The Foundry Group has led an $8.7 million series A financing round in Cloudability, a Portland upstart that helps companies get a better handle on how much they are spending… Read More
Google is taking direct aim at Amazon.com in tablets, with yesterday’s announcement of the Nexus 7. Today, it is a completely different area where the tech titans are lining up… Read More
Amazon Web Services is once again experiencing hiccups, suffering service interruptions that are knocking some sites offline. The problems are occurring at the company’s facilities in Northern Virginia, the same… Read More
Concurix, a Kirkland cloud computing startup led by former AOL Chief Technology Officer Alexander Gounares, has raised a fresh round of cash from newly-formed Seattle venture capital firm GSharp Ventures. Gounares, who… Read More
On Tuesday, we caught up with Madrona’s Matt McIlwain to talk about his firm’s new $300 million venture fund and why he’s so bullish about the Pacific Northwest startup community.… Read More
There’s been a steady stream of venture capital activity in Seattle enterprise software companies in recent weeks, from the $50 million round for Apptio to the $19.5 million round for… Read More
Reaching a goal it established three years ago, Microsoft says it has reduced its carbon emissions as a proportion of its revenue by 30 percent, compared with 2007 levels. “I’m pleased… Read More
It may start getting easier to make optimal Amazon Web Services purchasing decisions. Or, at least, less expensive. Raveld, a Seattle-based startup formed last year, is launching a new free… Read More
Guest Commentary: Amazon Web Services this morning announced a new service called DynamoDB — rolling out, in public form, a cloud database technology already used by several of Amazon’s internal… Read More
Amazon Web Services has been dropping hints about a big announcement planned for this morning, and this is it. The company just launched a new cloud database service called DynamoDB, going… Read More
One of the first things that struck me upon entering Facebook’s 17-month-old engineering office in downtown Seattle today was the … silence. Despite the open newsroom-style environment on the 8th… Read More
GreenButton, a New Zealand company that helps businesses more easily move information to the cloud, has established new offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle. “Our presence in Silicon Valley and… Read More
Cloud database startup Xeround has reeled in $9 million in venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital. Seattle area investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership also participated in the… Read More
You’ve got a lot of time to think when traveling by RV from South Carolina to Washington state — a good 2,300 miles. Ashutosh Tiwary didn’t spend his time singing car-trip… Read More
Started by former Microsoft employees and a French scientist, Vizua is looking to transform the way radiologists share MRI, CT and ultrasound scans. Historically, radiologists would send a CD full of… Read More
Parallels, known for its software that lets Windows run on Macs, has hired new finance and technology chiefs, aiming to boost the cloud-services side of its business and prepare for… Read More
Data centers produce massive amounts of heat, so much so that companies like Facebook have gone to extreme lengths to develop innovative cooling systems to make sure that servers don’t… Read More
Back in August, I interviewed Frank Artale of Ignition Partners about the torrid investment pace that he’d engaged in since joining the Bellevue venture capital firm in March. Well, that… Read More
EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci is in Seattle today, celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new 140,000 square foot “Center of Excellence” in the heart of Seattle’s Pioneer Square… Read More
Entrepreneurs often talk about when lightning strikes, that special a-ha moment when inspiration hits. But for former Microsoft engineer Kory Gill lightning struck literally at his Woodinville home during a… Read More
At about 11:25 a.m. Pacific time today, my connection to Gmail failed on both my PC and my Mac. And it doesn’t look like it is just me. After posting… Read More
There’s no shortage of services that allow consumers to access files in the cloud, from Dropbox to Box.net to SugarSync to Google Docs. But even with all of the competition… Read More
In honor of back-to-school season, this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast comes with an educational theme — featuring excerpts from past interviews with technology educators and one very impressive… Read More
My wife just tried to log on to her Hotmail account, but no dice. A few minutes later a GeekWire reader sent me an email — not from their Hotmail… Read More
Paul Maritz is now the CEO of VMware, but he was previously the longtime chief of Microsoft’s platforms group — overseeing products including Windows and generally considered third in command… Read More
Seems like Amazon.com’s data center in Northern Virginia just can’t catch a break lately. And now here comes Hurricane Irene. Officials at the Amazon Web Services facility — a key piece… Read More
Frank Artale is new to the venture capital business, so maybe he didn’t get the memo. After all, most VCs take off the month of August to travel, play golf… Read More
Microsoft and China Standard Software Co. plan to work together develop and sell cloud cloud computing technologies in the country. The companies announced the agreement last night. China Standard Software, also… Read More
Microsoft’s new Office 365 cloud-based service took a hit this week when customers were unable to access email and other programs for about three hours on Wednesday. As we noted at… Read More
We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and other Office products — has been down for about two hours.… Read More
