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Daily Cloud Computing News from @cloudfeednet - Oct 21, 2016
Daily Cloud Computing news from @cloudfeednet.
Oracle’s Cloud, Built by Former AWS, Microsoft Engineers, Comes Online
The first availability region of Oracle’s new cloud platform, designed by some of the same people who built Amazon’s, Microsoft’s, and Google’s cloud …
OpenStack deals decline, but M&A drivers expand along with containers,
OpenStack has historically been a hotbed of acquisition activity given the participation of both startups and established vendors, but how is deal …
Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter
Microsoft posted revenue of $20.5 billion in the first quarter of its 2017 … Skype, and Dynamics), Intelligent Cloud (including Azure, Windows Server, …
Microsoft reports strong quarter, stock pushes to all-time highs in
The Seattle Times Sales of Microsoft’s Azure, the cloud service the company is building to challenge Amazon.com’s market-leading Amazon Web Services unit, grew 116 …
SAP to make SuccessFactors service available on Microsoft Azure
… SAP will make the SuccessFactors cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) service on Microsoft’s Azure platform over the next five years.
Microsoft’s transition from software to cloud services pays off in a big
The Indian Express … have set Microsoft and Amazon Web Services apart from smaller rivals and precipitated the decline of older software companies, Chowdhry said.
Cloud Is The Star Of Microsoft’s Q1
Microsoft released first-quarter financials Thursday that showed the growth, … Microsoft Azure revenue grew by 116 percent year-over-year, with the …
Cloud Growth Helps Microsoft Beat Q1 Expectations
Beating Wall Street expectations, Microsoft reveals that its commercial cloud … Microsoft considers Office, Dynamics and Azure as inextricably linked, …
SAP Raises Sales, Profit Forecast on Improved Cloud Outlook
SAP SE reported sales that topped estimates and raised its outlook for the year, as more customers signed up for its flagship S/4 Hana business …
Microsoft Azure Keeps Up the Pace With a Strong Q1
Azure was created for a future that would rely on distributed computing and a hyperscale architecture. And Windows was steered in that direction as …
Using metrics effectively in OpenStack development
At the OpenStack summit taking place this month in Barcelona, Ildik Vncsa will be speaking on metrics in her talk Metrics: Friends or Enemies?
Azure cloud growth gives Microsoft a quarter to remember
Microsoft posted a $4.7bn profit for its 2017 Q1 financial results. Boosted by an 8% revenue rise in the Intelligent Cloud division on the year to reach …
Microsoft breaks through clouds into the Azure as Q1 revenue soar
Microsoft Ireland country manager Caithriona Hallahan speaking with CEO Satya Nadella when he was in Dublin recently. Image: Naoise Culhane.
Oracle launches Bare Metal Cloud Services
… lead the project, and they’ve recruited heavily from all three hyperscale cloud providers in Seattle (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
Oracle launches Bare Metal Cloud Services
Oracle has been comparing its latest services against Amazon Web Services. Although it can provide flexibility, the bare metal cloud can also increase …
Wipro to buy US cloud services company for $500 million
The company has 1,250 employees worldwide with a list of cloud partners, including Google and Amazon Web Services. The acquisition allows Wipro …
Microsoft Azure up 116% year-over-year, cloud annualised run rate hits $13
Ars Technica UK Microsoft posted revenue of $20.5 billion in the first quarter of its 2017 financial year, a negligible rise on the same quarter last year. Operating income …
Microsoft Azure increases quarterly revenue by 116 per cent
Microsoft has just announced that its Azure public cloud saw tremendous growth in both revenue and compute usage during the last quarter that came …
Niantic CTO: Without cloud Pokmon Go would have collapsed within hours of
Computing Keslin explained that it was only the scalability of the Google Cloud Platform that enabled the firm to stay online and keep pace with demand. This was …
Google Android 7.1 Nougat Developer Preview Released for Nexus Devices
Today, Google is announcing new storage tiers available from the Google Cloud, and specifically the Google Cloud Platform. The Android Nougat 7.1 …
Media Advisory: Juniper Networks Reinforces Leadership in Openness and
Yahoo Sports This event is one of the most significant gatherings of IT leaders, telco operators, cloud administrators, app developers and OpenStack contributors …
This Is Probably Why a Whole Lot of the Internet Went Down This Morning
It seems likely that the problem derives from an issue with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform the provides the backbone for much of …
Armor Channel VP on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Shared Responsibility
You just helped a customer move an application to Azure or AWS. Think you and they are now on security easy street? Not so, says Dan Mannion, …
Google’s latest cloud updates include a cold storage service
The latest updates on Google Cloud Storage were announced at the GCPNEXT event that held in London on 20 October, 2016 and they include a …
U.S. web provider says probing East Coast cyber attack
Amazon’s web services unit said on its site that it had identified the root cause of the issue and was working to resolve it. “Customers may experience …
Microsoft’s Azure Segment Steps Up To Deliver A Big Q1 Surprise
Goldman Sachs said strong momentum in Azure helped Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) to report its first-quarter results above Street view.
Party like it’s … Microsoft just hit an all-time high, just like 1999
And thanks to heavy competition from Amazon and Google, cloud services are becoming an extremely competitive business. As the Wall Street …
Internet Service Restored in Eastern U.S. After Web-Hosting Hack
Separately, Amazon Web Services said on its service health dashboard site that it has identified the root cause of the Internet issues affecting users …
QTS launches fully managed OpenStack cloud service
colocation provider QTS Realty Trust has announced availability of a fully …
Daily Report: Microsoft, Ahead in the Cloud
Or is the business buying standard Microsoft software applications, like Office, which are now sold in jazzed-up versions that are sold via Azure, as a …
Google Pixel Wallpapers app now available for most Android phones
Today, Google is announcing new storage tiers available from the Google Cloud, and specifically the Google Cloud Platform. If voice assistance is …
OpenStack-flinger Mirantis signs landmark NTT deal
NTT has announced Private OpenStack “as a service” on its NTT Enterprise Cloud, a fully managed service running in its data centres. The service will …
Puppet’s Major Platform Update: More Ways to Tame IT Infrastructure
Then it was OpenStack. (In fact, Puppet was so successful in helping its companies migrate to OpenStack that that today half of the world’s OpenStack …
Attack on web provider disrupts some sites on US East Coast
N) Heroku cloud-computing service platform, which runs on Amazon Web Services, disclosed a service outage that it said was related to a denial of …
Microsoft Shares Poised to Hit Record High, Boosted by Cloud
Revenue from Azure cloud services more than doubled, helping Microsoft outperform even as demand for PCs remained in the doldrums and its …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touts Azure’s advantages over market-leading
GeekWire Unlike market-leading Amazon Web Services, Microsoft offers a service fabric that gives customers computing and analytical options beyond those …
East Coast cyber attack on web provider disrupts sites in US
Salesforce.com Inc’s Heroku cloud-computing service platform, which runs on Amazon Web Services, disclosed a service outage that it said was …
Microsoft’s bet on the cloud appears to be paying off
While Windows Phone dies a slow death, and Windows itself is stagnant, revenue from the company’s Azure which businesses use to host sites …
Google Outs New Cloud Platform Storage Options
Users of Google’s Cloud Platform utilize it for a very wide range of things, from backing up and archiving data to subbing in for onsite server operations …
Aveva to Use Amazon to Deliver Aveva Connect
Aveva has announced that it intends to use Amazon Web Services to deliver Aveva Connect, a software as a service (SaaS) ecosystem for …
Google Cloud Storage prices cut, Glacier cold storage competitor added
Vimeo was an early adopter of AWS and still uses the platform, as well as its own data centers, but it’s found some advantages to using Google Cloud …
The East Coast Cyberattack: What We Know Now
Some initial speculation (including ours here at Future Tense) suggested that the problems might have originated with an Amazon Web Services data …
F5 Networks’ Application Delivery Controller Offered Via Microsoft Azure
GovConWire cloud security TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 21, 2016 F5 Networks’ (Nasdaq: FFIV) application delivery controller technology are now available via …
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup October 21, 2016
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is rolling out its Pivotal Cloud Foundry on GCP, bringing Pivotal’s enterprise cloud-native experience together with …
Five Data Center Modernization MythsBusted at VMworld
where they could be found on the stage and in the audience for killer …
Hershey Trusts Microsoft Cloud to Power Digital Transformation
Much of Microsoft’s success in the recent quarterand in recent yearshas been driven by its Microsoft Azure cloud business, thanks to customers …
Production debugging the easy way, with Stackdriver Debugger GA
applications, traditional debugging tools are slow and cumbersome for …
Why Twitter, Spotify and other major sites may be inaccessible
Issues with Amazon Web Services, a cloud hosting provider relied on by many popular sites, also occurred this morning. A status update posted on its …
Cloud business puffs up Microsoft’s earnings
Microsoft is gaining on Amazon Web Services, with more than 120,000 new Azure subscriptions each month and 1.6 million production databases …
Why Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Continues to Attract Enterprises
Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates, noted that Microsoft Azure’s ascendancy is chipping away at Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) …
Amazon employees enjoy ‘Bring Your Parents to Work Day’
… a little bit, because mom and dad were coming to work, said Ardine Williams, the vice president for talent acquisition for Amazon Web Services.
History shows a rising Microsoft should lift all tech
Results were driven by strength in the tech giant’s cloud business, with revenue in Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing services rocketing higher, …
Google Cloud Shell New Code Editor to Enable End-to-End Cloud Development
Google has launched a code editor integrated within its Google Cloud Platform. Based on Eclipse Orion, it will make it possible to edit code and …
Microsoft shares peak as Azure grows 116%
Microsoft has smashed Wall Street expectations after sales of its cloud products helped it post better than expected third quarter results and sent share …
Red Hat, Mirantis Unveil Telco Alliances Over OpenStack
Red Hat and Mirantis both announced large agreements this week that bring their respective OpenStack technologies to carrier partners. The news …
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