Cloud Tech – Page 11 of 55

May 24, 2019, 9:57 AM

Microsoft rolls out support for tough federal security standards to all U.S. Azure regions ahead of JEDI contract decision

Federal agencies will be able to use any region of Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing footprint in the United States to… Read More

May 23, 2019, 7:04 AM

GitHub introduces “Sponsors” button, allowing users to donate money to open-source contributors

Software developers that maintain and contribute to open-source projects will now be able to put out a virtual tip far… Read More

May 22, 2019, 8:00 AM

How Amazon Web Services’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is preparing for a data explosion

One of the only certainties about the future of enterprise computing is that more data will be collected, processed, and… Read More

May 21, 2019, 10:33 AM

Q&A with Auth0’s CEO after identity tech startup raises $103M and reaches elite unicorn status

Eugenio Pace knows the stats. The rate of survival for most startups is not pretty. In fact, his first attempt… Read More

May 21, 2019, 8:00 AM

Chef eyes hybrid cloud holdouts with new cloud-migration tool

Months after it overhauled its entire product strategy around its open-source principles, Chef has some new ideas to make money… Read More

May 21, 2019, 7:45 AM

Microsoft makes a service mesh move with new specification it hopes will unite emerging cloud-native technologies

To date Microsoft has stayed out of the increasing skirmishes in the cloud-native world around service-mesh technology, but on Tuesday… Read More

May 20, 2019, 2:53 PM

Cray CEO on HPE deal: ‘Massive cloud vendors’ threatened our long-term survival in supercomputing

Cray decided to sell its supercomputing business to HPE for $1.3 billion last week in part because it was worried… Read More

May 20, 2019, 8:17 AM

Identity authentication startup Auth0 raises $103M as another Seattle company reaches unicorn status

Another Seattle-area startup just reached a billion-dollar valuation as Auth0 announced a big $103 million funding round on Monday. Based… Read More

May 17, 2019, 3:51 PM

Updated: Database error causes widespread, ongoing Salesforce outage affecting Pardot customers

Updated Saturday 11:06am PT: Salesforce sounded the all-clear Saturday morning, ending an outage that lasted 15 hours and 8 minutes… Read More

May 17, 2019, 7:39 AM

HPE will acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in merger of storied tech brands

HPE is doubling down on the supercomputing game, announcing plans Friday to acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in a… Read More

Kenichiro Yoshida, President and CEO, Sony Corporation (left), and Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

May 16, 2019, 1:33 PM

Microsoft and Sony vow to “explore” ways to collaborate on cloud gaming and AI in new partnership

Microsoft and Sony are going exploring. The two longtime gaming console rivals announced Thursday that they have struck a multiyear… Read More

May 16, 2019, 8:08 AM

Apptio buys Portland’s Cloudability, adding more cloud financial analysis tools to its belt

Apptio has made its first acquisition since its $1.9 billion private equity deal closed in January, snapping up Portland’s Cloudability,… Read More

May 15, 2019, 10:50 AM

DevOps is changing the way companies build software. Learn more from five experts at the GeekWire Cloud Summit

As software-as-a-service became the dominant vector for enterprise computing during the last several years, the development velocity required from top-tier… Read More

May 14, 2019, 11:20 AM

Start the patching: New batch of side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors

Intel announced Tuesday that it has discovered a new batch of vulnerabilities exploiting design flaws in its chips and released… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

May 14, 2019, 8:43 AM

Seattle startup Algorithmia raises $25M to help companies implement machine learning algorithms

Algorithmia announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in new funding to build out tools that make machine learning… Read More

May 13, 2019, 10:32 AM

Microsoft unveils decentralized identity protocol that works atop the Bitcoin blockchain

Microsoft introduced a new open-source protocol Monday that is designed to hurdle performance issues when trying to use blockchain networks… Read More

May 10, 2019, 1:30 PM

GitHub adds Package Registry, which allows GitHub users to publish software packages alongside source code

GitHub is expanding the scope of its code repository to include support for publishing software packages, the company annoucned Friday… Read More

May 8, 2019, 10:13 AM

Led by F5 founder, Seattle cybersecurity startup Tempered Networks raises $17M

Seattle-based Tempered Networks has raised an additional $17 million to invest in engineering, sales resources, and partnerships. The company confirmed… Read More

May 8, 2019, 8:11 AM

Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO, former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden taking over

Docker CEO Steve Singh is stepping down after just two years on the job, with the mission of transforming the… Read More

May 7, 2019, 1:00 PM

Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes service jointly managed by Microsoft and Red Hat, is now available

Companies interested in using Kubernetes to help manage their containerized applications have a new option from Microsoft and Red Hat… Read More

May 7, 2019, 10:45 AM

Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure reliability is lagging the competition

In an increasingly competitive market for cloud computing, reliability matters, and Microsoft has some work to do. Data compiled by… Read More

May 6, 2019, 1:20 PM

Microsoft rolls out new performance-scaling features for Azure databases, including serverless Azure SQL

Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying only for what they use while enjoying on-demand performance scaling… Read More

May 6, 2019, 10:52 AM

GeekWire Cloud Summit: Early-bird pricing ends Tuesday, new speakers added to our biggest technical conference

The 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit is a fantastic opportunity to learn from industry leaders and technical experts shaping the future… Read More

May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM

GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft

Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository… Read More

May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM

Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy

Much has been made of Microsoft’s reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that… Read More

May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM

Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events

Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles… Read More

May 3, 2019, 10:23 AM

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox

As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his… Read More

May 2, 2019, 2:48 PM

Microsoft Azure recovering from major networking-related outage that took out Office 365, Xbox Live, and other services

An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking… Read More

May 2, 2019, 2:00 PM

Microsoft unveils a new edge computing database and managed blockchain service ahead of Build

The main event doesn’t kick off until next Monday morning in downtown Seattle, but Microsoft plans to announce a new… Read More

May 2, 2019, 8:00 AM

Does Google really run the most reliable cloud service? Even its own sources are skeptical

The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too… Read More