by ezcloud | Apr 13, 2019 | Amazon, General
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t a fan of the phrase “work-life balance.” At an April awards event hosted by Axel Springer and Business Insider US editor in chief Alyson Shontell, Bezos revealed the counterintuitive advice he offers new Amazon employees. Bezos...
by ezcloud | Mar 9, 2019 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, General
Earlier this year, there were signs that IBM really might pull off a turnaround. After more than five years of shrinking revenues, Big Blue reported three quarters of growth in a row. Sure, that growth wasn’t coming from new businesses, but from milking the upside in...
by ezcloud | Mar 9, 2019 | General, Google
Mason Trinca/Getty Today, thousands of Google employees staged a company walkout to protest Google executives’ alleged protection of sexual harassers at the company. The walkout at the Company’s HQ in Mountain View, California, is reportedly the largest worldwide....
by ezcloud | Mar 9, 2019 | General
IBM agreed to acquire software maker Red Hat Inc. in a $33.4 billion bet on jump-starting its efforts to catch up in the cloud. International Business Machines Corp. will pay $190 a share in cash for Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat, according to...
by ezcloud | Feb 1, 2019 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Azure, General, Google, Google Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced that it has agreed to buy RedLock Inc., a competitor focused on securing cloud environments, in an all-cash deal worth $173 million. The purchase is the latest in a series of nine-figure acquisitions that the network protection...
by ezcloud | Jan 29, 2019 | General
Flexera, an IL-based software asset management (SAM) firm announced that it has acquired RightScale, one of the first multi-cloud management and cost optimization companies. RightScale was founded in 2007 – much before cloud computing became mainstream – to...
