Cloud Tech – Page 37 of 55

Jun 26, 2017, 9:41 AM

JFrog acquires Seattle startup CloudMunch as the market for DevOps tools stays hot

Cloudmunch, a DevOps monitoring startup based in Seattle, has been acquired by JFrog for an undisclosed amount to help round… Read More

Jun 26, 2017, 5:30 AM

Clobotics raises $5M and opens office in Seattle area for drone data monitoring

Small drones, big data and computer vision: That’s the tech-frontier trifecta for Clobotics, a Shanghai startup that says it’s raised… Read More

Jun 26, 2017, 5:00 AM

ExtraHop’s network analysis technology gets a boost from Cisco partnership

Networking giant Cisco plans to draw on technology developed by Seattle’s ExtraHop in a new partnership aimed at improving network… Read More

Jun 25, 2017, 1:00 PM

Morgan Stanley: Cloud computing is at ‘an inflection point’ — but how big will it get?

Over the next few years, we will learn whether cloud computing is a nice little business that will settle into… Read More

Jun 23, 2017, 5:00 AM

Google’s new AI investment arm leads $10.5M round in Algorithmia machine-learning marketplace

Google’s new artificial intelligence investment arm has made one of its first bets, leading a $10.5 million Series A round… Read More

Jun 22, 2017, 6:42 PM

Updated: Amazon Web Services US-East region back to normal after Lambda and Lex issues

(Update 8:00am, June 23rd: All AWS services were restored overnight, according to the company’s status page. No cause of the… Read More

Jun 22, 2017, 12:40 PM

Google’s data-driven pitch for the cloud: ‘finding the needle of value in the haystack of data’

For most of its existence, Google Cloud Platform has been fighting just to get a seat at the table for… Read More

Jun 22, 2017, 6:00 AM

Snowflake Computing is giving customers easier ways to share huge data sets

You’ll hear a mantra again and again if you spend enough time in enterprise computing circles: “data has gravity.” Usually… Read More

Jun 21, 2017, 3:28 PM

How Seattle’s Distelli is making one of the hottest products in enterprise tech easier to use

Software development organizations are falling in love with Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration software that allows them to deploy software… Read More

Jun 21, 2017, 2:34 PM

Amazon Web Services’ new DAX database accelerator juices performance without an app overhaul

Amazon Web Services’ in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database, introduced just two months ago in preview mode, has been promoted… Read More

Jun 20, 2017, 5:04 PM

Coming off a strong quarter, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst talks public clouds and containers

Coming off a quarterly earnings report that shattered expectations, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst believes his company is as well-positioned… Read More

Jun 20, 2017, 2:25 PM

Microsoft Azure, Baidu embrace AMD’s new Epyc data center processor

Advanced Micro Devices’ long road back to relevance as a data center computing supplier got a little easier with promises… Read More

Jun 20, 2017, 12:03 PM

Microsoft Azure’s Scott Guthrie: Serverless technology will drive further cost reductions in the cloud

New adopters of cloud computing services marvel about the cost efficiency they’re seeing compared to their traditional infrastructure, but Microsoft… Read More

Jun 20, 2017, 8:56 AM

Microsoft’s new internal video hub, Microsoft Stream, is now generally available

Microsoft Stream, a video service that helps companies organize those boring training videos for their employees, is now generally available,… Read More

Adam Bosworth, VP, Amazon Web Services (Linkedin photo)

Jun 19, 2017, 1:33 PM

Tech vet Adam Bosworth directing mysterious Amazon Web Services project at crux of non-compete dispute

There’s a lot we still don’t know about the mysterious Amazon Web Services project that prompted the company to sue… Read More

Jun 19, 2017, 9:59 AM

Chinese tech giant Alibaba joins key open-source cloud computing foundation

Kicking off a week in which it plans to encourage American businesses to invest in China, Alibaba Group announced plans… Read More

Jun 19, 2017, 6:00 AM

Why is PitchBook shifting its infrastructure to microservices? Because speed wins

Customers of PitchBook, a Seattle-based investment guidance company, need up-to-the-second information to make decisions about their money during the trading… Read More

Jun 16, 2017, 12:15 PM

Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition might take some cloud revenue off Microsoft’s table

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Friday also took a major customer away from its closest rival in the… Read More

Jun 15, 2017, 2:24 PM

It’s business, and it’s personal: How Amazon Web Services decides to enforce non-compete contracts

Career decisions are always stressful, but employees at Amazon Web Services face an additional source of anxiety when evaluating new… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

Jun 15, 2017, 11:00 AM

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More

Jun 15, 2017, 9:24 AM

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any… Read More

Jun 14, 2017, 6:24 PM

Is Make.TV the new Elemental? Seattle video cloud startup raises $7.2M

Seattle’s Make.tv, a cloud-based video management portal, has raised $7.2 million in new funding and aims to raise a total… Read More

Mount Rainier in the distance, viewed from MemSQL's new Seattle office.

Jun 14, 2017, 9:00 AM

MemSQL’s real-time in-memory data warehouse is now ready for the cloud

Companies that want real-time data for analytics but prefer a cloud native or hybrid cloud infrastructure strategy have a new… Read More

Jun 13, 2017, 3:30 PM

Microsoft’s open-source redemption tour continues, joins Cloud Foundry Foundation

Microsoft’s once-unthinkable evolution into a major open-source player continued Tuesday with its decision to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Microsoft… Read More

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

Jun 13, 2017, 1:25 PM

Amazon Web Services AI exec: How cloud computing is driving artificial intelligence breakthroughs

Artificial intelligence research is still in its infancy, at least as compared to computer science in general, but the concept… Read More

Jun 13, 2017, 11:20 AM

Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud customers will have an East Coast region option starting in 2018

Amazon Web Services will open a second region for its GovCloud customers next year, moving its government-services cloud closer to… Read More

Jun 13, 2017, 8:35 AM

China’s QingCloud hits unicorn status with latest funding round of $159M

QingCloud, a Chinese cloud computing company, is now worth over $1 billion after completing a financing round of 1.08 billion… Read More

Jun 12, 2017, 1:22 PM

Amazon’s suit against former AWS VP hints at bigger move into workplace collaboration

Amazon is one of the most notoriously tight-lipped companies in the tech industry when it comes to discussing its future… Read More

Jun 8, 2017, 2:54 PM

Amazon Web Services planning new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services plans to build a new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia, in the same general area that… Read More

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Bundle

Jun 8, 2017, 12:27 PM

Bellevue’s DimensionalMechanics releases the engine behind its AI templates

Bellevue-based DimensionalMechanics wants to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence models to companies across different industries that can’t afford to develop their… Read More