Cloud Tech – Page 24 of 55

Jun 4, 2018, 4:11 PM

TLDR: Microsoft agrees to buy GitHub, tech for women’s safety, Alexa & Google Assistant coming to Xbox

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Jun 4, 2018, 10:45 AM

Developers and cloud rivals will be watching Microsoft’s plans for Azure and GitHub very closely

It’s probably the central question surrounding Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of coding repository GitHub: how will the owner of the… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 9:16 AM

Google to link Meet business video-calling app with Microsoft Skype and other rivals

Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing… Read More

Jun 3, 2018, 3:16 PM

Microsoft reaches deal to buy GitHub; announcement could come Monday, report says

Update, Monday morning: Microsoft confirmed the deal, announcing an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. Microsoft has… Read More

Jun 1, 2018, 12:45 PM

Report: After employee backlash, Google will walk away from Project Maven AI contract with the military after it expires

The employees have spoken. Google has decided that it won’t seek additional business related to a controversial artificial intelligence project… Read More

Jun 1, 2018, 8:50 AM

Helm, an open-source project for managing Kubernetes apps, gets its own home inside the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Another project has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, after members voted to include Helm at the incubation stage within… Read More

Jun 1, 2018, 8:15 AM

Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services and lock-in: ‘You never want your customers to be trapped’

Enterprise tech buyers have worried about the prospect of “lock-in” — in which their vendors make it nearly impossible to… Read More

May 31, 2018, 4:35 PM

Pentagon delays the release of requirements for the once-in-a-generation cloud computing contract

Cloud companies lining up to bid on a ten-year cloud contract for the U.S. Department of Defense will have to… Read More

May 31, 2018, 3:26 PM

Amazon targets small businesses, takes aim at Tableau and Microsoft Power BI with new QuickSight pricing model

Amazon Web Services said Thursday that it will offer QuickSight, its data analytics and visualization software, to companies and organizations on… Read More

May 30, 2018, 3:13 PM

Amazon Web Services’ newest database, Amazon Neptune, is now generally available

After showing it off last year at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that its new cloud graph… Read More

May 30, 2018, 10:30 AM

Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich: cloud-based blockchain services are ready for prime time, even inside Microsoft

Among the emerging technologies of our time, blockchain technology has somehow been the recipient of both the most hype and… Read More

May 30, 2018, 5:00 AM

Travel giant Sabre bets big on multicloud, signing deal with Microsoft Azure weeks after a new deal with Amazon Web Services

Thanks to investments in container technology and microservices, Sabre is ready to embark on a multicloud infrastructure strategy, signing a… Read More

May 29, 2018, 1:32 PM

Salesforce posts 25 percent jump in Q1 revenue and raises full-year guidance

One week after it opened its new tower in downtown San Francisco, Salesforce showed why it felt confident making that… Read More

May 24, 2018, 10:29 AM

Box just made it a little easier to move data around the world with this addition to Box Zones

Box’s new data-management feature probably won’t bail you out if you’re still scrambling to figure out what to do about… Read More

May 23, 2018, 5:00 AM

Under new product leader, Chef rolls out strategy for modern app development teams

Simply automating your computing infrastructure won’t cut it anymore; forward-thinking software-development organizations need to automate their processes across the board… Read More

May 22, 2018, 3:43 PM

TLDR: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to police, Paul Allen’s $1M donation to gun safety initiative, GlimpseCam

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May 22, 2018, 10:57 AM

Project management company Viewpath raises $2.3M, names new CEO in push to expand business

Seattle-based project management technology company Viewpath announced $2.3 million in seed funding Tuesday morning and named a new CEO, longtime… Read More

May 22, 2018, 9:30 AM

Slack launches Actions, which could make it easier for users to share Slack data with third-party apps

Slack’s greatest potential as an enterprise collaboration company will come if it can convince more companies to use its platform… Read More

May 22, 2018, 8:55 AM

‘Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse’: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to local governments

Concerned about the use of facial recognition technology to detect and identify Americans walking down the street, the American Civil… Read More

May 22, 2018, 6:00 AM

Tidelift raises $15M to find paying gigs for open-source developers maintaining key projects

Tidelift wants to give open-source developers a way to earn some money for contributing to important open-source projects and while… Read More

May 21, 2018, 10:37 PM

New side-channel vulnerability reported in Intel, AMD, and Arm chips, but this one isn’t a Meltdown

One of the scarier things about the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws earlier this year was… Read More

May 19, 2018, 10:27 AM

Webmail wars: Why Google and Microsoft are doubling down on their free email services and apps

Google and Microsoft both announced updates to their email services and apps recently, offering up a new crop of features… Read More

May 17, 2018, 10:25 AM

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit early-bird pricing ends Friday — register today

There’s just one more day left to take advantage of the early-bird pricing for the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, which… Read More

May 16, 2018, 9:31 AM

Microsoft inks cloud deal with Intelligence Community ahead of decision on huge Pentagon cloud contract

While the largest cloud computing contract in the history of the industry waits in the wings, Microsoft was awarded a… Read More

May 15, 2018, 11:00 AM

Amazon Sumerian, the AWS tool for building AR/VR applications, is now generally available

Amazon Web Services is ready to let all of its customers start playing with Amazon Sumerian, a tool that helps… Read More

May 15, 2018, 10:52 AM

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Apple tech leaders headline GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way,… Read More

May 15, 2018, 9:22 AM

Auth0 raises $55M to fuel the identity management company’s international expansion

Auth0, a Bellevue, Wash. startup that helps developers build identity authentication capabilities into their applications, raised $55 million to embark on… Read More

May 14, 2018, 10:50 AM

Why someone needs to step up and challenge Intel in the data center chip market

For all the discussion of the higher-level technologies that power the modern data center, the processor remains the most fundamental… Read More

May 14, 2018, 9:42 AM

Researchers say new ‘Efail’ security risk undermines encrypted e-mail

Hackers have a better chance of getting into encrypted email than previously thought, according to a new paper released Monday… Read More

May 13, 2018, 5:00 PM

How Puppet’s chief product officer is navigating the rapidly changing world of modern software development

Nobody ever believes me when I say this, but the world of enterprise technology has actually been pretty exciting over… Read More