Cloud Tech – Page 15 of 55

Jan 29, 2019, 9:00 AM

Puppet makes a change at the top with new CEO Yvonne Wassenaar

After years of buying enterprise technology from software vendors, new Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar will get a chance to run… Read More

Jan 26, 2019, 6:48 PM

‘We cannot let the next generation down’: Women in Cloud Summit rallies crowd to turn the tide in tech

In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology… Read More

Jan 24, 2019, 2:26 PM

Intel projects flat 2019 revenue amid slowdown in China, sending shares down more than 6 percent

Intel expects revenue growth to slow to a crawl in the upcoming year, and coming off a fourth quarter in… Read More

Jan 24, 2019, 10:35 AM

Microsoft acquires Citus Data, creators of a cloud-friendly version of the PostgreSQL database

Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday… Read More

Jan 24, 2019, 9:21 AM

Amazon Web Services continues open-source push with code behind SageMaker Neo

Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project,… Read More

Jan 24, 2019, 8:29 AM

Automation company Nintex partners with Adobe to challenge DocuSign in electronic signatures

Nintex, the Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company, announced this morning that it is getting into the electronic signature business. In… Read More

Jan 23, 2019, 1:35 PM

F5 Networks’ first fiscal quarter revenue comes in lighter than expected

The ongoing transition of F5 Networks from a hardware to a software company continues to drag on its growth. For… Read More

Jan 17, 2019, 10:19 AM

Amazon Web Services thinks new cloud service will make it easier to coordinate backups

One of the hardest parts of running modern enterprise technology infrastructure is keeping track of everything that is going on,… Read More

Jan 16, 2019, 3:32 PM

Google hikes G Suite prices for the first time, Business edition now $12 per user per month

Google’s quest to find revenue from something other than search advertising has led it in some interesting directions. G Suite… Read More

Jan 16, 2019, 1:36 PM

MongoDB’s licensing changes led Red Hat to drop the database from the latest version of its server OS

After MongoDB decided last year that it was changing the license for its open-source database to a more restrictive version,… Read More

Jan 15, 2019, 3:20 PM

Microsoft wins $1.76 billion DoD deal as massive U.S. government cloud contract looms

Microsoft started off the year with two wins in the federal government sector, winning a $1.76 billion contract with the… Read More

Jan 15, 2019, 12:55 PM

AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project

The promise of so-called “low code/no code” software-development tools is to enable anyone to create business applications around their custom… Read More

Jan 15, 2019, 8:00 AM

Seattle hybrid cloud security startup ExtraHop touts bookings growth, says it’s on an IPO path

After plunging into the network security market nearly two years ago, Extrahop’s bookings have topped the $100 million mark, and… Read More

Jan 15, 2019, 6:43 AM

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare

A week after unveiling a plan to reinvent grocery shopping with Kroger, Microsoft announced another major retail partnership: a seven-year… Read More

Jan 14, 2019, 1:12 PM

Bellevue’s Polyverse brings on significant “strategic investors” as it raises $2M for its secure Linux product and courts the Pentagon

Interest from the federal government into Polyverse’s secure Linux product prompted several undisclosed “strategic investors” to get in on a… Read More

Jan 14, 2019, 9:14 AM

Amazon Web Services acquires TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup working on cloud spending analysis

It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase… Read More

Jan 13, 2019, 5:00 PM

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

Cloud computing was invented by American tech companies. By the end of the next decade, it might be the domain… Read More

Jan 11, 2019, 1:34 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Supporting women in tech, and exploring the mysteries of the universe

Women in Cloud: If you’re like most women who work in the tech industry, you’ve probably experienced a hurdle or… Read More

Jan 10, 2019, 2:35 PM

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta gets $196 million payday as private equity buyout closes

It’s a good day to be Sunny Gupta. The Apptio co-founder and CEO stood to make $196 million as the… Read More

Jan 10, 2019, 9:32 AM

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure

Amazon Web Services customers might find some new disaster-recovery services in their account dashboards later this year now that the… Read More

Jan 9, 2019, 3:44 PM

Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database

The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between… Read More

Jan 9, 2019, 9:00 AM

Square takes aim at Stripe, PayPal with new payments kit for mobile software developers

Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as… Read More

Jan 8, 2019, 2:04 PM

Reports: Amazon adds new disaster-recovery tech to AWS with purchase of CloudEndure

Amazon has reportedly acquired one of the disaster-recovery service providers within the Amazon Web Services Marketplace, purchasing CloudEndure for around… Read More

Jan 8, 2019, 8:00 AM

Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors

After 10 years at the Seattle company he co-founded and helped steer through a rapidly changing market for enterprise technology,… Read More

Jan 7, 2019, 10:17 AM

GitHub introduces new product tier that lets free users keep their code private

GitHub will kick off the new year by allowing free users of the code repository service to maintain private projects,… Read More

Jan 7, 2019, 8:13 AM

Akamai snaps up Portland-based identity management provider Janrain

Proving your identity on the internet is harder than it sounds, and Akamai plans to use technology from Portland’s Janrain… Read More

Jan 6, 2019, 10:00 AM

High time for a better marijuana resource online? Startup finds a niche with legal pot retailers

You knew this was coming. After Washington voters legalized pot six years ago, it was only a matter of time… Read More

Jan 3, 2019, 12:15 PM

Do a majority of Google developers use Visual Studio Code? Microsoft declines to back up its top marketing exec’s claim

There’s little debate that Microsoft has become a company willing to work across competitive boundaries over the last few years,… Read More

Dec 29, 2018, 3:44 PM

Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado

A widespread outage on CenturyLink’s cloud network that lasted almost two days and hampered emergency phone service in Washington and… Read More

Dec 28, 2018, 9:00 AM

Portland’s Megh Computing raises $1.75M to help companies use flexible chips for real-time data processing

An explosion in demand for applications with real-time data analytics has created scaling problems inside companies trying to run those… Read More