cloud
Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores
Over the course of the last few years, thanks to its Altra and Altra Max processors, Ampere made a name for itself as one of the premier suppliers of Arm-based chips to large cloud services providers.
AWS announces new version of Aurora database that strips out I/O costs
AWS announced the general availability of a new version of its Aurora database this week called Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized. The big news from this version is that it gets rid of all I/O charges for d
Mavenir raises $100M to build more AI into its cloud-based automated network technology for telecoms services
One of the bigger trends in telecoms has been the evolution of cloud computing and how software operating in the cloud is being used by carriers to build out and manage their networks — moves di
Cloud infrastructure revenue growth dips to 19% in Q1, but still hits $63B for quarter
As expected, companies are continuing to cut back on their cloud spend where possible, as tech budgets continue to get careful scrutiny. That resulted in a quarter in which the cloud grew 19%, up $10
UK regulators could be right about cloud portability obstacles
Could regulators be right and it really is to hard to migrate between clouds, or are certain technical hurdles too hard to overcome?
Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M investment
Proving that there’s still plenty of venture money in cybersecurity, cloud identity security platform Britive today announced that it raised $20.5 million in a Series B funding round. Led by Pel
Nvidia partners with Google Cloud to launch AI-focused hardware instances
In partnership with Google, Nvidia today launched a new cloud hardware offering, the L4 platform, optimized to run video-focused applications. Available in private preview on Google Cloud through Goog
Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI
At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-sp
Cast AI raises $20M to help companies reduce cloud spend
Cloud costs remain a top concern for organizations. According to a recent Anodot survey, 50% of businesses are struggling to control them, in part because they lack visibility into their cloud usage.
Cloud security vendor Mitiga lands $45M, valuing the company at over $100M
Companies moved en masse to the cloud during the pandemic, under pressure to digitally transform. According to a 2021 survey from O’Reilly, cloud adoption steadily rose across industries, with 90% o
Cloud security startup Wiz, now valued at $10B, raises $300M
Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses — and VCs. While a decline from the previous year, venture capital funding in the cybersecurity sector totaled $18.5 bi
Cloud optimization startup ProsperOps lands $72M investment
The cloud is growing expensive. According to a recent survey from ESG, more than half of companies say that their spending on public cloud apps will increase in 2023 while 56% expect their public clou
China’s globalizing startups could be a boon to US cloud giants
After quarters of rapid growth fueled by remote work, the cloud market is cooling down as businesses look for ways to curb cloud spending in post-COVID times and an uncertain economy. AWS saw its grow
Even as cloud infrastructure market growth slows, Microsoft continues to gain on Amazon
It was a rough quarter for the cloud infrastructure market as companies looked for ways to cut back on spending in an uncertain economy. When you combine that with the strong dollar and a weak Chinese
Memfault raises $24M to help companies manage their growing IoT device fleets
At the same time Internet of Things (IoT) devices and embedded software are becoming more complex, manufacturers are looking for ways to effectively manage the increasing volume of edge hardware. Acco
Microsoft 365 Basic launches with 100 GB of storage, Outlook and more for $1.99 per month
Microsoft will introduce a new, lower-cost tier of Microsoft 365, its product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services, starting on January 30. Called Microsoft 365 Basi
This time, the DoD gives four tech titans equal shot at piece of $9B cloud contract
It seems perhaps the rules of fairness your parents taught you as children also apply to large multibillion-dollar defense contracts. This week the DoD announced that it was awarding four big tech com
The era of constant innovation at Amazon could be over
Watching AWS re:Invent this week, it was hard to get excited about the announcements, and it seems the age of innovation could be ending.
Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events from multiple services
As developers use multiple Amazon services to compose an application, they typically have to write glue code to communicate between the different services, which can be a time-consuming manual exercis
Stability AI doubles down on AWS
Microsoft may have long had OpenAI as its trusty partner (after its sizable investment), but AWS today announced that Stability AI, one of the hottest new upstarts in the generative AI space and the c