Cloud Next day two wrap: Google makes a strong developer push
Google LLC made even more product announcements on day two of its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco than on the opening day of the event — this time aimed chiefly at software developers. Google...
View ArticleIn the multicloud era, is hardware an asset or a liability for tech providers?
Edge computing is driving hardware to the center of the cloud revolution. Devices are central to today’s cloud-to-edge paradigm. They are the hardware platforms into which AI software is being...
View ArticleReport: Apple has inked a five-year, $1.5B cloud contract with AWS
The relationship between Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. is one of the most prominent examples of the so-called coopetition that has permeated the tech industry. Apple competes with the online retail...
View ArticleCloud computing again leads the profit parade at Amazon
There’s still a cloud hanging over Amazon.com Inc., but that’s a good thing. Thanks once again to strong growth in its cloud computing operation, the tech and retail giant today reported...
View ArticleCloud infrastructure spending tops $21B in first quarter
Analyst firm Synergy Research Group’s latest numbers on public cloud infrastructure spending shows that enterprises just can’t satisfy their voracious appetite for hosted services. Spending on cloud...
View ArticleAmazon and its partners will start reselling VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware Inc. are making their jointly developed VMware Cloud on AWS service more widely available by opening it up to Amazon’s partner network as well as AWS’ own...
View ArticleKeynote analysis: AWS Summit spotlights builders and data that keep AWS strong
With upwards of 12,000 attendees for AWS Summit’s one-day event in London, it’s hard to imagine that nearly 15 years ago Amazon Web Services Inc. was so little regarded as a true player in the public...
View ArticleTraditional IT services are ‘dead’; next-gen cloud services in sight, says...
The first shift toward public cloud services has made a rich yet extremely complicated digital disruption in the technological industry, and traditional IT services are dead — at least that’s the view...
View ArticleQ&A: Oxford University museums digitize collections for 24/7 virtual access
With more than 8.5 million treasured objects in its care, the Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) of the University of Oxford contain some of the world’s most significant collections, such as the...
View ArticleStratoscale furthers its drive toward a multicloud hybrid platform
Continuing its evolution from a provider of hyperconverged software into the developer of a full private cloud software stack, Stratoscale Ltd. today introduced a new version of its namesake offering....
View ArticleAWS announces general availability of its document reading service Textract
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Textract service, which uses machine learning to extract text and data from documents including tables and forms, is now generally available. Textract was first announced...
View ArticleQ&A: AWS ‘container czarina’ Abby Fuller weighs in on Kubernetes excitement
It’s a Kubernetes world, but it would be nothing without community collaboration. The open-source powerhouse has emerged as the de facto platform for managing containers — packaged software...
View ArticleQ&A: As AI and machine-learning tech evolves, AWS keeps pace
Major data trends occurring in the enterprise are focused on cloud and artificial intelligence platforms. But while companies are often eager to learn more about this tech, they aren’t quite sure how...
View ArticleAWS announces new IoT services and managed Kafka offering
Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced general availability of a several new services that it first announced during its annual re:Invent conference last November. Two of the new services are focused...
View ArticleAmazon and Google race to sign up new cloud customers
Public cloud infrastructure providers Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC both announced new marquee customers today as they step up their battle capture big name clients. AWS says it has agreed a...
View ArticleSetting rivalry aside, Microsoft and Oracle link their public clouds to go...
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. are integrating their competing public cloud platforms to form a unified front against Amazon Web Services Inc., their common rival. The partnership, which the...
View ArticleGoogle’s Looker purchase opens new front in cloud computing wars
Google LLC is making its largest acquisition in the public cloud market with the intended purchase of business intelligence firm Looker Data Sciences Inc. for $2.6 billion in an all-cash transaction...
View ArticleAWS adds new partner programs for cloud migrations and government projects
Amazon Web Services Inc. relies extensively on partners to assist enterprise customers with their cloud projects. Today, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit launched new partner programs to address...
View ArticleAt AWS Public Sector Summit, Amazon braces for a changing cloud industry
Public clouds are coming into the core technology infrastructures of government agencies everywhere. By the same token, governments around the world are intensifying their scrutiny of public cloud...
View ArticleCloud satellite solutions help tackle deforestation, wildfires and more
Satellites are used within a variety of private industries — like weather, communications and media — but satellites take an enormous amount of money, contracts with ground station providers, and data...
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