Kevin McLaughlin

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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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Marvell Challenges Broadcom With $1.1 Billion Innovium Acquisition

In a shift to focus on chips for high-end switches, Marvell is paying $1.1 billion to acquire Innovium, a seven-year-old chip startup.

Salesforce Acquiring Automation Software Provider Servicetrace

With the Slack acquisition behind it, Salesforce is setting its M&A sights on another emerging software segment that automates repetitive tasks.

Qualtrics Acquires Data Analytics Firm Clarabridge for $1.3 Billion

Qualtrics is making the biggest acquisition in its 19-year history, acquiring a provider of AI-infused software for analyzing customer sentiment.

AWS Growth Spurt Overshadows Microsoft, Google’s Cloud Gains

The cloud market is booming, as evidenced by the revenue growth that Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet reported this week. But AWS is still the clear leader.

Microsoft Acquires Spending Management Startup Suplari

While small, the deal shows how Microsoft is bolstering a key suite of business applications as it increasingly butts heads with Salesforce.

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Is Microsoft getting a pass for Azure outages and security response?

Posted byKevin McLaughlin

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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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