Tech News Archives - Easy Cloud Solutions

October 2, 2018 By ray

Amazon and Walmart’s rivalry is reshaping how we’ll buy everything in the future

Walmart’s ongoing battle with Amazon for the retail crown is expanding well beyond retail, and it’s forcing one of the largest companies in the world to reexamine its DNA. In the last six months alone, Walmart has partnered with scores of tech firms to better compete with Amazon and make progress in markets that may become pivotal years down the line.… Read more

July 19, 2018 By ray

How Facebook configures its millions of servers every day

When you’re a company the size of Facebook with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big deal. As with most things with Facebook, they face scale problems few companies have to deal and often reach the limits of mere mortal tools.… Read more

July 19, 2018 By ray

Building on our Momentum: Veeam acquires N2WS

The news for 2018 just keeps getting better. On the back of our greatest year, where we exceeded all expectations with $827M in total bookings revenue and 36% annual growth, Veeam isn’t standing still. Today, I am delighted to announce the acquisition of N2W Software (N2WS), our first major acquisition, which positions us for continued hyper-growth in our cloud business.… Read more

July 18, 2018 By ray

Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash (2010)

Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash. That’s one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has raised only $13 million in funding. Heroku was initially provided with seed funding through Y Combinator back in 2008.… Read more

July 17, 2018 By ray

Walmart establishes strategic partnership with Microsoft to further accelerate digital innovation in retail

Five-year agreement will leverage a broad base of cloud, AI and IoT solutions for enterprise-wide use BENTONVILLE, Ark. and REDMOND, Wa. – July 17, 2018 – Today, Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced it is establishing a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) to further accelerate Walmart’s digital transformation in retail, empower its associates worldwide and make shopping faster and easier for millions of customers around the world.… Read more