Cloud Tech – Page 38 of 55

Jun 15, 2017, 2:24 PM

It’s business, and it’s personal: How Amazon Web Services decides to enforce non-compete contracts

Career decisions are always stressful, but employees at Amazon Web Services face an additional source of anxiety when evaluating new… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

Jun 15, 2017, 11:00 AM

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More

Jun 15, 2017, 9:24 AM

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any… Read More

Jun 14, 2017, 6:24 PM

Is Make.TV the new Elemental? Seattle video cloud startup raises $7.2M

Seattle’s Make.tv, a cloud-based video management portal, has raised $7.2 million in new funding and aims to raise a total… Read More

Mount Rainier in the distance, viewed from MemSQL's new Seattle office.

Jun 14, 2017, 9:00 AM

MemSQL’s real-time in-memory data warehouse is now ready for the cloud

Companies that want real-time data for analytics but prefer a cloud native or hybrid cloud infrastructure strategy have a new… Read More

Jun 13, 2017, 3:30 PM

Microsoft’s open-source redemption tour continues, joins Cloud Foundry Foundation

Microsoft’s once-unthinkable evolution into a major open-source player continued Tuesday with its decision to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Microsoft… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Jun 13, 2017, 1:25 PM

Amazon Web Services AI exec: How cloud computing is driving artificial intelligence breakthroughs

Artificial intelligence research is still in its infancy, at least as compared to computer science in general, but the concept… Read More

Jun 13, 2017, 11:20 AM

Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud customers will have an East Coast region option starting in 2018

Amazon Web Services will open a second region for its GovCloud customers next year, moving its government-services cloud closer to… Read More

Jun 13, 2017, 8:35 AM

China’s QingCloud hits unicorn status with latest funding round of $159M

QingCloud, a Chinese cloud computing company, is now worth over $1 billion after completing a financing round of 1.08 billion… Read More

Jun 12, 2017, 1:22 PM

Amazon’s suit against former AWS VP hints at bigger move into workplace collaboration

Amazon is one of the most notoriously tight-lipped companies in the tech industry when it comes to discussing its future… Read More

Jun 8, 2017, 2:54 PM

Amazon Web Services planning new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services plans to build a new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia, in the same general area that… Read More

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Bundle

Jun 8, 2017, 12:27 PM

Bellevue’s DimensionalMechanics releases the engine behind its AI templates

Bellevue-based DimensionalMechanics wants to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence models to companies across different industries that can’t afford to develop their… Read More

Jun 8, 2017, 10:36 AM

Inside GeekWire’s first-ever Cloud Tech Summit in ‘the cloud capital of the world’

“Cloud computing is the new operating system.” That’s what one venture capitalist said on stage at the inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech… Read More

Jun 8, 2017, 10:30 AM

Facebook’s AI training models can now process 40,000 images a second

Artificial intelligence researchers at Facebook have figured out how to train their AI models for image recognition at eye-popping speeds.… Read More

Jun 8, 2017, 3:00 AM

Shippable releases a server version of its devops tool, giving on-premise teams new tricks

Seattle-based devops startup Shippable plans to release the server version of its flagship product Thursday, giving IT shops looking to… Read More

Jun 7, 2017, 5:10 PM

Here’s how venture capitalists are thinking about cloud computing companies and technologies

Cloud computing is changing the technology world and creating opportunity for hundreds of new companies — so how are investors… Read More

Jun 7, 2017, 3:56 PM

Cloudy with a chance of profit: Cloud drives value for tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft

Three hundred billion dollars and growing: that is the size of the cloud market in front of Amazon, Microsoft and… Read More

Jun 7, 2017, 12:49 PM

Google continues to emphasize its cloud tech chops as it scrambles to catch AWS and Azure

Despite a lot of grumbling that Google needs to improve its enterprise sales outreach to properly compete in the cloud,… Read More

Jun 7, 2017, 12:27 PM

Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’

Google’s Seattle expansion is no secret, but the search giant hadn’t gone into much detail about which groups would work out… Read More

Jun 7, 2017, 10:59 AM

Apptio, which helps CIOs monitor IT spend, reveals which cloud platforms customers are adopting

Apptio sits at a unique position in today’s rapidly-changing enterprise technology world, as the Bellevue, Wash.-based publicly-traded company helps CIOs understand spending… Read More

Jun 7, 2017, 10:41 AM

Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie on competing with Amazon, and standing out in the cloud

Amazon and Microsoft are at the top of the food chain in the growing cloud world, battling for everything from customers… Read More

Jun 6, 2017, 9:42 AM

Spinnaker, an open-source project for continuous delivery, hits the 1.0 milestone

Spinnaker, an open-source project that lets companies improve the speed and stability of their application deployment processes, reached the 1.0… Read More

Jun 5, 2017, 9:21 AM

Amazon Web Services’ Swami Sivasubramanian on the future of AI in the cloud

It’s pretty clear that the next big battleground for public cloud providers will involve artificial intelligence. Just as companies like… Read More

Jun 2, 2017, 10:08 AM

Seahawks legend and former Congressman Steve Largent on tech, sports, politics and Trump

To say Steve Largent has kept busy after an illustrious 14-year NFL career would be an understatement. The former Seattle… Read More

Jun 2, 2017, 9:15 AM

When standards aren’t standard: Inside a growing movement to shape the booming cloud industry

What’s the best way to shepherd the promising technologies underpinning a sea change in computing? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation… Read More

Jun 1, 2017, 7:45 AM

HashiCorp’s Mitchell Hashimoto: Security needs to be part of your devops team

Speed is an extremely important component of modern application development, but sometimes when you’re running fast to get out the… Read More

May 31, 2017, 12:56 PM

Why the Pacific Northwest will be a data center powerhouse for years to come

Abundant clean energy sources, business friendly tax incentives, and new undersea fiber-optic cables will keep the Pacific Northwest as one… Read More

May 31, 2017, 12:06 PM

Kleiner Perkins’ Meeker: Concerns over cloud vendor lock-in are soaring

As part of this year’s sprint through more than 300 slides on the state of technology, Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker… Read More

May 31, 2017, 10:54 AM

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Full agenda released, tickets going fast

We’re just one week away from our inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, and we’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers… Read More

May 31, 2017, 9:00 AM

CoreOS CEO: Amazon Web Services customers heading down a “very proprietary” path

Amazon Web Services achieved critical and commercial success by changing the way companies procure infrastructure for their critical applications, but… Read More