SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Alibaba Group said its cloud unit aims to recruit 5,000 staff globally from now until the end of this financial year, in areas including network, database, servers, chips and artificial intelligence, it said in a statement on Tuesday. “The... More »
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Oracle Corp co-CEO Safra Catz said on Monday she expects an acceleration in the company’s cloud business after the software maker last month reported sales from its cloud business that fell short of Wall Street expectations. Catz told repo... More »
Amazon.com Inc's Chinese partner, Beijing Sinnet Technology Co., said it would purchase Amazon's Chinese web services business for up to 2 billion yuan ($301 million), ending the U.S. firm's cloud-computing business in the country. More »
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), Alphabet Corp’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Intel Corp (INTC.O) are all putting their chips on the cloud computing business, and it is booming. More »
Hackers broke into British company Piriform's free software for optimizing computer performance last month potentially allowing them to control the devices of more than two million users, the company and independent researchers said on Monday. More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque, northern France on February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo Only two years ago, an outage similar to the one that struck Amazon’s cloud services last month ... More »
A booth introducing Alibaba Cloud services is seen at an exhibition venue during Alibaba Group’s 11.11 Singles’ Day global shopping festival in Shenzhen, China November 11, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip Alibaba Cloud plans to open four new data facilities outside Ch... More »
SEATTLE For Seattle, home to cloud technology powerhouses Amazon Inc (AMZN.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), the process of upgrading the city’s data systems is moving more at glacial dial-up speed than lightning-fast broadband. In 2014, Seattle hired a chief te... More »
