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.

A U.S. government watchdog stole more than 1GB of seemingly sensitive personal data from the cloud systems of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The good news: The data was…

A government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security

When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. Any time a server idles, it isn’t making…

NodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud

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…

Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery

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…

US military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak

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…

Akamai extends its edge-computing platform as it looks to challenge AWS, Azure and GCP

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.…

Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4

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…

Inference.ai matches AI workloads with cloud GPU compute

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…

Docker’s Build Cloud lets developers build their containers in the cloud

The basis of the co-sell GTM strategy is built on understanding the problem and debunking the most common myths of the partner experience.

Startups should use this co-selling technique for successful partnerships with cloud hyperscalers

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…

Cloud-native cybersecurity startup Aqua Security raises $60M and remains a unicorn

Generative AI has been the trend to watch. It’s transforming the software paradigm and unleashing previously unimaginable opportunities.

Generative AI is fueling the recovery of European SaaS

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…

Sure, Microsoft grabbed the headlines, but Amazon is still top dog in the cloud

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…

Oxide is the latest startup to try and bring the power of the cloud on prem

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 would like to remind you that they are all-in on AI

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…

Microsoft launches Radius, an open source application platform for the cloud-native era

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…

Zygon helps startups avoid data breaches from SaaS providers

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…

Deta wants to reinvent personal computers with a new cloud OS

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…

AWS, Microsoft and Google face UK competition probe over cloud lock-in practices

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…

Akamai launches new cloud computing regions in Asia, Europe and the Americas

Here are some best practice takeaways you can consider to help ensure your cloud transformation is successful across every metric

Embrace these FinOps best practices to ace your cloud strategy

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…

Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

As your product matures, molding existing architectures to accommodate demands from the growing user base becomes difficult.

How SaaS architecture impacts pricing and profitability

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…

Akamai expands its cloud computing footprint with new locations and 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…

Shadow revamps its cloud computing offerings in Europe

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…

Codenotary brings its immutable database to the cloud

A recent survey of founders indicates that even as startups take a closer look at their cloud spending, growth is still a priority.

For startups, growth still trumps cloud cost control

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…

Alibaba to spin off its cloud, AI and business messenger unit

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.…

Confirmed: IBM acquires Polar Security for $60M to automate cloud data management

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…

Google Cloud turns profit for the first time

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…

Microsoft kickstarts settlement discussions with European cloud companies over antitrust complaints