Cloud Tech – Page 28 of 55

Mar 5, 2018, 11:50 AM

Salesforce wants to make it easier to extract analytical data from its service with support for natural-language queries

For lots of people, trying to use powerful analytics tools without a little training in the language of data science… Read More

Mar 2, 2018, 10:26 AM

Widespread outage at Amazon Web Services’ U.S. East region takes down Alexa, Atlassian developer tools

Problems with Amazon Web Services’ Direct Connect service took down several customers Friday morning using the cloud leader’s creaky U.S.… Read More

Mar 2, 2018, 10:00 AM

Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups

There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize… Read More

Mar 1, 2018, 6:10 PM

Asteroid Institute adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners for asteroid tracking

Google Cloud and AGI (a.k.a. Analytical Graphics Inc.) have gotten on board with the B612 Asteroid Institute to develop a… Read More

Mar 1, 2018, 3:11 PM

VMware beats Wall Street expectations as reverse merger with Dell Technologies looms

In what might be one of its last quarters as an independent public company, VMware gave investors something to smile… Read More

Mar 1, 2018, 2:20 PM

The largest DDoS attack yet recorded staggered Github on Wednesday

Web companies are starting to get pretty good at deflecting denial of service attacks, and Github and Akamai largely fended… Read More

Feb 28, 2018, 1:49 PM

Salesforce tops analyst estimates on record Q4 revenue, raises guidance for the coming year

The market for Salesforce’s cloud-based sales and marketing tools continues to be hot, as the company posted records for fourth-quarter… Read More

Feb 28, 2018, 9:00 AM

Google beefs up G Suite with some AI, takes Hangouts Chat out of beta

Google added several new features to G Suite Wednesday in hopes of convincing users to rely on its enterprise software… Read More

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

Feb 27, 2018, 10:52 AM

Algorithmia launches blockchain-based protocol for machine-learning algorithm shoppers

Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia… Read More

Feb 26, 2018, 1:00 PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reminds everyone that his company has in-house silicon expertise

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella trotted out many of his usual lines during an interview this morning, but, unprompted, also chose… Read More

Feb 23, 2018, 1:49 PM

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its… Read More

Feb 23, 2018, 12:51 PM

Dropbox makes it official, files to go public later this year with $1B in 2017 revenue

Dropbox, one of the first cloud-based file-storage services to gain traction among consumers and businesses, has filed to go public… Read More

Feb 23, 2018, 10:32 AM

Microsoft and Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi deepen ties with new AI and cloud partnership

Microsoft and Chinese electronics company Xiaomi agreed to a new strategic partnership focused on artificial and cloud technology, further cementing… Read More

Feb 23, 2018, 9:40 AM

Microsoft’s Guthrie claims Azure is seeing blockchain momentum, but that’s not moving the cloud needle any time soon

Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound… Read More

Feb 22, 2018, 1:56 PM

HPE surprises Wall Street with strong first-quarter results on storage and networking growth

It’s been a rough few years for old-school IT companies, but HPE easily outpaced Wall Street expectations for its first… Read More

Feb 21, 2018, 8:00 AM

Early-bird tickets on sale for the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, board of advisors announced and speaker submissions opened

The Seattle region sits at the epicenter of cloud computing. And that’s why we’re excited to formally announce the return… Read More

Feb 20, 2018, 10:16 AM

New version of Chef’s open-source project InSpec lets you check for leaky cloud storage buckets

Despite months of wake-up calls to cloud storage administrators about the consequences of insecure storage buckets lost in the shuffle,… Read More

Feb 14, 2018, 3:04 PM

VMware acquires Seattle’s CloudCoreo for its cloud security expertise

VMware continued to build out its cloud story Wednesday, acquiring cloud configuration-management startup CloudCoreo to help customers get a better… Read More

Feb 14, 2018, 11:19 AM

Intel expands bug bounty program to include Spectre-like side-channel attacks, dangles $250K

Intel is promising up to $250,000 to security researchers who uncover new side-channel vulnerabilities in its processors, in the wake… Read More

Feb 12, 2018, 9:09 AM

Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts, aiming at Echo, cameras, and AI

Amazon has been designing its own chips for a few years, ever since acquiring Annapurna Labs in 2016, but it… Read More

Feb 9, 2018, 10:55 AM

Private-equity firm acquires majority stake in Bellevue’s Nintex as CEO John Burton steps down

Workplace automation software vendor Nintex is getting a new majority investor and a new CEO, it announced Friday. Thoma Bravo… Read More

Feb 8, 2018, 2:51 PM

Amazon Web Services adds new at-rest encryption option for DynamoDB database users

DynamoDB users have a new encryption option from Amazon Web Services, as the cloud leader continues to try and make… Read More

Feb 8, 2018, 4:30 AM

Icertis raises $50M, looks to become the Salesforce of contract management

Samir Bodas, co-founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Icertis, thinks the contract-lifecycle management industry his company serves could become as large… Read More

Feb 5, 2018, 1:53 PM

Apptio continues drive toward profitability on revenue growth, now cash-flow positive

Bellevue’s Apptio capped off 2017 by exceeding financial analyst expectations for revenue and earnings per share, as more companies adopt… Read More

Feb 5, 2018, 5:00 AM

Former Intel executive Renee James launches Ampere, a new Arm-based server chip company

A former top executive at Intel is launching a new server chip company Monday, betting on Intel’s rival architecture with… Read More

Feb 2, 2018, 12:26 PM

Apptio acquires former VMware spinoff Digital Fuel for $42.5M

Apptio added another another product to its lineup Friday with the acquisition of Digital Fuel, a fellow provider of tools… Read More

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O 2017

Feb 1, 2018, 2:30 PM

Google says it is recording $1B per quarter in cloud revenue, including G Suite

For what appears to be the first time Thursday, Google publicly revealed how much revenue it is generating from its… Read More

Feb 1, 2018, 1:18 PM

Amazon Web Services hits $5B in quarterly revenue with no signs of slowing down

It looks like the whole cloud computing thing is going to work out well for Amazon. Amazon Web Services reported… Read More

Feb 1, 2018, 10:39 AM

Honeycomb raises $11.5M Series A round to help companies monitor modern tech infrastructure

There are a lot of great tools and services available at this point in the history of tech infrastructure development,… Read More

Jan 31, 2018, 1:21 PM

Microsoft’s cloud business still growing strong in its fiscal Q2, led by Office 365 and Azure

After officially crossing its cloud revenue goal set in 2015 last quarter, Microsoft’s cloud businesses showed strong gains during its… Read More