Cloud Tech

Microsoft doubled its Azure cloud revenue to $2.7B last year, analysts estimate

Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform more than doubled in 2016, reaching $2.7 billion, according to an estimate from… Read More

Reality check: Some of Trump’s plans could help the tech industry, big league

The technology industry may not be broadly supportive of President Donald Trump — and many tech leaders actively opposed his recent… Read More

Higher Logic acquires Portland workplace collaboration startup Kavi

Cloud-based community platform Higher Logic has acquired the startup Kavi WorkSpace, the companies announced Thursday. It’s the second acquisition for… Read More

Cash or Watson? IBM and Visa bringing AI-based purchasing to cars, running shoes and other objects

IBM is partnering with credit card giant Visa to spread the use of its IBM Watson supercomputing and artificial intelligence… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

With the cloud revolution underway, everyone wants to know what computing will look like — and where the biggest market… Read More

DDoS denied: ExtraHop’s newest product detects security breaches and other network anomalies with machine learning

Last October, when a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks knocked out major websites like Amazon and Twitter, one… Read More

Salesforce adds ‘Einstein’ artificial intelligence tools to its customer service platform

Call centers ain’t what they used to be. That’s because customers rely on an increasingly wide range of tools to… Read More

Amazon cloud leader Andy Jassy sizes up the competition in rare public remarks about rivals

Amazon likes to say that it focuses on customers, not competitors, which means it’s rare for the company’s top executives to talk about their rivals publicly.… Read More

SAP President Steve Singh says cloud computing is yesterday’s news — ‘microservices’ are the future

Cloud computing is so 2016. Sure, migration from client servers to the cloud is an ongoing megatrend, but tech moves… Read More

Alexa in the warehouse? What enterprise cloud company Acumatica learned from this experiment

Acumatica, the privately held enterprise cloud technology company led by former Microsoft executive Jon Roskill, is coming off a year of 83 percent… Read More

Apptio posts record revenue of $44M in its second quarter as public company

Apptio exceeded analyst expectations for revenue and profit during its second-ever quarter as a public company. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company posted… Read More

Shares of Marchex spike 17% after ad analytics company inks cloud partnership with Facebook

Seattle-based marketing company Marchex has had a rough past year. The company’s CEO and board chairman departed last fall after… Read More

Judge lets Microsoft proceed with suit vs. DOJ, challenging federal secrecy orders

A federal judge in Seattle ruled today that Microsoft can move forward with a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of… Read More

Snap commits to spend $1B on Amazon Web Services over next five years

Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants… Read More

Microsoft will give Azure customers access to 10,000 patents to fight lawsuits

Microsoft will help its cloud computing customers fight lawsuits from patent trolls. As an added benefit to those paying for Microsoft… Read More

Cloud software monitoring startup Sensu raises $2.5M from Foundry Group

What started as an open source software project more than five years ago has turned into a legitimate startup that… Read More

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised last year that public cloud titan Amazon Web Services would achieve $10 billion in sales for 2016, reaching that milestone… Read More

Microsoft, AT&T join in $25M funding round for SnapRoute, networking startup founded by Apple engineers

SnapRoute, a networking startup formed by Apple engineers, announced Tuesday that it secured $25 million in a Series A venture… Read More

Microsoft’s AI group debuts customizable speech-to-text technology, rapidly expanding ‘cognitive services’ for developers

Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, a major new engineering and research division formed last year inside the Redmond… Read More

Microsoft doubled its Azure cloud revenue to $2.7B last year, analysts estimate

Reality check: Some of Trump’s plans could help the tech industry, big league

Higher Logic acquires Portland workplace collaboration startup Kavi

Cash or Watson? IBM and Visa bringing AI-based purchasing to cars, running shoes and other objects

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

DDoS denied: ExtraHop’s newest product detects security breaches and other network anomalies with machine learning

Salesforce adds ‘Einstein’ artificial intelligence tools to its customer service platform

Amazon cloud leader Andy Jassy sizes up the competition in rare public remarks about rivals

SAP President Steve Singh says cloud computing is yesterday’s news — ‘microservices’ are the future

Alexa in the warehouse? What enterprise cloud company Acumatica learned from this experiment

Apptio posts record revenue of $44M in its second quarter as public company

Shares of Marchex spike 17% after ad analytics company inks cloud partnership with Facebook

Judge lets Microsoft proceed with suit vs. DOJ, challenging federal secrecy orders

Snap commits to spend $1B on Amazon Web Services over next five years

Cloud software monitoring startup Sensu raises $2.5M from Foundry Group

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Microsoft, AT&T join in $25M funding round for SnapRoute, networking startup founded by Apple engineers

Microsoft’s AI group debuts customizable speech-to-text technology, rapidly expanding ‘cognitive services’ for developers

Snap’s IPO filing reveals $2B, five-year Google Cloud deal — and it was finalized this week

Amazon Web Services posts $3.5B in sales, up 47% from last year, reaches $14B annual run rate

Google vows to build leading cloud for enterprise Windows, swiping at Microsoft’s core business

Apple touts ‘record results’ for iCloud storage business as services revenue tops $7B

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: How Azure will fend off Amazon Web Services in the enterprise

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate tops $14B for first time, driven by Azure and Office 365

Amazon Web Services and Azure expand IPv6 offerings, to add security and handle more devices

LendingRobot launches hedge fund that uses blockchain and machine learning — with no human intervention

Startup uses Microsoft technology to translate text messages in real-time for world leaders at Davos

Federal judge in a ‘dilemma’ over Microsoft’s legal case against government secrecy orders