Amazon’s cloud computing business continues to rake in substantial amounts of cash. Amazon Web Services generated $2.4 billion in net sales during the holiday quarter and operating income of $687… Read More
Tech giants everywhere are fighting for their slice of the cloud pie, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during an on stage interview at Dell World this week that it’s… Read More
IBM and Box are teaming up in an effort to bring a smarter, more centralized cloud-storage model to enterprise customers. Box will integrate many of IBM’s enterprise solutions into its business-level cloud options.… Read More
Before IBM swooped in to buy Blue Box, the Seattle cloud computing startup entertained at least one other offer. Blue Box founder Jesse Proudman didn’t say who came knocking on… Read More
Despite making a commitment to use more renewable energy to power its datacenters, Amazon was blasted in a new report today from Greenpeace. The 2015 update to the group’s “Clicking… Read More
Microsoft announced today that Azure Premium Storage, a service providing high-performance data storage for users of its Azure cloud platform, has reached general availability after first launching as a preview… Read More
Starting this year Amazon shareholders will know exactly how much revenue the company generates from its cloud computing business when it starts to break out the division’s results for the first time. But… Read More
Alibaba is opening a data center in Silicon Valley — its first outside of China — stepping up its competition with Amazon and ultimately hoping to get U.S. companies to start using its… Read More
Amazon investors and the public will soon have a better idea of how much revenue the company generates from its cloud computing business. On the company’s earnings call today, Amazon CFO… Read More
Google is seeking to formally intervene in a lawsuit filed by Amazon against a former Amazon Web Services employee who left the Seattle company and took a job with Google’s cloud computing division.… Read More
Seattle’s status as a cloud engineering hub just went up another notch with Oracle’s announcement that it’s opening a new Cloud Infrastructure Development Center — aiming to hire more than 100 engineers for the new… Read More
Seattle’s reputation as a leader in cloud computing is getting serious national attention. The New York Times today ran a profile on Seattle’s fast-growing cloud computing sector, noting that the… Read More
Technology distributor Ingram Micro, one of the quiet giants of the industry, is making an equity investment in virtualization and cloud technology company Parallels as part of a broader strategic alliance… Read More
Microsoft will be center stage tonight as Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall begins to roll out at midnight across the globe. Not only is the Redmond giant counting on tomorrow’s launch of Titanfall to… Read More
Bellevue venture capital firm Ignition is celebrating today after enterprise cloud management startup ServiceMesh of Santa Monica, Calif. was sold to CSC as part of a strategic acquisition. Terms were not… Read More
There’s no doubt that cloud computing has made life easier for thousands of businesses around the world. But sometimes setting up the infrastructure for Amazon Web Servers or Windows Azure… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud is gathering steam, according to new data released by the company today. Like Amazon and Google, Microsoft is trying to snag a piece of the cloud computing pie… Read More
Back in March, it appeared Amazon had hit a home run with a $600 million cloud computing deal with the CIA. Now, though, the Seattle online giant could be left… Read More
Parallels, a privately-held company based in Renton, Wash., today announced an expansion into South Africa to help African service providers deliver applications and cloud services to small and medium enterprises.… Read More
Amazon Web Services’ partner network has grown to more than 4,000 members, up from less than 1,000 a year ago — a key step for the company as it tries… Read More
Parallels announced today that it has received an investment of undisclosed size from Cisco, money that the Renton-based company will use to bolster its cloud services efforts. As part of… Read More
What happened at Amazon Web Services to take down the Netflix streaming service for hours on Christmas Eve? It was a combination of human error and flawed access controls: An AWS… Read More
The elves at Amazon.com are hard at work tonight trying to fix yet another outage at Amazon Web Services. The outage took down Netflix today, which means many can’t tune… Read More
At Tuesday’s Structure:Europe event, Amazon.com’s CTO Werner Vogels hinted that “there are things coming down the pipe you wouldn’t believe,” when asked about what’s in store for Amazon’s Web Services.… Read More
After receiving 600 applications, Microsoft this morning named 10 startups to participate in its Windows Azure Accelerator, a three-month program focused on creating new business apps and building new companies… Read More
The National Football League may not be making all the right calls on the field, but an agreement with a Seattle company to improve on-the-field concussion response seems like a… Read More
Geeks like us hear the words “cloud computing” almost every day, using it ourselves to explain a host of different online-based services. But how do folks in the heartland or… Read More
Box CEO Aaron Levie is widely known for cracking jokes on Twitter. When Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement, for example, he tweeted, “Facebook is probably as disappointed as Yahoo… Read More
Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has pulled in $3.5 million in new financing, including investments by Reed Elsevier Ventures and new investor Triage Ventures. Total funding in the 12-person startup, which… Read More
It’s official. Paul Maritz has resigned as CEO of VMware, the giant virtualization company that he’s run for the past four years. He’ll be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, president and chief… Read More
