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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.

Aug 14, 2017, 10:45 AM

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

Amazon is looking to staff up a “New AWS/Alexa Service” focused on enterprise collaboration, communication and document sharing, according to… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 10:42 AM

Amazon Web Services taps machine learning to tackle security with Macie

The fruits of Amazon Web Services’ acquisition of harvest.ai arrived Monday with the announcement of Macie, a new service that… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 9:26 AM

Hulu’s first bet on the cloud goes to Amazon Web Services, joining Netflix on rival’s platform

Hulu, the streaming video service run by a consortium of content companies, is using Amazon Web Services to provide the… Read More

Aug 14, 2017, 8:00 AM

IOpipe raises $2.5M from Madrona, NEA, and Underscore to build monitoring tools for serverless computing

One common thread among emerging enterprise technologies is that early adopters can quickly find themselves flying blind, stuck with monitoring… Read More

Aug 11, 2017, 10:05 AM

Lessons from Togo: What F5’s new CEO learned about business and life growing up in Africa

Francois Locoh-Donou knows what it is like to be an outsider. The son of a black father and a white… Read More

Seattle
Aug 9, 2017, 2:54 PM

Seattle SpinCo? HPE name-checks the Emerald City in software spinoff

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys spending time sifting through tech company press releases (and who doesn’t, right?)… Read More

Aug 9, 2017, 7:56 AM

Amazon Web Services chooses its Kubernetes path, joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Just weeks after Microsoft signaled its support for a key cloud computing industry foundation, Amazon Web Services has followed suit,… Read More

Aug 8, 2017, 12:53 PM

Citing need for “engineering execution,” Chef gives control of engineering to its co-founder and CTO while the sales department reorganizes

Seattle DevOps startup Chef made several organizational changes this week, installing co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob as head of engineering… Read More

Microsoft Lumia phone
Aug 7, 2017, 10:23 AM

Proposed data protection law in UK could prevent a cloud industry headache

A new law proposed by the U.K. government could give its citizens more control over how companies like Google and… Read More

Aug 4, 2017, 1:22 PM

New numbers show how Microsoft’s biggest businesses are really doing in the cloud era

Numbers released this week put Microsoft’s new era into clearer focus. The takeaway: The big Microsoft businesses that have shifted… Read More

Aug 3, 2017, 10:32 AM

Tupl raises $7M to help telecom companies better serve their customers

Tupl, a Seattle startup that helps telecom companies make their networks more efficient, is in the process of raising a… Read More

Aug 3, 2017, 8:21 AM

With new releases, Heptio co-founders continue unfinished mission to make Kubernetes easier to use

As part of its mission to increase adoption of Kubernetes, the white-hot container orchestration product, Seattle’s Heptio has released two… Read More

Aug 2, 2017, 3:59 PM

Apptio’s record revenue in Q2 beats Wall Street expectations as losses narrow

Apptio’s cloud-based applications for tracking IT spending propelled the Bellevue company to record-high revenue in its second fiscal quarter, beating… Read More

Aug 2, 2017, 8:50 AM

IBM and Sony breakthrough on tape storage density could lower cold storage costs again

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we used to store all our data on magnetic tape. Yet tape storage is… Read More

Aug 1, 2017, 10:52 AM

Amazon Web Services’ Chinese partner is telling cloud customers in China that VPNs are not allowed

In another example of how tech companies are forced to navigate tricky waters in order to operate in China, Amazon… Read More

Aug 1, 2017, 6:00 AM

Connecting the cloud: Azuqua raises $10.8M to help companies integrate and manage cloud apps

We’re at the point where a lot companies need a cloud service to manage all their cloud services, and Seattle’s… Read More

Jul 31, 2017, 9:38 AM

How AWS lets Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spend billions on the future

Jeff Bezos owes Andy Jassy a beer. Or maybe a small Pacific island. Time and time again, Jassy’s Amazon Web… Read More

Jul 30, 2017, 1:00 PM

K2’s new Seattle-area office is ready for business, and its new cloud product is right behind

The nitty-gritty work of managing a business can be a thankless task in a world obsessed with disruption and crushing… Read More

Jul 28, 2017, 10:51 AM

How F5 is preparing for the application explosion: Interview with CEO Francois Locoh-Donou

New F5 CEO Francois Locoh-Donou has a big job in front of him. One of Seattle’s most prominent public tech… Read More

Jul 27, 2017, 1:14 PM

Another strong quarter for AWS: 42 percent jump in revenue to $4.1B

Amazon Web Services continues to drive the cloud computing industry. The cloud division of Amazon reported a 42 percent increase… Read More

Jul 26, 2017, 1:20 PM

F5 third-quarter revenue comes in lighter than expected as customers ponder the cloud

F5 Networks missed third-quarter revenue expectations by a sizable margin, as slower demand outside the U.S. and customer hesitation around… Read More

Jul 26, 2017, 9:00 AM

How T-Mobile is using containers in production to increase uptime and save money

After a year of running containers in production, T-Mobile felt comfortable enough Tuesday night before a crowd of Seattle techies… Read More

Jul 26, 2017, 8:00 AM

Microsoft unveils Azure Container Instances, joins Cloud Native group, isolating AWS on Kubernetes

Microsoft’s cloud business is making two notable moves involving containers Wednesday — unveiling a new service that aims to make… Read More

Jul 22, 2017, 2:00 PM

Stumped by DevOps? Experts share their views on how to do DevOps right

Back in the day, there were software development teams, and there were operations teams, and they might say hello to… Read More

Jul 21, 2017, 9:30 AM

Independent for two years, Kubernetes is at the center of the cloud — and now comes the hard part

The cloud computing world might be a different place if Google hadn’t open-sourced Kubernetes and donated the project to the… Read More

Jul 20, 2017, 1:26 PM

Microsoft’s cloud business is still on a tear, hitting a $18.9 billion run rate during Q4

We still don’t know exactly how much revenue Microsoft is making from its Azure cloud service, but it grew 97… Read More

Jul 20, 2017, 9:10 AM

Report: Amazon Web Services warming up to Kubernetes for container management

If the cloud world really does settle on Kubernetes as the de facto standard for managing containerized workloads, Amazon Web… Read More

Jul 19, 2017, 10:28 AM

Cloud computing’s Open Container Initiative hits the 1.0 release milestone

Another light-touch cloud standards effort under the auspices of The Linux Foundation reached a milestone Wednesday, with the release of… Read More

Jul 19, 2017, 5:00 AM

Oracle expands its hybrid cloud strategy with new managed services in the data center

Customers running Oracle’s hybrid cloud setup will now be able to run a variety of its services within their data… Read More

Jul 19, 2017, 12:00 AM

IBM opens four new data centers around the world as it chases cloud leaders

IBM is set to open four new data centers in California, London, and Sydney, as it tries to stay competitive… Read More

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