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Microsoft’s Azure faces new challenges in streaming Rio Olympics coverage

This year’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which run August 5-21, won’t be the first time NBC has used Microsoft’s Azure… Read More

Amazon Web Services sales climb 58%, hit new record of nearly $2.9B

Amazon Web Services posted record revenue and operating income in the second quarter ended June 30, as the world’s largest cloud-services organization continued… Read More

Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3 billion, bolstering cloud efforts amid increasing competition

Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy cloud company NetSuite for about $9.3 billion in cash, furthering its efforts in… Read More

IBM releases Graph, a service that can outperform SQL databases

IBM today announced the general availability of Graph, a service for the Bluemix cloud offering that the company said helps set… Read More

Amazon Web Services tops Microsoft, Google and everyone else in Gartner’s new public cloud ratings

Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services,… Read More

Microsoft strengthens Azure’s ties to Google Drive, Dropbox and other services with new ‘connectors’

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure Logic Apps and the North American general availability of Azure Active Directory… Read More

BlackBerry moves customers’ apps to Microsoft Azure as it tries to rekindle its moribund handset business

Corporate America and the U.S. Senate may have fallen out of love with the BlackBerry, but as its maker tries to resurrect… Read More

Can Amazon Web Services keep up its torrid pace? Cloud juggernaut eyes $10B in yearly revenue

Amazon Web Services has been essential in keeping Amazon profitable. Last quarter, the cloud computing platform accounted for 56 percent of… Read More

ExtraHop hires former Fluke president as CEO in bid to become next major enterprise tech company

ExtraHop Networks, a Seattle-based company that monitors complex computer networks in real-time, has appointed former Fluke Networks President Arif Kareem as… Read More

Data-warehousing veteran Teradata buys U.K.-based consultancy to increase international reach

Teradata, a long-time player in the massively parallel data warehouse space, has purchased Big Data Partnership, a London-based provider of… Read More

Amazon says 26 AWS services meet tough new credit-card security standard

Twenty-six services within the Amazon Web Services cloud offering have been certified as conforming to a stringent credit-card security standard… Read More

Internet security company StackPath emerges from stealth mode with big funding round

The major cloud services are busy beefing up their security services, but as cloud use increases, they’re not alone in… Read More

Virtuozzo’s new Kernel-based Virtual Machine for ISPs is a ‘huge thing,’ years in the making

Virtuozzo, a Seattle-based virtualization firm, today released Virtuozzo 7, which incorporates an “optimized” version of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) that “gives… Read More

Microsoft will spend up to $2.5B for 1.7M square-foot data center in Iowa, its largest in U.S.

Microsoft will spend $1.5-to-$2.5 billion to build a 1.7 million-square-foot data center on 200 acres in West Des Moines, Iowa,… Read More

Datadog adds monitoring support for IT stalwart Azure SQL

Cloud metrics firm Datadog now allows monitoring of the cloud-based version of an old IT standby: the Azure SQL relational database. Database technology… Read More

Microsoft makes one Azure security service available, prepares to release two more

Microsoft today announced the immediate or pending general availability of three security-related services for its Azure cloud. They are Security Center, Active… Read More

New products galore from F5 Networks as CEO John McAdam contemplates retirement, again

F5 Networks is releasing an unprecedented burst of new software and hardware products, responding to encouragement from once and current CEO John McAdam, he… Read More

F5 Networks beats its own quarterly goals, sets CEO search and hires CMO

F5 Networks, the Seattle-based network infrastructure and security technology company, reported revenue of $496.5 million for the third quarter of its… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes Device Farm smartphone-testing service generally available

Amazon Web Services today opened up generally availability of its Device Farm remote access service, which allows for testing of… Read More

Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region, cutting latency for users

Google Cloud Platform today opened its first West Coast cloud region, named us-west1, in The Dalles, Ore. Testing shows the new… Read More

Cray and Deloitte harnessing supercomputers to help organizations fend off intruders

Supercomputing firm Cray is working with consultancy Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services to offer a subscription service intended to protect… Read More

Cloud powers Microsoft earnings as run rate tops $12B in Q4

Microsoft this afternoon posted an annualized run rate for its cloud offerings of more than $12.1 billion based on its… Read More

Gartner study: Amazon Web Services edges out Microsoft Azure for Infrastructure as a Service

Amazon Web Services scored slightly higher than Microsoft’s Azure in Gartner’s comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service assessment, released by the research… Read More

Is it you or the servers? Datadog offers website for checking on Pokémon Go status

As many players of Pokémon Go can attest, the augmented-reality mobile game’s astounding popularity has caused numerous server issues. The servers have been… Read More

IBM sees strong cloud growth in Q2, but revenue dips as hardware sales slow

IBM this afternoon reported revenue of $20.2 billion for its second quarter ending June 30, sliding 2.6 percent from the year-ago period as the company… Read More

Microsoft Azure wins big piece of Boeing’s cloud computing business

Boeing will adopt Microsoft Azure for many of the commercial analytical aviation applications that the aerospace giant has built for more than… Read More

How your future car’s virtual driver will take advantage of computing in the cloud

The car of the future may well be controlled by a certified virtual driver that relies on the cloud for… Read More

Microsoft refines Azure’s motion-detection service and offers DIY usage-tracking project

Microsoft has upgraded the motion-detection features of Azure Media Services, the company said in a blog post today. Rather than detecting motion… Read More

Amazon Web Services buys Cloud9, a maker of online development tools

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a privately held company that sells an online, collaborative integrated development… Read More

Algorithmia aims to democratize deep learning with expansion of its marketplace for algorithms

Deep learning — attempts to make software mimic the functions of the human brain — is one of the most… Read More