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Container startup ClusterHQ calls it quits, citing duplicated efforts

ClusterHQ, a San Francisco-based container-products startup, is shutting down operations effective immediately, chairman Mark Davis wrote in a blog post entitled… Read More

How Starbucks is using artificial intelligence to connect with customers and boost sales

Imagine pulling into a Starbucks drive-thru and seeing not just your drink order but your name on the screen — along… Read More

Machine Reading? Microsoft releases giant Q&A dataset to help researchers build AI tools that read and answer questions as well as humans

MS MARCO may sound like the name of a giant ocean liner (and, in fact, the MS Marco Polo does… Read More

Shipping-simplifier Globatom scores new investment and execs, and goes all in with Microsoft Azure

Globatom, a software-as-a-service startup aimed at improving the process of shipping goods, has overhauled its executive team, received new venture… Read More

Oracle reports increased revenue from some cloud offerings, but it’s hardly a threat to Amazon

Database stalwart Oracle Corp., which would very much like to be a major player in the public-cloud market, reported sharply… Read More

Azure in the car: Microsoft and TomTom partner on location services for U.S. automakers

Microsoft has partnered with TomTom, a Dutch firm specializing in electronic navigation and mapping, to help build up location-based services… Read More

Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand

Cisco will abandon its InterCloud cloud-computing offering on March 31 and will move any InterCloud workloads to other, unnamed cloud… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands yet again, this time in London, as cloud movement thrives

Amazon Web Services has opened a London region, offering UK-based companies and their end-users lower latency than they may have… Read More

Docker donates a core piece of its container technology, an effort to fuel innovation by others

Docker, the venture-backed maker of the most popular offering for creating containerized applications, is donating a vital piece of its software to… Read More

New version of container orchestrator Kubernetes advances support for Windows containers

Just weeks after Amazon Web Services entered the container-management space with Blox, the leading open-source container-management product, Kubernetes, has moved… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands to offer cloud IT services to big companies

Amazon Web Services continues to chew its way upward through the “stack” of computing services that organizations require, moving from… Read More

Starbucks hires Amazon Web Services and Microsoft vet to build cloud-based ‘digital flywheel’

Tal Saraf, a veteran of Cisco, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, has joined Starbucks as its senior vice president of engineering… Read More

Why the data center isn’t dead yet: Explaining the rise of the ‘pragmatic hybrid cloud’

Amazon Web Services’ recent re:Invent conference in Las Vegas highlighted the excitement and momentum that public-cloud computing is generating these… Read More

Guest post: The biggest trends at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference

The momentum continues to build and scale in leaps and bounds. That was the overwhelming observation and feeling at the… Read More

Moving to the cloud requires (and attracts) scarce, expensive talent, say 3 big AWS users

Moving to Amazon Web Services is proving pricey for Matson, a Honolulu-based shipping company that last month announced it has abandoned its… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands with its first Canadian region

Amazon Web Services has opened a region in Canada, its first in that country. The Canada (Central) region, located in Montreal,… Read More

Microsoft releases R Server 9.0, improved Azure interface and more

Microsoft today announced version 9.0 of its R Server, a product designed for data scientists working with large sets of information.… Read More

‘It’s fun!’ Microsoft vet Bob Muglia speaks out on competing with Amazon, his first CEO post, and his stint in Redmond

It takes a certain amount of courage to compete with public-cloud giant Amazon Web Services — especially when your own product… Read More

Google to achieve 100% renewable power next year, relying mostly on the wind

With 2.6 GW (gigawatts) of renewable energy purchased, Google is on pace to reach 100 percent renewable energy next year,… Read More

Smartphone app uses multiple Amazon Web Services to cut emergency response time after crashes

U.S. traffic fatalities are spiking for the first time in 50 years, and Agero Inc., of Medford, Mass., is using… Read More

Data-linking service Usermind expands to help companies connect to their partners’ data

Seattle startup Usermind has released enhancements to its eponymous application- and data-integration service that let companies include their partners’ data as well.… Read More

The busiest Amazon ’employee’ ever? Execs explain their plan to put Alexa everywhere

Amazon is crafting its Alexa voice-based digital assistant to be like one of its employees, and now, with the introduction… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Salesforce deepen relationship through new IoT and Alexa links

Cloud leader Amazon Web Services and CRM giant Salesforce will expand their strategic alliance — delivering five new service integrations and making… Read More

AWS cheat sheet: Here are the key re:Invent announcements to know about today

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services unleashed another wave of technologies today at its re:Invent conference during a keynote by… Read More

Amazon enables AWS CodeBuild, a managed service to build applications

While many developers use build servers running in AWS, typically those build environments are deployed, configured and managed by the… Read More

Amazon unveils AWS X-Ray and Personal Health Dashboard to help monitor application health in the cloud

Developers who deploy applications on AWS now have a new set of tools from Amazon to help them monitor and… Read More

Amazon Web Services unveils ‘Shield’ to protect sites from crippling online attacks

A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties,… Read More

AWS serves up new Chef integration, boosting Seattle-based software automation startup

LAS VEGAS — This morning at the fifth annual re:Invent user’s conference, Seattle-based software-automation firm Chef announced that the full capabilities… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy ‘optimistic’ AWS will become a $100B business, but no spinoff plans

LAS VEGAS — After his two-hour keynote at re:Invent 2016 this morning, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy fielded questions from… Read More

Amazon reveals AWS Snowmobile, a 45-foot semi-trailer that moves exabytes of data to the cloud

LAS VEGAS — Snowball, a physical device introduced by Amazon last year to quickly move 50 TB of data out… Read More