Cloud Tech – Page 25 of 55

May 5, 2018, 8:00 AM

At top of WorkFlowy founder’s to-do list: Keeping his app’s cult-like following happy

In January, when Jesse Patel announced plans to overhaul WorkFlowy, his quirky-but-powerful outline app, he appealed for mercy. “If you… Read More

May 3, 2018, 4:09 PM

Kubernetes in Europe: The most significant news from Kubecon this week

The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue… Read More

May 3, 2018, 12:12 PM

Twitter moves its part of its massive Hadoop data platform to Google Cloud

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing… Read More

May 3, 2018, 6:00 AM

Hate working in a web browser? How a new breed of software is bringing cloud-based apps into a single interface

In 1983, Microsoft developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi wrote a UNIX program that would eventually become Microsoft Word. It… Read More

May 3, 2018, 5:00 AM

Ask tech questions in private with Stack Overflow’s new enterprise product for smaller teams

Millions of technical professionals each month use Stack Overflow to answer tricky questions about coding, architecture, and other complicated aspects… Read More

May 2, 2018, 8:00 AM

Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes

As more software factories add Kubernetes to their container strategies, a lot of people are getting excited about the container… Read More

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

May 1, 2018, 8:00 AM

Machine learning on the blockchain: How Algorithmia’s DanKu experiment unfolded

Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing… Read More

May 1, 2018, 7:00 AM

SkyKick raises another $40M to build more products for cloud services companies

Tectonic shifts in information technology strategies are hard to navigate, even for the biggest companies on the planet. The rise… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 4:31 PM

Intel’s Data Center Group takes advantage of booming cloud business in Q1

With revenue, profits, and capital expenditures up for all of the Big Three cloud computing companies during the first quarter… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 1:35 PM

Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud group posts a 17 percent jump in revenue on 93 percent growth for Azure

Cloud computing has been a strong part of Microsoft’s turnaround during CEO Satya Nadella’s tenure as CEO, and its Intelligent… Read More

Apr 26, 2018, 1:15 PM

AWS grows 49 percent in Q1 2018 to hit $5.4B in revenue

Amazon Web Services is setting the pace for the cloud computing market once again, growing 49 percent in its first… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 1:50 PM

While growth remains slow, F5 Q2 earnings beat expectations amid software-focused turnaround

F5 Networks told Wall Street analysts earlier this year that it expects slow revenue growth as it shifts its business… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 1:20 PM

ServiceNow snaps up VendorHawk to help its customers manage their SaaS spending

ServiceNow has acquired Seattle’s VendorHawk, a recent TechStars Seattle graduate, for an undisclosed amount in order to add cloud software… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 10:35 AM

Puppet signals shift in product strategy with new tech asset inventory dashboard

Puppet is shaking up its product strategy, announcing on Wednesday the first product that will become part of an expanded… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 9:00 AM

Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, which lets you deploy containers with utter disregard for hardware, now generally available

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances,… Read More

Apr 25, 2018, 6:00 AM

Seattle DevOps vets launch Sodo, a startup that helps companies modernize their software teams

Two longtime Seattle-area engineers are teaming up to launch Sodo, a new professional-development startup that wants to help software development… Read More

Apr 23, 2018, 2:15 PM

Google spent a lot of money on its cloud business during Q1 as it gears up for a big year

Operating a modern public cloud is an enormously expensive undertaking. It looks like Google expanded its cloud computing capacity in… Read More

Apr 23, 2018, 3:00 AM

Heptio launches new open-source load-balancing project with Kubernetes in mind

Heptio added a new load balancer to its stable of open-source projects Monday, targeting Kubernetes users who are managing multiple… Read More

Apr 20, 2018, 8:14 AM

Update: Pivotal goes public at $15 a share, CEO Rob Mee calls it “message of strength and independence”

Pivotal broke free of the Dell Technologies conglomerate Friday morning, listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange at… Read More

Apr 19, 2018, 11:53 AM

FoundationDB, a very interesting NoSQL database owned by Apple, is now an open-source project

Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 9:22 AM

Longtime Amazon Web Services customer Netflix said to be cozying up to Google

Netflix was arguably Amazon Web Services’ most important customer during its rise to the top of the public cloud market… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 6:00 AM

With support for Kubernetes now baked in, Docker makes its case as the most flexible container management platform

Docker lost the Container Orchestration War of 2017, as brief and relatively amicable as it was. Now the company is… Read More

Apr 17, 2018, 5:00 AM

VMware bets that new versions of vSphere and vSAN will make the hybrid cloud easier to manage

There was a time when it looked like the public cloud might consign VMware to the long list of bygone… Read More

Apr 13, 2018, 9:32 AM

Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M

Modern cloud deployments are a tough thing to keep a handle on, which is part of the reason why Portland’s… Read More

Apr 12, 2018, 4:03 PM

Report: Google wants the Pentagon cloud deal, but doesn’t want its employees to know

All major and minor vendors in cloud computing are currently polishing their bids for one of the biggest cloud deals… Read More

Apr 12, 2018, 10:08 AM

Plenty of growth in store for cloud computing, according to Gartner, will hit $186B in 2018

Most people no longer need to be convinced that cloud computing is the next big thing in enterprise technology, and… Read More

Apr 11, 2018, 10:13 AM

Google readying new design for Gmail that includes a snooze email button and better G Suite integration

Get ready for a few changes to the screen millions of people wake up to: Google is contemplating a new… Read More

Apr 11, 2018, 9:00 AM

Box admins now have improved tools for managing user activity and governance policies

Box users generate a lot of data that administrators might find very interesting, and the latest edition of the Box… Read More