Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has become so established that it’s easy to take it for granted, but it remains a huge moneymaker for companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce and beyond. Anyone leveraging software as a service is benefiting from cloud computing, and it remains core to TechCrunch’s coverage of the many innovations and startups emerging from the tech community.
Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery
Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies using the public cloud, has raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. The raise comes as the Santa…
US military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak
The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last year. According to the breach notification…
Akamai extends its edge-computing platform as it looks to challenge AWS, Azure and GCP
Akamai today announced the launch of its Gecko “Generalized Edge Compute” platform. This new initiative will increase the company’s cloud-computing network with an additional 10 regions worldwide in the first…
Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4
For the last several quarters we’ve seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers than we’ve been accustomed to seeing in the past.…
GPUs’ ability to perform many computations in parallel make them well-suited to running today’s most capable AI. But GPUs are becoming tougher to procure, as companies of all sizes increase…
Docker’s Build Cloud lets developers build their containers in the cloud
At last year’s DockerCon, Docker launched its Docker Build remote build service and today it is taking this a step further with the launch of Docker Build Cloud, a fully…
Startups should use this co-selling technique for successful partnerships with cloud hyperscalers
The basis of the co-sell GTM strategy is built on understanding the problem and debunking the most common myths of the partner experience.
Cloud-native cybersecurity startup Aqua Security raises $60M and remains a unicorn
Aqua Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that helps companies protect their cloud services, has raised $60 million in funding, extending its previously announced $135 million Series E round of funding…
Generative AI has been the trend to watch. It’s transforming the software paradigm and unleashing previously unimaginable opportunities.
Sure, Microsoft grabbed the headlines, but Amazon is still top dog in the cloud
We’ve talked about the first to market advantage before, and it certainly applies when it comes to the cloud infrastructure market. While Microsoft made headlines this week for its AI…
Oxide is the latest startup to try and bring the power of the cloud on prem
Over the years, we’ve seen a bunch of attempts to bring cloud-like functionality to the private data center, from Mesosphere to OpenStack, along with lots of other hardware and software…
In case you weren’t sure how Microsoft felt about AI, CEO Satya Nadella is here to tell you: they like it. They like it a lot. In the company’s annual…
Microsoft launches Radius, an open source application platform for the cloud-native era
Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the Microsoft Azure…
Zygon helps startups avoid data breaches from SaaS providers
Last week, cloud computing company Shadow confirmed a data breach involving customers’ personal information. The hacker claims to have access to the data of more than 530,000 customers. According to…
Traditionally, cloud-based workstations have aimed to provide virtual machines that users can access from anywhere and also run apps around the clock. Berlin-based company Deta is trying to flip the…
AWS, Microsoft and Google face UK competition probe over cloud lock-in practices
The U.K. cloud market has been thrust firmly into the regulatory crosshairs, with news that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a full-scale investigation into whether the big…
Akamai launches new cloud computing regions in Asia, Europe and the Americas
Akamai today announced a major expansion of its cloud computing presence around the world. While you might still think of Akamai as a content delivery service, the acquisition of Linode…
Embrace these FinOps best practices to ace your cloud strategy
Here are some best practice takeaways you can consider to help ensure your cloud transformation is successful across every metric
Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack
Cloud host CloudNordic says most of its customers have “lost all data with us” following a ransomware attack on its data center systems, including its backups. The Denmark-based cloud company…
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Akamai expands its cloud computing footprint with new locations and services
Acquiring Linode allowed Akamai to fast-track its broader cloud computing ambitions. Today, the company is taking another step in this direction. It’s announcing the expansion of its cloud computing services…
Shadow, a French company that offers a gaming PC in the cloud (among other things), has announced in a press conference that it is updating its offerings for Shadow PC…
Codenotary‘s focus is on software supply chain security and monitoring Kubernetes deployments, but at the heart of these services is the company’s popular open source immudb immutable database. At this…
A recent survey of founders indicates that even as startups take a closer look at their cloud spending, growth is still a priority.
Seven weeks after Alibaba announced its historic restructuring plan to split itself into six independent companies, the juggernaut is gearing up to spin off its cloud intelligence group. Alibaba went…
Confirmed: IBM acquires Polar Security for $60M to automate cloud data management
Update: IBM has now confirmed the news and said Polar will be integrated into its Guardium unit (itself based on an acquisition from way back in 2009). No price disclosed.…
Google Cloud may be chasing Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud game, but it has something big to boast about after earnings came out today. The company has turned a…
Microsoft kickstarts settlement discussions with European cloud companies over antitrust complaints
Microsoft has kickstarted settlement discussions with European not-for-profit trade association Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), some six months after CISPE filed an antitrust complaint alleging that Microsoft was using…
Legal powerhouse Proskauer exposed clients’ confidential M&A data
A security lapse saw Proskauer Rose, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, expose sensitive client data for more than six months, TechCrunch has learned. A person with…
Shadow is introducing some new use cases for its cloud computing service at the Game Developers Conference. In particular, the company wants to partner with game publishers so that they…
