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Cloud Tech

GeekWire’s Cloud Tech channel breaks news and explores key trends in cloud computing, DevOps, enterprise technologies and more. Story ideas? Email tips@geekwire.com.

Dec 19, 2017, 10:15 AM

Google, NCAA team up on cloud marketing deal, will digitize 80 years of sports data

Ever wondered who was the best basketball player in the Pac-10 in 1982? If that trivia item has been bugging… Read More

Dec 14, 2017, 3:21 PM

Disappointing cloud revenue growth hurts Oracle shares after second-quarter earnings report

Oracle topped Wall Street estimates for revenue and profit Thursday as it continues to turn its battleship in the direction… Read More

Dec 14, 2017, 2:35 PM

Google adds one-time cloud-holdout Etsy, months after Amazon rolled out its own craft shop

Over the last few years, Etsy was something of a stalwart supporter when it came to the virtues of maintaining… Read More

Dec 14, 2017, 11:19 AM

Bellevue single sign-on startup Auth0 names co-founder Eugenio Pace its new CEO

Almost six months after it raised a $30 million Series C funding round, Auth0 announced this week that CEO Jon… Read More

Dec 12, 2017, 3:14 PM

Facebook will build two new data centers in Eastern Oregon by 2021

Eastern Oregon is building quite the reputation as the home of the West Coast data center, and Facebook added to… Read More

Dec 12, 2017, 10:00 AM

How Microsoft’s Brendan Burns is trying to make cloud-native app deployment as easy as coding

Writing software is hard enough, but deploying that software to the cloud is much, much harder. Microsoft’s Brendan Burns, who… Read More

Dec 12, 2017, 9:03 AM

As massive growth awaits, Amazon Web Services adds second region in China

Cloud computing in China is going to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the tech economy over the next… Read More

Dec 11, 2017, 3:10 PM

Cloud services provider BitTitan lays off 15% of staff, plans to ‘get back to our startup roots’

Cloud services provider BitTitan has laid off 15 percent of its workforce as the Bellevue, Wash.-based company reorganizes itself. The… Read More

Dec 8, 2017, 8:54 AM

As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh

AUSTIN – If 2017 was the year of Kubernetes within the cloud-native computing movement, 2018 looks like it might be… Read More

Dec 7, 2017, 10:11 AM

Kubernetes in 2018: When the going gets good, the good get boring

AUSTIN – Backers of the open-source Kubernetes container-orchestration project could be forgiven for taking a victory lap this week at… Read More

Dec 6, 2017, 4:30 PM

Interview: Bob Muglia, Microsoft veteran and Snowflake Computing CEO, on databases and a changing Seattle

Tech is supposed to be a young person’s game, which makes the perspective of someone like Snowflake Computing CEO Bob… Read More

Dec 6, 2017, 1:54 PM

Born on the cloud but behind the times: How Pinterest doubled down on containers and Kubernetes

AUSTIN – Pinterest was one of the first clear cloud-computing success stories: now valued at over $12 billion, the massive… Read More

Dec 6, 2017, 10:38 AM

Alibaba, Baidu step up support for cloud-native tech as CloudNativeCon kicks off

AUSTIN – Two of the biggest cloud companies on the planet have agreed to support the work of the Cloud… Read More

Dec 5, 2017, 12:30 PM

Pivotal adds serverless support and managed containers in new release of Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Containers and serverless computing are two of the most prevalent movements in modern software development, so it’s not a huge… Read More

Dec 2, 2017, 7:39 AM

Amazon Web Services ramps up advertising to provide ‘air cover’ for developers

LAS VEGAS — For the first decade of its existence, Amazon Web Services flew a bit under the radar of… Read More

Nov 30, 2017, 4:10 PM

Amazon FreeRTOS will connect embedded IoT devices with Amazon Web Services’ cloud

The internet of things is here to stay, and Amazon Web Services rolled out several extensions to its IoT product… Read More

Nov 30, 2017, 12:36 PM

Google Cloud hires the former head of Intel’s data center group, Diane Bryant, as COO

Google is bringing on an experienced enterprise tech leader, former Intel datacenter executive Diane Bryant, to serve as chief operating… Read More

Nov 30, 2017, 9:31 AM

An Echo in every conference room: Amazon Web Services confirms Alexa for Business

If you’ve even been in a meeting at work that gets derailed by clumsy conference calling software or complicated presentation… Read More

Nov 29, 2017, 12:56 PM

Will Amazon ever spin off Amazon Web Services? CEO Andy Jassy would be “very surprised”

As the financial strength of Amazon Web Services has started to become clear over the last several years, a lot… Read More

Nov 29, 2017, 10:54 AM

New machine-learning services from Amazon Web Services include video recognition, transcription

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services added several new items to its suite of machine-learning driven services Wednesday at AWS… Read More

Nov 29, 2017, 10:28 AM

Amazon Web Services unveils a $249 wireless deep learning video camera for developers

Amazon’s newest hardware product is meant to help developers run deep learning and image recognition models directly from a video… Read More

Nov 29, 2017, 9:36 AM

All’s fair in love and new databases for Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy

LAS VEGAS — Database technology has become a rather contentious segment of the enterprise tech market over the last few… Read More

Nov 29, 2017, 8:49 AM

Amazon Web Services goes all-in on Kubernetes, launches new container deployment service

LAS VEGAS — As the year of Kubernetes wraps up, Amazon Web Services joined its cloud rivals by rolling out… Read More

Nov 28, 2017, 11:03 PM

Amazon GuardDuty is a new account-wide cloud security service from Amazon Web Services

Security is a perennial concern for cloud skeptics and cloud enthusiasts alike, and Amazon Web Services hopes to stay one… Read More

Nov 28, 2017, 9:26 PM

That’s so metal: Amazon Web Services unveils bare-metal instances for EC2 compute customers

Server virtualization was one of the great breakthroughs in enterprise computing over the last 20 years, allowing people to get… Read More

Nov 28, 2017, 1:21 PM

Google eliminates Kubernetes cluster-management fees just before the main event at AWS re:Invent

LAS VEGAS — With the cloud computing industry gathered in Las Vegas for Amazon Web Services’ big re:Invent conference, Google… Read More

Nov 28, 2017, 12:13 PM

Amazon Web Services previews a new partner program alongside new services and competencies

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services plans to make a few changes to its partner program next year, it told… Read More

Nov 28, 2017, 6:00 AM

Turner tunes into Amazon Web Services, plans to migrate older apps and videos to the cloud

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services is getting the first big customer announcement of re:Invent 2017 out of the way… Read More

Nov 28, 2017, 5:00 AM

VMware, Amazon Web Services expand hybrid cloud partnership with new app migration services

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services and VMware surprised a few folks last year when they agreed to a sweeping… Read More

Nov 27, 2017, 5:16 PM

Amazon Web Services acquired technology behind new ‘Sumerian’ AR/VR tool from a bankrupt startup

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services appears to have acquired technology for its new AWS “Sumerian” 3D modeling tool from… Read More

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