Cloud 5: 2018 cloud predictions, Microsoft’s quantum computing leap
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Microsoft commits $50 million to expand AI for Earth program
This week, Microsoft announced big plans to throw the power of artificial intelligence and cloud computing technology behind the world’s biggest environmental problems. The company promised to devote $50 million in cloud and artificial intelligence services to companies working to solve...
Cloud 5: Large enterprises head to the cloud, Pinterest all in on containers
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Okta has healthy quarter as cloud log-in business continues to thrive
Okta reported their earnings yesterday and the cloud-based identity management company came through with flying colors for the most part. For starters, revenue was a healthy $68.2 million. That’s up 61 percent year over year. Meanwhile, subscription revenue (that’s recurring...
Cloud 5: AWS has re:Invent spotlight, Microsoft-SAP deepen partnership
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AWS CEO Andy Jassy still believes it’s going to be an all public cloud future
There is a lot of action in the private/hybrid cloud market these days with many vendors trying to help companies straddle the world between the private data center and the public cloud, while providing all of the benefits the public...
Cloud 5: Amazon’s secret cloud, Capital One jumps into software sales
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Black Friday is made for the cloud
Black Friday is coming, that magical shopping day when every retailer’s servers get tested to their limits. It’s also a great day to show the power of cloud computing. The elasticity of the cloud — the ability to scale your...
Cloud 5: AWS sells Chinese hardware assets, Kubernetes gets certification standard
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Google Cloud’s quest to surpass ad revenue may take awhile
A couple of years ago at the Structure Conference, Urs Hölzle, SVP of engineering at Google, made a rather bold prediction. He said that by 2020, Google cloud revenue would surpass the company’s ad money, which remains by far the...
