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Cloud price wars ending? Oracle chief Larry Ellison won’t be signing any truce

Some may think the cloud-computing price wars are waning — Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie said so just the other day — but… Read More

Salesforce hires Microsoft vet Tony Prophet as its first chief equality officer

CRM giant Salesforce has hired Tony Prophet, a veteran of Microsoft and HP, to become its chief equality officer, reporting to CEO… Read More

Microsoft Azure boss Scott Guthrie: Cloud price war with Amazon Web Services is winding down

A few years ago, most of the cloud-computing headlines were about price cuts, as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services battled… Read More

Microsoft partnering with Ping Identity to allow cloud-based secure access for more web apps

Microsoft is partnering with Ping Identity, a privately held, Denver-based firm, to provide cloud-based secure access to some on-premises web… Read More

Google sees Evernote as an ‘innovation partner’ as note-taking service moves to search giant’s cloud

Google plans to be an “innovation partner” with Evernote, the popular note-taking and productivity service that today said it will… Read More

Microsoft scored a ‘takeout’ against Salesforce with HP win, says cloud chief Scott Guthrie

Microsoft registered a “takeout” against Salesforce when it won a six-year contract yesterday to provide Dynamics CRM to HP Inc., said Scott Guthrie,… Read More

Salesforce to name a ‘chief equality officer,’ reporting to CEO Marc Benioff

Salesforce next week will announce its first chief equality officer, reporting directly to chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, he said this… Read More

Google tries to lure Microsoft developers by offering PowerShell for its cloud

Google has released a beta version of Cloud Tools for PowerShell, aiming to make Google’s cloud more attractive to .NET developers who have used… Read More

Microsoft bringing Azure microservices to Linux, continuing to cozy up to open-source OS

Microsoft will soon release a preliminary version of Azure Service Fabric for Linux, a free offering that brings to Linux the microservices-development… Read More

Salesforce agrees to buy commercial-texting firm HeyWire, its ninth purchase of 2016

Customer-relationship management giant Salesforce has agreed to buy HeyWire, a privately held, Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of cloud-based commercial texting services for… Read More

Microsoft inks six-year deal with HP to use Dynamics CRM for sales and partnerships

Microsoft has entered a six-year agreement for hardware giant HP Inc. to use its Dynamics CRM online service, the companies said this morning in… Read More

Microsoft Azure hit with widening outages in Europe and India

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has been experiencing significant outages overseas, leading to a torrent of angry Tweets from customers there. The problems started… Read More

Google buys Apigee for $625M, to help both developers and non-techies use APIs in the cloud

To give both developers and non-technical staffers new connectivity powers, Google has agreed to buy API manager Apigee, of San Jose, Calif., for about… Read More

HPE sells some ‘non-core’ software assets in $8.8B deal, aiming to improve focus on hybrid cloud

In a move that emphasizes hybrid private-public cloud computing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has sold some of its “non-core” software assets to… Read More

Microsoft surpasses pioneer Salesforce in enterprise software as a service revenue, new study says

Microsoft has become the world’s largest provider of enterprise software as a service (SaaS), according to a new study, surpassing… Read More

Dell and EMC complete merger, becoming Dell Technologies and preparing to battle AWS and Azure

Dell Inc. today closed its $67 billion deal to buy EMC Corp., taking on the name Dell Technologies and sealing… Read More

Slack leads list of top 100 private cloud companies in new Forbes ranking

Team messaging and collaboration company Slack topped the first-ever “Cloud 100” listing published by Forbes today. The listing ranks private companies… Read More

Microsoft expands cloud business, opens two Azure regions in the U.K.

Microsoft has opened two Azure cloud regions and an Office 365 region in the United Kingdom, with the intention of letting… Read More

How changes inside corporate tech teams are upending the $2B load balancer market

The $2 billion market for application-delivery controllers — software to optimize the delivery, performance and security of large programs over a corporate… Read More

Icertis partners with Box to expand cloud-based contract-management services

Cloud-based services to manage contracts, offered by Bellevue, Wash.-based Icertis, are now usable with file-sharing and collaboration service Box, the companies said this morning.… Read More

With $6M in fresh funds, new DefenseStorm CEO is ready to take on cybersecurity

Cybersecurity represents a new field for Sean Feeney, but the recently appointed CEO of Seattle’s DefenseStorm, a cybersecurity firm specializing in… Read More

Charts: The cloud computing industry is getting huge, decimating sales of on-premises servers

Public-cloud services will grow at a compounded annual rate of 22 percent between 2015 and 2020, reaching $236 billion, research… Read More

Salesforce reports 25% revenue growth and a healthy profit for Q2, but stock dips 8%

CRM giant Salesforce this afternoon posted revenue of $2 billion, up 25 percent year over year, and net income of… Read More

Cisco acquires startup ContainerX, buying into container management amidst layoffs and declining revenue

Cisco took its first step into the software container market today, announcing plans to buy ContainerX, an early-stage startup focused… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure best serve app developers, new Forrester study concludes

The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research… Read More

How Hillary Clinton’s tech chief wrangles a 70-person team using agile development, Amazon Web Services and goofy awards

Hillary Clinton’s technology team has built more than 50 software tools and products to date — a surprise even to… Read More

VMware cozies up to IBM as new Cloud Foundation integrates in-house and cloud computing

Virtualization company VMware this morning announced Cloud Foundation, an integration that the company says will combine some of its existing compute, storage… Read More

Enterprise tech company Apptio files for IPO, shows annual revenue of $129M and growing losses

Another Seattle area technology company is looking to test the IPO waters. Bellevue, Wash.-based Apptio, which makes software to help… Read More

IBM will emphasize Watson and AI at new cloud computing center in South Korea

IBM has opened a cloud data center in Pangyo, South Korea, bringing its total number of data centers to 47,… Read More

New release of Shippable’s application-deployment service includes multi-versioning

As Seattle-based startup Shippable sees things, organizations creating and running software can find plenty of products on the market to… Read More