Cloud Tech

Aug 24, 2017, 10:51 AM

Marketo decides to go all-in on cloud computing, and picks Google as its home

One of the bigger marketing software companies, Marketo, has decided it’s ready to ditch its servers and move into the… Read More

Aug 23, 2017, 9:00 AM

Google unveils a new, cheaper networking option for cloud customers: the public internet

Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic… Read More

Aug 22, 2017, 7:14 PM

Interview: Why Cloudflare’s CEO is still torn over his call to drop a controversial white supremacist site

Nearly one week after his company, Cloudflare, decided to part ways with a particularly controversial customer, CEO Mathew Prince doesn’t… Read More

Aug 22, 2017, 9:00 AM

Microsoft and Red Hat expand partnership with focus on containers and hybrid cloud

Microsoft and Red Hat are expanding the parameters of a relationship first struck in 2015, bringing Microsoft Azure and SQL… Read More

Aug 22, 2017, 6:00 AM

Skytap raises massive $45M funding round, led by Goldman Sachs, to move legacy apps to the cloud

Seattle’s Skytap has raised a big funding round to help companies that never thought they’d be able to take advantage… Read More

Aug 19, 2017, 11:02 AM

Seattle’s BitMitigate now protecting pro-Nazi site The Daily Stormer from web attacks

After a week in which tech companies abandoned neo-Nazi web publication The Daily Stormer following the murder of a woman… Read More

Aug 17, 2017, 12:50 PM

Microsoft and HashiCorp cozy up to expand options for Terraform customers on Azure

Microsoft extended its existing partnership with HashiCorp Monday to deepen links between its Terraform product, which lets software developers use… Read More

Aug 16, 2017, 3:38 PM

Cloudflare drops protection of Daily Stormer as tech fallout from Charlottesville continues

Two days after it tried to have it both ways by keeping the Daily Stormer as a client, Cloudflare has… Read More

Aug 16, 2017, 8:00 AM

Microsoft continues its push into serverless tech with Azure Event Grid

Microsoft is making a big bet on serverless technologies this year, and it continued that push Wednesday with the release… Read More

Aug 16, 2017, 6:00 AM

New version of Docker Enterprise Edition adds new admin features and support for old reliable mainframes

It’s sometimes hard to believe how many companies are running enterprise applications on technologies first conceived before mass adoption of… Read More

Aug 15, 2017, 8:14 AM

Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing for its high-performance cloud computing expertise

Microsoft acquired Cycle Computing Tuesday, in a deal that should bolster its high-performance computing pitch to current and future Azure… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 2:18 PM

After GoDaddy boots Daily Stormer, will other tech companies have to follow suit?

Internet companies have long operated under the principle that they are not responsible for what their users do with their… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 10:45 AM

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

Amazon is looking to staff up a “New AWS/Alexa Service” focused on enterprise collaboration, communication and document sharing, according to… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 10:42 AM

Amazon Web Services taps machine learning to tackle security with Macie

The fruits of Amazon Web Services’ acquisition of harvest.ai arrived Monday with the announcement of Macie, a new service that… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 9:26 AM

Hulu’s first bet on the cloud goes to Amazon Web Services, joining Netflix on rival’s platform

Hulu, the streaming video service run by a consortium of content companies, is using Amazon Web Services to provide the… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 8:00 AM

IOpipe raises $2.5M from Madrona, NEA, and Underscore to build monitoring tools for serverless computing

One common thread among emerging enterprise technologies is that early adopters can quickly find themselves flying blind, stuck with monitoring… Read More

Aug 11, 2017, 10:05 AM

Lessons from Togo: What F5’s new CEO learned about business and life growing up in Africa

Francois Locoh-Donou knows what it is like to be an outsider. The son of a black father and a white… Read More

Aug 9, 2017, 2:54 PM

Seattle SpinCo? HPE name-checks the Emerald City in software spinoff

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys spending time sifting through tech company press releases (and who doesn’t, right?)… Read More

Aug 9, 2017, 7:56 AM

Amazon Web Services chooses its Kubernetes path, joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Just weeks after Microsoft signaled its support for a key cloud computing industry foundation, Amazon Web Services has followed suit,… Read More

Aug 8, 2017, 12:53 PM

Citing need for “engineering execution,” Chef gives control of engineering to its co-founder and CTO while the sales department reorganizes

Seattle DevOps startup Chef made several organizational changes this week, installing co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob as head of engineering… Read More

Aug 7, 2017, 10:23 AM

Marketo decides to go all-in on cloud computing, and picks Google as its home

Google unveils a new, cheaper networking option for cloud customers: the public internet

Interview: Why Cloudflare’s CEO is still torn over his call to drop a controversial white supremacist site

Microsoft and Red Hat expand partnership with focus on containers and hybrid cloud

Skytap raises massive $45M funding round, led by Goldman Sachs, to move legacy apps to the cloud

Seattle’s BitMitigate now protecting pro-Nazi site The Daily Stormer from web attacks

Microsoft and HashiCorp cozy up to expand options for Terraform customers on Azure

Cloudflare drops protection of Daily Stormer as tech fallout from Charlottesville continues

Microsoft continues its push into serverless tech with Azure Event Grid

New version of Docker Enterprise Edition adds new admin features and support for old reliable mainframes

Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing for its high-performance cloud computing expertise

After GoDaddy boots Daily Stormer, will other tech companies have to follow suit?

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

Amazon Web Services taps machine learning to tackle security with Macie

Hulu’s first bet on the cloud goes to Amazon Web Services, joining Netflix on rival’s platform

IOpipe raises $2.5M from Madrona, NEA, and Underscore to build monitoring tools for serverless computing

Lessons from Togo: What F5’s new CEO learned about business and life growing up in Africa

Seattle SpinCo? HPE name-checks the Emerald City in software spinoff

Citing need for “engineering execution,” Chef gives control of engineering to its co-founder and CTO while the sales department reorganizes

Proposed data protection law in UK could prevent a cloud industry headache

New numbers show how Microsoft’s biggest businesses are really doing in the cloud era

Tupl raises $7M to help telecom companies better serve their customers

With new releases, Heptio co-founders continue unfinished mission to make Kubernetes easier to use

Apptio’s record revenue in Q2 beats Wall Street expectations as losses narrow

IBM and Sony breakthrough on tape storage density could lower cold storage costs again

Amazon Web Services’ Chinese partner is telling cloud customers in China that VPNs are not allowed

Connecting the cloud: Azuqua raises $10.8M to help companies integrate and manage cloud apps

How AWS lets Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spend billions on the future

K2’s new Seattle-area office is ready for business, and its new cloud product is right behind