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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

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

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

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Prices depend on discounts and customer acuity, analysis shows

LAS VEGAS — If you’re involved in information technology and the cloud, you’ve heard it before: trade capital expense (capex) for operating… Read More

What’s next for Amazon Web Services? Public cloud leader to reveal plans at giant Las Vegas event

Amazon Web Services, now 10 years old, is by far the dominant public-cloud service, but can it retain its lead?… Read More

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

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

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

Q&A: Soon-to-be VC Bob Kelly on Microsoft-Amazon rivalry, cloud computing in Seattle and Alice in Wonderland

Bob Kelly, a 21-year Microsoft vet who left that company in September to start as a managing partner with Seattle’s… 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 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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

King of the Cloud: How the Seattle region is positioned to reinvent technology, again

In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that… Read More

Microsoft winding down Azure RemoteApp in favor of XenApp ‘express,’ developed with Citrix

Microsoft is phasing out its Azure RemoteApp over the next year in favor of relying on its partnership with Citrix… Read More

Microsoft explains why Azure Stack will initially work on only a handful of servers

Microsoft today explained its reasoning for restricting the forthcoming Azure Stack to servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo — a… Read More

Google acquires cloud commerce company Orbitera, embracing ‘multi-cloud world’

Update: Google and Orbitera are not disclosing terms of the deal but TechCrunch reports the startup sold for just over… Read More