Google to Build New Data Center on Former Alabama Power Plant Site

The Widows Creek facility, built on the former site of a coal-fired power generation plant, will be Google’s seventh in the U.S. and 14th globally. Read more »

Microsoft Offers Azure SQL Data Warehouse for Limited Preview

Microsoft is cracking the door to its cloud data warehouse. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now ready to accept data from customers in limited use cases. Read more »

Google Pulls Controversial Audio Listening Code from Chromium Browser

Google Insists that concerns over its hotword module being used for eavesdropping are off target, but it has removed the module that's meant to enable hands-free search. Read more »

Google Announces Beta Availability of Container Engine

Container Engine is aimed at helping DevOps teams and IT administrators more easily set up and manage application container clusters on its cloud platform. Read more »

Docker Container Apps Hit the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft takes a curated, app store-like approach to spinning up containerized apps on its cloud. Read more »

Red Hat Goes All-In for Containers With 2 New Offerings

VIDEO: Paul Cormier, Red Hat EVP and president of products and technologies, discusses two new products announced today at the Red Hat Summit. Read more »

Office 365 Service Notifications Go Mobile

Microsoft added push notifications to the Office 365 Admin app for Windows Phone, iOS and Android so that admins won't be caught off-guard by cloud downtime. Read more »

Oracle Expands Cloud PaaS Offerings in Quest for Renewed Growth

Oracle introduces new platform-as-a-service offerings as it seeks to complete a decade-long transformation from a database and enterprise software company to become a fully integrated cloud services company. Read more »

Bing Kicks Off Summer With Better Video Search, World Cup Predictions

School's out. Microsoft spruces up Bing's online video search and turns its prediction engine on women's soccer. Read more »

CPH: A Compact Representation for Hierarchical Meshes Generated by Primal Refinement

We present CPH (Compact Primal Hierarchy): a compact representation of the hierarchical connectivity of surface and volume manifold meshes generated through primal subdivision refinements. CPH is consistently defined in several dimensions and... Read more »