Cloud Tech – Page 27 of 55

Mar 19, 2018, 9:16 AM

Amazon GameOn cloud service enables in-game competitions, with prizes fulfilled by the tech giant

Amazon has a new set of tools for game developers that lets them build in-game competitions, with prizes that can… Read More

Mar 18, 2018, 8:07 AM

Women in Cloud Accelerator names first startups, giving access to Microsoft and HPE sales channels

Kate Isler says her company, Daysaver, needs to start growing. Isler wants to show off her cloud-based patient scheduling software… Read More

Mar 15, 2018, 10:19 AM

Microsoft aims to woo game developers with new cloud gaming division

Microsoft has established a new gaming cloud division, giving the tech giant another way to stand out in its quest… Read More

Mar 15, 2018, 9:16 AM

Intel says ‘partitions’ in new chips will correct the design flaw that created Spectre and Meltdown

After security researchers were able to exploit design flaws in modern processors that lay undetected for up to 20 years,… Read More

Mar 14, 2018, 3:29 PM

Google picks up another win for G Suite as Airbus grounds Microsoft Office

With over 130,000 employees, Airbus uses a lot of office productivity software. It recently decided to make a big bet… Read More

Mar 14, 2018, 1:01 AM

Microsoft plans its first Middle East data center for cloud customers, adds European capacity

Microsoft announced plans for its first cloud data centers in the Middle East Wednesday, hoping to bring capacity online in… Read More

Mar 13, 2018, 6:00 AM

Cloudflare to open an edge computing service for developers using its network

Cloudflare is ready to take the wraps of a new service designed for developers creating Internet-of-Things apps that want to… Read More

Mar 12, 2018, 9:42 AM

At $16 to $18 a share, Dropbox’s IPO would value it below its last private funding round

Dropbox updated its IPO prospectus Monday with the intended offering price for its shares on the Nasdaq, disclosing plans to… Read More

Mar 12, 2018, 8:39 AM

Watch John Oliver break down blockchain and bitcoin on ‘Last Week Tonight’

The same day news of cryptocurrency scammers making off with more than $2 million surfaced, John Oliver dedicated most of his… Read More

Mar 12, 2018, 6:00 AM

Former Docker CEO Ben Golub named CEO of Storj Labs, a blockchain-based cloud storage company

Former Docker CEO Ben Golub has surfaced on the blockchain. He’s the new CEO of Storj Labs, a cloud storage… Read More

Mar 11, 2018, 1:00 PM

How Atlassian moved Jira and Confluence users to Amazon Web Services, and what it learned along the way

If your business is built around servicing software developers who know exactly what state-of-the-art tools should be capable of doing,… Read More

Mar 9, 2018, 12:13 PM

Return of the JEDI: Why the cloud industry is closely eyeing a big Pentagon cloud contract

The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to… Read More

Mar 8, 2018, 10:33 AM

F5 Networks projects single-digit revenue growth for the next several years amid software transition, sending its stock down 5 percent

A revamped F5 Networks executive team made its pitch to Wall Street investors in New York Thursday, hoping to convince… Read More

Mar 7, 2018, 9:00 AM

Dropbox adds private network services through Equinix and expands global networking footprint

Dropbox customers around the world will now be able take advantage of new private networking services through datacenter giant Equinix… Read More

Mar 7, 2018, 8:00 AM

VMware and AWS roll out new services for the hybrid cloud and bring their joint product to Europe

VMware unveiled the latest step in its evolving partnership with Amazon Web Services Wednesday, bringing the VMware Cloud for AWS… Read More

Mar 6, 2018, 11:42 AM

What are memcached servers, and why are they being used to launch record-setting DDoS attacks?

Two of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded on the internet have been launched over the last seven days,… Read More

Mar 5, 2018, 11:50 AM

Salesforce wants to make it easier to extract analytical data from its service with support for natural-language queries

For lots of people, trying to use powerful analytics tools without a little training in the language of data science… Read More

Mar 2, 2018, 10:26 AM

Widespread outage at Amazon Web Services’ U.S. East region takes down Alexa, Atlassian developer tools

Problems with Amazon Web Services’ Direct Connect service took down several customers Friday morning using the cloud leader’s creaky U.S.… Read More

Mar 2, 2018, 10:00 AM

Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups

There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize… Read More

Mar 1, 2018, 6:10 PM

Asteroid Institute adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners for asteroid tracking

Google Cloud and AGI (a.k.a. Analytical Graphics Inc.) have gotten on board with the B612 Asteroid Institute to develop a… Read More

Mar 1, 2018, 3:11 PM

VMware beats Wall Street expectations as reverse merger with Dell Technologies looms

In what might be one of its last quarters as an independent public company, VMware gave investors something to smile… Read More

Mar 1, 2018, 2:20 PM

The largest DDoS attack yet recorded staggered Github on Wednesday

Web companies are starting to get pretty good at deflecting denial of service attacks, and Github and Akamai largely fended… Read More

Feb 28, 2018, 1:49 PM

Salesforce tops analyst estimates on record Q4 revenue, raises guidance for the coming year

The market for Salesforce’s cloud-based sales and marketing tools continues to be hot, as the company posted records for fourth-quarter… Read More

Feb 28, 2018, 9:00 AM

Google beefs up G Suite with some AI, takes Hangouts Chat out of beta

Google added several new features to G Suite Wednesday in hopes of convincing users to rely on its enterprise software… Read More

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

Feb 27, 2018, 10:52 AM

Algorithmia launches blockchain-based protocol for machine-learning algorithm shoppers

Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia… Read More

Feb 26, 2018, 1:00 PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reminds everyone that his company has in-house silicon expertise

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella trotted out many of his usual lines during an interview this morning, but, unprompted, also chose… Read More

Feb 23, 2018, 1:49 PM

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its… Read More

Feb 23, 2018, 12:51 PM

Dropbox makes it official, files to go public later this year with $1B in 2017 revenue

Dropbox, one of the first cloud-based file-storage services to gain traction among consumers and businesses, has filed to go public… Read More