Data volume and complexity has soared in recent years, and so too have transaction volumes. In this environment, the performance of transactional…
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The Specter of Performance and the Adoption of Hybrid Clouds
One of the biggest challenges comes in the specter of performance, a poltergeist that adds latency to transactions and is further empowered by physical distances.…
Read MoreGetting the real dope on your cloud deployment
Lots of companies can perform cost analysis of cloud-based instances; Krystallize Technologies promises to do more. The Austin, Texas–based startup said its technology…
Read MoreRemember when machine learning was hard? That’s about to change
A few years ago, there was a shift in the world of machine learning. Companies, such as Skytree and Context Relevant, began…
Read MoreAWS maintains lead in public cloud, but Azure inches forward
Amazon Web Services continues to dominate public cloud usage across the board, but Microsoft Azure is making strides at least in business accounts,…
Read MoreMicrosoft claims compliance with ISO data privacy standard
Microsoft says its compliance with a data privacy standard set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) means customer data in its Azure cloud…
Read MoreMicrosoft woos Y Combinator startups with big Azure credits
Microsoft wants to boost its cloud’s profile among startups so it’s making $500,000 in Azure credits available to Y Combinator-backed companies. The credits…
Read MoreWhy opening up its Cosmos big data system would be the right move for Microsoft
There has been a rumor floating around since August (first, and subsequently, reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet) that Microsoft is…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s big task: Replicating Windows-Office success in cloud
Microsoft turned in pretty good second quarter results on Monday, but its stock still took a hit after hours and into Tuesday. At…
Read MoreMicrosoft cites key cloud and mobile segments for good Q2
Microsoft is claiming strong cloud-and-mobile growth in its second-quarter earnings release. The company which is playing catchup in cloud now claims a $5.5…
Read MoreRobots embrace Ubuntu as it invades the internet of things
Canonical has revealed what I reckon is its biggest announcement in years: Ubuntu is about to invade the internet of things with…
Read MoreLeaked US report says encryption “best defense” to protect data
A newly leaked document courtesy of Edward Snowden revealed that some U.S. officials are encouraging the use of encryption as a means…
Read MoreHadoop needs a better front-end for business users
Whether you’re running it on premises or in the cloud, Hadoop leaves a lot to be desired in the ease-of-use department. The…
Read MoreSendGrid gets $20M to make in-app email easier
In-app email facilitator claims it sends 435 million messages a day, 15 billion per month.…
Read MoreAmazon CDN stumbled, but recovered, in time for Black Friday
The week in cloud: An AWS CloudFront CDN issue snagged some websites on Thanksgiving Eve.…
Read MoreBBC uses “collateral freedom” system to bypass Chinese censorship
The campaign group Greatfire.org says it is sneaking Chinese-language BBC content behind the Great Firewall using its CDN-based mirror site approach.…
Read MoreMicrosoft plays nice with Docker while Azure takes a hit
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news.…
Read MoreDo you find OSS hard to deploy? Meet ZeroToDocker
Open source software is widely available and hugely helpful. But the packaging can be dicey and deployment difficult. So say hey to Netflix' ZeroToDocker.…
Read MoreMicrosoft performance update caused Azure to stumble Tuesday
Microsoft detailed Wednesday just what exactly went on in its data centers that led to its Azure cloud experiencing a series of hiccups on Tuesday.…
Read MoreMicrosoft puts Docker on Windows clients
Microsoft said today that users can now run Docker inside a Windows machine and manage Linux-based containers using the new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows. The news follows up on the recent partnership between Microsoft and Docker to ensure that Docker can run nicely on the Azure cloud and Windows Server.…
Read MoreMicrosoft snaps up Aorato to boost enterprise, hybrid cloud security
The Aorato deal promises to bring machine-learning smarts to bear to protect Active Directory assets in hybrid cloud deployments, Microsoft said in a blog post.…
Read MoreMicrosoft makes its cloud data move
Microsoft's cloud data stack was short and slow-growing. But this summer, something changed, raising its stature considerably.…
Read MoreCan Amazon keep investing in AWS as losses mount?
The week in cloud: Amazon's poor earnings cast some doubt on how much the company can continue to pour into pricey AWS cloud infrastructure.…
Read MoreMicrosoft again cites strong cloud growth in its latest earnings
For its quarter ending September 30, Microsoft beat analyst expectations with $23.2 billion in revenue.…
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