Cloud Tech

Jun 13, 2018, 8:00 AM

AppViewX names its third CEO in the last year, as former Cedexis CEO Ryan Windham takes over

There’s been a lot of chaos and opportunity in the networking world over the past few years, as companies shift… Read More

Jun 12, 2018, 10:00 AM

Get a sneak peek at Amazon Web Services’ latest infrastructure updates from Peter DeSantis at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

As the man in charge of the public cloud leader’s sprawling computing resources, Peter DeSantis needs to have his finger… Read More

Jun 12, 2018, 6:00 AM

At least one retailer — online outlet zulily — is still willing to sign up for Amazon Web Services

As Amazon has expanded its empire into nearly every aspect of commerce on the planet, retailers have been thinking twice… Read More

Jun 11, 2018, 10:47 AM

Seattle IoT startup Resin.io gets $5 million in new funding from Soracom, a division of KDDI

There’s a land grab underway as the industrial internet of things continues to shift from thought experiment to technology deployment,… Read More

Jun 10, 2018, 4:00 PM

Azure chief Jason Zander, a Microsoft lifer, is a link between the company’s past and future

Microsoft Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander has worked for many different companies, despite the fact that he’s worked at… Read More

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O 2017

Jun 7, 2018, 1:04 PM

Google releases guidelines for how it will use AI, vows to tread carefully with military and surveillance customers

When Google first promised that it wouldn’t be evil, the world was a simpler place. On Thursday, Google released guidelines… Read More

Jun 7, 2018, 8:30 AM

Puppet acquires Portland-based data visualization startup Reflect to jazz up its data presentation

Two Portland tech companies are joining forces with Puppet’s acquisition of Reflect, a small startup focused on data visualization for… Read More

Jun 7, 2018, 12:01 AM

VMware adds try-before-you-buy option for VMware Cloud on AWS, and new European region

It’s been almost a year since VMware rolled out the fruits of its partnership with Amazon Web Services on hybrid… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 4:40 PM

NetMotion launches an IT platform to keep tabs on corporate smartphones

Smartphones have been around for a while, but IT departments are still trying to grapple with a challenge they’ve created:… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 4:02 PM

TLDR: Elon Musk gets emotional at Tesla’s shareholder meeting, Microsoft’s underwater data center, Amazon’s $200 Echo Look

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 10:57 AM

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Agenda released with top tech leaders from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Amazon

Our biggest technical conference of the year — the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit — is coming up on June 27th… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 9:28 AM

Clouds under the sea: Microsoft deploys its Project Natick data center off the coast of Scotland

Microsoft kicked off the second phase of its experimental underwater data center project Wednesday, submerging a shipping-container sized data center… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 8:15 AM

Software automation platform Azuqua lands Adobe, Zendesk and others for new partner program

Say you’re a software company needing to roll out a bunch of new features — and fast. One big customer… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 4:30 AM

Qumulo raises $93M to tackle hybrid cloud file storage, total funding now $230M

We are generating unprecedented amounts of data in our personal and professional lives on the internet, and the trend is… Read More

Jun 5, 2018, 12:00 PM

Amazon Web Services now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS

Amazon Web Services was the last of the major cloud vendors to go all-in with the Kubernetes container-orchestration project that… Read More

Jun 5, 2018, 10:16 AM

SAP vows to take on Salesforce, as cloud vendors line up to pitch its database customers

Salesforce upended the traditional market for customer-relationship management software led by Oracle and SAP more than a decade ago, and… Read More

Jun 5, 2018, 9:00 AM

New Microsoft Azure tech could let smart building operators model the links between people and objects at work

As Microsoft leans into its focus this year on cloud services for the internet of things, it’s introducing new platform… Read More

Jun 5, 2018, 7:00 AM

Facebook’s new cooling system might make it easier to put data centers in hot places

As the data centers that run the computing world have become more powerful and sophisticated, just like their marketing executives,… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 4:11 PM

TLDR: Microsoft agrees to buy GitHub, tech for women’s safety, Alexa & Google Assistant coming to Xbox

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 10:45 AM

Developers and cloud rivals will be watching Microsoft’s plans for Azure and GitHub very closely

It’s probably the central question surrounding Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of coding repository GitHub: how will the owner of the… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 9:16 AM

Google to link Meet business video-calling app with Microsoft Skype and other rivals

Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing… Read More

Jun 3, 2018, 3:16 PM

Microsoft reaches deal to buy GitHub; announcement could come Monday, report says

Update, Monday morning: Microsoft confirmed the deal, announcing an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. Microsoft has… Read More

Jun 1, 2018, 12:45 PM

Report: After employee backlash, Google will walk away from Project Maven AI contract with the military after it expires

The employees have spoken. Google has decided that it won’t seek additional business related to a controversial artificial intelligence project… Read More

Jun 1, 2018, 8:50 AM

Helm, an open-source project for managing Kubernetes apps, gets its own home inside the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Another project has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, after members voted to include Helm at the incubation stage within… Read More

Jun 1, 2018, 8:15 AM

Travel giant Sabre bets big on multicloud, signing deal with Microsoft Azure weeks after a new deal with Amazon Web Services

Thanks to investments in container technology and microservices, Sabre is ready to embark on a multicloud infrastructure strategy, signing a… Read More