Cloud Tech

May 16, 2019, 8:08 AM

Apptio buys Portland’s Cloudability, adding more cloud financial analysis tools to its belt

Apptio has made its first acquisition since its $1.9 billion private equity deal closed in January, snapping up Portland’s Cloudability,… Read More

May 15, 2019, 10:50 AM

DevOps is changing the way companies build software. Learn more from five experts at the GeekWire Cloud Summit

As software-as-a-service became the dominant vector for enterprise computing during the last several years, the development velocity required from top-tier… Read More

May 14, 2019, 11:20 AM

Start the patching: New batch of side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors

Intel announced Tuesday that it has discovered a new batch of vulnerabilities exploiting design flaws in its chips and released… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

May 14, 2019, 8:43 AM

Seattle startup Algorithmia raises $25M to help companies implement machine learning algorithms

Algorithmia announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in new funding to build out tools that make machine learning… Read More

May 13, 2019, 10:32 AM

Microsoft unveils decentralized identity protocol that works atop the Bitcoin blockchain

Microsoft introduced a new open-source protocol Monday that is designed to hurdle performance issues when trying to use blockchain networks… Read More

May 10, 2019, 1:30 PM

GitHub adds Package Registry, which allows GitHub users to publish software packages alongside source code

GitHub is expanding the scope of its code repository to include support for publishing software packages, the company annoucned Friday… Read More

May 8, 2019, 10:13 AM

Led by F5 founder, Seattle cybersecurity startup Tempered Networks raises $17M

Seattle-based Tempered Networks has raised an additional $17 million to invest in engineering, sales resources, and partnerships. The company confirmed… Read More

May 8, 2019, 8:11 AM

Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO, former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden taking over

Docker CEO Steve Singh is stepping down after just two years on the job, with the mission of transforming the… Read More

May 7, 2019, 1:00 PM

Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes service jointly managed by Microsoft and Red Hat, is now available

Companies interested in using Kubernetes to help manage their containerized applications have a new option from Microsoft and Red Hat… Read More

May 7, 2019, 10:45 AM

Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure reliability is lagging the competition

In an increasingly competitive market for cloud computing, reliability matters, and Microsoft has some work to do. Data compiled by… Read More

May 6, 2019, 1:20 PM

Microsoft rolls out new performance-scaling features for Azure databases, including serverless Azure SQL

Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying only for what they use while enjoying on-demand performance scaling… Read More

May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM

GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft

Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository… Read More

May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM

Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy

Much has been made of Microsoft’s reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that… Read More

May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM

Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events

Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles… Read More

May 3, 2019, 10:23 AM

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox

As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his… Read More

May 2, 2019, 2:48 PM

Microsoft Azure recovering from major networking-related outage that took out Office 365, Xbox Live, and other services

An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking… Read More

May 2, 2019, 2:00 PM

Microsoft unveils a new edge computing database and managed blockchain service ahead of Build

The main event doesn’t kick off until next Monday morning in downtown Seattle, but Microsoft plans to announce a new… Read More

May 2, 2019, 8:00 AM

Does Google really run the most reliable cloud service? Even its own sources are skeptical

The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too… Read More

May 2, 2019, 6:00 AM

Puppet updates its flagship product with increased support for Bolt, an open-source task automator

Puppet’s latest edition of its flagship infrastructure automation software includes additional support for Bolt, an open-source project that the company… Read More

May 1, 2019, 9:47 AM

Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia is out, replaced by former ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, who oversaw five years of strong growth and enormous fundraising at data warehousing startup Snowflake… Read More

May 1, 2019, 7:30 AM

‘Prolific’ firm Tiger Global leads $50M round in Seattle spa and salon software startup Zenoti

Zenoti plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $50 million in new Series C funding round led by Tiger… Read More

Apr 30, 2019, 2:12 PM

Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene and longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaving Alphabet’s board of directors

Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to… Read More

Apr 30, 2019, 10:00 AM

Docker’s quest for big-company revenue continues with Docker Enterprise 3.0, which comes with a fully-managed Docker platform service

Docker hopes that Docker Enterprise 3.0, which it plans to unveil later on Tuesday at DockerCon, will convince companies looking… Read More

Apr 29, 2019, 3:37 PM

Apptio buys Portland’s Cloudability, adding more cloud financial analysis tools to its belt

DevOps is changing the way companies build software. Learn more from five experts at the GeekWire Cloud Summit

Start the patching: New batch of side-channel vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors

Seattle startup Algorithmia raises $25M to help companies implement machine learning algorithms

Microsoft unveils decentralized identity protocol that works atop the Bitcoin blockchain

GitHub adds Package Registry, which allows GitHub users to publish software packages alongside source code

Led by F5 founder, Seattle cybersecurity startup Tempered Networks raises $17M

Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO, former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden taking over

Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes service jointly managed by Microsoft and Red Hat, is now available

Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure reliability is lagging the competition

Microsoft rolls out new performance-scaling features for Azure databases, including serverless Azure SQL

GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft

Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy

Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox

Microsoft Azure recovering from major networking-related outage that took out Office 365, Xbox Live, and other services

Microsoft unveils a new edge computing database and managed blockchain service ahead of Build

Does Google really run the most reliable cloud service? Even its own sources are skeptical

Puppet updates its flagship product with increased support for Bolt, an open-source task automator

Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia is out, replaced by former ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman

‘Prolific’ firm Tiger Global leads $50M round in Seattle spa and salon software startup Zenoti

Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene and longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaving Alphabet’s board of directors

Docker’s quest for big-company revenue continues with Docker Enterprise 3.0, which comes with a fully-managed Docker platform service

Google Cloud is the single-largest driver of headcount growth at Google

Microsoft and VMware unveil new cloud service that lets VMware customers run their apps on Azure

Slack renegotiated its deal with Amazon Web Services in 2018, will spend at least $212M more through 2023

AWS revenue approaches $8 billion in Q1, up 41 percent compared to last year