Cloud Tech – Page 47 of 55

Nov 21, 2016, 2:22 PM

Oracle bolsters its public-cloud cred, buying domain-name service firm Dyn

Oracle has stepped up its public-cloud game, paying an undisclosed sum to buy Dynamic Network Services (known as Dyn), a… Read More

Nov 21, 2016, 10:43 AM

Microsoft Azure offers ‘bots as a service’ as demand rises for automated online interactions

Underscoring the growing importance of chatbots, Microsoft has launched a cloud-based service to help companies and developers create these automated, text-based exchanges.… Read More

Nov 17, 2016, 3:51 PM

Salesforce reports a 25% increase in revenue, expects its first $10B year

Software-as-a-service pioneer Salesforce reported revenue of $2.14 billion, up 25 percent year over year, and a deepening net loss of… Read More

Nov 17, 2016, 10:45 AM

‘Alexa, make me comfortable’: How the Internet of Things is hitting home

Most consumers don’t know what “the Internet of Things” means, and People Power’s David Moss thinks he knows why. “Before… Read More

Nov 17, 2016, 8:00 AM

Ex-Google execs who pioneered Kubernetes launch Heptio cloud tech startup with $8.5M investment

Two founders of the Google-based Kubernetes project, Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, have formed Heptio, a Seattle company backed by… Read More

Nov 17, 2016, 12:01 AM

The state of ‘Shadow IT’: Blocking rogue apps isn’t easy and may not be possible, new cloud study says

As more and more services become available on the internet, controlling so-called shadow IT — the use of unapproved applications… Read More

Nov 16, 2016, 10:44 AM

Former top Amazon and aQuantive exec vows to revolutionize messaging with new cloud startup

Scott Lipsky has a long history in Seattle as an entrepreneur and investor who has led a number of startups… Read More

Nov 16, 2016, 10:00 AM

Drawn by cloud giants, New Zealand-based Raygun opens offices in Seattle

A New Zealand-based software-as-a-service company, Raygun, has joined the numerous other firms putting boots on the ground in Seattle to stake… Read More

Nov 15, 2016, 2:56 PM

Google Cloud will finally add GPU services in early 2017

Surprisingly late, Google Cloud will add GPUs (graphics processing units) as a service early next year, according to a blog… Read More

Nov 15, 2016, 9:00 AM

New book explores how the Internet of Things is reshaping business, using lessons from Amazon

Combine a hot technology and the world’s largest online retailer into a single book title and you’ve got a pretty… Read More

Nov 15, 2016, 8:47 AM

Elon Musk’s OpenAI project taps Microsoft Azure as its main cloud partner

Microsoft’s Azure will be the preferred public-cloud service for running experiments at OpenAI, the $1-billion non-profit initiative from Tesla CEO Elon… Read More

Nov 15, 2016, 4:00 AM

F5 Networks dives further into the cloud in new expansion of its business

Seattle’s F5 Networks has done well by helping medium-sized and large companies improve the security and speed of their software,… Read More

Nov 14, 2016, 9:11 PM

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Trump, Twitter and what soured his relationship with Microsoft

Despite his wishful predictions that Donald Trump would never become president, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested on Monday evening that people forget their anxiety… Read More

Nov 14, 2016, 12:17 PM

Amazon Web Services to cut compute prices, continuing the decline in cloud costs

Amazon Web Services will cut the cost of its EC2 basic compute services among a limited number of regions by… Read More

Nov 11, 2016, 10:57 AM

Will Trump dislodge Amazon Web Services from the federal government? It’s not likely

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s antipathy toward Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos won’t threaten Amazon Web Services as the federal government’s major supplier of… Read More

Nov 8, 2016, 10:54 AM

Are you ‘cloud native’? Sold-out Seattle conference offers a peek at the future of apps

Major parts of the vast public cloud offered by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Compute are built on open-source… Read More

Nov 8, 2016, 6:00 AM

Job No. 1 for Virtuozzo’s new CEO: Educating the IT world on the company’s unique position

Seattle’s Virtuozzo, a maker of virtualization products, brought on a new CEO Nov. 1. He’s George Karidis, 48, a cloud-savvy veteran taking… Read More

Nov 7, 2016, 11:07 AM

Microsoft Azure integrates open-source container manager Kubernetes, born inside Google

Kubernetes, an open-source container manager designed by Google in 2014 and then donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is… Read More

Nov 7, 2016, 6:28 AM

Greening the cloud: How Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pursuing the goal of renewable power

Cloud computing and electric vehicles have something in common: they both obscure the source of their power. Often EV owners are… Read More

Nov 4, 2016, 11:30 AM

Worst Word of the Week: ‘Hyperconvergence’ integrates all that’s awful about the tech industry

I’ve been covering technology and computing since the client-server days of the early 1990s. A lot has changed since then.… Read More

Nov 4, 2016, 12:01 AM

How’s your data flow? Seattle startup APImetrics creates single-number indicator for API health

There’s a big but hidden business out there connecting corporate consumers of data with suppliers of data, and Seattle-based APImetrics has devised… Read More

Nov 2, 2016, 2:58 PM

Patching desktops and wrangling genomes: Meet the pioneering CIO who’s bringing the fight to cancer at Fred Hutch

If Seattle’s prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is going to use cloud computing power to help eradicate cancer, then… Read More

Oct 31, 2016, 12:38 PM

Study: AWS has 45% share of public cloud infrastructure market — more than Microsoft, Google, IBM combined

Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) —… Read More

Oct 31, 2016, 11:50 AM

Microsoft to share early-stage server hardware designs in ‘unprecedented’ open-source initiative

The phrase “open source” nearly always modifies “software,” but it doesn’t have to be that way. Cloud-related hardware, too, can… Read More

Oct 31, 2016, 11:06 AM

Amazon without AWS? Online retailer would have posted big loss if not for booming cloud business

Imagine this scenario: Amazon posts a $286 million operating loss for the third quarter, its sixth losing quarter in 2.5 years. Frustrated… Read More

Oct 27, 2016, 1:30 PM

Amazon Web Services third-quarter sales climb 55%, reaching a record $3.2 billion

Amazon Web Services generated a record-breaking 9.9 percent of its parent company’s net sales for the quarter ended Sept. 30,… Read More

Oct 25, 2016, 10:39 AM

Big DDoS attacks affect some Amazon Web Services customers, but AWS chief Andy Jassy assures cloud is secure

Some Amazon Web Services customers were affected by Friday’s massive DDoS internet attacks, AWS chief Andy Jassy acknowledged today during… Read More

Oct 25, 2016, 8:00 AM

Microsoft Azure’s new data-analysis service embraces competing databases and visualization tools

Microsoft is set to expand its Azure public cloud by launching Analysis Services as a technical preview today. The new offering runs a range… Read More

Oct 24, 2016, 9:07 AM

Amazon Web Services expands its budgeting feature, aiming to help cut cloud-computing costs

The days of cloud computing being only for early adopters are long past, as almost half (48 percent) of large… Read More

Oct 22, 2016, 12:43 PM

Microsoft closes week at all-time stock high of $59.66, eclipsing previous 1999 record and signaling new era

It took 17 years, but Microsoft has eclipsed its all-time stock high. The company, under the leadership of CEO Satya… Read More