Report: Microsoft and Oracle Gobble Up Data Center Space in Virginia
If you have been keeping an eye on the wholesale data center market in the US – that’s the market for big facilities leased to companies many megawatts (sometimes tens of megawatts) at a time – you...
View ArticleMicrosoft Wins Protection for E-Mails in Non-US Data Centers
(Bloomberg) — Microsoft won’t be forced to turn over e-mails stored in its Ireland data center to the US government for a drug investigation, an appeals court said in a decision that may affect data...
View ArticleTech’s Old Guard Is Fighting Back, By Making Profits: Gadfly
(Bloomberg Gadfly) — Tech companies that make business software are never going to match the glamour of their consumer counterparts. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is a household name, but many would be...
View ArticleNadella: We’ll Build Cloud Data Centers Wherever Demand Takes Us
One of the cloud’s early promises was that it wouldn’t matter to the users where the physical servers that store and process their data are located. While that’s still true for many users, as cloud...
View ArticleSalesforce Buys Data Center Optimization Startup Coolan
Salesforce has acquired Coolan, a data center management software startup co-founded by Amir Michael, a former Facebook and Google hardware engineer and one of the founders of the Open Compute Project,...
View ArticleWhy Salesforce Bought Coolan, a Data Center Optimization Startup
Salesforce made a surprising move Thursday, acquiring Coolan, a three-year-old Silicon Valley startup whose software uses Big Data analytics and machine learning to help companies make smarter data...
View ArticleNew Microsoft Data Center in Iowa Will Be 1.7M Square Feet
While the news that a third massive Microsoft data center was coming to West Des Moines, Iowa, has been out since Wednesday, it wasn’t clear just how massive this future cloud facility will be....
View ArticleAlibaba Reaps Growth From Jack Ma’s Push Into Media, Cloud
(Bloomberg) — Jack Ma’s diversification strategy is starting to pay off as revenue at Alibaba Group Holding accelerates to the fastest since its record initial public offering. Streaming entertainment...
View ArticleBrexit Doesn’t Stop Microsoft from Launching UK Data Centers
In what may be the starkest illustration of the fact that Brexit will not put the biggest companies’ data center plans in the UK on hold, Microsoft announced the launch of its first cloud regions in...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Its First Cloud Data Centers in AWS’s Virginia Backyard
Google has brought online its first cloud data centers in Northern Virginia, the largest data center market in the US and one of the largest in the world, as well as the location of the biggest cloud...
View ArticleThe Data Center of the Future and Cloud Disaster Recovery
The data center of the future is a constantly evolving concept. If you go back to World War II, the ideal was to have a massive mainframe in a large room fed by punched cards. A few decades later,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Unveils New Cloud Services for AI and Industrial Sensors
Dina Bass (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. is showing off new cloud services for AI and industrial sensors as well as database software tools designed to give Oracle Corp. a headache. One artificial...
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DocuSign Taps Microsoft Azure for Canadian Cloud
Brought to You by Talkin’ Cloud Electronic signature technology provider DocuSign announced on Wednesday at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference in Seattle that it has selected Microsoft Azure as its...
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Build 2017: Prepare for an Ecosystem of Devices Connected Through Windows
Brought to you by IT Pro During Build 2017, which was held in Seattle last week, there were plenty of sessions that talked about how new tools and services could impact your companies DevOps approach...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Government Should Regulate IoT Security
As it wags its finger at the NSA for amassing a toolbox for breaking cybersecurity defenses in products built by technology companies, Microsoft at the same time is calling on the government to...
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Google to Sell New AI `Supercomputer’ Chip Via Cloud Business
Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) — At the I/O developer conference last year, Google debuted its first chip. The company kept the component mostly for internal artificial intelligence needs. Today, version two...
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Planes, Trains, and Cloud: Bombardier Signs $700M Deal with IBM Cloud
Brought to You by Talkin’ Cloud Canadian transportation company Bombardier will spend around $700 million over six years in an extended partnership with IBM to use its cloud services. The deal includes...
View ArticleMicrosoft to Open Africa Data Centers to Seek Edge in Cloud Push
Loni Prinsloo (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. will offer cloud-computing services from data centers in Africa for the first time, seeking an edge over rivals in targeting local customers. The software...
View ArticleReport: AI Tells AWS How Many Servers to Buy and When
Internet giants Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook use Machine Learning to enhance their services for end users, such as real-time search suggestions, face recognition in photos, voice commands,...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s Data Center Standard Aims to Do What OCP Hasn’t
While fomenting a full-blown revolt against the largest American hardware vendors’ once-outsize influence on the hyper-scale data center market, by many accounts Facebook’s Open Compute Project has yet...
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