Cloud Tech – Page 29 of 55

Jan 18, 2018, 9:53 AM

Intel admits that patches for Meltdown and Spectre are causing reboots on a wider variety of systems

As part of its quest to ensure “transparency” after initially insisting that the fixes for design flaws in its chips… Read More

Jan 17, 2018, 6:00 AM

New security service from Cloudflare hopes to kill the VPN once and for all

Remote workers or business travelers have long been familiar with the travails of working through virtual-private network software, but Cloudflare… Read More

Jan 17, 2018, 6:00 AM

Seattle’s Usermind raises $23.5M as demand for its marketing tech grows

Usermind, which makes software that helps customers pay closer attention to the needs, wants, and rants of their customers, has… Read More

Jan 17, 2018, 6:00 AM

Google unveils Cloud AutoML, a new set of cloud services that promise easier machine learning

Google has figured out a way to make sophisticated machine-learning techniques available to cloud customers who want to use that… Read More

Jan 16, 2018, 9:26 AM

Google announces plans for five new cloud computing regions, as well as new undersea cables

In 2018 Google will launch five new cloud computing regions around the world, adding capacity as it gears up to… Read More

Jan 16, 2018, 6:00 AM

Comcast Cable signs new cloud deal with Amazon Web Services, building on its hybrid cloud strategy

Amazon Web Services will start out the new year with an expanded cloud commitment from Comcast Cable to deploy new… Read More

Jan 16, 2018, 5:00 AM

Jama Software acquires Notion, a fellow Portland-based product-development tool maker

Portland’s Jama Software has snapped up some new business intelligence technology with the acquisition of Notion, in hopes of adding… Read More

Jan 12, 2018, 4:05 PM

Amazon is expanding in Portland, as the company signs lease for new space

AWS Elemental is set to increase its presence in Portland, signing a lease to take over space in a building… Read More

Jan 11, 2018, 6:33 PM

Intel: Our initial fix for the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws had flaws

Intel continued to undermine the confidence placed in its chips by more than 90 percent of data center customers on… Read More

Jan 11, 2018, 1:23 PM

Who will pay for Meltdown and Spectre? Chip flaws could leave a financial mess in their wake

2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in… Read More

Jan 11, 2018, 9:54 AM

Report: Dropbox submits confidential filing for an IPO

Cloud storage pioneer Dropbox has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a report, after a few years… Read More

Jan 10, 2018, 3:16 PM

Derek Collison, the architect behind Cloud Foundry, has left Apcera for a new cloud-messaging startup

One of the important contributors to the early years of cloud computing, Apcera co-founder and CEO Derek Collison, sold his… Read More

Jan 9, 2018, 5:59 PM

K2 CEO and co-founder Adriaan Van Wyk is out as software company looks for cloud experience

K2, the Seattle-area software company, plans to announce Wednesday morning that CEO and co-founder Adriaan Van Wyk has stepped down… Read More

Jan 9, 2018, 11:44 AM

Drill, baby, drill: Seattle’s DataCloud raises $8M for its cloud-based mining software

DataCloud, a Seattle-headquartered startup that has developed a real-time cloud-based service for helping miners assess the quality of the rocks… Read More

Jan 9, 2018, 10:08 AM

Microsoft admits that the Meltdown/Spectre patches will hit Windows Server performance

After several days of dodging questions about the performance impact of patches designed to fix the Meltdown/Spectre chip design flaws,… Read More

Jan 8, 2018, 5:50 PM

Enterprise cloud company Acumatica expands technology into construction industry

Enterprise cloud software provider Acumatica unveiled a new suite of services Monday designed to help construction companies see and update… Read More

Jan 8, 2018, 4:55 PM

Report: Intel creates new group to focus on hardware security amid Meltdown and Spectre fallout

As the public fallout from a 20-year-old design flaw that left Intel processors unprotected continues, the company told employees Monday… Read More

Jan 8, 2018, 3:31 PM

A week later, the long-term impact of the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws is starting to become clearer

Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip… Read More

Jan 6, 2018, 7:41 AM

What are Meltdown and Spectre? GeekWire’s guide to the problems with the world’s computer chips

Meltdown and Spectre. You’ve probably been hearing these terms a lot. These are vulnerabilities discovered in many of the computer… Read More

Jan 5, 2018, 11:21 AM

Software as a Service in 2018: Artificial intelligence and new apps are reshaping a key cloud sector

First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is… Read More

Jan 3, 2018, 8:05 PM

Report: Snowflake Computing poised to raise a second massive funding round in less than a year

Cloud data-warehousing company Snowflake Computing is about to raise a $270 million Series E funding round that would catapult the… Read More

Jan 3, 2018, 5:09 PM

Intel, cloud vendors shed more light on two major chip security issues that emerged this week

Hours after reports spread about design flaws in Intel processors that could have compromised an enormous number of computers, the… Read More

Jan 3, 2018, 11:35 AM

Updated: Cloud vendors secretly scramble to patch critical flaw in Intel chips, performance hits expected

Update 5:30pm: Intel held a press conference Wednesday afternoon after this was published, and several researchers released a lot more… Read More

Jan 3, 2018, 7:04 AM

Microsoft acquires flash storage pioneer Avere Systems, less than a year after Google investment

Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a Pittsburgh-based company that leverages flash storage to optimize the process… Read More

Jan 2, 2018, 10:07 AM

Amazon Web Services reportedly named its cloud database RedShift in order to tweak Oracle

Oracle has been the loudest of the legacy enterprise tech vendors when it comes to attacking the leader of the… Read More

Dec 30, 2017, 9:00 AM

The Cloud in 2017: Amazon Web Services shows no signs of slowing during the year of Kubernetes

2017 was an interesting year the cloud, one that saw both the continued power of Amazon Web Services over the… Read More

Dec 28, 2017, 9:51 AM

Amazon Web Services reportedly eyeing expansion into Saudi Arabia

As the world’s leading public infrastructure cloud company looks for growth in 2018, it looks like Amazon Web Services is… Read More

Dec 20, 2017, 10:14 AM

Where to find the 10 most valuable SaaS startups based in the Seattle area

It’s now well established: Seattle is cloud city. But in the shadow of major platform players Amazon and Microsoft, a… Read More

Dec 20, 2017, 7:00 AM

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans… Read More