Cloud security giant Cloudflare is entering the Seattle market by acquiring S2 Systems, a Kirkland, Wash., startup that aims to make web browsing safer. The deal marks Cloudflare’s first acquisition… Read More
Cloud security company Cloudflare plans to pursue an initial public offering in 2019, according to a report, as it continues to build one of the more interesting networks in cloud… Read More
With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group called the Bandwidth Alliance, which intends to waive or greatly… Read More
Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes based on the talks, panels and fireside chats as they’re… Read More
The internet has changed the world in countless ways over the last 23 years, and we’re only beginning to grapple with the impact of some of those changes. They have… Read More
Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way, automating the drudgery of running data centers with outsourced services… Read More
Ready to boost your technical chops? Our biggest technical conference of the year — the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit — is coming up on June 27 at Meydenbauer Center in… Read More
Despite the timing, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince would like to emphasize that his company’s latest announcement is not an April Fool’s joke. The security services company is rolling out a… Read More
Cloudflare is ready to take the wraps of a new service designed for developers creating Internet-of-Things apps that want to capitalize on the proximity benefits provided by edge computing. Cloudflare… Read More
Two of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded on the internet have been launched over the last seven days, taking advantage of sloppy configuration settings to force prominent websites… Read More
Web companies are starting to get pretty good at deflecting denial of service attacks, and Github and Akamai largely fended off the biggest attack ever recorded by security engineers this… Read More
Remote workers or business travelers have long been familiar with the travails of working through virtual-private network software, but Cloudflare thinks it can use its vast network of servers to… Read More
Nearly one week after his company, Cloudflare, decided to part ways with a particularly controversial customer, CEO Mathew Prince doesn’t really feel like anything has been settled. The decision to… Read More
After a week in which tech companies abandoned neo-Nazi web publication The Daily Stormer following the murder of a woman protesting white supremacy in Virginia, a new company has stepped… Read More
Two days after it tried to have it both ways by keeping the Daily Stormer as a client, Cloudflare has reversed course and pulled its services, which protect websites against… Read More
Internet companies have long operated under the principle that they are not responsible for what their users do with their services, aside from a few common-sense laws around child abuse,… Read More
CloudFlare brought on some impressive strategic investors today, announcing a $110 million funding round that included participation from tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm and Baidu, the Chinese search engine… Read More