Will Tuesday be a good day? It will be for those attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle this week if they’re fans of the legendary rapper Ice Cube. The cloud-computing… Read More
Post updated with comments from Oracle Oracle is significantly boosting its presence in Amazon’s backyard with a new lease in a downtown Seattle office tower, amid a broader move by… Read More
The fight against cancer isn’t just about drugs and genetics. It’s also about wearable devices, health-savvy chatbots, machine learning and one of the biggest challenges that cloud computing will ever… Read More
Small drones, big data and computer vision: That’s the tech-frontier trifecta for Clobotics, a Shanghai startup that says it’s raised $5 million in seed funding and opened a research and… Read More
Cloud computing is changing the technology world and creating opportunity for hundreds of new companies — so how are investors thinking about which ones to put their investment behind? Three Seattle-area… Read More
In the U.S., car crashes kill roughly 40,000 people a year. That’s a loss of life equivalent to four to five 737 airplanes crashing every week. “In no other setting… Read More
Embed from Getty Images Most days of the week it’s a sure bet, but on Saturday, Cloud Computing was a longshot: at the Preakness, that is. But the horse with… Read More
President Donald Trump today signed a long-awaited executive order aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at federal government agencies – with a shift of computer capabilities to the cloud as a key… Read More
The Nature Conservancy is teaming up with Microsoft to bring machine learning and other tech innovations to the environmental group’s online mapping tools. The interactive maps are used for numerous… Read More
Following yesterday’s positive earnings report, Amazon is well on its way toward hitting $1,000 a share, but one firm is unsure that the good times will keep on rolling. Pacific… Read More
HBO’s “Silicon Valley” comedy series presents a California-centric view of how tech is done (and undone), but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Seattle-based Amazon Web Services came in for satirical… Read More
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson stars in the highest-resolution video ever broadcast live from the International Space Station, bur Amazon Web Services will play a supporting role. The 4K ultra-high-definition live stream,… Read More
Amazon Web Services said it will open data centers in Sweden next year to serve customers in Nordic countries such as Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway. The new Stockholm region includes… Read More
The cloud is becoming a bigger part of IBM’s business, and the technology giant is expanding its data center offerings. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty announced at the company’s InterConnect conference in… Read More
Google is on a mission to become a leading option for businesses making the shift to the cloud, and in the wake of the big Amazon Web Services outage last week, reliability is a… Read More
Microsoft will help its cloud computing customers fight lawsuits from patent trolls. As an added benefit to those paying for Microsoft Azure, the tech giant announced that it will now offer Microsoft… Read More
Cloud infrastructure startup Stratoscale is expanding its database services platform. The Israel-based company has acquired database-as-a-service provider Tesora, the companies announced Monday. Stratoscale is a cloud infrastructure startup that allows businesses… Read More
When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the cloud-computing geeks at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, you can bet the talk is not going to be just about outer… Read More
A New Zealand-based software-as-a-service company, Raygun, has joined the numerous other firms putting boots on the ground in Seattle to stake out territory at the epicenter of cloud computing. Raygun, a maker… Read More
Seattle’s F5 Networks has done well by helping medium-sized and large companies improve the security and speed of their software, last month hitting a 52-week high following news of strong… Read More
Amazon Web Services will cut the cost of its EC2 basic compute services among a limited number of regions by up to 25 percent starting Dec. 1, depending on the… Read More
The Seattle region may be known as the birthplace of Microsoft Windows and the seat of Amazon’s e-commerce empire, but the city is less well-known around the world for its incredible, even… Read More
Microsoft researchers are doing a bug bash on cancer, complete with software code names like “Project Hanover.” Some of them are actually drilling down into our genetic code, looking for… Read More
Competition to offer lower-cost cloud services hasn’t ended — in fact, the price wars may just be getting underway, according to an analyst who closely follows the cost of remotely accessed computing, storage and… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity to power its data centers will come from renewable sources by… Read More
Amazon is happy about its cloud computing business, and so are investors. The Seattle-based company crushed analyst expectations for its Q1 2016 earnings on Thursday, as the company’s stock spiked more… Read More
Microsoft this morning filed suit against the U.S. Justice Department, seeking to overturn a provision of U.S. law that allows the government to prevent tech companies from informing their customers… Read More
Mesosphere, a Silicon Valley cloud computing startup, announced today that it has raised a $73.5 million Series C funding round. The funding was led by existing strategic investor Hewlett Packard Enterprise with significant… Read More
Because cloud computing is hot, because Seattle is home to some of the most advanced cloud-computing services, and because companies nationwide desperately need cloud-computing expertise, the region has become a boomtown… Read More
Amazon spent a total of $690 million on acquisitions in 2015, most of it in cash, according to the company’s annual 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. The… Read More