Cloud Tech – Page 8 of 55

Oct 28, 2019, 2:58 PM

Google Cloud hiring spree: Alphabet adds 6,450 employees in Q3, cites cloud as biggest factor

Google parent company Alphabet grew by a net total of 6,450 employees in the third quarter, up nearly 6 percent… Read More

Oct 25, 2019, 4:31 PM

Amazon ‘surprised’ after Pentagon awards coveted $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to rival Microsoft

The Department of Defense announced Friday it is awarding the coveted $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military’s war… Read More

Oct 24, 2019, 1:39 PM

Amazon Web Services approaches $9B in quarterly revenue, but growth slows again, missing analyst expectations

Amazon Web Services yet again powered the tech giant’s bottom line in Q3, but for the second quarter in a… Read More

Oct 23, 2019, 1:06 PM

F5 Networks and Amazon Web Services team up in cloud partnership of Seattle tech giants

F5 Networks and Amazon Web Services inked a multi-year cloud deal that will bring together the sales teams from the… Read More

Oct 21, 2019, 5:49 AM

SAP and Microsoft team up on 3-year cloud deal, strengthening relationship between tech giants

SAP and Microsoft struck a three-year partnership to help companies move their data to the cloud, a move that tightens… Read More

Oct 15, 2019, 8:15 AM

It’s true: Amazon has been profitable for nearly two years, even without AWS cloud windfall

Amazon has compiled a run of record profits over the last few years. There’s a perception that the highly profitable,… Read More

Oct 12, 2019, 8:49 AM

Singapore investor ST Telemedia will buy majority stake in Seattle-based cloud provider 2nd Watch

Singapore-based investor ST Telemedia has agreed to take a majority stake in 2nd Watch, a 9-year-old Seattle cloud services startup.… Read More

Oct 10, 2019, 9:21 AM

Oracle plans to hire 2,000 cloud workers; hundreds of open positions listed in Seattle

Oracle wants to ramp up its cloud business, and what better place to grow and pick off engineers than in… Read More

Oct 9, 2019, 7:46 AM

Universal blood test from Microsoft and Adaptive is a Google-sized data challenge

A novel effort from Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies to diagnose multiple diseases from a single blood test is a data… Read More

Oct 8, 2019, 9:00 AM

Shujinko raises $7.5M to help companies comply with regulations as they shift to the cloud

About three years ago, Matt Wells and Scott Schwan had a huge task ahead of them. They were charged with… Read More

Oct 3, 2019, 10:12 AM

First look: Inside Google Cloud’s new Seattle campus — right across the street from Amazon

Google and Amazon are officially next-door neighbors in Cloud City. Google Cloud on Thursday officially opened up the first portion… Read More

Sep 30, 2019, 12:45 PM

Amazon launches AWS IQ, a marketplace of third-party cloud experts for on-demand projects

Amazon.com opened up its online retail marketplace to third-party sellers early on, shaking up the e-commerce industry and extending the… Read More

Sep 27, 2019, 5:54 AM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: AI and faith, a LEGO convention, advice for hardware startups, and more

– Advances in artificial intelligence raise new questions about the future of humanity. But what will AI mean for faith?… Read More

Sep 25, 2019, 5:18 AM

Interview: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on AI, the cloud and the bank’s big bet on Seattle tech

Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman, will visit Seattle on Wednesday, which happens to be a key date… Read More

Sep 23, 2019, 10:24 AM

Tech company Chef won’t renew U.S. immigration contracts, changing course amid employee activism

Software engineers are powerful players in the technology industry. Typically, they exercise that power to negotiate sky-high salaries that companies… Read More

Sep 17, 2019, 10:23 AM

The unicorn that got away: HashiCorp’s journey from Seattle to SF to billion-dollar cloud company

First things first: the “Hashi” in HashiCorp is pronounced haw-shee. Not hash-ee. But don’t worry, most people get it wrong,… Read More

Sep 17, 2019, 9:31 AM

Oracle adds its digital assistant to Microsoft Teams, building off new cloud alliance between tech giants

Oracle and Microsoft’s cloud partnership took another step forward Tuesday. Oracle announced that its digital assistant can now be used… Read More

Sep 13, 2019, 6:44 AM

Microsoft and Disney aim to speed up movie and TV production with new ‘scene-to-screen’ cloud deal

Microsoft and The Walt Disney Co. agreed to a five-year deal to leverage the tech giant’s cloud prowess to speed… Read More

Sep 11, 2019, 8:28 AM

How Stackery found its new CEO: Puppet exec Tim Zonca ‘met the spec’ for serverless startup

The board of Portland-based startup Stackery had a specific wish list in its search for a new CEO after the… Read More

Sep 10, 2019, 9:15 AM

Skytap partners with Microsoft, brings its cloud service for legacy apps to Azure

Skytap today announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as the company continues its shift to becoming a capability within public… Read More

Sep 5, 2019, 8:05 AM

Pulumi takes on cloud juggernauts with flagship product for deploying infrastructure as code

Seattle startup Pulumi is formally launching its technology for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud, looking to land new… Read More

Aug 28, 2019, 5:56 PM

Indictment says accused Capital One hacker also used exploited cloud servers for cryptojacking

Updated with Vodafone statement. A federal grand jury indicted Paige Thompson, a former Amazon engineer, on multiple counts of wire… Read More

Aug 28, 2019, 3:28 PM

Cloud services company Skytap lays off 25 workers in first major change under new CEO

Enterprise cloud services company Skytap is laying off 25 employees, or around 12 percent of its workforce, in an effort… Read More

Aug 28, 2019, 5:00 AM

How Microsoft and Oracle became cloud buddies, and what’s next for their improbable partnership

Splashy partnerships between big tech companies can be hard to take seriously. Implementing them with success is much harder than… Read More

Aug 26, 2019, 3:25 PM

Oracle to appeal court ruling on Pentagon cloud contract as Microsoft and Amazon vie for $10B deal

Oracle’s JEDI fight isn’t over. The company will appeal a Court of Federal Claims ruling that rejected its attempt to… Read More

Aug 21, 2019, 9:38 AM

Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others join forces for cloud security in ‘confidential computing’ group

A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces… Read More

Aug 21, 2019, 6:49 AM

Chef names new CTO to succeed its co-founder, eyes broader market for enterprise automation

It’s a new era at Chef, and not just because the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has suddenly created… Read More

Aug 19, 2019, 11:40 AM

Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred

Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity, a London-based venture that has become a key player behind a popular open-source implementation of… Read More

Aug 13, 2019, 6:00 AM

Cray to develop insanely fast $600M ‘El Capitan’ supercomputer for U.S. nuclear simulations

Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy,… Read More

Aug 8, 2019, 9:08 AM

Amazon seeks to root out any ties to 8chan, as tech firms grapple with implications of extremist sites

Amazon’s cloud powers vast swaths of the internet, so perhaps it was only a matter of time until the debate… Read More