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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.

May 2, 2017, 10:58 AM

Interview: New Docker CEO Steve Singh explains what’s next for the cloud container powerhouse

Container technology company Docker has a new leader, Steve Singh, the Seattle-area entrepreneur who was named the San Francisco-based company’s new… Read More

Salesforce Administrator and App Builder Certification
May 2, 2017, 10:39 AM

Salesforce revamps its app store program, plans to invest $100 million in app developers

Salesforce.com updated its app program Tuesday, announcing the new AppExchange Partner Program at an event in New York. The new… Read More

May 2, 2017, 6:34 AM

Docker names Steve Singh as new CEO, tapping former Concur and SAP exec for next growth phase

Emerging cloud powerhouse Docker Inc. just named Seattle-area tech entrepreneur Steve Singh as its new CEO, turning to the former Concur CEO and SAP… Read More

May 2, 2017, 4:00 AM

Atlassian expands cloud infrastructure to Europe as it increases its reliance on AWS

European customers of Atlassian’s various cloud software products should see increases in performance with the introduction of European-based infrastructure running… Read More

Apr 28, 2017, 12:11 PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlines its cloud computing strategy for Wall Street

Microsoft is a huge multinational technology company, with lines of business spread across PCs, productivity software, gaming, internet search, and… Read More

Apr 28, 2017, 10:30 AM

Cloud Foundry’s Abby Kearns: Stop investing in commodity tech and find the cloud

If you’re a large enterprise company, what’s the biggest benefit of moving to the cloud now? Maybe then you’ll still… Read More

Apr 28, 2017, 9:02 AM

Is this ‘as good as it gets’ for Amazon? Analyst downgrades stock after strong quarter

Following yesterday’s positive earnings report, Amazon is well on its way toward hitting $1,000 a share, but one firm is… Read More

Apr 27, 2017, 4:00 PM

Despite big quarter for cloud, slow quarter for Intel’s Data Center Group drags down Q1 earnings

Intel’s data center chips have been a bright spot for the company over the last few years as PC demand… Read More

Apr 27, 2017, 1:57 PM

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate tops $15B as Azure revenue soars

Azure was the star of Microsoft’s cloud division during its third fiscal quarter, with revenue growing 93 percent as part… Read More

Apr 27, 2017, 1:18 PM

AWS revenue up 42 percent to $3.66 billion in Q1 2017, operating income reaches $890 million

The crown jewel of Amazon’s business, Amazon Web Services, posted a 42 percent jump in revenue during the first fiscal… Read More

Apr 27, 2017, 6:30 AM

Serverless computing might finally deliver on the promise of the cloud

The original promise of cloud computing was simple: no longer would you need to buy, configure, and maintain racks and… Read More

Apr 26, 2017, 3:12 PM

F5 Networks disappoints investors with modest gains in quarterly revenue and net income

F5 Networks reported gains in revenue and net income for its second quarter Wednesday, but fell short of expected targets,… Read More

Apr 26, 2017, 10:40 AM

Chocolate, underwear, and supertankers: Now on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft showed off five new Azure customers at an event in New York on Wednesday, more evidence that companies born… Read More

Apr 25, 2017, 10:17 AM

New pricing tiers for Box Platform make it easier to project monthly storage costs

Box made it a little easier for developers to use its storage services in their applications Tuesday, unveiling new pricing… Read More

Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein
Apr 25, 2017, 6:00 AM

Container-security startup Twistlock secures $17M in new funding for Portland expansion

Twistlock has raised $17 million in new Series B funding to fuel future growth, and it plans to make that… Read More

Apr 24, 2017, 1:37 PM

Google Cloud’s Diane Greene thinks it has ‘a pretty good shot’ of overtaking AWS in five years

Place your bets: Google Cloud Platform head Diane Greene told attendees at the Forbes CIO Summit last night that she… Read More

Apr 24, 2017, 12:42 PM

Apple will build a 200-megawatt wind farm for its Prineville, Ore., data center facility

Apple signed a deal earlier this year to purchase 200 megawatts of wind power for its Prineville, Ore., data center,… Read More

Apr 24, 2017, 9:17 AM

Amazon Web Services set for hiring spree — new report shows 5,600 open positions

Amazon Web Services enjoys a healthy lead in the market for public cloud services, and it plans to hire thousands… Read More

Apr 21, 2017, 11:19 AM

With the release of Amazon Lex, AWS asks: Developers, can you build me a chatbot?

Now that Amazon Web Services has made public its Amazon Lex technology, which makes Alexa fetch another case of LaCroix… Read More

Apr 21, 2017, 9:36 AM

Techstars grad Stackery raises cash from Voyager, aiming to disrupt DevOps cloud infrastructure market with serverless toolset

Before even graduating from the Techstars Seattle 2017 class, Stackery CEO Nate Taggart had a check in hand — and not… Read More

Apr 20, 2017, 11:39 AM

New IoT services from Microsoft Azure promise to make managing connected devices way easier

As cloud computing matures, more and more technical concepts that once required a lot of specialized expertise are being simplified… Read More

Apr 20, 2017, 10:24 AM

Storage is on sale in the public cloud, as compute pricing stabilizes in early 2017

The Big Three public cloud vendors have been cutting prices on their computing services for years, but new research finds… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 2:49 PM

New goodies for AWS customers include database accelerators and the tech behind Alexa

Amazon Web Services trotted out a host of new features Wednesday for its industry-leading public cloud service, and couldn’t resist… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 11:26 AM

With the early adopters in its court, Docker sets its sights on the rest of the world

There’s a point in the evolution of a successful enterprise technology company in which the world starts to revolve around… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 8:00 AM

Microsoft’s SQL Server is getting an artificial intelligence mind-meld

Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 8:00 AM

Tech journalism veteran Tom Krazit joins GeekWire as Cloud and Enterprise Editor

Over the last fifteen years or so, there were two seismic shifts in computing: from desktop to mobile, and from… Read More

Apr 18, 2017, 7:24 PM

Elemental Technologies changes name to AWS Elemental to reflect acquisition by Amazon

Elemental Technologies is now AWS Elemental. The company today officially announced its name change, which reflects Amazon’s $296 million acquisition of… Read More

Apr 18, 2017, 10:59 AM

Microsoft Azure, AWS, Docker and Google Cloud headline GeekWire’s first-ever Cloud Tech Summit

The Seattle region is emerging as the cloud capital of the world, and GeekWire’s inaugural Cloud Tech Summit, taking place on June… Read More

Apr 18, 2017, 10:25 AM

Docker’s new Moby open-source project is the ‘Lego Club of container systems’

Docker Inc. is launching a new open-source initiative, dubbed the Moby Project, which the San Francisco-based company describes as a new… Read More

Apr 14, 2017, 10:26 AM

A serverless nirvana? Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich on the future of the cloud

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft’s push into “serverless” computing aims to change the way developers use the cloud, and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich says… Read More

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