Cloud Tech – Page 25 of 55

May 10, 2018, 3:24 PM

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in… Read More

May 10, 2018, 2:16 PM

Amazon Web Services is sitting on around $12.4 billion in deferred revenue

For the first time this week, Amazon disclosed how much revenue Amazon Web Services will eventually realize from multiyear cloud… Read More

May 10, 2018, 10:51 AM

Containers and microservices become mainstream: Learn how they can work for you at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Over the last several years, containers and microservices have become some of the most quickly adopted enterprise software development technologies… Read More

May 9, 2018, 3:56 PM

How the rise of the internet of things prompted a new feature for Microsoft’s cloud database

Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference… Read More

May 9, 2018, 1:30 PM

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich touts security during deep dive into the tech behind Microsoft’s cloud

Build 2018 attendees got a peek behind the Azure curtain Wednesday from Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich, who also… Read More

May 8, 2018, 12:19 PM

Red Hat and Microsoft teaming up for a managed OpenShift service on Azure

One day after Microsoft announced that its managed Kubernetes service is ready for the general public, Red Hat announced that… Read More

May 8, 2018, 11:00 AM

Slack hits 8 million daily users, with 3 million paid subscribers

Slack is carving out a nice piece of the business software market for itself thanks to its workplace chat and… Read More

May 7, 2018, 11:20 AM

GeekWire Podcast, Live at Build: Cloud, AI and mixed reality with Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and Lorraine Bardeen

We’re live at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle, where we’ll be joined by two of Microsoft’s top executives,… Read More

May 7, 2018, 8:30 AM

Is Azure the cloud for the internet of things? Microsoft doubles down at Build

Microsoft’s rebranding of the internet of things as “the intelligent edge” is arguably an improvement over the original moniker, but… Read More

May 7, 2018, 8:30 AM

Microsoft’s Project Kinect for Azure is a package of sensors for IoT applications

Microsoft is bringing Kinect back this week at its Build developer conference, but in a very different fashion that the… Read More

May 7, 2018, 6:00 AM

Live blog: Microsoft makes its pitch to developers at Build 2018

One of the key events on Microsoft’s yearly calendar kicks off later this morning, as thousands of developers crowd into… Read More

May 7, 2018, 3:00 AM

With $125M Series D round, Mesosphere has now raised over $250M to automate the data center

Data centers have never been more powerful, but they’ve never been more complicated to manage. Mesosphere is hoping that as… Read More

May 5, 2018, 8:00 AM

At top of WorkFlowy founder’s to-do list: Keeping his app’s cult-like following happy

In January, when Jesse Patel announced plans to overhaul WorkFlowy, his quirky-but-powerful outline app, he appealed for mercy. “If you… Read More

May 3, 2018, 4:09 PM

Kubernetes in Europe: The most significant news from Kubecon this week

The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue… Read More

May 3, 2018, 12:12 PM

Twitter moves its part of its massive Hadoop data platform to Google Cloud

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing… Read More

May 3, 2018, 6:00 AM

Hate working in a web browser? How a new breed of software is bringing cloud-based apps into a single interface

In 1983, Microsoft developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi wrote a UNIX program that would eventually become Microsoft Word. It… Read More

May 3, 2018, 5:00 AM

Ask tech questions in private with Stack Overflow’s new enterprise product for smaller teams

Millions of technical professionals each month use Stack Overflow to answer tricky questions about coding, architecture, and other complicated aspects… Read More

May 2, 2018, 1:41 PM

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Speakers from Apple, Cloudflare and Google added to conference agenda

Ready to boost your technical chops? Our biggest technical conference of the year — the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit —… Read More

May 2, 2018, 8:00 AM

Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes

As more software factories add Kubernetes to their container strategies, a lot of people are getting excited about the container… Read More

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

May 1, 2018, 8:00 AM

Machine learning on the blockchain: How Algorithmia’s DanKu experiment unfolded

Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing… Read More

May 1, 2018, 7:00 AM

SkyKick raises another $40M to build more products for cloud services companies

Tectonic shifts in information technology strategies are hard to navigate, even for the biggest companies on the planet. The rise… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 4:31 PM

Intel’s Data Center Group takes advantage of booming cloud business in Q1

With revenue, profits, and capital expenditures up for all of the Big Three cloud computing companies during the first quarter… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 1:35 PM

Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud group posts a 17 percent jump in revenue on 93 percent growth for Azure

Cloud computing has been a strong part of Microsoft’s turnaround during CEO Satya Nadella’s tenure as CEO, and its Intelligent… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 1:15 PM

AWS grows 49 percent in Q1 2018 to hit $5.4B in revenue

Amazon Web Services is setting the pace for the cloud computing market once again, growing 49 percent in its first… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 1:50 PM

While growth remains slow, F5 Q2 earnings beat expectations amid software-focused turnaround

F5 Networks told Wall Street analysts earlier this year that it expects slow revenue growth as it shifts its business… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 1:20 PM

ServiceNow snaps up VendorHawk to help its customers manage their SaaS spending

ServiceNow has acquired Seattle’s VendorHawk, a recent TechStars Seattle graduate, for an undisclosed amount in order to add cloud software… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 10:35 AM

Puppet signals shift in product strategy with new tech asset inventory dashboard

Puppet is shaking up its product strategy, announcing on Wednesday the first product that will become part of an expanded… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 9:21 AM

Announcing the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Top tech leaders from Microsoft and Amazon added to agenda, early-bird tickets on sale

Our biggest technical conference of the year — the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit — is coming up on June 26-27… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 9:00 AM

Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, which lets you deploy containers with utter disregard for hardware, now generally available

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances,… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 6:00 AM

Seattle DevOps vets launch Sodo, a startup that helps companies modernize their software teams

Two longtime Seattle-area engineers are teaming up to launch Sodo, a new professional-development startup that wants to help software development… Read More