The launch of AWS Marketplace more than five years ago heralded a unique opportunity at the time for customers of the public cloud to find, purchase and deploy software. The online bazaar has grown significantly since 2012, with 4,200 software listings from 1,300 providers. Just in the past month, Amazon Web Services Inc. has introduced several ...

For more than four decades, technology has allowed chip makers to place twice as many transistors into the same space every 24 months. This design capability, commonly known as Moore’s law (named after Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore), has enabled the rapid advancement of innovation from personal computers to smartphones and beyond. But the gift ...

When VMware Cloud on AWS was officially rolled out in August, the initial availability was only in the Western part of the U.S. Last week, the companies added the Eastern region and announced several new enhancements, including features for scale and recovery. The partnership between the two major cloud technology providers is further evidence that ...

Nine years ago, Apple Inc. launched the iPhone App Store, despite the misgivings of none other than co-founder Steve Jobs. The tech legend originally wanted new software applications developed inside the web browser over concerns about security and bugs. By the first weekend after the App Store launched, users had already downloaded more than 10 ...

Intel Corp.’s field programmable gate array acceleration stack offers tremendous potential for developers to deploy applications and workloads at maximum performance. But there can be issues when software programmers try to build applications for hardware platforms, including the time it takes. One startup company is creating new tools to make the job easier. “To develop FPGA ...

Speed is the name of the game in the processor world, and the latest competitive sprint down the innovation track involves field programmable gate arrays, known as FPGAs. Since Intel Corp. announced FPGA acceleration platforms operating with Xeon CPUs early last month, several companies have been showcasing a number of use cases for the lightning-fast technology. ...

Nearly every enterprise has plenty of data to process, but a group of scientists in England may be facing the ultimate challenge. They are researchers with the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, known as COSMOS, at the University of Cambridge, and their database is only 14 billion years of information gathered from the Universe. “It’s a ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced Synergy (combined compute, storage and network hardware in one chassis) two years ago, the company claimed it would sharply reduce data center costs and provisioning time. Now, DreamWorks Animation LLC, the legendary animation studio (home of “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda”), is offering evidence that the technology enabled it to ...

There are plenty of technology companies with hefty revenue, tens of thousands of employees and a sizable global customer base. There are also smaller, nimble firms with modest profits that can innovate fast and keep larger competitors scrambling to keep up. And then there is that rarely seen third category that combines size, massive revenue ...

The colossus that is now Amazon, with a stock price above $1,100 per share and over $4.5 billion in quarterly earnings, got its humble beginning in 1995 as a website that sold only books. Cloud computing at that time was a mere dream, but if Amazon Web Services Inc. had been an option (it didn’t ...