Cloud Tech – Page 50 of 55

Sep 13, 2016, 12:05 PM

Salesforce to name a ‘chief equality officer,’ reporting to CEO Marc Benioff

Salesforce next week will announce its first chief equality officer, reporting directly to chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, he said this… Read More

Sep 13, 2016, 10:59 AM

Google tries to lure Microsoft developers by offering PowerShell for its cloud

Google has released a beta version of Cloud Tools for PowerShell, aiming to make Google’s cloud more attractive to .NET developers who have used… Read More

Sep 13, 2016, 9:00 AM

Microsoft bringing Azure microservices to Linux, continuing to cozy up to open-source OS

Microsoft will soon release a preliminary version of Azure Service Fabric for Linux, a free offering that brings to Linux the microservices-development… Read More

Sep 12, 2016, 12:25 PM

Salesforce agrees to buy commercial-texting firm HeyWire, its ninth purchase of 2016

Customer-relationship management giant Salesforce has agreed to buy HeyWire, a privately held, Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of cloud-based commercial texting services for… Read More

Sep 12, 2016, 10:59 AM

Microsoft inks six-year deal with HP to use Dynamics CRM for sales and partnerships

Microsoft has entered a six-year agreement for hardware giant HP Inc. to use its Dynamics CRM online service, the companies said this morning in… Read More

Sep 9, 2016, 10:04 AM

Microsoft Azure hit with widening outages in Europe and India

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has been experiencing significant outages overseas, leading to a torrent of angry Tweets from customers there. The problems started… Read More

Sep 8, 2016, 8:25 AM

Google buys Apigee for $625M, to help both developers and non-techies use APIs in the cloud

To give both developers and non-technical staffers new connectivity powers, Google has agreed to buy API manager Apigee, of San Jose, Calif., for about… Read More

Sep 7, 2016, 3:44 PM

HPE sells some ‘non-core’ software assets in $8.8B deal, aiming to improve focus on hybrid cloud

In a move that emphasizes hybrid private-public cloud computing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has sold some of its “non-core” software assets to… Read More

Sep 7, 2016, 3:30 PM

Microsoft surpasses pioneer Salesforce in enterprise software as a service revenue, new study says

Microsoft has become the world’s largest provider of enterprise software as a service (SaaS), according to a new study, surpassing… Read More

Sep 7, 2016, 10:56 AM

Dell and EMC complete merger, becoming Dell Technologies and preparing to battle AWS and Azure

Dell Inc. today closed its $67 billion deal to buy EMC Corp., taking on the name Dell Technologies and sealing… Read More

Sep 7, 2016, 8:18 AM

Slack leads list of top 100 private cloud companies in new Forbes ranking

Team messaging and collaboration company Slack topped the first-ever “Cloud 100” listing published by Forbes today. The listing ranks private companies… Read More

Sep 7, 2016, 12:01 AM

Microsoft expands cloud business, opens two Azure regions in the U.K.

Microsoft has opened two Azure cloud regions and an Office 365 region in the United Kingdom, with the intention of letting… Read More

Sep 6, 2016, 11:38 AM

How changes inside corporate tech teams are upending the $2B load balancer market

The $2 billion market for application-delivery controllers — software to optimize the delivery, performance and security of large programs over a corporate… Read More

Sep 6, 2016, 9:20 AM

Icertis partners with Box to expand cloud-based contract-management services

Cloud-based services to manage contracts, offered by Bellevue, Wash.-based Icertis, are now usable with file-sharing and collaboration service Box, the companies said this morning.… Read More

Sep 2, 2016, 3:09 PM

With $6M in fresh funds, new DefenseStorm CEO is ready to take on cybersecurity

Cybersecurity represents a new field for Sean Feeney, but the recently appointed CEO of Seattle’s DefenseStorm, a cybersecurity firm specializing in… Read More

Sep 2, 2016, 2:08 PM

Charts: The cloud computing industry is getting huge, decimating sales of on-premises servers

Public-cloud services will grow at a compounded annual rate of 22 percent between 2015 and 2020, reaching $236 billion, research… Read More

Aug 31, 2016, 1:45 PM

Salesforce reports 25% revenue growth and a healthy profit for Q2, but stock dips 8%

CRM giant Salesforce this afternoon posted revenue of $2 billion, up 25 percent year over year, and net income of… Read More

Aug 30, 2016, 10:13 AM

Cisco acquires startup ContainerX, buying into container management amidst layoffs and declining revenue

Cisco took its first step into the software container market today, announcing plans to buy ContainerX, an early-stage startup focused… Read More

Aug 29, 2016, 3:28 PM

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure best serve app developers, new Forrester study concludes

The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research… Read More

Aug 29, 2016, 12:21 PM

How Hillary Clinton’s tech chief wrangles a 70-person team using agile development, Amazon Web Services and goofy awards

Hillary Clinton’s technology team has built more than 50 software tools and products to date — a surprise even to… Read More

Aug 29, 2016, 9:31 AM

VMware cozies up to IBM as new Cloud Foundation integrates in-house and cloud computing

Virtualization company VMware this morning announced Cloud Foundation, an integration that the company says will combine some of its existing compute, storage… Read More

Aug 26, 2016, 8:58 AM

Enterprise tech company Apptio files for IPO, shows annual revenue of $129M and growing losses

Another Seattle area technology company is looking to test the IPO waters. Bellevue, Wash.-based Apptio, which makes software to help… Read More

Aug 25, 2016, 11:10 AM

IBM will emphasize Watson and AI at new cloud computing center in South Korea

IBM has opened a cloud data center in Pangyo, South Korea, bringing its total number of data centers to 47,… Read More

Aug 25, 2016, 3:00 AM

New release of Shippable’s application-deployment service includes multi-versioning

As Seattle-based startup Shippable sees things, organizations creating and running software can find plenty of products on the market to… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 10:32 AM

GeekWire launches new Cloud Tech channel, with underwriting support from Salesforce

Cloud technology is one of the most dynamic, rapidly growing and important areas of the tech industry, and GeekWire has… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 10:12 AM

King of the Cloud: How the Seattle region is positioned to reinvent technology, again

In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 9:35 AM

Salesforce is developing a major AI product called Einstein, reports Forbes

Salesforce is at work on an artificial intelligence-related product called Einstein, according to a lengthy profile of CEO Marc Benioff… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 8:00 AM

How to maximize your pay in IT and DevOps: New study reveals the most lucrative jobs

Attention, DevOps workers: If you’re seeking the best-paid position, don’t answer to the title “system administrator.” Though the jobs may carry identical… Read More

Aug 22, 2016, 8:12 AM

Microsoft acquiring natural language scheduling startup Genee to add ‘intelligent experiences’ to Office 365

Microsoft has agreed to buy Genee, a scheduling service it said uses natural-language processing to automate setting up meetings. The… Read More

Aug 19, 2016, 9:04 AM

Amazon introduces by-the-hour pricing for WorkSpaces, a Windows-anywhere cloud service

Amazon today made it cheaper, or at least more flexible, for companies to let their workers access WorkSpaces, a secure Windows… Read More