Cloud Tech – Page 47 of 54

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Trump, Twitter and what soured his relationship with Microsoft

Despite his wishful predictions that Donald Trump would never become president, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested on Monday evening that people forget their anxiety… Read More

Amazon Web Services to cut compute prices, continuing the decline in cloud costs

Amazon Web Services will cut the cost of its EC2 basic compute services among a limited number of regions by… Read More

Will Trump dislodge Amazon Web Services from the federal government? It’s not likely

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s antipathy toward Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos won’t threaten Amazon Web Services as the federal government’s major supplier of… Read More

Are you ‘cloud native’? Sold-out Seattle conference offers a peek at the future of apps

Major parts of the vast public cloud offered by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Compute are built on open-source… Read More

Job No. 1 for Virtuozzo’s new CEO: Educating the IT world on the company’s unique position

Seattle’s Virtuozzo, a maker of virtualization products, brought on a new CEO Nov. 1. He’s George Karidis, 48, a cloud-savvy veteran taking… Read More

Microsoft Azure integrates open-source container manager Kubernetes, born inside Google

Kubernetes, an open-source container manager designed by Google in 2014 and then donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is… Read More

Greening the cloud: How Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pursuing the goal of renewable power

Cloud computing and electric vehicles have something in common: they both obscure the source of their power. Often EV owners are… Read More

Worst Word of the Week: ‘Hyperconvergence’ integrates all that’s awful about the tech industry

I’ve been covering technology and computing since the client-server days of the early 1990s. A lot has changed since then.… Read More

How’s your data flow? Seattle startup APImetrics creates single-number indicator for API health

There’s a big but hidden business out there connecting corporate consumers of data with suppliers of data, and Seattle-based APImetrics has devised… Read More

Patching desktops and wrangling genomes: Meet the pioneering CIO who’s bringing the fight to cancer at Fred Hutch

If Seattle’s prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is going to use cloud computing power to help eradicate cancer, then… Read More

Study: AWS has 45% share of public cloud infrastructure market — more than Microsoft, Google, IBM combined

Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) —… Read More

Microsoft to share early-stage server hardware designs in ‘unprecedented’ open-source initiative

The phrase “open source” nearly always modifies “software,” but it doesn’t have to be that way. Cloud-related hardware, too, can… Read More

Amazon without AWS? Online retailer would have posted big loss if not for booming cloud business

Imagine this scenario: Amazon posts a $286 million operating loss for the third quarter, its sixth losing quarter in 2.5 years. Frustrated… Read More

Amazon Web Services third-quarter sales climb 55%, reaching a record $3.2 billion

Amazon Web Services generated a record-breaking 9.9 percent of its parent company’s net sales for the quarter ended Sept. 30,… Read More

Big DDoS attacks affect some Amazon Web Services customers, but AWS chief Andy Jassy assures cloud is secure

Some Amazon Web Services customers were affected by Friday’s massive DDoS internet attacks, AWS chief Andy Jassy acknowledged today during… Read More

Microsoft Azure’s new data-analysis service embraces competing databases and visualization tools

Microsoft is set to expand its Azure public cloud by launching Analysis Services as a technical preview today. The new offering runs a range… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands its budgeting feature, aiming to help cut cloud-computing costs

The days of cloud computing being only for early adopters are long past, as almost half (48 percent) of large… Read More

Microsoft closes week at all-time stock high of $59.66, eclipsing previous 1999 record and signaling new era

It took 17 years, but Microsoft has eclipsed its all-time stock high. The company, under the leadership of CEO Satya… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touts Azure’s advantages over market-leading Amazon Web Services

Microsoft shares hovered around an all-time high this morning after Thursday’s strong quarterly earnings report that beat expectations and was bolstered in large part… Read More

Microsoft’s cloud computing business posts $6.4B in Q1 revenue, accounts for 29% of total sales, run rate tops $13B

Microsoft’s cloud computing business continued to fuel growth for the software giant in its most recent quarter ending Sept. 30, as it produced $6.4 billion… Read More

Puppet provides closer links to VMware, Docker to ease rapid software production and deployment

Portland-based software-automation firm Puppet today announced tighter integrations with virtualization firm VMware and container powerhouse Docker. The announcements came in conjunction… Read More

Google Cloud Platform simplifies storage options and cuts prices in bid to compete with Amazon

Google Cloud Platform today moved to compete more directly with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, revamping its storage offerings,… Read More

Q&A: Uber’s machine learning chief says pattern-finding computing fuels ride-hailing giant

Under the simple skin of Uber lies complexity you may not have considered: the logistics of predicting how long it… Read More

EnergySavvy raises $14 million in funding, revamps services for utilities

EnergySavvy, a Seattle startup that helps utilities better relate to their customers, has released what it called its fifth generation of products,… Read More

Software giant SAP will put its HR package on Microsoft’s cloud as well as its own

Microsoft has expanded its partnership with German enterprise-software giant SAP, agreeing to put SAP’s SuccessFactors software on the Azure cloud within… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds Ohio region, for lower latency throughout middle and eastern U.S.

Amazon Web Services has added a new U.S. region, this one in Ohio, designed to cut latency among customers in… Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise cuts staff as it struggles to keep pace in the cloud

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a cloud, server and storage company that split from Hewlett Packard in late 2015, laid off an… Read More

Bing and Azure both gain speed from Microsoft’s new use of field-programmable gate arrays

Pretty much anybody in technology knows about CPUs (central processing units), the backbone of computers. And most people also know about GPUs… Read More

Surveillance, drones and crime prediction: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services tout cloud services at law enforcement show

Video surveillance-as-a-service in Detroit, automatic crime prediction in California and live-streaming police drones — all with a cloud connection —… Read More

Salesforce declines to bid for Twitter, leaving it bereft of suitors

Salesforce will take a pass on buying Twitter, according to a Financial Times report on Friday quoting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.… Read More