Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract
Microsoft has won the Pentagon's US$10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com.
Microsoft has won the Pentagon's US$10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com.
Oracle will launch a Melbourne region for its cloud services as part of its push to add 20 new regions to its portfolio by the end of next year.
Pluralsight is making heavy investment in the cloud, extending its partnerships with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
By the end of this month Oracle will have a new Generation 2 Cloud region available from Sydney data centres, the company said today.
The Pentagon has decided to put on hold its decision to award a US$10 billion cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump said his administration was examining Amazon.com's bid following complaints from other tech companies.
Amazon.com was asked by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to brief them on security protocols for its cloud storage service after a massive data breach of Capital One by a suspect formerly employed by the online retailer.
The global serverless architecture market shows no signs of slowing down with multiple vendors offering their services in a fast-growing arena. AWS, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Rackspace, IBM, Oracle, and CA Technologies are just a few industry names investing heavily in the serverless space.
IBM beat analysts' estimates for second-quarter profit on Wednesday, propped up by recurring growth in its high-margin cloud business.
Microsoft Teams now has more than 13 million daily users.
Developers spend countless hours solving business problems with code. Then it’s the ops team’s turn to spend countless hours, first figuring out how to get the code that developers write up and running on whatever computers are available, and second making sure those computers operate smoothly. The second part truly is a never-ending task. Why not leave that part to someone else?
Microsoft and Oracle have reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between their data centres, targeting big business users and uniting against cloud leader AWS.
Microsoft and Sony say they have struck a strategic partnership in which Sony will use Microsoft's cloud for streaming games and media and the two will work together to develop new image sensors.
Microsoft has announced what it says is “much-anticipated” Azure ExpressRoute availability in New Zealand.
The rollout of a cloud-based integration platform has helped HESTA move away from a point-to-point integration approach and cut manual handling of data, according to the super fund’s IT manager Michael Collins
Microsoft has used its Build developer conference to announce a new Azure Cognitive Services category: ‘Decision’. The category groups together Azure’s Content Moderator and Anomaly Detector services, as well as a new service called Personalizer, which is currently in preview.