Cloud Tech – Page 15 of 55

Jan 15, 2019, 8:00 AM

Seattle hybrid cloud security startup ExtraHop touts bookings growth, says it’s on an IPO path

After plunging into the network security market nearly two years ago, Extrahop’s bookings have topped the $100 million mark, and… Read More

Jan 15, 2019, 6:43 AM

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare

A week after unveiling a plan to reinvent grocery shopping with Kroger, Microsoft announced another major retail partnership: a seven-year… Read More

Jan 14, 2019, 1:12 PM

Bellevue’s Polyverse brings on significant “strategic investors” as it raises $2M for its secure Linux product and courts the Pentagon

Interest from the federal government into Polyverse’s secure Linux product prompted several undisclosed “strategic investors” to get in on a… Read More

Jan 14, 2019, 9:14 AM

Amazon Web Services acquires TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup working on cloud spending analysis

It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase… Read More

Jan 13, 2019, 5:00 PM

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

Cloud computing was invented by American tech companies. By the end of the next decade, it might be the domain… Read More

Jan 11, 2019, 1:34 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Supporting women in tech, and exploring the mysteries of the universe

Women in Cloud: If you’re like most women who work in the tech industry, you’ve probably experienced a hurdle or… Read More

Jan 10, 2019, 2:35 PM

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta gets $196 million payday as private equity buyout closes

It’s a good day to be Sunny Gupta. The Apptio co-founder and CEO stood to make $196 million as the… Read More

Jan 10, 2019, 9:32 AM

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure

Amazon Web Services customers might find some new disaster-recovery services in their account dashboards later this year now that the… Read More

Jan 9, 2019, 3:44 PM

Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database

The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between… Read More

Jan 9, 2019, 9:00 AM

Square takes aim at Stripe, PayPal with new payments kit for mobile software developers

Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as… Read More

Jan 8, 2019, 2:04 PM

Reports: Amazon adds new disaster-recovery tech to AWS with purchase of CloudEndure

Amazon has reportedly acquired one of the disaster-recovery service providers within the Amazon Web Services Marketplace, purchasing CloudEndure for around… Read More

Jan 8, 2019, 8:00 AM

Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors

After 10 years at the Seattle company he co-founded and helped steer through a rapidly changing market for enterprise technology,… Read More

Jan 7, 2019, 10:17 AM

GitHub introduces new product tier that lets free users keep their code private

GitHub will kick off the new year by allowing free users of the code repository service to maintain private projects,… Read More

Jan 7, 2019, 8:13 AM

Akamai snaps up Portland-based identity management provider Janrain

Proving your identity on the internet is harder than it sounds, and Akamai plans to use technology from Portland’s Janrain… Read More

Jan 6, 2019, 10:00 AM

High time for a better marijuana resource online? Startup finds a niche with legal pot retailers

You knew this was coming. After Washington voters legalized pot six years ago, it was only a matter of time… Read More

Jan 3, 2019, 12:15 PM

Do a majority of Google developers use Visual Studio Code? Microsoft declines to back up its top marketing exec’s claim

There’s little debate that Microsoft has become a company willing to work across competitive boundaries over the last few years,… Read More

Dec 29, 2018, 3:44 PM

Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado

A widespread outage on CenturyLink’s cloud network that lasted almost two days and hampered emergency phone service in Washington and… Read More

Dec 28, 2018, 9:00 AM

Portland’s Megh Computing raises $1.75M to help companies use flexible chips for real-time data processing

An explosion in demand for applications with real-time data analytics has created scaling problems inside companies trying to run those… Read More

Dec 18, 2018, 4:19 PM

Instead of a real check on the growing power of Amazon Web Services, Oracle’s Larry Ellison offers nothing but words

At some point, it starts to get a little sad. Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison uncorked another… Read More

Dec 17, 2018, 10:55 AM

Skytap cuts 25 marketing jobs amid shift to selling its cloud services through partners

Seattle’s Skytap signaled earlier this year it was going to be working much more closely with public cloud providers in… Read More

Dec 17, 2018, 10:10 AM

Oracle’s latest JEDI cloud contract protest spurs Amazon Web Services to defend itself in federal court

As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year,… Read More

Dec 16, 2018, 11:11 AM

Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud

Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure.… Read More

Dec 14, 2018, 11:49 AM

Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage

Another open-source enterprise technology company is walling off parts of its software from cloud infrastructure providers. Confluent announced Friday morning… Read More

Dec 13, 2018, 1:10 PM

Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software

As questions continue to swirl around the future of open-source software licensing and business models, Chef co-founder and Chief Technology… Read More

Dec 13, 2018, 11:30 AM

Tech Moves: Qumulo taps cloud storage vet to lead marketing; BitTitan adds head of global sales

— Molly Presley will head up product marketing at cloud storage startup Qumulo. Presley brings many years of storage marketing… Read More

Dec 13, 2018, 5:00 AM

With JavaScript support, Salesforce wants to make it easier for developers to build apps on its platform

Companies that want to customize their Salesforce experience around their own unique needs will now be able to tap into… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 1:54 PM

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 9:00 AM

Red Hat donates a key open-source Kubernetes tool to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Red Hat plans to announce Tuesday that it will donate an important tool that helps ensure Kubernetes clusters run reliably… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 9:00 AM

Crashing KubeCon: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?

What a difference a year makes. Kubernetes has been one of the most prominent open-source projects in cloud computing over… Read More

Dec 9, 2018, 1:03 PM

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God —… Read More