Cloud Tech

Aug 24, 2020, 2:54 PM

Cloud startup Snowflake reveals financials in IPO filing as it battles Amazon, Microsoft, others

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the… Read More

Aug 13, 2020, 5:00 AM

Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. When… Read More

Aug 10, 2020, 3:31 PM

DoD requests one month extension on JEDI reevaluation decision

[Update, Tuesday Aug. 11: U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith granted the one-month extension in an order today.] The… Read More

Jul 27, 2020, 6:06 PM

F5 Networks software revenue jumps 43%, as CEO offers vision for applications as ‘living organisms’

F5 Networks continued to benefit from its expansion into software and services, boosting revenue by 4% overall to $586 million,… Read More

Jul 16, 2020, 11:50 AM

Amazon uses Twitch technology for new AWS live interactive video service

Amazon Web Services is giving content creators a new way to include live streaming video into their apps and websites… Read More

Jul 16, 2020, 10:40 AM

Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M

Portland, Ore.-based cloud automation company Puppet today announced a $40 million funding round from BlackRock. Founded 15 years ago, Puppet… Read More

Jul 16, 2020, 6:00 AM

Seattle’s newest billion-dollar startup: Qumulo reaches unicorn status with $125M round

Qumulo is joining an elite club of Seattle startups. The company just announced a $125 million funding round that propels… Read More

Jul 9, 2020, 8:26 AM

Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed… Read More

Jul 8, 2020, 4:37 PM

Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of… Read More

Jul 3, 2020, 8:22 AM

Meet the ‘chief availability officer’: Salesforce names Seattle-area exec to unusual C-suite role

Salesforce, the San Francisco-based cloud company known for its flagship customer relationship management software, has created a new C-suite role:… Read More

Jun 24, 2020, 3:53 PM

AWS ‘Honeycode’ makes Amazon a player in booming no-code software movement

A new Amazon service called Honeycode promises to let non-developers quickly create interactive web and mobile apps without knowing how… Read More

Jun 15, 2020, 8:10 AM

Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ

The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot… Read More

Jun 10, 2020, 9:11 AM

Data warehousing startup Snowflake confidentially files for IPO, could reach $20B valuation

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing is aiming to go public. Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that the company has… Read More

Jun 10, 2020, 7:19 AM

Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches

Amazon is seeking a court order to keep Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, from… Read More

Jun 4, 2020, 3:08 PM

Slack expands Amazon partnership, will switch to AWS Chime infrastructure for user calls

Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded… Read More

Jun 2, 2020, 5:08 PM

Chef hits key financial milestone as digital boom fuels demand for software automation

Chef CEO Barry Crist delivered the opening ChefConf keynote address on video from his Seattle home on Tuesday morning, with… Read More

May 11, 2020, 2:42 PM

Microsoft reportedly teamed up with Oracle to fend off Amazon for the Pentagon’s JEDI contract

The Information revealed Monday how Microsoft had a “secret ally” — Oracle — to help land the coveted Joint Enterprise… Read More

May 8, 2020, 9:29 AM

Amazon rips Microsoft for ‘spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis’

Amazon took a swipe at Microsoft’s cloud computing technology performance this week, calling out the company’s “spotty operational performance during… Read More

May 7, 2020, 4:41 PM

Microsoft slams Amazon’s latest protest over Pentagon cloud contract as ‘a way to avoid the consequences of its own bad business decisions’

Amazon is once again challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft. Amazon… Read More

May 4, 2020, 8:23 AM

Cloud startup Snowflake reveals financials in IPO filing as it battles Amazon, Microsoft, others

Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

DoD requests one month extension on JEDI reevaluation decision

F5 Networks software revenue jumps 43%, as CEO offers vision for applications as ‘living organisms’

Amazon uses Twitch technology for new AWS live interactive video service

Seattle’s newest billion-dollar startup: Qumulo reaches unicorn status with $125M round

Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

Meet the ‘chief availability officer’: Salesforce names Seattle-area exec to unusual C-suite role

AWS ‘Honeycode’ makes Amazon a player in booming no-code software movement

Data warehousing startup Snowflake confidentially files for IPO, could reach $20B valuation

Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches

Slack expands Amazon partnership, will switch to AWS Chime infrastructure for user calls

Chef hits key financial milestone as digital boom fuels demand for software automation

Microsoft reportedly teamed up with Oracle to fend off Amazon for the Pentagon’s JEDI contract

Microsoft slams Amazon’s latest protest over Pentagon cloud contract as ‘a way to avoid the consequences of its own bad business decisions’

Cloud lift: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple and others find a common cushion in the crisis

Google Cloud revenue rises 52% as crisis forces tech giant to temper hiring and spending

Microsoft signs Coca-Cola to 5-year cloud technology and business software deal

Amazon’s new ‘AppFlow’ links cloud-based apps to AWS services, automating data flows

Zscaler to acquire Seattle cloud security startup Cloudneeti

Microsoft answers Amazon’s Verizon cloud partnership with new 5G-enabled Azure Edge Zones, starting with AT&T

Seattle-area cloud governance startup CoreStack raises $8.5M