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15 Aug 2019, 02:52

Google Cloud has changed how it pays its salespeople, ripping a page out of the Oracle playbook

Google Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian In July, Google Cloud changed how it compensates its sales employees by decreasing the...

08 Aug 2019, 21:41

AMD's latest chip reveal is 'one of the biggest turning points in the history of Silicon Valley,' one analyst says

Fabrizio Bensch/REUTERS AMD revealed its latest data-center chip - named EPYC 2 - on Wednesday. A Rosenblatt ...

01 Aug 2019, 21:20

How VMware became a secret superpower in the cloud wars and why Amazon Web Services should not be happy but Google and Microsoft are thrilled

Amazon re:Invent/Business Insider VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger with AWS CEO Andy Jassy Google's cloud boss, Thoma...

30 Jul 2019, 08:40

Amazon's cloud was at the heart of the big Capital One hack, even though it doesn't seem to be at fault

REUTERS/Mike Blake Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy On Monday evening, federal prosecutors said that tech worker Paige A. ...

27 Jul 2019, 18:30

Here are the biggest 'hidden' parts of Google's business that analysts say the company needs to open up about

Getty Google CEO Sundar Pichai On Thursday's second-quarter earnings call, Google's parent company, Alphabet,...

26 Jul 2019, 03:40

Outages, runaway costs and frustration with tech support have hurt Microsoft's cloud in the eyes of its customers, says analyst firm Gartner

YouTube/Microsoft/Business Insider Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft's 2019 partner conference ...

24 Jul 2019, 00:21

Market researcher Gartner has three warnings for Amazon cloud customers: Beware of prices, new features and Amazon's competitive behavior

zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Market research firm Gartner recently released its lat...

22 Jul 2019, 19:48

Amazon hired one of Trump's allies to lobby on its behalf as it looks to score a $10 billion contract with the Pentagon

REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos. Amazon hired one of Trump's allies to lobby on behalf of its ...

19 Jul 2019, 04:28

The head of Microsoft's data cloud business is 'battle hardened' and ready to face Google and Amazon on his home turf

Microsoft Microsoft Corporate VP Rohan Kumar Rohan Kumar, who leads data applications on Microsoft's cloud, s...

18 Jul 2019, 00:03

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a cute joke about what it's really like to work with Bill Gates

Microsoft Bill Gates (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella What's it's like to work with Bill Gates? Microsoft CEO Satya Na...

12 Jul 2019, 22:49

Microsoft bows to the backlash and will not start charging its sales partners to use its software

Microsoft Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote speech at Microsoft's partner conference Inspire 2018 Ahead of Mi...

12 Jul 2019, 00:40

Microsoft's partners are on track to double their earnings from cloud in two years. Here's how much money Microsoft makes from its partner program.

Microsoft Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote speech at Microsoft'...

09 Jul 2019, 20:33

An Uber executive says the company hopes to eventually open its platform to third-party developers

RISE via YouTube Thuan Pham joined Uber as CTO in 2013 Uber hopes to one day open its platform to third party businesses, mu...

09 Jul 2019, 05:37

Microsoft has caused an uproar among its partners by canceling one of their favorite perks: software for their own use

Microsoft Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote speech at Microsoft's partner conference Inspire 2...

03 Jul 2019, 05:10

Equinix is launching a $1 billion dollar venture with Singapore's sovereign fund to help cloud customers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google keep up with their massive data center needs

Equinix Eric Schwartz, Chief Strategy and Development Officer of Equinix Equini...

02 Jul 2019, 04:16

Growth in Microsoft's old-fashioned software business, not just its cloud, will zoom the company well beyond $1 trillion, Morgan Stanley believes

Chesnot/Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Although Microsoft first becam...

25 Jun 2019, 05:14

Google reinvented cloud software with Kubernetes. Now, hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing into the growing market for protecting Kubernetes from cyber threats.

Shutterstock Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian Hundreds of millions of dollars are...

20 Jun 2019, 02:50

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison says the company added 5,000 new trials for its latest cloud database. Here's what that means

Oracle Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison Despite a rough quarter characterized by layoffs, Orac...

18 Jun 2019, 18:30

Data grid startup Hazelcast raises $21.5 million, helping this one-time 'submarine' emerge and get more recognition from developers with its database alternative

Hazelcast Hazelcast CEO Kelly Herrell On Tuesday, Hazelcast announced it closed...

13 Jun 2019, 23:57

CERN, the famous scientific lab where the web was born, tells us why it's ditching Microsoft and helping others do the same

Thomson Reuters Microsoft CEO Satya Narayana Nadella Respected scientific research center CERN said this week...

06 Jun 2019, 23:54

Five years ago, Google gave away a cloud computing project for free. Now people love it so much they're celebrating its anniversary in Spain.

Google Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, and Aparna Sinha, Google's director of product...

06 Jun 2019, 23:37

Three years after getting bought by Samsung, Joyent is giving up on competing with Amazon in the cloud computing game

Joyent Steve Tuck, president and COO of Joyent On Thursday, Joyent, which was acquired by Samsung almost exac...

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