Cloud Tech – Page 31 of 54

Slack’s Julia Grace on the lessons learned from downtime, and the responsibility to pay it forward

It’s kind of amazing how reliable modern internet services have become over the last decade, which is why we freak… Read More

Google’s Urs Hölzle still thinks its cloud revenue will catch its ad revenue, but maybe not by 2020

At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did… Read More

Microsoft launches Azure Databricks, a new cloud data platform based on Apache Spark

Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use… Read More

Setting the edge: Cloud experts sketch out how edge computing will evolve

The last ten years marked a centralization of computing, in which we moved away from relying on our individual computers… Read More

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich hears your cloud lock-in concerns, but it’s complicated

As the technology leader for the second-place cloud computing vendor, Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich has a keen interest in finding ways… Read More

Mercedes-Benz to open Seattle software engineering center with up to 150 people in first 18 months

Mercedes-Benz has tapped former Amazon software development manager Mike Dosenbach to lead a new engineering center in downtown Seattle that… Read More

Skytap adds support for Amazon Web Services, hires Microsoft veteran to strike new partnerships

Fast-growing Seattle startup Skytap will now offer its customers the choice of running their workloads on Amazon Web Services in… Read More

Update: Amazon Web Services denies reports of China exit, confirms some asset sales

Updated 10:35pm: Amazon Web Services responded to reports out of China that it was exiting the country’s cloud computing market… Read More

Key cloud computing group launches interoperability certification for Kubernetes

Thirty-two cloud computing companies building software around Kubernetes, the popular container-orchestration project, received a stamp of approval Monday from the… Read More

Seattle’s Cray jumps on Arm server train with new XC50 supercomputer

The strongest effort yet to see server processors based on Arm cores infiltrate the data center is well underway, and… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Report: Amazon Web Services planning AI-friendly version of its data warehouse

The Super Bowl of cloud computing — Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference — is two weeks away, and the company… Read More

New data: Software as a Service industry revenue up 23% this year as shift to the cloud continues

Global revenue in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry topped $43 billion in the first half of 2017 —… Read More

More changes at Chef, as another head of sales is leaving the company

Chef’s Ken Cheney, who stepped in to run the Seattle DevOps startup’s sales organization in June after the departure of… Read More

Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 ARM-based server processor ready to take on Intel

Qualcomm’s new ARM server processor is ready for commercial deployment, the company announced Wednesday, officially launching the latest effort to… Read More

Worried about Amazon, Kroger will avoid Amazon Web Services in its cloud transition

Amazon Web Services has been the gold standard for cloud computing almost since its debut, but the relentless push of… Read More

Amazon Web Services rolls out new security features for S3 customers who keep leaving their data out in the open

After a rash of cases in which Amazon Web Services customers left important data unprotected on the internet, the company… Read More

Salesforce and Google strike partnership deal around G Suite and Google Cloud

Salesforce is teaming up with Google on several fronts, integrating Salesforce data into Google’s G Suite business productivity software and… Read More

Salesforce rolls out new AI-driven features as it gathers the masses for Dreamforce 2017

Salesforce plans to use its largest event of the year this week to highlight how its flagship salesforce-management service is… Read More

The new world of tech: How Amazon and Google ended up inside a Microsoft database conference

Delivering the keynote address at the PASS Summit 2017 in Seattle this week, Microsoft’s general manager of database systems, Rohan… Read More

Uber AI Labs releases a programming language, its first public project

Uber is sharing the fruits of its research into self-driving cars and artificial intelligence in general, releasing a new programming… Read More

Microsoft plans to triple Azure cloud computing capacity in China over the next six months

The company that operates Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing business in China is planning a huge increase in capacity heading into… Read More

IBM launches new version of its private cloud with built-in Kubernetes support

Companies that want the benefits of modern cloud computing without the cloud turn to private cloud services in order to… Read More

Now that’s scary: Slack goes down on Halloween

A major outage took out Slack’s services for what appeared to be a large portion of its userbase Tuesday afternoon.… Read More

Apptio beats revenue expectations again during its third quarter

Apptio’s third-quarter earnings results showed that the company is still on a path of strong revenue growth and narrowing losses.… Read More

New project from The Linux Foundation hopes to make AI tools more accessible

The Linux Foundation introduced a new project Monday called the Acumos Project, an effort backed by AT&T and India’s Tech… Read More

Amazon Web Services crosses $1B in operating profit as revenue jumps 42 percent to $4.6B

Amazon Web Services continues to grow quite strongly despite its size, and it crossed an interesting milestone during the third… Read More

Microsoft hits its $20 billion commercial cloud revenue run-rate goal ahead of schedule

Three quarters before a self-imposed deadline to achieve $20 billion in annualized revenue from its commercial cloud products and services,… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches powerful new cloud instances for AI research backed by Nvidia’s GPUs

All the major cloud vendors are betting that artificial intelligence services will become a crucial part of cloud computing over… Read More

The incredible shrinking operating system: How containers and serverless computing are changing the cloud

Hang around enterprise computing types long enough, and you’ll wind up talking about “the stack” at some point. It’s a… Read More

Cutting-edge Microsoft data center fuels a new vision for global energy efficiency

In an industrial Seattle warehouse with plywood walls and exposed pipes, a group of about 60 people gathered Wednesday to… Read More