Cloud Tech – Page 31 of 55

Nov 27, 2017, 10:02 AM

Amazon Web Services releases five new Elemental cloud tools for video publishers

For those pivoting to video, or others who are just getting started, Amazon Web Services released five new video tools… Read More

Nov 27, 2017, 6:49 AM

How Amazon Web Services will attempt to set the industry agenda at the biggest show in the cloud

For one week, at least, Amazon’s HQ2 is in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services will get the last word on… Read More

Nov 27, 2017, 6:30 AM

Amazon moves into AR and VR with ‘Sumerian’ service to create 3D scenes for Oculus, Vive, iOS, Android

Amazon Web Services made the first major announcement of its re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas overnight: a new service… Read More

Nov 24, 2017, 11:20 AM

Interview: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich on the intersection between serverless and edge computing

For Microsoft Azure, 2017 will probably be remembered as the year of serverless and edge computing; the two concepts have… Read More

Nov 22, 2017, 3:48 PM

Amazon Web Services re-invents the holiday news dump with Symantec win

As a steady stream of last-minute Thanksgiving shoppers poured into Whole Foods stores around the country Wednesday afternoon, Amazon Web… Read More

Nov 22, 2017, 10:23 AM

Report: Amazon Web Services to launch big health care push next week with Cerner

Amazon Web Services likes to use its annual re:Invent conference to show off new ways cloud computing is growing in… Read More

Nov 21, 2017, 4:04 PM

Salesforce tops estimates on revenue, earnings, names Bret Taylor chief product officer

Salesforce continues to post strong revenue growth on its quest to put its marketing technology in the hands of every… Read More

Nov 21, 2017, 1:45 PM

Meg Whitman stepping down as CEO of HPE, Antonio Neri will take over in Februrary

HPE CEO Meg Whitman, who led the company through some turbulent times it hasn’t quite escaped, will step down as… Read More

Nov 21, 2017, 6:00 AM

What is a blockchain? GeekWire’s guide to this game-changing technology and its vast potential

Most technologies touted as “game-changing” are just somewhat modified versions of something already in use. Blockchains are different, and while… Read More

Nov 20, 2017, 7:00 AM

Montreal cloud startup Ormuco announces Seattle office, led by open source cloud vets

Ormuco, a startup that offers OpenStack cloud services to businesses, is extending its reach: The Montreal-based company announced a new… Read More

Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence Bundle

Nov 16, 2017, 3:46 PM

Amazon Web Services backs deep-learning format introduced by Microsoft and Facebook

The Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) deep-learning format, introduced in September by Microsoft and Facebook, has a new backer following… Read More

Nov 16, 2017, 2:14 PM

Seattle’s Algorithmia wants to help machine learning researchers get up and running in production

Algorithmia is adding a new service alongside its marketplace for artificial intelligence algorithms that helps data scientists focus on their… Read More

Nov 16, 2017, 10:38 AM

Slack’s Julia Grace on the lessons learned from downtime, and the responsibility to pay it forward

It’s kind of amazing how reliable modern internet services have become over the last decade, which is why we freak… Read More

Nov 15, 2017, 12:42 PM

Google’s Urs Hölzle still thinks its cloud revenue will catch its ad revenue, but maybe not by 2020

At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did… Read More

Nov 15, 2017, 7:00 AM

Microsoft launches Azure Databricks, a new cloud data platform based on Apache Spark

Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use… Read More

Nov 15, 2017, 6:00 AM

Setting the edge: Cloud experts sketch out how edge computing will evolve

The last ten years marked a centralization of computing, in which we moved away from relying on our individual computers… Read More

Nov 14, 2017, 2:41 PM

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich hears your cloud lock-in concerns, but it’s complicated

As the technology leader for the second-place cloud computing vendor, Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich has a keen interest in finding ways… Read More

Nov 14, 2017, 7:11 AM

Mercedes-Benz to open Seattle software engineering center with up to 150 people in first 18 months

Mercedes-Benz has tapped former Amazon software development manager Mike Dosenbach to lead a new engineering center in downtown Seattle that… Read More

Nov 14, 2017, 5:00 AM

Skytap adds support for Amazon Web Services, hires Microsoft veteran to strike new partnerships

Fast-growing Seattle startup Skytap will now offer its customers the choice of running their workloads on Amazon Web Services in… Read More

Nov 13, 2017, 9:15 PM

Update: Amazon Web Services denies reports of China exit, confirms some asset sales

Updated 10:35pm: Amazon Web Services responded to reports out of China that it was exiting the country’s cloud computing market… Read More

Nov 13, 2017, 10:14 AM

Seattle’s Cray jumps on Arm server train with new XC50 supercomputer

The strongest effort yet to see server processors based on Arm cores infiltrate the data center is well underway, and… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Nov 13, 2017, 9:15 AM

Report: Amazon Web Services planning AI-friendly version of its data warehouse

The Super Bowl of cloud computing — Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference — is two weeks away, and the company… Read More

Nov 13, 2017, 8:06 AM

New data: Software as a Service industry revenue up 23% this year as shift to the cloud continues

Global revenue in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry topped $43 billion in the first half of 2017 —… Read More

Nov 9, 2017, 4:51 PM

More changes at Chef, as another head of sales is leaving the company

Chef’s Ken Cheney, who stepped in to run the Seattle DevOps startup’s sales organization in June after the departure of… Read More

Nov 8, 2017, 3:02 PM

Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 ARM-based server processor ready to take on Intel

Qualcomm’s new ARM server processor is ready for commercial deployment, the company announced Wednesday, officially launching the latest effort to… Read More

Nov 8, 2017, 10:31 AM

Worried about Amazon, Kroger will avoid Amazon Web Services in its cloud transition

Amazon Web Services has been the gold standard for cloud computing almost since its debut, but the relentless push of… Read More

Nov 7, 2017, 10:41 AM

Amazon Web Services rolls out new security features for S3 customers who keep leaving their data out in the open

After a rash of cases in which Amazon Web Services customers left important data unprotected on the internet, the company… Read More

Nov 6, 2017, 1:51 PM

Salesforce and Google strike partnership deal around G Suite and Google Cloud

Salesforce is teaming up with Google on several fronts, integrating Salesforce data into Google’s G Suite business productivity software and… Read More

Nov 6, 2017, 5:00 AM

Salesforce rolls out new AI-driven features as it gathers the masses for Dreamforce 2017

Salesforce plans to use its largest event of the year this week to highlight how its flagship salesforce-management service is… Read More