Gartner takes AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and more to task in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for cloud database management systems Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant for cloud database management systems (DBMS) lays out the flaws of the leading players in a rapidly growing market. The analyst firm defines the cloud DBMS market as being "for products from vendors that supply fully prov

Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier China’s clouds grew by 65 per cent in 2020’s third quarter, collectively hauling in $5bn of revenue in the period.…

In the past month, three SSD controller designers have announced new enterprise NVMe SSD controllers, bringing a wave of new competition to the high-end enterprise/datacenter SSD market. FADU is a relative newcomer to the market, having only released one previous SSD controller. Silicon Motion and Phison are both very familiar competitors, but they have been most successful with their client/consu

IBM continued enhancing its core Cloud Pak hybrid cloud software offerings, this week bolstering automation and data features that will let customers simplify everything from software provisioning and patching, to data discovery and document processing.IBM Cloud Paks are bundles of Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform along with Red Hat Linux and a variety of connecting technolo

The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) is upscaling many standard types of IT workload as well as powering new services driven by advanced algorithmic data processing and machine learning techniques. Developers of AI systems, however, have been somewhat constrained by the limitations of standard microprocessors. Pioneering AI applications needed supercomputer-class compute resources in or

Alibaba reported cloud computing brought in revenue of 14.89 billion yuan in the three months ended September 30, a 60% year-on-year rise.

The growth of Alibaba’s cloud business is outpacing both AWS and Microsoft in the third quarter of 2020, with the Chinese firm capitalising on the country’s early recovery from the pandemic. Alibaba’s cloud division brought in revenues of 14.89 billion yuan (£1.71bn) in the three months ending 30 September. That’s a 60% increase year-on-year, representing faster growth than the 29% recorded by AWS

Revenue rose 60 per cent in Q3 Alibaba Cloud saw sales rocket in its Q2 as it continues to outpace the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Revenue for the period ending 30 September rocketed 60 per cent year on year to $2.2bn. Alibaba said that its cloud computing arm is likely to become profitability in H2. CEO Daniel Zhang said that organisations in the public s

When Alibaba entered the cloud infrastructure market in earnest in 2015 it had ambitious goals, and it has been growing steadily. With that number, it has passed IBM’s $1.65 billion revenue result (according to Synergy Research market share numbers), a significant milestone. For example, Amazon announced $11.6 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue for its most recent quarter, while Microsoft’s

Slowdown in marketplace businesses was offset by growth in cloud computing

Canalys claims the top four providers collectively grew by 40 per cent during Q3 Spending on cloud infrastructure services grew by a third in Q3 as fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continued to benefit the market's largest providers. Analyst firm Canalys claims that cloud infrastructure services spending grew by 33 per cent in Q3 to $36.5bn - $2bn higher than the previous quarter a