“All partnerships are tactical. There is no such thing as a strategic partnership.” That’s one of the lessons that business and technology leader Bob Muglia tells the companies he works… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison made a rare joint appearance this afternoon to announce the next stage in their partnership, a new service that… Read More
A draft document circulated by Microsoft calls for the use of multiple cloud vendors as “the de facto standard for US Government Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as… Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting bids from multiple companies to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analysis and other hallmarks of… Read More
Microsoft is not back in the running to acquire TikTok, a source familiar with the situation said Friday morning, refuting a statement made by President Trump to reporters on Thursday… Read More
After a tumultuous few weeks, the future of hit social video app TikTok in the United States could soon become more clear, but it might not be the end of… Read More
Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. When Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched in 2016, aiming to compete against… Read More
About the time he was in kindergarten, Andre Alfred started playing with the Tandy 1000 SX that his dad bought at Radio Shack. By age 9, he was writing code… Read More
Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an… Read More
Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. AWS is… Read More
Oracle wants to ramp up its cloud business, and what better place to grow and pick off engineers than in the backyard of industry leaders Amazon and Microsoft. The company… Read More
Oracle and Microsoft’s cloud partnership took another step forward Tuesday. Oracle announced that its digital assistant can now be used within Microsoft Teams. “Using Oracle Digital Assistant, business users can… Read More
Splashy partnerships between big tech companies can be hard to take seriously. Implementing them with success is much harder than announcing them with fanfare. Sticking with them for the long… Read More
Oracle’s JEDI fight isn’t over. The company will appeal a Court of Federal Claims ruling that rejected its attempt to get back into the running against Amazon and Microsoft for… Read More
Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity, a London-based venture that has become a key player behind a popular open-source implementation of the Java software development platform, AdoptOpenJDK. A couple decades ago,… Read More
This past August, executives from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce banded together to promote data sharing in healthcare. Nearly a year later, the world’s largest tech companies aren’t… Read More
— Computers, at least the ones somewhat resembling what we know today, have been around since the mid-20th Century. Seattle is lucky enough to have some of the original gems… Read More
Oracle and Microsoft announced a partnership Tuesday that will allow mutual customers to run workloads within both Azure and Oracle’s cloud, which could entice cloud holdouts to do some lifting… Read More
Over the last few weeks and months, Oracle has laid off hundreds of employees at the Seattle office once viewed as the future of its cloud computing strategy, according to… Read More
New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. The company that basically invented the concept of hyperscale distributed computing has notably failed to capitalize on… Read More
Those closely watching the battle for a ten-year $10-billion cloud computing contract on offer from the Department of Defense were expecting a decision this spring, and that now looks like… Read More
At some point, it starts to get a little sad. Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison uncorked another barb at Amazon Web Services Monday following the release of… Read More
As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year, it will get some help defending its process from the… Read More
The U.S. Government and Accountability Office has rejected a protest leveled by Oracle against the process for awarding the ten-year, $10 billion cloud computing contract under consideration by the Department… Read More
Business-to-business marketing, at least in tech, is all about making the tech buyer absorb the talking points they need to justify the purchase to their bosses. Salesforce does that arguably… Read More
Weeks after Oracle said its top cloud executive was taking a temporary leave of absence from the company, it confirmed Friday afternoon at the end of the longest week ever… Read More
Top Oracle executives apparently can’t agree on how to move the database company forward in the cloud computing era. Thomas Kurian, president of product development at Oracle and one of… Read More
The Department of Defense won’t announce the winner of its ten-year $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract until next month, but Oracle went ahead and filed… Read More
The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue through Friday on containers, container-orchestration, microservices, and even serverless computing… Read More
Zillow Group gobbled up a pair of floors at Russell Investments Center in Seattle, referred to by some as Zillow Tower because the real estate information company has taken over… Read More
