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Kevin joined The Information in 2016 after 11 years covering enterprise technology and cloud computing at CRN, a technology trade industry publication. Previously, he was a technical writer for France Telecom’s R&D division and a reporter at Business 2.0, a magazine that covered the rise (and fall) of the first dot-com era. He started his career at The Bangkok Post, a Thailand-based English language daily newspaper serving Southeast Asia. Kevin attended Colgate University and lives with his wife and two young children in Berkeley, Calif. You can reach him at [email protected].
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The latest part of CEO Pat Gelsinger's turnaround plan is focused on Europe, where Intel plans to boost chip-making capacity with new factories.
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MongoDB investors are apparently thrilled about the database provider's efforts to transition its business from licensed software to cloud services.

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Six months after raising a $1 billion Series G round at a $28 billion valuation, Databricks has hired a seasoned software sales vet and raised new funding.
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Is Microsoft getting a pass for Azure outages and security response?
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As we reported in early July, Microsoft's Azure cloud has a global shortage of computing capacity due to high demand for cloud services and the global chip shortage. Microsoft Azure has other problems too. There have been a number of service outages in recent years, including one last night Pacific time that took down Teams and other services for users around the worl...
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