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Microsoft justifies Azure Stack U-turn: It’s not feasible on systems we’ve never seen before
Microsoft caused controversy last month when it said it would be revamping and also delaying the release of its eagerly anticipated Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform. At its Worldwide Partner Conference last month, Microsoft executives went back on an earlier promise that Azure Stack would be able to run on customer’s own choice of hardware, ...
AWS aims to simplify real-time data analysis with Kinesis Analytics
Amazon Web Services yesterday unveiled a range of new capabilities it’s adding to its cloud platform at its AWS Summit in New York City. The biggest announcement is AWS’s new analytics service for real-time data streaming, Kinesis Analytics, which the company said is designed to make it easier to perform queries on real-time streaming data ...
CIA-funded Palantir acquires Dutch data visualization startup Silk
Highly secretive data firm Palantir Technologies Inc., which was co-founded by Peter Thiel and part-financed by the CIA, has said it’s to acquire a Dutch data visualization and publishing startup called Silk, whose technology allows users to build interactive charts and maps. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal was confirmed in ...
Mirantis expands OpenStack offerings with SUSE alliance
OpenStack distributor Mirantis Inc. has forged a new alliance with SUSE as it bids to become the “one-stop-shop” for all enterprise Linux users of the open-source cloud computing platform. The partnership means Mirantis gets to add a third Linux option, alongside its existing CentOS and Red Hat offerings. Mirantis is one of the major OpenStack ...
Google now offers self-destructing VMs at just $0.01 per hour
Google has gone and cut its cloud prices again, reducing the cost of virtual machines (VMs) to as little as $0.01 an hour. However, that price only applies to what Google calls “Preemptible VMs”, which are a special kind of VM that can only exist for 24 hours. And there’s a second caveat too, because ...
Redmonk analyzes the cost of the cloud
RedMonk analyst Rachel Stephens has just updated the firm’s analysis of the price differences among the top cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers for the first time in two years. The most striking thing about the report, IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends, is it shows that the trend of constant price cuts seems to have bottomed out. Stephens’ findings ...
Alibaba offers foreign tech firms a leg up in China
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., has hit upon a great way of attracting some extra business, by offering foreign companies a helping hand to establish themselves in China, a country that has grown increasingly hostile to non-domestic technology firms. The e-commerce company-cum-cloud provider is offering to help foreign firms sell their products in China while complying ...
Intel boosts AI capabilities with $400m Nervana Systems acquisition
Intel is investing heavily into deep learning with the acquisition of a startup called Nervana Systems, as it bids to play catch-up in the accelerating artificial intelligence space. Nervana, founded in 2014, operates a hosted platform for deep learning that’s geared towards solving “machine-learning problems,” the company says. The platform is optimized “from algorithms down ...
Twilio beats the street with solid Q2 earnings
Cloud communications provider Twilio Inc. posted its first earnings report since going public earlier this year, and the results were extremely positive with revenues rising by 70 percent and the number of active customers also increasing sharply. Twilio sells software for applications that allows organizations to interact with customers via a range of media, including ...
Rackspace offloads Cloud Sites web hosting business
Rackspace Inc. caused a bit of disappointment at its earnings call yesterday when it refused to confirm or deny rumors it might be selling itself to a private equity investor. But it did offload a chunk of its business yesterday, announcing the sale of its Cloud Sites business to web hosting services provider Liquid Web ...