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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...
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Thanks to the cloud, Microsoft briefly tops $1 trillion valuation as earnings...
Microsoft Corp. briefly became the third company in the world to see its market capitalization top the $1 trillion mark late today after delivering fiscal third-quarter results that easily beat...
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Cloud 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...
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In landmark move, VMware brings its virtualization software to Microsoft’s Azure
Dell Technologies Inc. subsidiary VMware Inc. is partnering with Microsoft Corp. to bring its infrastructure management software to Azure. The deal, which was announced today at Dell’s annual customer...
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Microsoft adds new AI and blockchain services to Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp. is trying to build up some excitement ahead of its annual Build developers conference, launching several new tools and services designed to help software makers use artificial...
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Ahead of Build conference, Microsoft adds AI and blockchain services to Azure...
Microsoft Corp. is trying to build up some excitement ahead of its annual Build developers conference, launching several new tools and services designed to help software makers use artificial...
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Microsoft expands Azure capabilities to help developers build more...
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is one of the most popular platforms around for application developers, and also one of the central talking points at the company’s Build developer conference today. The...
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Microsoft pushes the intelligent edge forward at Build
Microsoft Corp. continues to rack up impressive momentum in the cloud arena, a trend that it shifted into high gear Monday at its annual Build developer conference. The tech giant launched an...
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Microsoft, Red Hat team up on OpenShift service on Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp.’s love affair with open-source software marked another milestone today as the company joined with Linux provider Red Hat Inc. to announce the general availability of a native version...
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OpenShift adoption plus Microsoft and IBM deals validate Red Hat’s role as...
At the conclusion of the Red Hat Summit in Boston today, Red Hat Inc.’s chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, could be forgiven if he was feeling a little weary from being hugged. He was embraced...
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A ‘smoking good’ deal? Red Hat could prove a $34 billion bargain for IBM
When does free technology become worth $10 trillion? When the company is Red Hat Inc. and its open-source software and applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux contribute to $10 trillion worth...
View ArticleCircleCI expands partner integrations for Kubernetes with AWS, Azure and more
Intelligent automation and DevOps software delivery tools outfit CircleCI today announced an expansion of partner integrations intended to help developer teams better manage, build, test and release...
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Q&A: As Kubernetes celebrates five years, contributors weigh in on the ecosystem
It’s been five busy years in the tech industry since the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration system was founded, earning crucial contributions from developers to quickly become a de facto...
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Google’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...
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Welcome to the world of managed happiness: DevOps changes how business works,...
“What would DevOps do?” might be the information era’s motto for the world of cloud computing. While the rest of us are name calling on social media, tech’s mega-corporations have laid down their...
View ArticleOpenVPN based Site-to-Site VPN between Azure and pfSense
This post explains how to quickly setup a simple site-to-site VPN to connect on-prem network with an Azure virtual network using OpenVPN community edition running on Windows VM in Azure. One can use...
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Managed happiness: DevOps changes how business works, one line of code at a time
“What would DevOps do?” might be the information era’s motto for the world of cloud computing. While the rest of us are name calling on social media, tech’s mega-corporations have laid down their...
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With Azure Bastion, Microsoft delivers private virtual machine access
Microsoft Corp. today announced a preview of its new Azure Bastion service, which allows companies to connect to Azure virtual machines via a private internet connection. The company said the managed...
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Bidding for hybrid cloud dominance, IBM closes Red Hat acquisition
When it announced its intention to acquire Red Hat Inc. last October, IBM said it expected to close the deal in the third quarter of 2019. Big Blue let little grass grow under its feet in fulfilling...
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ServiceNow’s software-as-a-service platform lands on Microsoft’s Azure cloud
Cloud automation platform company ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s making its software-as-a-service offering available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud, as well as its own private cloud infrastructure....
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Microsoft reveals how it’s planning to make its Azure cloud even more reliable
Microsoft Corp. says the current 99.995% average uptime of its Azure public cloud infrastructure offering simply isn’t good enough, so it’s taking steps to improve it even more. In a blog post today,...
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Microsoft, AT&T sign $2B+ cloud infrastructure and services deal
Microsoft Corp. will provide cloud infrastructure and productivity services to AT&T Inc. as part of a broad, multiyear agreement the companies announced this morning. The deal is worth more than...
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Google gains ground in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for cloud infrastructure
Information technology analyst firm Gartner Inc. says Google LLC’s cloud infrastructure services are becoming more complete, helping the company move up the rankings in its latest Magic Quadrant....
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Microsoft targets sensitive enterprise workloads with Azure Dedicated Host
The latest update to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform has brought with it a new infrastructure service called Dedicated Host that enables enterprises to rent out isolated servers for important...
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Offering $300K to hack its cloud, Microsoft launches new Azure Security Lab
Microsoft Corp. announced today at the Black Hat USA Conference in Las Vegas the creation of a new Azure Security Lab that it believes will bolster the security of its public cloud service. The...
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Microsoft and Informatica team up to ease cloud data warehouse migration
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with data integration software company Informatica LLC in a bid to tempt more enterprises to use its cloud-based Azure SQL Data Warehouse service. The companies are...
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VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy will be a key focus at...
Public cloud rivalries have spawned a surprising winner, and it’s none of the usual suspects — Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s Azure or Google LLC’s Cloud Platform — nor is it a hot...
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Microsoft launches Ultra Disk cloud storage service for data-intensive workloads
Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of its new Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive storage service in three of its cloud regions. Azure Ultra Disk is what the company calls a...
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Microsoft buys Java specialist jClarity to make Azure workloads run smoother
Microsoft Corp. today divulged that it has acquired jClarity Ltd., a British provider of tools for Java software projects. Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the enterprise and...
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Microsoft acquires infrastructure visibility provider Movere
Just weeks after picking up application optimization specialist jClarity Ltd., Microsoft Corp. has made another strategic purchase to boost its cloud capabilities. The company today announced the...
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Microsoft adds satellite connectivity option to its private network service
Microsoft Corp. is enabling satellite connectivity on its Azure ExpressRoute private networking service for customers looking to improve the connectivity and performance of their remote facilities....
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At OpenWorld, Oracle struggles to move the cloud needle its way
The cloud wars continue to intensify, and Oracle Corp. is definitely not retrenching. As illustrated by its primary announcements this week at its OpenWorld 2019 conference in San Francisco, the...
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Cloud services and infrastructure spending tops $150B in first half of 2019
Enterprise spending on cloud computing technologies continues to grow at a breakneck pace, topping $150 billion in the first half of the year, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group....
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Microsoft’s Azure cloud-based Windows Virtual Desktop now generally available
Microsoft Corp. made its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service generally available globally today, delivering on a promise it first made in December. WVD allows enterprises to give their...
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AWS adds giant memory-optimized instances to win over SAP HANA users
The latest addition to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ever-growing selection of cloud instances is a pair of beefy bare-metal servers aimed at enterprises running SAP SE applications. The machines,...
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Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings and revenue targets
Microsoft Corp.’s stock barely moved the needle late Wednesday after the company reported fiscal 2020 first quarter earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street’s expectations, only to come up short...
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Microsoft expands hybrid cloud footprint with Azure Arc and more
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its hybrid cloud capabilities with the launch of a raft of new services this morning at its Ignite 2019 conference. The most important may be Azure Arc, available in...
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Microsoft rides JEDI momentum as Ignite 2019 kicks off with new product launches
When a company scores a single $10 billion contract, it can generate quite a tailwind. That’s the total projected amount of a deal between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. government when the company was...
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Analysts see latest releases as evidence of evolving new role for Microsoft
Although Microsoft Corp. made a series of announcements on Monday that involved cross-platform deployment of Azure Cloud services, analytics, and an expanded edge infrastructure, a secondary story may...
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At Ignite, Microsoft convincingly addresses the multicloud imperative
Microsoft Corp. has fresh momentum in the cloud wars. For starters, Microsoft was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI contract. For...
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In a win for Microsoft, Salesforce will migrate its Marketing Cloud to Azure
Salesforce.com Inc. will move its Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure platform as part of a new hosting deal the companies revealed today. It’s safe to assume the contract is quite large even...
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Citing Trump interference, Amazon files protest of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud...
Amazon.com Inc. late Friday filed a protest of the Pentagon’s award of a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp., citing evidence in videos that showed the process was improperly...
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Microsoft inks $5B cloud partnership deal with KPMG
Microsoft Corp. has announced an important new partnership with the professional services company KPMG International Cooperative, which will use its cloud services to accelerate its digital...
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AWS gives enterprises more to consider in cloud-transformation journey
For followers of Amazon Web Services Inc., it was probably a good thing that the public-cloud provider kept a running tally of the many announcements were made during re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas this...
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Cloud, containers and copy data are just part of the story with Actifio’s 10c...
A decade ago, the information-technology world faced a serious case of tech sprawl. As data became more important to the enterprise, IT organizations were seeking to move on from the technical...
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Microsoft to open its first Israeli cloud region in 2021
Microsoft Corp. said today it will open its first cloud region in Israel next year, bringing its total number of announced cloud regions to 56 across 21 countries. When Microsoft talks about its cloud...
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Microsoft crushes it again thanks to cloud revenue growth
Microsoft Corp.’s stock rose almost 3% in after-hours trading today after the company posted solid second-quarter financial results that underscored the strength of its commercial and intelligent...
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Why there will be no ‘winner takes all’ in the cloud in 2020
Alphabet Inc.’s decision to break out revenue numbers for Google LLC’s cloud business for the first time has put the cloud computing industry back into the spotlight. Google is still way behind market...
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Why there will be no ‘winner take all’ in the cloud in 2020
Alphabet Inc.’s decision to break out revenue numbers for Google LLC’s cloud business for the first time has put the cloud computing industry back into the spotlight. Google is still way behind market...
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