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Microsoft says Google’s cloud reliability claim vs. Azure and Amazon Web Services does not compute

A comment today by Google’s top cloud executive, taking a subtle jab at Amazon Web Services, isn’t sitting well with Microsoft for… Read More

How much is your junk worth? eBay’s new Google Home ‘shopbot’ knows

At the Google Cloud Next conference, eBay introduced a new personal shopping chatbot, or “shopbot,” for the Google Home speaker… Read More

Google Cloud touts new customers, reliability and machine learning — says it’s ‘here for real’

Google is on a mission to become a leading option for businesses making the shift to the cloud, and in the wake of… Read More

Look out, Intel? Microsoft tries ARM processors in the cloud with Qualcomm partnership

Microsoft has started testing out ARM processors, power-efficient chips best known for running smartphones and other mobile devices, to run portions of… Read More

What’s really in that Dropbox? Onehub enters data loss prevention market with Marshal scanning tool

How do small and medium-sized businesses make sure that the sensitive personal information and health data of their customers and… Read More

Google Cloud takes the stage: Can the consumer tech giant finally crack the enterprise?

Google’s top executives will unveil their latest cloud initiatives Wednesday morning, making the case for big businesses to choose Google’s cloud over… Read More

Two decades later, Microsoft’s Visual Studio looks to secure its role in a new world of technology

Microsoft this morning released Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of its integrated development environment — continuing its expansion beyond traditional Windows… Read More

Salesforce rolls out ‘Einstein Vision’ as part of broader artificial intelligence push

Salesforce is introducing a new wave of artificial intelligence technologies under its Einstein initiative this morning, including the first AI technology… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes another deal, acquiring Thinkbox media rendering tech company

Amazon Web Services has acquired Thinkbox Software, which makes technology used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms… Read More

IBM and Salesforce connect Watson and Einstein in new artificial intelligence alliance

IBM and Salesforce will work together on artificial intelligence under a surprise partnership announced this afternoon. The companies will combine aspects… Read More

IBM plans to deliver ‘industry first’ quantum computers via the cloud

IBM today unveiled plans to build commercially-available quantum computer systems for business and science that will be accessed via the IBM… Read More

Microsoft Azure adds new data analytics, voice and facial recognition to its government cloud

Microsoft is beefing up its cloud capabilities for U.S. state and federal agencies, rolling out its PowerBI and HDInsight data… Read More

Analysis: Rethinking cloud architecture after the outage of Amazon Web Services

Editor’s Note: Brian Guy is Director of Cloud Services for Dev9, a custom software development firm focused on cloud services.… Read More

Hybrid cloud startup Midfin Systems gets CNBC honor, as AWS outage shows value of its approach

Cloud enterprise infrastructure company Midfin Systems of Redmond, Wash., landed on CNBC’s inaugural Upstart 25 list this week — on the same day,… Read More

Docker unveils new enterprise initiative, boosting software containers for big businesses

Docker is launching a new Enterprise Edition of its popular software container technology, along with an initiative to let partners certify their technology… Read More

Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes

Amazon has released an explanation of the events that caused the big outage of its Simple Storage Service Tuesday, also… Read More

Amazon Web Services cloud migration service 2nd Watch raises $19M

2nd Watch, which helps large organizations such as Crate & Barrel, Condé Nast, Coca-Cola North America and Lenovo build and… Read More

Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon

UPDATE: Amazon has released an explanation of what caused the big outage this week and has started putting safeguards in… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘Azure Stack’ for on-premises servers will use pay-as-you-go cloud pricing model

Microsoft this morning released a third technical preview for its Azure Stack hybrid technology, which will let businesses and developers run a version of… Read More

Amazon Web Services outage reveals critical lack of redundancy across the internet

The digital snow day is over, as Amazon Web Services has fixed the issues with its Simple Storage Service, or… Read More

Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites

An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and… Read More

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of… Read More

Tech industry groups warn G20 countries against protectionism, urge free flow of data across borders

Technology industry groups from around the world are uniting to urge the largest countries to improve privacy and data protection for consumers,… Read More

Cloud exits: How the M&A and IPO markets are changing expectations for cloud tech companies

Cloud technology companies have increasingly become acquisition targets rather than IPO candidates, according to a new research report. But investors… Read More

Report: Amazon may launch new AWS productivity suite to take on Microsoft and Google

Amazon Web Services is considering bundling its email, file storage, and video conferencing apps into a productivity suite that would… Read More

What ‘Chime’ is it? Amazon sued over name of its new online conferencing technology

A New York-based tech company has filed a federal trademark suit against Amazon Web Services over the name of the cloud giant’s newly launched Chime online… Read More

Adobe escalates DocuSign challenge with new cloud-based digital signatures built on open standards

Adobe is introducing new ways to scan, read and digitally sign documents on smartphones and tablets with the latest updates to… Read More

Microsoft Azure broadens support for popular open-source Kubernetes container manager

Microsoft is making the popular open source Kubernetes container orchestration service, originally designed by Google, generally available for use on… Read More

Microsoft rolls out Azure at new Korean data centers, continuing global expansion

Microsoft is making the next move in the cloud industry’s rapid global expansion with the news today that its Azure cloud platform… Read More

Microsoft strikes exclusive cloud deal with Flipkart, Amazon’s biggest online retail rival in India

Flipkart, the top online marketplace in India, has agreed to adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform, augmenting its own… Read More