Cloud Tech – Page 22 of 55

Jul 15, 2018, 4:52 PM

How to deal with SaaS slackers: CIOs share lessons from unreliable Software as a Service vendors

Most enterprise software is delivered as a service these days because paying an expert to manage a complex application just… Read More

Jul 13, 2018, 12:07 PM

Amazon Web Services might be courting hybrid cloud customers in an interesting way

There are lots of companies that understand the benefits of cloud computing but, for a variety of good reasons, can’t… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 11:55 AM

Top Microsoft chip researcher shifts to mysterious new Azure hardware division

When Microsoft shuffled the deck of cards that makes up its Azure cloud computing division a few months ago, it… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 11:00 AM

As cloud competition heats up, Microsoft will pitch its partners on new Azure and Power BI features

Visiting Las Vegas in the middle of July seems like a questionable idea, but thousands of Microsoft partners will descend… Read More

Jul 12, 2018, 3:00 AM

Hot cloud database startup Snowflake Computing, born on Amazon Web Services, adds support for Microsoft Azure

After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data warehousing market on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Computing… Read More

Jul 11, 2018, 1:22 PM

Usermind lays off some employees amid pivot in sales strategy for its marketing software

After realizing that it stood a better chance selling its customer-support software as part of larger deals, rather than generating… Read More

Jul 11, 2018, 5:00 AM

Salesforce wants to give customer service workers using Service Cloud better AI-powered tools

Salesforce continues to build out the non-salesy parts of its software-as-a-service portfolio, making new features for its Service Cloud generally… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 9:35 AM

Slack addresses one of its major weaknesses with search improvements

Workplace collaboration app Slack is great for chatting with co-workers and discussing project plans in the moment, but if you… Read More

Jul 10, 2018, 8:00 AM

Amazon Web Services’ Peter DeSantis sheds more light on the cloud giant’s custom chip strategy

Evolving cloud workloads are going to require evolving hardware strategies to anticipate those future demands, and Amazon Web Services continues… Read More

Jul 6, 2018, 8:00 AM

Microsoft Azure CTO: AI and machine learning “are going to transform every industry”

Now that the basic appeal of cloud computing has been established — compute and storage resources managed by your vendor… Read More

Jul 5, 2018, 4:45 PM

Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes… Read More

Jul 5, 2018, 8:00 AM

Even Morgan Stanley’s conservative estimate of the next five years of cloud growth looks pretty good

We already know cloud computing is going to be a huge business; that’s why we devoted a full day to… Read More

Jul 3, 2018, 8:54 AM

A passing front? Diane Bryant out as Google Cloud COO after 7 months

Former Intel executive Diane Bryant, who joined Google Cloud just last November to give some executive support to Diane Greene,… Read More

Jul 3, 2018, 8:00 AM

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks networks and neo-Nazis at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

The internet has changed the world in countless ways over the last 23 years, and we’re only beginning to grapple… Read More

Jul 2, 2018, 8:55 AM

Dell clears up its financial future, will sell shares to public while maintaining stake in VMware

Five years ago, Michael Dell took his pioneering PC and server company private, citing a desire to avoid the short-term… Read More

Jul 2, 2018, 8:00 AM

Apple’s Carlos Guestrin cautions AI leaders to think very carefully about how they use their data

The rise of machine learning has been one of the most exciting developments in modern technology, but according to Carlos… Read More

Jun 28, 2018, 11:27 AM

Inside the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Photos and recap from a perfectly cloudy day

Our second annual GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit brought together some of the most interesting people in cloud computing for a… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 11:53 PM

Google Cloud CEO wanted to buy GitHub, hopes Microsoft really keeps it neutral; Azure CTO vows not to mess with it

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene was interested in buying GitHub, but she isn’t ready to buy Microsoft’s promise to keep… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 4:38 PM

David vs. Goliath in the cloud: Do investors see an opening for startups to take on AWS and Azure?

Cloud computing is big business dominated by the world’s largest tech companies. Three of the four most valuable tech companies… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 4:19 PM

Venture capitalists ‘love’ Microsoft’s buy of GitHub, call it a ‘super smart’ move to win developers and compete against AWS

Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of GitHub is a whopper by nearly every standard — creating a path into 28 million… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 3:34 PM

Who will win the cloud? CEOs offer wildly differing picks on the tech titan with the greatest opportunity ahead

Amazon is a pioneer in cloud computing, and the current market leader, but not the tech titan with the greatest… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 3:26 PM

Why some CIOs are walking, not running, to the cloud

If you listened to the morning presentations and tech talks at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, you might have walked… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 10:31 AM

Microsoft Azure CTO: 2018 is the year blockchain becomes a real thing

Blockchain has been around for a while, but it’s mostly played a supporting role as the backbone behind Bitcoin and… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 9:00 AM

Microsoft introduces new data and edge-computing services for Azure customers at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Microsoft rolled out several new Azure services Wednesday at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, making a key part of its… Read More

Jun 27, 2018, 6:00 AM

Puppet raises $42M to fuel its software development technology for the cloud, hopes to be cash-flow positive in a year

At one point three years ago, Portland’s Puppet thought it was headed toward an IPO. That did not happen, but… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Jun 26, 2018, 8:00 AM

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit FAQ: What to know for Wednesday’s big technical conference

Planning to attend the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit this Wednesday? Here’s everything you need to know. If you still have questions… Read More

Jun 26, 2018, 6:00 AM

VMware jumps on the Kubernetes bandwagon with a new managed service for a multicloud world

An awful lot of enterprise tech companies of a certain age have floundered trying to reinvent themselves for the cloud… Read More

Jun 22, 2018, 10:31 AM

Hear how Amazon Web Services, T-Mobile and PitchBook build hybrid cloud infrastructures at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

More and more companies have realized that the cloud is a journey, not necessarily a destination. Once it becomes clear… Read More

Jun 21, 2018, 4:52 PM

Docker may consider Red Hat one of its biggest rivals, but the feeling isn’t mutual

Red Hat remains one of the longest-running successes in open-source enterprise software, and while it might be facing upstarts from… Read More

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O 2017

Jun 21, 2018, 10:38 AM

Report: Google engineers resisted orders to build key cloud security feature needed for military deal

Google continues to find itself in some tricky positions as it tries to balance its desire for more cloud computing… Read More