Series C round as demand for cloud-native security grows

As more and more companies start developing applications on top of cloud computing platforms, sometimes they need a little help… Read More

New Intel chip flaw resembles Spectre and Meltdown, but targets special chip security features

Even security products have security flaws, and chip researchers just found a big one in Intel’s chips that can be… Read More

With Pentagon cloud contract in the balance, Microsoft’s hybrid-cloud product, Azure Stack, now certified for government use

As the federal government reviews submissions from cloud computing companies for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud contract, Microsoft… Read More

Teaching the ghost in the machine: How cloud tech experts are managing the rise of AI

When it comes to the breakthroughs that brilliant scientists and engineers are working on in 2018, artificial intelligence technology somehow… Read More

Now you can see what the fish off the North Scotland coast think of Microsoft’s Project Natick undersea data center

If you’ve ever happened upon a conventional data center, you were probably underwhelmed: most resemble a supersized Wal-Mart with acres… Read More

Key cloud tech group behind Kubernetes declares a second project, cloud monitoring software Prometheus, ready for prime time

It’s graduation day for only the second time in the three-year history of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation: Prometheus, an… Read More

Salesforce names President and COO Keith Block as co-CEO alongside co-founder Marc Benioff

Salesforce announced late Tuesday that there will now be two sheriffs atop the Salesforce Tower in downtown San Francisco, now… Read More

Downstream raises almost $2M in seed funding to ride the growing Amazon advertising wave

The founders of Downstream are betting that Amazon’s somehow-stealthy surge in advertising revenue will attract lots of brands that need… Read More

Tim Wagner, leader of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda serverless team, moving over to Coinbase

Thanks to its early start, Amazon Web Services is pretty far ahead of its cloud competitors when it comes to… Read More

As serverless computing starts to take shape, cloud tech experts sketch out its future

When you look back at decades of computing history, the arc bends toward abstraction: the process of making it easier… Read More

State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined

Is Amazon Web Services going to be the Google of cloud computing? About 15 years ago, Google’s search technology catapulted… Read More

Amazon Web Services continues to lock customers into long-term cloud deals as deferred revenue and the length of contracts grew in Q2

As more and more companies have gotten used to the idea of renting servers from a bookseller, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene on wane of cloud pricing wars: “You never want to win on price”

After years of precipitous declines in the price of cloud computing, things seem to be stabilizing, and Google Cloud CEO… Read More

Interview: How Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene is navigating the tricky world of cloud-based AI

It has been a weird year for Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene. Just as the company’s cloud-computing division has started… Read More

Slack acquires tech behind Atlassian’s Stride and Hipchat tools, companies will work together on migrating customers

Not even a year after challenging Slack with the debut of Atlassian Stride, Slack has agreed to acquire the intellectual… Read More

Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent

The world’s leading cloud infrastructure service continues to grow at a solid clip, with Amazon Web Services recording $6.1 billion… Read More

As it awaits the close of the Microsoft deal, GitHub strikes partnership deal with Google Cloud

GitHub tried to put worries about its independence under Microsoft to rest Thursday, announcing a partnership with Google Cloud that… Read More

F5 Networks bests Wall Street expectations, posting $542M in revenue amid cloud shift

F5 Networks beat Wall Street expectations for its third quarter as the company continues to transition its business to focus… Read More

Google rolls out Gmail redesign to G Suite customers, plus new Google Voice beta

A few months after unveiling a new design for Gmail, Google is ready to roll that out to G Suite… Read More

Google adds machine-learning capabilities to its BigQuery cloud data warehouse

Google’s history of machine-learning research increasingly informs its cloud product development strategy, and it introduced a preview of machine-learning capabilities… Read More

How Google is turning its own difficult security lessons into tools for its cloud customers

If you have been one of the biggest tech companies on the planet for over a decade, a lot of… Read More

Google bolsters edge computing strategy with new version of its TPU AI chips for edge devices

Now that the internet of things is really a thing, Google plans to release a version of its machine-learning chips… Read More

Google’s serverless computing strategy starts to take shape as it chases Amazon Web Services and Microsoft

While Google’s cloud business enjoyed some natural advantages as containerized applications became popular over the last few years, things are… Read More

Google doubles down on the service mesh and hybrid cloud as it kicks off its big cloud event

As Google has committed itself to becoming an enterprise technology vendor, it has followed a path it knows very well… Read More

Google introduces new security tool for G Suite customers that helps identify internal threats

Customers of Google’s G Suite office productivity software will soon be able to access an investigative tool that lets them… Read More

Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors

Target is one of Google Cloud’s newest big customers, furthering a trend of major retailers opting to join up with… Read More

Google nearly doubles spending on capital projects as it continues major cloud investment

Google parent Alphabet spent a whopping $5.5 billion on capital expenditures in the most recent quarter, nearly doubling that output… Read More

Updated: Microsoft records 23% jump in Intelligent Cloud revenue, Azure revenue up 89% but undisclosed

Microsoft’s cloud division remains one of the primary architects of its comeback in recent years, posting a 23 percent jump… Read More

Report: Amazon underestimated traffic demands for Prime Day, scrambled to add servers in hopes of fixing widespread glitches

Even though it has the world’s leading cloud-computing service within the corporate family, Amazon engineers have to configure its retail… Read More