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Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy dismisses diatribe by Oracle’s Larry Ellison

A month after Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison spent the better part of an hour trash-talking Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Virtualization meets the cloud: VMware strikes wide-ranging alliance with Amazon Web Services

Virtualization giant VMware is partnering with market-leading public cloud provider Amazon Web Services to offer a version of VMware’s virtualization… Read More

IBM says its new Cloud Object Storage allows easily moving and splitting data

IBM has announced Cloud Object Storage, a service it said lets organizations store large volumes of unstructured data on any combination… Read More

Microsoft unveils features of Dynamics 365, its new bid to bring AI to the business world

Microsoft in an extensive demo today unveiled the capabilities of its Azure-based Dynamics 365 service announced in July — describing it as a significant undertaking combining its… Read More

Cloud-management startup CloudCoreo scores $2.9M in seed round

CloudCoreo, a Seattle-based startup in the cloud-management arena, has received a $2.9 million seed-stage investment led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Third-party Amazon Alexa-enabled devices get key ‘wake word’ capability thanks to Seattle startup

Amazon makes it easy to create new “skills” for its Alexa voice-command system that work on its own devices, with step-by-step tutorials… Read More

Testing out Amazon’s ‘Internet of Things’ button: Infinite possibilities, requiring infinite patience

You’ve probably seen those colorful Amazon “dash buttons” that will automatically reorder food, paper towels, detergent and even condoms with… Read More

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services to offer security, analytics and IoT

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services, letting joint customers use AWS’s cloud services over AT&T’s worldwide network. The multi-year deal — terms… Read More

Amazon Web Services will partner with VMware, Fortune reports

Fortune is reporting that rivals Amazon Web Services and virtualization firm VMware next week will make up and pledge to… Read More

Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views

How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more… Read More

Salesforce agrees to buy Krux for $700m, to build up marketing-data segment

Salesforce.com Inc. has agreed to acquire San Francisco startup Krux, in a bid by the cloud-software giant to bolster its marketing-data and analytics… Read More

Swiss engineering firm ABB chooses Microsoft Azure as its cloud partner

Microsoft will expand its partnership with ABB after the Swiss engineering firm designated Azure as its public cloud of choice, the… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft likely to hang onto their cloud leads, journos say at GeekWire Summit

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will likely hang onto their first- and second-place rankings, respectively, in the public-cloud arena, three… Read More

Microsoft Azure cuts prices on its virtual machines

Just weeks after Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie declared that cloud pricing wars with Amazon Web Services were winding down,… Read More

Microsoft unveils 217-page book in bid to influence global cloud policy

Microsoft this morning unveiled a book titled “A Cloud for Global Good,” which CEO Satya Nadella called “a set of policy… Read More

Amazon announces plan to open Paris-area web services region

Amazon Web Services next year will add a new geographic region to its worldwide network of data centers, this one… Read More

Why the OpenStack private-cloud software is getting the attention of big companies

More than 200 IT professionals — mainly administrators, developer and executives — turned out today for the sold-out OpenStack Days… Read More

Adobe’s use of Microsoft Azure will complement, not replace, AWS and its own cloud

This week’s announcement that Adobe is embracing Microsoft’s Azure as its “preferred cloud platform” shows Adobe is spreading its computing load across multiple… Read More

How Microsoft’s new Adobe partnership brings its LinkedIn acquisition into clearer focus

ATLANTA, GA. — Microsoft’s ambitious acquisition of LinkedIn raised some eyebrows with its $26B price tag. Monday’s announcement of a strategic partnership… Read More

Microsoft and Docker bet big on containerized apps with release of Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016, due out next month, will gain new capabilities thanks to its inclusion of the commercially supported Docker Engine… Read More

Microsoft Ignite: How algorithms, the cloud, IoT and data are changing computing

Algorithms, the cloud, the internet of things, and data — a combination referred to as ACID — are changing the face… Read More

Adobe partners with Microsoft to use Azure as ‘preferred solution’ for cloud services

ATLANTA, GA. — Technology giants Adobe and Microsoft announced a strategic cloud partnership at Microsoft Ignite on Monday, with each company throwing… Read More

Microsoft announces new versions of Windows Server and System Center, teases ‘AI supercomputer’

At its annual Ignite technology conference in Atlanta today, Microsoft announced the availability next month of System Center 2016 and… Read More

Microsoft sees ‘staggering’ potential for blockchain technology as it releases new ‘Bletchley’ template

Microsoft has released version 1 of Bletchley template for Azure, which lets users create a distributed-ledger, or blockchain, network with minimal knowledge… Read More

Microsoft opens two Azure regions in Germany, adhering to strict security laws

Microsoft has opened two more cloud regions, this time in Germany. These are the third and fourth new regions the company… Read More

Oracle’s Ellison rips Amazon Web Services on performance, price and openness

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison unleashed a flurry of punches against Amazon Web Services this afternoon at the OpenWorld users’ conference, making… Read More

Sorry, Microsoft: Cloud price wars are still raging and will continue, researcher says

Competition to offer lower-cost cloud services hasn’t ended — in fact, the price wars may just be getting underway, according to an analyst… Read More

Google buys Api.ai, a voice-command startup, to help build natural-language interfaces

Google has acquired Api.ai, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup that helps developers integrate voice-command capabilities into user interfaces. Financial terms of the… Read More

IBM focuses on a hybrid-cloud future with latest hardware and software

IBM today announced new hardware and software intended to help organizations embrace a hybrid-computing approach, including both on-premises and public-cloud computing.… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Amazon’s lead in cloud is over

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally… Read More