Another black eye for Amazon? Hackers may have used AWS in crippling Sony attack Amazon Web Services has been taking some PR knocks in recent weeks. First, came the massive outage which sparked anger… Read More
Job tips: Expert advice in mobile development, cloud computing, business intelligence What can people do to better position themselves for emerging jobs in technology? That was a core question earlier this… Read More
Concur posts $84.6M in revenue, swings to loss on TripIt buy Concur Technologies swung to a net loss during its second quarter largely due to its acquisition of TripIt. The Redmond… Read More
Amazon apologizes for outage, promises big improvements in communication Amazon.com has issued a formal apology to customers who suffered through last week’s Elastic Block Store outage, offering a 10-day… Read More
Jeff Bezos to shareholders: ‘Invention is in our DNA’ It’s been a tough few days for Amazon.com. The Seattle online retailer took a PR beating after a massive outage… Read More
Geek humor: How Adolf Hitler would have reacted to the Amazon Web Services outage It was just a matter of time. Amazon.com’s recent Web services outage has been memorialized in a “Downfall” parody on… Read More
Day 2: Amazon Web Services cites progress on cloud glitches, not everyone seeing it As some sites continue to show signs of Amazon.com’s cloud computing glitches, the company updated its public Amazon Web Services… Read More
Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And… Read More
Massive failure at Amazon Web Services causes havoc for Quora, Foursquare and others Amazon.com is experiencing a serious outage this morning with its Elastic Compute Cloud and other Web services, causing downtime at… Read More
Microsoft calls Google out after U.S. disputes Google Apps for Gov’t security claim Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing… Read More
Marooned on Bainbridge, fast-growing Avalara establishes Seattle outpost We’ve seen high-tech companies — including Google, Microsoft and Tableau Software — open offices on both sides of Lake Washington… Read More
Mozy executive Russ Stockdale on VMware deal: ‘I’d classify it as a transfer of talent’ Mozy has built a big business around online backups. But most people don’t realize that the company’s headquarters is located… Read More
With a common corporate parent, VMware takes over Seattle back-up service Mozy Now, here’s some complex corporate maneuvering for you. VMware announced today that it is gobbling up Mozy, the six-year-old Seattle… Read More
Lost in the cloud? File sharing service HomePipe raises $1.1M Sometimes you just want to access your digital files — whether music, photos or documents — wherever you go. That’s… Read More
