Amazon’s pioneering cloud business gave the company an early lead in an emerging and lucrative industry but competition is heating up between Amazon Web Services and newer entrants, like Microsoft… Read More
Amazon has acquired enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage. Founded in 2014, the company sold a rack-scale software storage solution for the cloud. Israel’s Globes pegged the deal at $50… Read More
Seattle-based company AppViewX just raised $30 million to help expand its networking automation technology, GeekWire has learned. Brighton Park Capital, a new private equity firm based in Greenwich, Conn., was… Read More
Amazon and Microsoft are locked in a battle for a massive contract to build cloud infrastructure for the Department of Defense. Amazon has long appeared to be the frontrunner in… Read More
Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health announced a new partnership Monday designed to bring the healthcare institution’s vast clinical data and the software giant’s artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities together.… Read More
For years, fixtures in the Bay Area tech industry have been migrating to Seattle in search of comparable jobs with a lower cost of living. But as far as we… Read More
The Department of Homeland Security is migrating the system it uses to search for people using biometric data to Amazon’s cloud. The identification system is currently hosted on DHS servers… Read More
Our biggest technical conference of the year — the GeekWire Cloud Summit — is taking place Wednesday. Here’s everything you need to know if you’ll be joining. GeekWire Cloud Summit… Read More
Six months after a sneak preview, Amazon Web Services has just raised the curtain on AWS Ground Station, its cloud-based system for controlling satellites and downloading satellite data. AWS says… Read More
Cloud Constellation Corp. has chosen LeoStella, the U.S.-European joint venture based in Tukwila, Wash., to build satellites for its cloud-based data storage service. The satellite constellation, known as SpaceBelt, is… Read More
Seattle startup AppSheet has raised $15 million to fuel growth of its platform that helps businesses develop their own data-based apps without requiring a team of developers. Shasta Ventures led… Read More
Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in June suggests that Lockheed Martin is putting serious thought into… Read More
When David Aronchick returned to Microsoft last fall, I suspect that many folks there did a little happy dance. A Dartmouth grad with undergrad degrees in psychology and chemistry, Aronchick… Read More
It’s Day 1 again for Seattle-based Spiral Genetics. The decade-old DNA analysis startup has left its parent company Fabric and is sparking its re-launch by partnering with Microsoft to analyze… Read More
Seattle startup Igneous has reeled in a $25 million investment round to fuel growth of its software that helps companies manage their unstructured data. WestRiver Group led the Series C… Read More
Amazon thinks the cloud can make hospitals run better. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit is sponsoring a program at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) that applies machine… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex has acquired EnableSoft, a Robotic Process Automation company that offers bots for handling a business’s basic, repetitive tasks. It’s Nintex’s second acquisition in seven months… Read More
Microsoft is again the most-valuable U.S. company — holding a slight lead over Amazon, at least for now — and the company is set to report its most recent quarterly financials Wednesday afternoon,… Read More
In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology and created a simple program for the course, which she… Read More
As the closing bell rang Monday, Amazon had surpassed fellow Seattle-area tech giant Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company. The jostling came after Amazon’s stock rose 8.5 percent in the… Read More
Kevin Lin is computer software engineer who has an endless curiosity about technology and people and he likes to keep himself busy at the intersection of those two things. Born… Read More
Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure. Microsoft thinks it has a strategy to win them over.… Read More
— Molly Presley will head up product marketing at cloud storage startup Qumulo. Presley brings many years of storage marketing experience, most recently serving in similar roles at Quantum in… Read More
—Cosmetic treatment review site RealSelf is lawyering up with Josh King as the company’s first general counsel. King is leaving legal service marketplace Avvo after more than a decade of leading… Read More
Raksha Balasubramanyam is a first-generation technology professional, artist and “connector of poeple” whose interest in tech was sparked in part by the travels of her father when she was a kid.… Read More
Microsoft will not pull out of the competition for a $10 billion cloud contract for the Department of Defense, despite growing concerns about private companies selling new technologies to the… Read More
Another historic Seattle building is undergoing a change. But don’t worry. The minor transformation of a space in the city’s Ballard neighborhood is only temporary. Sandwiched between a Patagonia clothing… Read More
F5 Networks beat Wall Street expectations for its third quarter as the company continues to transition its business to focus more on cloud computing. F5 reported net profits of $150.1… Read More
Google parent Alphabet spent a whopping $5.5 billion on capital expenditures in the most recent quarter, nearly doubling that output from a year ago as the company continues to expand… Read More
With all the hype and money pouring into the blockchain and cryptocurrency market, it’s important to recognize how young the industry is. Consumer adoption has not been achieved and most… Read More