Cloud Tech – Page 41 of 55

Apr 12, 2017, 1:00 PM

Tech on the slopes: How RFID is changing the experience of skiing and snowboarding

WHISTLER, B.C. — For decades, ski resorts have been behind the technology curve. Sure, there were lots of cool developments… Read More

Apr 12, 2017, 9:52 AM

This was Amazon’s highest-earning employee in 2016 — and it wasn’t Jeff Bezos

Amazon Web Services is a cloud powerhouse, a more than $12 billion enterprise that would be a significant company on… Read More

Apr 12, 2017, 9:00 AM

Microsoft adds new Azure tools to migrate data to the cloud and collaborate securely with partners

Microsoft this morning announced several new Azure tools and features focused on migrating data to the cloud and helping businesses work securely… Read More

Apr 12, 2017, 8:34 AM

What Microsoft’s acquisition of Deis means for Azure, containers and the cloud

Microsoft’s acquisition of cloud technology company Deis, announced this week, illustrates the growing importance of containers for deploying software across a variety… Read More

Apr 11, 2017, 10:59 PM

Amazon Web Services plays role in NASA’s first ultra-HD live video from space

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson stars in the highest-resolution video ever broadcast live from the International Space Station, bur Amazon Web… Read More

Apr 10, 2017, 9:30 AM

Microsoft acquires open-source software builder Deis to bolster container platforms

Microsoft said Monday that it has acquired Deis, a San Francisco company that builds open-source software to make the Kubernetes container platform… Read More

Apr 7, 2017, 5:21 PM

Mylio lands $25M from Chinese investors to continue building the ‘private cloud,’ will open R&D facility in China

Mylio is going global. The Bellevue, Wash. startup, which is known for its photo organizing app but has branched out… Read More

Apr 5, 2017, 6:00 AM

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

Apr 5, 2017, 5:00 AM

IBM Cloud to offer NVIDIA’s advanced GPU accelerator, vowing to solve previously impossible data challenges

IBM says it will become the first major cloud provider to offer NVIDIA’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator worldwide… Read More

Apr 4, 2017, 7:15 AM

Amazon Web Services to open data centers in Sweden in 2018, continuing global growth

Amazon Web Services said it will open data centers in Sweden next year to serve customers in Nordic countries such as… Read More

Apr 4, 2017, 6:48 AM

Skytap enterprise cloud company hires Microsoft VP as CMO, cites big growth on path to future IPO

Enterprise cloud company Skytap has hired a former Microsoft vice president, Wayne Morris, as its new chief marketing officer in an… Read More

Apr 4, 2017, 4:30 AM

Data storage and analytics startup Qumulo raises another $30M, total funding up to $130M

Qumulo has spent the past five years building out its cloud-based platform that helps companies store and manage their data usage.… Read More

Apr 3, 2017, 7:30 AM

Distelli aims to improve multi-cloud software development with new open-source container registry

Building and deploying software to run in the cloud is a challenge, particularly when customers want to run their applications… Read More

Mar 30, 2017, 8:52 AM

Powering ‘Cloud City’: What Seattle’s municipal utility has learned from using AWS and Azure

Sephir Hamilton is helping his organization grapple with major change. As the engineering and technology innovation officer at Seattle City… Read More

Mar 30, 2017, 6:33 AM

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in… Read More

Mar 29, 2017, 7:24 AM

Cloud-based enterprise contract management company Icertis scores $25M

Icertis, which helps large organizations such as 3M, Becton Dickinson, Cognizant, Daimler and Microsoft manage contracts, has landed a $25 million… Read More

Mar 28, 2017, 6:56 AM

Amazon Web Services jumps into call-center market with new ‘Amazon Connect’ service

Amazon Web Services just unveiled a new service for running call centers, dubbed Amazon Connect, leveraging the same technology used by Amazon.com’s own… Read More

Mar 27, 2017, 2:26 PM

Public cloud could become a utility like electricity, lifting AWS, Azure and others, Morgan Stanley says

The public cloud has the potential to become a global utility, analogous to electricity — driving higher valuations for cloud providers… Read More

Mar 23, 2017, 10:37 AM

Introducing GeekWire’s Cloud Tech Summit, a technical conference about the future of computing

Is your head full of ideas and questions about containers, microservices, serverless architectures, machine learning and APIs? Or do you just… Read More

Mar 23, 2017, 6:28 AM

IBM in the cloud: Inside the tech giant’s quest to stand out against Amazon, Microsoft and Google

LAS VEGAS — IBM CEO Ginni Rometty seemed this week to be the living embodiment of what could be the company’s… Read More

Mar 22, 2017, 2:12 PM

Microsoft and Publicis strike cloud partnership for data-driven ad targeting

Publicis Groupe is expanding its alliance with Microsoft — combining the ad company’s Cosmos A.I. marketing technology with the tech giant’s Azure cloud platform… Read More

Mar 22, 2017, 12:35 PM

Amazon Chime team responds to trademark suit, claims it wasn’t aware of competing Chime service

An Amazon Web Services employee claims the company had never heard of CafeX Communications and its competing Chime service when it… Read More

Mar 22, 2017, 10:04 AM

Adobe unveils new Microsoft HoloLens and Amazon Alexa integrations

Adobe is in the middle of its big Summit conference, where it is introducing a variety of new technologies, including… Read More

Mar 22, 2017, 7:56 AM

Twitter starts using IBM’s Watson technology to help identify bullies who tweet

LAS VEGAS — Twitter wants to do a better job of policing bullies who tweet, and Twitter vice-president of data strategy… Read More

Mar 21, 2017, 10:52 AM

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks ‘crisis of trust’ in the world and jobs in the era of AI

Artificial intelligence is going to transform and impact many jobs, and it is up to the companies building the technology… Read More

Mar 21, 2017, 8:09 AM

Actor and musician Will Smith explains how he honed his career with data, ‘like an African American Watson’

LAS VEGAS — At a conference full of news on cloud storage, enterprise device management and other technical advances, Will Smith… Read More

Mar 21, 2017, 6:00 AM

Big cities see early benefits from the Internet of Things, and grapple with ongoing challenges

As many of the world’s biggest urban centers implement Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in a quest to become “smart cities”… Read More

Mar 20, 2017, 10:52 AM

IBM’s new ‘cognitive assistant’ uses Watson to manage and secure devices on corporate networks

LAS VEGAS — IBM today announced a new initiative to tackle a big challenge for IT professionals in the enterprise:… Read More

Mar 20, 2017, 8:49 AM

IBM aims to undercut AWS and Azure with new ‘Flex’ cloud storage service

LAS VEGAS — IBM unveiled a raft of new products and services at its InterConnect conference here today, aimed at making it easier… Read More