Why This Popular Developer Site Dumped Cloud to Build Its Own Storage
“How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud.” That headline is roughly equivalent to “Man Bites Dog” in the tech blogosphere, so it was eyebrow-raising to those who read it atop a new blog post from...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft Shares Almost Hit a 52-Week High
Microsoft shares flirted with a 52-week high on Thursday and got pretty close again on Friday, thanks to an upgrade and glowing report from Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini. The company’s 52-week...
View ArticleThe Era of Cloud Price Discounts Is Fading
Not so long ago, the discussion of whether businesses should use Amazon, Microsoft, or Google data centers instead of their own, centered mostly around pricing. The conventional wisdom was that cloud...
View ArticleExclusive: Amazon To Play Up New Database, Artificial Intelligence at Cloud...
Next week at its annual AWS re:Invent tech conference, Amazon Web Services is expected to unveil a new easier-to-manage version of the popular PostgreSQL database for its cloud customers. In so doing,...
View ArticleShipping Giant Moves Into Amazon’s Cloud
Amazon is kicking off its annual cloud fest a bit early this year, with news that Matson, the big freight shipping company has moved all of its critical operations to Amazon Web Services, closing four...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Lands On IBM Cloud For Some Of Its Tech
American Airlines plans to use IBM’s public cloud to run some of its applications, both companies said early Tuesday. American Airlines, like most large companies, has legacy applications to manage...
View ArticleAmazon Cloud Isn’t Just for Startups Anymore
Amazon Web Services used to be the public cloud of choice for scrappy cash-strapped startups. Small companies liked that they could buy (or rent) computer servers, networking, and storage as needed,...
View ArticleAmazon Unveils New AI Services for Cloud Devotees
Amazon unveiled new artificial intelligence services to help users of its data center services to build better, smarter applications. The services include tools to help developers add text-to-speech,...
View ArticleAmazon Extends Cloud Reach With Hardware
This week, Amazon Web Services gave its clearest acknowledgement to date that it doesn’t really expect everyone’s computing to happen in its data centers. With the advent of the Internet of things...
View ArticleAmazon Cloud Chief Keeps Pushing Single Cloud Vision
Amazon Web Services budged a bit on the notion of hybrid cloud this week, announcing a few hardware devices that customers can use to run some software code on-premises. But both of those...
View ArticleAmazon Brings On a New Open Source Guru
Amazon Web Services has named Zaheda Bhorat, a booster of open source software with stints at Salesforce, Google and the U.K. Government Digital Service under her belt, to lead its open source strategy...
View ArticleOne Benefit of Cloud Migrations May Surprise You
For anyone following technology trends, the notion that many businesses are supplementing or even replacing their own data centers with a cloud like Amazon Web Services is no longer a shock, or even...
View ArticleAmazon Opens New Cloud Facilities in London
Amazon Web Services just opened a new set of cloud data centers in London, continuing its expansion. The London facility represents what Amazon calls another cloud “region” in Europe which joins the...
View ArticleAlibaba Cloud Expands Into Japan
The cloud computing arms race continued Thursday with news that Alibaba is now offering cloud computing services from a Tokyo facility, giving it broad coverage in Japan. The new data center facilities...
View ArticleHPE and Cisco Moves Hurt OpenStack’s Public Cloud Story
With Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Systems downsizing their respective OpenStack-based public cloud efforts recently, the OpenStack open-source cloud framework, already struggling in that arena,...
View ArticleHow Amazon’s Cloud Infrastructure for VMware Could Find More Uses
One surprising thing about what Amazon Web Services has done to run VMware’s popular virtualization software in its own cloud data centers is just how…un-cloud-like it seems. Amazon is assembling...
View ArticleWhy 2017 Might Be a Difficult Year for Microsoft
Microsoft has become Wall Street’s darling again after a few rough years in the late Steve Ballmer era. But the company still has a lot riding on executing well next year. First and foremost,...
View ArticleExpect Amazon’s Cloud to See Hotter Competition in 2017
Over the last decade, Amazon Web Services has become the focal point of every tech company, most of which are now fighting to build their own public clouds. That includes computing pioneer IBM ibm ,...
View ArticleTorrid Cloud Growth Continues
Companies continued their adoption of cloud computing services at a rapid clip in 2016, with overall growth expected to rise 25% year over year for that period, according to new numbers from Synergy...
View ArticleOracle and Google Refine Their Cloud Pitches to Take On Amazon
The public cloud arena has thus far been dominated by Amazon Web Services, with Microsoft Azure making a run. So far the leaderboard has Amazon at number one, Microsoft at number two, and then everyone...
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