The 10 Coolest Cloud Computing Startup Companies Of 2024
The top cloud startup startups of 2024 include computing, Kubernetes, AI and security innovators Wiz, CoreWeve, Prosimo, Pulumi, Tackle.io, Cast AI and Spectro Cloud.
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Snowflake snaps up data management company Datavolo
Cloud giant Snowflake has agreed to acquire Datavolo, a data pipeline management company, for an undisclosed sum.
Solidigm Aims To Improve Data Center Sustainability With 122TB SSD
The AI boom has led to an energy crunch in datacenters, but Solidigm plans to significantly lower the environmental impact of datacenters with its high-density storage.
C3.ai Jumps On Microsoft Cloud Partnership Targeting Enterprise Market
AI stock popped on news that Microsoft's Azure unit will provide cloud computing services to artificial intelligence software maker C3.ai.
Google: DOJ Pushing ‘A Radical Agenda’ With Forced Chrome Sell-Off
Google Chrome internet browser may be forced to be sold by the Department of Justice for antitrust and monopolization. Google Cloud and Search would be impacted.
Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service
Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet Ignite Microsoft is set to launch a database service that can manage transactional and analytical workloads in the ...
Nebius Group to open first US cloud operations after resuming trading
Nebius Group on Tuesday said it plans to open its first cloud computing operations in the United States, which could eventually house up to 35,000 chips from Nvidia.Nebius was founded by Arkady Volozh ...
Microsoft is the mystery AI company licensing HarperCollins books, says Bloomberg
Just one day after 404 Media revealed that HarperCollins struck a three-year AI training deal with an unnamed company, Bloomberg now says Microsoft will use the publisher’s content to train a ...
Spectro Cloud nabs $75M for its Kubernetes management platform
According to TechCrunch, the Series C raise gives Spectro Cloud a post-money valuation of $750 million ... The first, Palette Edge, is optimized to power edge computing environments with limited ...
MongoDB and Microsoft expand partnership to advance AI applications and data analytics
Database company MongoDB Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft Corp. that includes new integrations aimed at enhancing artificial intelligence application development, real-time ...
Open source vector database vendor targets enterprise AI costs with cloud update
The vendor behind the open source Milvus vector database has a big cloud update designed to improve performance and reduce enterprise AI costs.
Crossroads business owners react to data center coming to former KC Star printing plant
Crossroads business owners reacted to a data center coming to the former KC Star printing plant Harris lost to Trump. She may have one last chance to defy him. I took the same grocery list to Aldi and ...
Data Center Trends 2025: Vertiv Predicts Industry Efforts to Support, Enable, Leverage and Regulate AI
AI continues to reshape the data center industry, a reality reflected in the projected 2025 data center trends from Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and ...
Data center monitoring firm LogicMonitor raises $800M at a $2.4B valuation
Data center monitoring firm LogicMonitor has rasied $800 million in a funding round that values the company at $2.4 billion.
Cyera CEO On Raising $300M To Become The ‘End-To-End’ Data Security Platform
Cyera CEO Yotam Segev spoke with CRN as the data security startup announced raising $300 million in new funding with a $3 billion valuation.
YC-backed Four Growers builds robots to help solve greenhouse labor shortages
Four Growers built robots that can pick maneuver around greenhouses and pick tomatoes with more crop capabilities on the way.
Spectro Cloud nets $75M to help companies manage their Kubernetes installations
Per a survey by computing services firm Civo ... for their Kubernetes deployments, Spectro Cloud enables enterprises to manage multi-cluster, multi-distro in multi-environment efficiently,” he told ...
Microsoft to launch new custom chips for data processing, security
Microsoft's announcing chips to power workloads on Azure, including a hardware accelerator to offload and manage data processing tasks.
Microsoft and Atom Computing will launch a commercial quantum computer in 2025
Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer that can outperform classical machines, ...
UK competition regulator clears Alphabet’s investment in Anthropic
The U.K.’s CMA has okayed Alphabet's partnership and investment in AI rival Anthropic, concluding that it doesn't qualify for investigation.
Zilliz debuts new release of its cloud-based vector database
Redwood Shores, California-based Zilliz is backed by more than $110 million in funding. It offers an open-source vector database called Milvus. Zilliz Cloud, the offering the company updated today, is ...
Indian Private Realtor RMZ Bets $1.7 Billion on Data Center Boom
Privately-held Indian developer RMZ Corp. is spending $1.7 billion in building two data centers as companies rush to develop infrastructure to capitalize on the artificial intelligence boom.
Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI
Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot Ignite A new version of Microsoft's database warhorse, SQL Server, is on the way, with some useful improvements squeezed between the ...
Microsoft launches two data center infrastructure chips to speed AI applications
Microsoft has designed two additional infrastructure chips for its data centers that will help speed artificial intelligence operations and increase data security, it said on Tuesday at its Ignite ...
Exclusive: India cenbank plans 2025 launch of cloud services, countering dominance of global firms
MUMBAI, Nov 18 (Reuters) - India's central bank will launch a pilot programme in 2025 offering local cloud data storage to financial firms at affordable prices, according to two sources aware of the ...
Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity
Above we show the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and ...
Microsoft Sees Surge in Azure OpenAI Spending from Adobe, Meta
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service, which provides access to OpenAI's language models, is experiencing significant growth and diversification of its customer base, as reported by The Verge. While TikTok had previously been the dominant customer, Microsoft has successfully expanded its clientele to include major corporations spending over
US regulators plan to investigate Microsoft's cloud business, FT reports
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is preparing to launch an investigation into anti-competitive practices at Microsoft's cloud computing business, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing ...
The FTC is readying an investigation into Microsoft's cloud-computing business: report
The Federal Trade Commission, led by Lina Khan, had previously sought public feedback on Microsoft's cloud computing business.
FTC reportedly begins investigating Microsoft’s cloud business practices
The FTC is reportedly readying an investigation into whether Microsoft used anti-competitive tactics to maintain a dominant position in the cloud market.
US FTC plans to investigate Microsoft's cloud business
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is preparing to launch an investigation into anti-competitive practices at Microsoft's cloud computing business, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on ...
Disney's Streaming Success, Tech Eyes More IPOs in '25 | Bloomberg Technology
Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow speak with Disney CFO Hugh Johnston on the company's latest earnings beat and future streaming ambitions. And why 2025 looks to be the year for tech IPOs. Plus, ...
Want to easily render 3D environments? Cybever and Cloud Zeta have a way
The companies also envision a future where 3D tools are more accessible to smaller businesses and non-professional creators.
A Step Up, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certifies Platform Engineering
When the CNCF decides to codify a software discipline with a certification (such as) for platform engineering, developers, data & cloud pros are typically interested.
Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data
Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources Snowflake is set to preview a new platform it claims will help organizations build chatbots that can serve up data from ...
Almost all of this year’s top 40 startups at Station F use AI
Every year, more than 1,000 startups join Station F, the iconic startup campus in Paris. As it can be hard to sift through 1,000 startup descriptions, ...
Why Reports Of MySQL’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Contrary to the notion that MySQL is in decline, it’s expanding across industries and keeping pace with technological advancements.
US government identifies hackers who stole 50 billion AT&T records in Snowflake hack
The US government has accused two individuals of breaching 10 major companies, stealing their sensitive data, and then either extorting the firms for money, or selling the stolen data on the dark web.
Cloudera to Acquire Octopai’s Platform to Deliver Trusted Data Across the Entire Hybrid Cloud Data Estate
Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, announced that it entered into a definitive agreement with Octopai B.I. Ltd. (Octopai) to acquire Octopai’s data lineage and ...
Siemens Profit Tops Forecasts as Data-Center Demand Offsets Automation Woes
The industrial conglomerate reported a net profit of $2 billion for the fourth quarter, beating market views, after it benefited from high demand for electrical infrastructure driven by data centers.
Texas data center dash creates solar price uncertainty
Surging demand from tech groups in Texas has accelerated a bullish solar and storage market but grid bottlenecks have created a wide range of wholesale price forecasts.
CoreWeave More Than Triples Valuation in $650 Million Secondary Share Sale
AI cloud platform operator CoreWeave has closed a $650 million secondary share sale to investors, more than tripling the company's valuation to $23 billion over the past year, reports Reuters.
The investors were led by Jane Street, Magnetar, Fidelity Management, and Macquarie Capital. This significant valuation increase highlights
Nvidia Partners Hon Hai, Quanta See Strong AI Demand Into 2025
Nvidia Corp.’s Taiwan hardware partners Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and Quanta Computer Inc. are forecasting a boom in AI server demand to continue into next year.
57,000,000 Retail Customers Exposed In Massive Data Breach
Nearly 57 million customer accounts were compromised, exposing sensitive personal information and raising serious concerns about the company’s cybersecurity practices.
SoftBank planning supercomputer with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, Bloomberg reports
SoftBank’s (SFTBY) telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using Nvidia’s (NVDA) DGX B200 platform, as well as a ...
Red Hat is acquiring AI optimization startup Neural Magic
Red Hat, the IBM-owned open source software firm, is acquiring Neural Magic, a startup that optimizes AI algorithms to run on commodity processors.
AI Compute Will Require 1 Million GPUs: Japanese Data Center Provider
Japanese cloud computing provider Sakura Internet has embarked on an ambitious project to try to meet demand for AI compute power in Japan and abroad. The company says it's launching a three-year ...
Ecosia and Qwant Team Up to Challenge Google's Search Dominance
Two European search engines, Ecosia and Qwant, are joining forces to build a European search index and reduce their dependence on US tech giants like Google, reports CNBC.
The companies have formed a joint venture, called the European Search Perspective (EUSP), with equal ownership. The venture, set to launch in
Amazon Steps Up Effort to Rival Nvidia in AI Chip Market
Amazon is making significant strides in its quest to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market, reports the Financial Times. The tech giant's cloud computing division is investing heavily in custom chips, spearheaded by Annapurna Labs, a chip start-up acquired by Amazon in 2015.
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