Cloud Tech – Page 24 of 55

May 29, 2018, 1:32 PM

Salesforce posts 25 percent jump in Q1 revenue and raises full-year guidance

One week after it opened its new tower in downtown San Francisco, Salesforce showed why it felt confident making that… Read More

May 24, 2018, 10:29 AM

Box just made it a little easier to move data around the world with this addition to Box Zones

Box’s new data-management feature probably won’t bail you out if you’re still scrambling to figure out what to do about… Read More

May 23, 2018, 5:00 AM

Under new product leader, Chef rolls out strategy for modern app development teams

Simply automating your computing infrastructure won’t cut it anymore; forward-thinking software-development organizations need to automate their processes across the board… Read More

May 22, 2018, 3:43 PM

TLDR: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to police, Paul Allen’s $1M donation to gun safety initiative, GlimpseCam

[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

May 22, 2018, 10:57 AM

Project management company Viewpath raises $2.3M, names new CEO in push to expand business

Seattle-based project management technology company Viewpath announced $2.3 million in seed funding Tuesday morning and named a new CEO, longtime… Read More

May 22, 2018, 9:30 AM

Slack launches Actions, which could make it easier for users to share Slack data with third-party apps

Slack’s greatest potential as an enterprise collaboration company will come if it can convince more companies to use its platform… Read More

May 22, 2018, 8:55 AM

‘Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse’: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to local governments

Concerned about the use of facial recognition technology to detect and identify Americans walking down the street, the American Civil… Read More

May 22, 2018, 6:00 AM

Tidelift raises $15M to find paying gigs for open-source developers maintaining key projects

Tidelift wants to give open-source developers a way to earn some money for contributing to important open-source projects and while… Read More

May 21, 2018, 10:37 PM

New side-channel vulnerability reported in Intel, AMD, and Arm chips, but this one isn’t a Meltdown

One of the scarier things about the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws earlier this year was… Read More

May 19, 2018, 10:27 AM

Webmail wars: Why Google and Microsoft are doubling down on their free email services and apps

Google and Microsoft both announced updates to their email services and apps recently, offering up a new crop of features… Read More

May 17, 2018, 10:25 AM

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit early-bird pricing ends Friday — register today

There’s just one more day left to take advantage of the early-bird pricing for the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, which… Read More

May 16, 2018, 9:31 AM

Microsoft inks cloud deal with Intelligence Community ahead of decision on huge Pentagon cloud contract

While the largest cloud computing contract in the history of the industry waits in the wings, Microsoft was awarded a… Read More

May 15, 2018, 11:00 AM

Amazon Sumerian, the AWS tool for building AR/VR applications, is now generally available

Amazon Web Services is ready to let all of its customers start playing with Amazon Sumerian, a tool that helps… Read More

May 15, 2018, 10:52 AM

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Apple tech leaders headline GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way,… Read More

May 15, 2018, 9:22 AM

Auth0 raises $55M to fuel the identity management company’s international expansion

Auth0, a Bellevue, Wash. startup that helps developers build identity authentication capabilities into their applications, raised $55 million to embark on… Read More

May 14, 2018, 10:50 AM

Why someone needs to step up and challenge Intel in the data center chip market

For all the discussion of the higher-level technologies that power the modern data center, the processor remains the most fundamental… Read More

May 14, 2018, 9:42 AM

Researchers say new ‘Efail’ security risk undermines encrypted e-mail

Hackers have a better chance of getting into encrypted email than previously thought, according to a new paper released Monday… Read More

May 13, 2018, 5:00 PM

How Puppet’s chief product officer is navigating the rapidly changing world of modern software development

Nobody ever believes me when I say this, but the world of enterprise technology has actually been pretty exciting over… Read More

May 10, 2018, 3:24 PM

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in… Read More

May 10, 2018, 2:16 PM

Amazon Web Services is sitting on around $12.4 billion in deferred revenue

For the first time this week, Amazon disclosed how much revenue Amazon Web Services will eventually realize from multiyear cloud… Read More

May 10, 2018, 10:51 AM

Containers and microservices become mainstream: Learn how they can work for you at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Over the last several years, containers and microservices have become some of the most quickly adopted enterprise software development technologies… Read More

May 9, 2018, 3:56 PM

How the rise of the internet of things prompted a new feature for Microsoft’s cloud database

Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference… Read More

May 9, 2018, 1:30 PM

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich touts security during deep dive into the tech behind Microsoft’s cloud

Build 2018 attendees got a peek behind the Azure curtain Wednesday from Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich, who also… Read More

May 8, 2018, 12:19 PM

Red Hat and Microsoft teaming up for a managed OpenShift service on Azure

One day after Microsoft announced that its managed Kubernetes service is ready for the general public, Red Hat announced that… Read More

May 8, 2018, 11:00 AM

Slack hits 8 million daily users, with 3 million paid subscribers

Slack is carving out a nice piece of the business software market for itself thanks to its workplace chat and… Read More

May 7, 2018, 11:20 AM

GeekWire Podcast, Live at Build: Cloud, AI and mixed reality with Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and Lorraine Bardeen

We’re live at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle, where we’ll be joined by two of Microsoft’s top executives,… Read More

May 7, 2018, 8:30 AM

Is Azure the cloud for the internet of things? Microsoft doubles down at Build

Microsoft’s rebranding of the internet of things as “the intelligent edge” is arguably an improvement over the original moniker, but… Read More

May 7, 2018, 8:30 AM

Microsoft’s Project Kinect for Azure is a package of sensors for IoT applications

Microsoft is bringing Kinect back this week at its Build developer conference, but in a very different fashion that the… Read More

May 7, 2018, 6:00 AM

Live blog: Microsoft makes its pitch to developers at Build 2018

One of the key events on Microsoft’s yearly calendar kicks off later this morning, as thousands of developers crowd into… Read More

May 7, 2018, 3:00 AM

With $125M Series D round, Mesosphere has now raised over $250M to automate the data center

Data centers have never been more powerful, but they’ve never been more complicated to manage. Mesosphere is hoping that as… Read More