Cloud Tech

Apr 23, 2018, 2:15 PM

Google spent a lot of money on its cloud business during Q1 as it gears up for a big year

Operating a modern public cloud is an enormously expensive undertaking. It looks like Google expanded its cloud computing capacity in… Read More

Apr 23, 2018, 3:00 AM

Heptio launches new open-source load-balancing project with Kubernetes in mind

Heptio added a new load balancer to its stable of open-source projects Monday, targeting Kubernetes users who are managing multiple… Read More

Apr 20, 2018, 8:14 AM

Update: Pivotal goes public at $15 a share, CEO Rob Mee calls it “message of strength and independence”

Pivotal broke free of the Dell Technologies conglomerate Friday morning, listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange at… Read More

Apr 19, 2018, 11:53 AM

FoundationDB, a very interesting NoSQL database owned by Apple, is now an open-source project

Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 9:22 AM

Longtime Amazon Web Services customer Netflix said to be cozying up to Google

Netflix was arguably Amazon Web Services’ most important customer during its rise to the top of the public cloud market… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 6:00 AM

With support for Kubernetes now baked in, Docker makes its case as the most flexible container management platform

Docker lost the Container Orchestration War of 2017, as brief and relatively amicable as it was. Now the company is… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 5:00 AM

VMware bets that new versions of vSphere and vSAN will make the hybrid cloud easier to manage

There was a time when it looked like the public cloud might consign VMware to the long list of bygone… Read More

Apr 13, 2018, 9:32 AM

Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M

Modern cloud deployments are a tough thing to keep a handle on, which is part of the reason why Portland’s… Read More

Apr 12, 2018, 4:03 PM

Report: Google wants the Pentagon cloud deal, but doesn’t want its employees to know

All major and minor vendors in cloud computing are currently polishing their bids for one of the biggest cloud deals… Read More

Apr 12, 2018, 10:08 AM

Plenty of growth in store for cloud computing, according to Gartner, will hit $186B in 2018

Most people no longer need to be convinced that cloud computing is the next big thing in enterprise technology, and… Read More

Apr 11, 2018, 10:13 AM

Google readying new design for Gmail that includes a snooze email button and better G Suite integration

Get ready for a few changes to the screen millions of people wake up to: Google is contemplating a new… Read More

Apr 11, 2018, 9:00 AM

Box admins now have improved tools for managing user activity and governance policies

Box users generate a lot of data that administrators might find very interesting, and the latest edition of the Box… Read More

Apr 10, 2018, 6:00 AM

Google and Netflix team up on Kayenta, an open-source project for automated deployment monitoring

A new open-source project from Google and Netflix aims to help other companies that want to modernize their application deployment… Read More

Apr 9, 2018, 6:00 AM

DimensionalMechanics releases second-generation of its AI product, announces new funding

Some of the biggest and most powerful companies in technology are racing each other to make machine learning easier to… Read More

Apr 5, 2018, 1:27 PM

Puppet lays off three percent of workforce as it looks for more growth

Portland-based DevOps startup Puppet has laid off three percent of its workforce, around 20 people, as it gears up for… Read More

Apr 5, 2018, 10:00 AM

Stripe launches new subscription-billing service aimed at SaaS companies

If you’re selling software these days, you’re probably selling it over the internet on a subscription basis. Stripe’s new version… Read More

Apr 4, 2018, 1:06 PM

Amazon Web Services adds new features to SageMaker and makes its AI-powered transcription services generally available

Developers using Amazon SageMaker to build machine-learning applications will now be able to take advantage of new computing resources and… Read More

Apr 4, 2018, 12:11 PM

Amazon Web Services launches AWS Secrets Manager and other new tools, as cloud customers continue to prove they need security help

As companies move more of their workloads into the cloud, too many of them are doing a poor job securing… Read More

Apr 4, 2018, 12:05 PM

Wall Street warms to enterprise software: Could this bode well for Smartsheet, DocuSign and others?

The way Steve Singh sees it, big changes are coming to the enterprise software world. “There will be a next… Read More

Apr 3, 2018, 9:00 PM

Google plans to boost cloud performance between Asia and Australia with new undersea cable

Google’s latest undersea cable project will result in a faster connection between important tech centers in Asia and Australia like… Read More

Apr 3, 2018, 9:37 AM

Stackery raises $5.5 million to build out serverless monitoring product

Serverless computing is having a moment right now, but there’s still a lot of work to be done ensuring that… Read More

Apr 1, 2018, 6:00 AM

The need for speed (and security): Cloudflare has developed a new DNS service for PCs and phones

Despite the timing, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince would like to emphasize that his company’s latest announcement is not an April… Read More

Mar 30, 2018, 7:30 AM

Microsoft rolls out the first availability zones within Azure regions to boost customer reliability

The first availability zones within Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing regions are coming online for everyone Friday, bringing additional reliability and… Read More

Mar 29, 2018, 9:20 AM

Microsoft puts more eggs in cloud leader Scott Guthrie’s basket, moving core Windows development and some AI teams to his group

Microsoft’s cloud business is the company’s economic engine these days, hitting aggressive revenue targets earlier than expected with plenty of… Read More

Mar 28, 2018, 9:33 AM