Cloud Tech – Page 41 of 55

Apr 21, 2017, 11:19 AM

With the release of Amazon Lex, AWS asks: Developers, can you build me a chatbot?

Now that Amazon Web Services has made public its Amazon Lex technology, which makes Alexa fetch another case of LaCroix… Read More

Apr 21, 2017, 9:36 AM

Techstars grad Stackery raises cash from Voyager, aiming to disrupt DevOps cloud infrastructure market with serverless toolset

Before even graduating from the Techstars Seattle 2017 class, Stackery CEO Nate Taggart had a check in hand — and not… Read More

Apr 20, 2017, 11:39 AM

New IoT services from Microsoft Azure promise to make managing connected devices way easier

As cloud computing matures, more and more technical concepts that once required a lot of specialized expertise are being simplified… Read More

Apr 20, 2017, 10:24 AM

Storage is on sale in the public cloud, as compute pricing stabilizes in early 2017

The Big Three public cloud vendors have been cutting prices on their computing services for years, but new research finds… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 2:49 PM

New goodies for AWS customers include database accelerators and the tech behind Alexa

Amazon Web Services trotted out a host of new features Wednesday for its industry-leading public cloud service, and couldn’t resist… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 11:26 AM

With the early adopters in its court, Docker sets its sights on the rest of the world

There’s a point in the evolution of a successful enterprise technology company in which the world starts to revolve around… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 8:00 AM

Microsoft’s SQL Server is getting an artificial intelligence mind-meld

Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 8:00 AM

Tech journalism veteran Tom Krazit joins GeekWire as Cloud and Enterprise Editor

Over the last fifteen years or so, there were two seismic shifts in computing: from desktop to mobile, and from… Read More

Apr 18, 2017, 7:24 PM

Elemental Technologies changes name to AWS Elemental to reflect acquisition by Amazon

Elemental Technologies is now AWS Elemental. The company today officially announced its name change, which reflects Amazon’s $296 million acquisition of… Read More

Apr 18, 2017, 10:59 AM

Microsoft Azure, AWS, Docker and Google Cloud headline GeekWire’s first-ever Cloud Tech Summit

The Seattle region is emerging as the cloud capital of the world, and GeekWire’s inaugural Cloud Tech Summit, taking place on June… Read More

Apr 18, 2017, 10:25 AM

Docker’s new Moby open-source project is the ‘Lego Club of container systems’

Docker Inc. is launching a new open-source initiative, dubbed the Moby Project, which the San Francisco-based company describes as a new… Read More

Apr 14, 2017, 10:26 AM

A serverless nirvana? Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich on the future of the cloud

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft’s push into “serverless” computing aims to change the way developers use the cloud, and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich says… Read More

Apr 12, 2017, 1:00 PM

Tech on the slopes: How RFID is changing the experience of skiing and snowboarding

WHISTLER, B.C. — For decades, ski resorts have been behind the technology curve. Sure, there were lots of cool developments… Read More

Apr 12, 2017, 9:52 AM

This was Amazon’s highest-earning employee in 2016 — and it wasn’t Jeff Bezos

Amazon Web Services is a cloud powerhouse, a more than $12 billion enterprise that would be a significant company on… Read More

Apr 12, 2017, 9:00 AM

Microsoft adds new Azure tools to migrate data to the cloud and collaborate securely with partners

Microsoft this morning announced several new Azure tools and features focused on migrating data to the cloud and helping businesses work securely… Read More

Apr 12, 2017, 8:34 AM

What Microsoft’s acquisition of Deis means for Azure, containers and the cloud

Microsoft’s acquisition of cloud technology company Deis, announced this week, illustrates the growing importance of containers for deploying software across a variety… Read More

Apr 11, 2017, 10:59 PM

Amazon Web Services plays role in NASA’s first ultra-HD live video from space

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson stars in the highest-resolution video ever broadcast live from the International Space Station, bur Amazon Web… Read More

Apr 10, 2017, 9:30 AM

Microsoft acquires open-source software builder Deis to bolster container platforms

Microsoft said Monday that it has acquired Deis, a San Francisco company that builds open-source software to make the Kubernetes container platform… Read More

Apr 7, 2017, 5:21 PM

Mylio lands $25M from Chinese investors to continue building the ‘private cloud,’ will open R&D facility in China

Mylio is going global. The Bellevue, Wash. startup, which is known for its photo organizing app but has branched out… Read More

Apr 5, 2017, 6:00 AM

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

Apr 5, 2017, 5:00 AM

IBM Cloud to offer NVIDIA’s advanced GPU accelerator, vowing to solve previously impossible data challenges

IBM says it will become the first major cloud provider to offer NVIDIA’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator worldwide… Read More

Apr 4, 2017, 7:15 AM

Amazon Web Services to open data centers in Sweden in 2018, continuing global growth

Amazon Web Services said it will open data centers in Sweden next year to serve customers in Nordic countries such as… Read More

Apr 4, 2017, 6:48 AM

Skytap enterprise cloud company hires Microsoft VP as CMO, cites big growth on path to future IPO

Enterprise cloud company Skytap has hired a former Microsoft vice president, Wayne Morris, as its new chief marketing officer in an… Read More

Apr 4, 2017, 4:30 AM

Data storage and analytics startup Qumulo raises another $30M, total funding up to $130M

Qumulo has spent the past five years building out its cloud-based platform that helps companies store and manage their data usage.… Read More

Apr 3, 2017, 7:30 AM

Distelli aims to improve multi-cloud software development with new open-source container registry

Building and deploying software to run in the cloud is a challenge, particularly when customers want to run their applications… Read More

Mar 30, 2017, 8:52 AM

Powering ‘Cloud City’: What Seattle’s municipal utility has learned from using AWS and Azure

Sephir Hamilton is helping his organization grapple with major change. As the engineering and technology innovation officer at Seattle City… Read More

Mar 30, 2017, 6:33 AM

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in… Read More

Mar 29, 2017, 7:24 AM

Cloud-based enterprise contract management company Icertis scores $25M

Icertis, which helps large organizations such as 3M, Becton Dickinson, Cognizant, Daimler and Microsoft manage contracts, has landed a $25 million… Read More

Mar 28, 2017, 6:56 AM

Amazon Web Services jumps into call-center market with new ‘Amazon Connect’ service

Amazon Web Services just unveiled a new service for running call centers, dubbed Amazon Connect, leveraging the same technology used by Amazon.com’s own… Read More

Mar 27, 2017, 2:26 PM

Public cloud could become a utility like electricity, lifting AWS, Azure and others, Morgan Stanley says

The public cloud has the potential to become a global utility, analogous to electricity — driving higher valuations for cloud providers… Read More