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Microsoft: Almost all our commercial cloud revenue is sold through partners

by Tom Krazit on February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 at 10:32 amComment

There’s very little about enterprise software that cloud computing has left untouched, and that includes the relationship between enterprise tech providers like Microsoft and the thousands of partners it works… Read More

Google boosts capital expenditures in Q4 by 80 percent to $6.8B as it chases cloud rivals

by Tom Krazit on February 4, 2019February 5, 2019 at 8:45 amComment

Google continued to plow the profits from its search advertising business into cloud computing capacity and headcount during the fourth quarter of 2018, as its cloud business enters a new… Read More

Slack takes a step closer to an IPO with confidential filing of its registration statement

by Tom Krazit on February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 at 9:42 amComment

The first wave of 2019 initial public offerings appears back on track after the government shutdown, with Slack announcing Monday that it has submitted a draft registration statement to the… Read More

AWS revenue grows 45% to $7.4B in fourth quarter; full-year revenue hits $25B

by Tom Krazit on January 31, 2019February 1, 2019 at 10:23 amComment

Revenue from Amazon Web Services’ market-leading cloud business crossed $7 billion for the first time during the last quarter of the year, and that business continues to grow at a… Read More

Seattle’s Cloudentity lands $2M in funding for its secure cloud traffic-management product

by Tom Krazit on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 at 9:38 amComment

After realizing that it was building the same cloud security solution over and over again for consulting clients trying to manage traffic flowing between cloud services, Seattle’s Cloudentity went into… Read More

After seven months of searching, Intel gives interim CEO Bob Swan the top job

by Tom Krazit on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 at 8:16 amComment

Just a week ago, interim Intel CEO Bob Swan promised that the company’s board of directors would name a permanent CEO in the “near future.” On Thursday, he officially got… Read More

Strong Q2 cloud revenue growth continues to drive Microsoft forward

by Tom Krazit on January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 at 3:17 pmComment

Microsoft’s embrace of cloud computing continues to pace its growth, as revenue from several key cloud products made steady gains during the last quarter of the calendar year. For the… Read More

Data startup Koverse uses NSA tech to spot risks in supply chains

by James Thorne on January 29, 2019February 1, 2019 at 3:40 pmComment

You wake up, drink a cup of Colombian coffee, check a phone made of rare earth metals, and drive a car with parts from a dozen countries. Everything’s going great… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 at 5:27 pmComment

After years of buying enterprise technology from software vendors, new Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar will get a chance to run one. Puppet plans to announce Tuesday that Wassenaar will take… Read More

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

by Tony Lystra on January 26, 2019January 28, 2019 at 3:24 amComment

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

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

by Tom Krazit on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 at 2:35 pmComment

Intel expects revenue growth to slow to a crawl in the upcoming year, and coming off a fourth quarter in which revenue fell below expectations, investors are jittery. During Intel’s… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 at 10:35 am1 Comment

Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday with the acquisition of Citus Data. Terms of the deal… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 24, 2019January 28, 2019 at 5:07 pmComment

Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project, as it continues to push back against critics who find… Read More

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

by Tony Lystra on January 24, 2019February 11, 2019 at 7:38 amComment

Nintex, the Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company, announced this morning that it is getting into the electronic signature business. In a direct challenge to electronic signature company DocuSign, which was… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 at 3:15 pmComment

The ongoing transition of F5 Networks from a hardware to a software company continues to drag on its growth. For its first fiscal quarter, which ended Dec. 31st, Seattle’s F5… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 at 10:19 amComment

One of the hardest parts of running modern enterprise technology infrastructure is keeping track of everything that is going on, from networking performance to security threats. A new cloud service… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 at 4:20 pm1 Comment

Google’s quest to find revenue from something other than search advertising has led it in some interesting directions. G Suite is one of the most successful projects that has emerged… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 at 1:36 pm 2 Comments

After MongoDB decided last year that it was changing the license for its open-source database to a more restrictive version, Red Hat decided it would no longer include MongoDB in… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 15, 2019January 16, 2019 at 10:21 amComment

Microsoft started off the year with two wins in the federal government sector, winning a $1.76 billion contract with the Department of Defense for software development services and a new… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 at 2:21 pmComment

The promise of so-called “low code/no code” software-development tools is to enable anyone to create business applications around their custom needs. It sounds like Amazon Web Services is getting ready… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 at 9:00 amComment

After plunging into the network security market nearly two years ago, Extrahop’s bookings have topped the $100 million mark, and now CEO Arif Kareem thinks the company is primed for… Read More

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

by Todd Bishop on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 at 10:29 am1 Comment

A week after unveiling a plan to reinvent grocery shopping with Kroger, Microsoft announced another major retail partnership: a seven-year agreement with Walgreens Boots Alliance, the parent company of the… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 at 2:33 pmComment

Interest from the federal government into Polyverse’s secure Linux product prompted several undisclosed “strategic investors” to get in on a new $2 million funding round for the Bellevue company. Polyverse… Read More

Microsoft: Almost all our commercial cloud revenue is sold through partners

Google boosts capital expenditures in Q4 by 80 percent to $6.8B as it chases cloud rivals

Slack takes a step closer to an IPO with confidential filing of its registration statement

AWS revenue grows 45% to $7.4B in fourth quarter; full-year revenue hits $25B

Seattle’s Cloudentity lands $2M in funding for its secure cloud traffic-management product

After seven months of searching, Intel gives interim CEO Bob Swan the top job

Strong Q2 cloud revenue growth continues to drive Microsoft forward

Data startup Koverse uses NSA tech to spot risks in supply chains

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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