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Cloud Tech

GeekWire’s Cloud Tech channel breaks news and explores key trends in cloud computing, DevOps, enterprise technologies and more. Story ideas? Email [email protected].

May 31, 2017, 9:00 AM

Microsoft’s Deis releases Draft, another gateway drug to Kubernetes

Microsoft’s newest acquisition has joined the ranks of companies making the container-orchestration platform Kubernetes easier to use with the release… Read More

May 25, 2017, 8:53 AM

Red Hat bolsters its container pitch with Codenvy acquisition

Red Hat added another open-source tool to its chest Thursday with the acquisition of Codenvy, a startup focused on cloud… Read More

May 24, 2017, 12:49 PM

Microsoft reportedly eyeing Israeli security company Hexadite

If you want security talent, you go to Israel. Microsoft has reportedly bought Hexadite, a security company using artificial intelligence… Read More

A dashboard for Istio, a new project for monitoring microservices.
May 24, 2017, 10:04 AM

IBM, Google, and Lyft team up on open-source project for more control over microservices

After years of evangelizing microservices as the path to a more nimble development organization, companies are realizing they need to… Read More

May 24, 2017, 7:45 AM

The folks who brought you Kubernetes now want to make it easier to use

Kubernetes is quickly becoming something of a standard for software container orchestration, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s… Read More

New Relic Health Map
May 24, 2017, 12:00 AM

New Relic launches Health Map for improved app and infrastructure performance monitoring

New Relic plans to give its users a new way to monitor the performance of their apps across their infrastructure,… Read More

May 23, 2017, 7:00 AM

Chef tightens the links between Chef Automate and its open-source DevOps products

Not quite a year after launching Chef Automate, cloud-based software development company Chef has improved support for InSpec and Habitat… Read More

Cloud Native Computing Foundation logo
May 23, 2017, 5:30 AM

Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds the CoreOS-backed CNI as latest hosted project

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to approve the Container Networking Interface (CNI) as the new open-source project… Read More

James Gosling
May 22, 2017, 1:36 PM

Legendary computer scientist James Gosling joining Amazon Web Services

The father of Java is joining forces with Amazon Web Services. James Gosling, until today Chief Software Architect at Liquid… Read More

May 20, 2017, 4:20 PM

Cloud Computing wins again; this time, as a 13-1 shot at the Preakness

Embed from Getty Images Most days of the week it’s a sure bet, but on Saturday, Cloud Computing was a… Read More

May 19, 2017, 11:07 AM

Seattle’s Intentionet lands $3M in Om Malik’s first Pacific NW investment

The process of developing software has been dramatically improved over the last several years with the introduction of concepts like… Read More

Marc Benioff Salesforce
May 18, 2017, 3:32 PM

Salesforce impresses investors with strong Q1, raises full-year revenue guidance

Salesforce enjoyed a nice first quarter of 2017, beating analyst expectations for both revenue and profit while raising guidance for… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy
May 18, 2017, 12:19 PM

How Amazon Web Services uses machine learning to make capacity planning decisions

Machine-learning research isn’t something that Amazon Web Services does just for its cloud customers; it has developed machine-learning driven models… Read More

Steve Singh
May 18, 2017, 10:44 AM

Newly-named Docker CEO Steve Singh added to GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit lineup

The inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit — our first-ever technical conference — continues to gain momentum. And today we’re excited… Read More

May 18, 2017, 5:30 AM

Microsoft Cloud to set up shop in Africa with two new data centers coming in 2018

Microsoft plans to open two new data centers in South Africa next year to provide its cloud services to the… Read More

Google Cloud TPU Pod
May 17, 2017, 10:54 AM

Google launches powerful new Cloud TPU machine-learning chips for Google Cloud Platform

Google is “rethinking our computational architecture again,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai, who rolled out the next generation of Google’s… Read More

May 16, 2017, 3:47 PM

Cloud Foundry now generally available for SAP customers, along with new infrastructure choices

SAP added several new features to its cloud services on Tuesday, giving customers the option of running their workloads on… Read More

May 16, 2017, 11:27 AM

Cray now an official member of Cloud City with new “supercomputing as a service” strategy

Cray will try and reinvent itself for the cloud era with a new product that promises “supercomputing as a service.”… Read More

May 16, 2017, 9:33 AM

AWS maintains sizable lead as public cloud market grows 42% in Q1

Demand for public cloud infrastructure services continues to be one of the hottest growth stories in technology. New market share… Read More

Internet of Things
May 16, 2017, 9:00 AM

Ahead of I/O, Google Cloud Platform adds new managed IoT service, releases Cloud Spanner

Underscoring how the internet of things is finally going mainstream in 2017, Google now has a new service for Google… Read More

May 15, 2017, 12:08 PM

Nutanix adding IBM’s Power processors to its data center bundles for AI applications

Nutanix plans to release a line of server appliances with IBM’s Power processor for artificial-intelligence applications, the first time it… Read More

May 12, 2017, 10:48 AM

AI, DevOps, and microservices highlight tech talks at GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Cloud computing is turning into a real business, but the pioneering work of the engineers and product teams at cloud… Read More

White House graphic
May 11, 2017, 2:16 PM

Trump signs cybersecurity executive order, mandating a move to cloud computing

President Donald Trump today signed a long-awaited executive order aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at federal government agencies – with a… Read More

HP Integrity Itanium server
May 11, 2017, 1:18 PM

Intel’s last Itanium processor end of an era that never began

The Itanic is finally pulling into port. Intel announced Thursday that it will ship the last version of its notorious… Read More

May 11, 2017, 6:00 AM

Cloud development company Puppet to open Seattle engineering office, escalating talent wars

It’s more than a trend at this point. Another cloud-focused company, this time Portland-based Puppet, is opening an engineering office… Read More

May 10, 2017, 4:01 PM

Former tech adviser to Bill Gates raises $2M for cybersecurity startup that discourages hackers

Cybersecurity company Polyverse has raised $2 million in a new round of funding to continue building out its “moving target… Read More

May 10, 2017, 3:42 PM

Microsoft: Commercial cloud revenue to jump 55% to nearly $15B this fiscal year

Microsoft says total revenue from its commercial cloud businesses will reach an estimated $14.8 billion in its current fiscal year, ending June 30… Read More

May 10, 2017, 2:17 PM

Living on the edge: Microsoft prepares developers for shift to edge computing

Microsoft used one of its biggest events of the year to remind developers that edge computing is coming, and it’s… Read More

May 10, 2017, 10:34 AM

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Last chance for early-bird tickets, new speakers added for our first technical conference

We’re less than a month away from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, an immersive day-long technical conference that will bring… Read More

May 10, 2017, 8:00 AM

Windows 10 reaches 500M devices as Microsoft makes its case to developers at Build 2017

Microsoft is kicking off its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle this morning with a new milestone: The company says… Read More

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