Google eyes the enterprise for future growth

During its annual developer conference, Google executives outlined plans to focus more on the enterprise market through new investments and partnerships. 

By Justine Brown • May 19, 2016

Move over retail: AWS brings Dash button to cloud services

Like its consumer-based predecessor, the WiFi enabled button will let software developers easily order cloud computing services.

By Justine Brown • May 17, 2016

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Digital transformation goes beyond technology — if companies want to engage in a new era of technology, they must rethink how work is done too.

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SAP rolls out cloud platform for SMBs

The mobile-focused product is designed with retail in mind and intended for businesses with 10 to 200 employees. 

By Justine Brown • May 16, 2016

Why Intel sees potential growth in IoT, cloud technology

The company's new head of IoT said Intel is "the only company with all the hardware and software assets needed for the new cloud- and IoT-centric world."

By Justine Brown • May 16, 2016

Report: Even with vendor competition, cloud costs aren't dropping

Because vendors are bundling more products and services under their cloud offerings, overall costs are not declining, a recent report found. 

By Justine Brown • May 16, 2016

Google enterprise lead leaving division for company's VR team

Amit Singh, president of Google for Work, will run business and operations for the virtual reality team. 

By Justine Brown • May 15, 2016

Into the 'fog': IoT data storage outside the traditional cloud

Fog computing arose as a method other than the cloud to store and process the flood of data generated by smart devices. 

By Justine Brown • May 12, 2016

Salesforce database outage loses 5 hours of data, vexes customers

The company said the database failure was caused by a "file integrity issue."

By Justine Brown • May 12, 2016

4 executives who are shaking up the cloud business

Their clout and leadership will help determine the future of many enterprises.

By Justine Brown • May 9, 2016

Box announces government-focused cloud service

The new solution meets FedRAMP security and compliance standards, making it easier for government agencies at all levels to use the content management platform. 

By Naomi Eide • May 5, 2016

Meet Dell Technologies, the Dell-EMC rebrand

The merger will also create sub-brands, including Dell EMC, the name for the company's enterprise business.

By Naomi Eide • May 2, 2016

Dominated by AWS, cloud market grows 50% in Q1

The cloud market pulled in more than $7 billion in the first quarter of 2016, with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM and Google together accounting for 53% of the total market.   

By Justine Brown • May 1, 2016

AWS drives earnings, responsible for 56% of Amazon's Q1 profit

With the strength of its cloud business, the company reported revenue was up 28% over last year. 

By Justine Brown • April 29, 2016

Report: VMware cloud leader departs, to be replaced by two 'co-general managers'

The cloud outlook has been hazy for VMware, as the pending Dell-EMC merger would create cloud redundancies between the three companies.

By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016

Dropbox wants 'Infinite' storage to save users' hard drive space

With the new effort, dubbed "Project Infinite," Dropbox hopes to make storage a non-issue in the enterprise.

By Justine Brown • April 27, 2016

Baiting Microsoft customers, Google extends free Apps offer to smaller businesses

Both companies have been raising the stakes in their ongoing battle for enterprise customers.

By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016

To address skill set demand, OpenStack Foundation to offer certification program

Huge growth in the popularity of the open source IaaS platform prompted OpenStack to initiate a formal training program.

By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016

Personal information of every voter in Mexico left unsecured

The data was available on an Amazon Web Services server that was not password protected, but the company says on its website that security in the cloud is up to the customers, while it manages security of the cloud. 

By Justine Brown • April 25, 2016

Box, Cognizant partner on cloud systems integration

The companies plan to target specific industries for cloud migration services, from the healthcare to retail markets. 

By Justine Brown • April 21, 2016

Microsoft Azure revenue grew 120% in Q3

Though Microsoft's earnings fell short of analysts' estimates, the company's overall quarterly earnings were boosted by strong performance in what it calls the "Intelligent Cloud." 

By Naomi Eide • April 21, 2016

Amazon rolls out tool for automated cloud security

Despite huge growth in the adoption of cloud technology, security remains a primary concern for enterprises. 

By Justine Brown • April 20, 2016

GoDaddy's cloud, tech leader to leave for Google

The news comes as GoDaddy is increasingly looking to the cloud to expand business, offering "pay as you go" services for smaller businesses interested in moving to the cloud. 

By Justine Brown • April 18, 2016

Survey: 80% of enterprise IT budgets to be devoted to cloud computing

Though security concerns remain, cloud technology is continuing strong growth.   

By Justine Brown • April 18, 2016

Email Privacy Act takes another small step forward

The bill would require the government to get a warrant to get companies to hand over their customers’ emails or other electronic communications.

By Justine Brown • April 14, 2016

Why Google's cloud went dark for 18 minutes

A bug set off a domino-effect that eventually took down Google’s Compute Engine.

By Justine Brown • April 14, 2016