Cloud Tech – Page 50 of 55

Sep 6, 2016, 11:38 AM

How changes inside corporate tech teams are upending the $2B load balancer market

The $2 billion market for application-delivery controllers — software to optimize the delivery, performance and security of large programs over a corporate… Read More

Sep 6, 2016, 9:20 AM

Icertis partners with Box to expand cloud-based contract-management services

Cloud-based services to manage contracts, offered by Bellevue, Wash.-based Icertis, are now usable with file-sharing and collaboration service Box, the companies said this morning.… Read More

Sep 2, 2016, 3:09 PM

With $6M in fresh funds, new DefenseStorm CEO is ready to take on cybersecurity

Cybersecurity represents a new field for Sean Feeney, but the recently appointed CEO of Seattle’s DefenseStorm, a cybersecurity firm specializing in… Read More

Sep 2, 2016, 2:08 PM

Charts: The cloud computing industry is getting huge, decimating sales of on-premises servers

Public-cloud services will grow at a compounded annual rate of 22 percent between 2015 and 2020, reaching $236 billion, research… Read More

Aug 31, 2016, 1:45 PM

Salesforce reports 25% revenue growth and a healthy profit for Q2, but stock dips 8%

CRM giant Salesforce this afternoon posted revenue of $2 billion, up 25 percent year over year, and net income of… Read More

Aug 30, 2016, 10:13 AM

Cisco acquires startup ContainerX, buying into container management amidst layoffs and declining revenue

Cisco took its first step into the software container market today, announcing plans to buy ContainerX, an early-stage startup focused… Read More

Aug 29, 2016, 3:28 PM

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure best serve app developers, new Forrester study concludes

The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research… Read More

Aug 29, 2016, 12:21 PM

How Hillary Clinton’s tech chief wrangles a 70-person team using agile development, Amazon Web Services and goofy awards

Hillary Clinton’s technology team has built more than 50 software tools and products to date — a surprise even to… Read More

Aug 29, 2016, 9:31 AM

VMware cozies up to IBM as new Cloud Foundation integrates in-house and cloud computing

Virtualization company VMware this morning announced Cloud Foundation, an integration that the company says will combine some of its existing compute, storage… Read More

Aug 26, 2016, 8:58 AM

Enterprise tech company Apptio files for IPO, shows annual revenue of $129M and growing losses

Another Seattle area technology company is looking to test the IPO waters. Bellevue, Wash.-based Apptio, which makes software to help… Read More

Aug 25, 2016, 11:10 AM

IBM will emphasize Watson and AI at new cloud computing center in South Korea

IBM has opened a cloud data center in Pangyo, South Korea, bringing its total number of data centers to 47,… Read More

Aug 25, 2016, 3:00 AM

New release of Shippable’s application-deployment service includes multi-versioning

As Seattle-based startup Shippable sees things, organizations creating and running software can find plenty of products on the market to… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 10:32 AM

GeekWire launches new Cloud Tech channel, with underwriting support from Salesforce

Cloud technology is one of the most dynamic, rapidly growing and important areas of the tech industry, and GeekWire has… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 10:12 AM

King of the Cloud: How the Seattle region is positioned to reinvent technology, again

In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 9:35 AM

Salesforce is developing a major AI product called Einstein, reports Forbes

Salesforce is at work on an artificial intelligence-related product called Einstein, according to a lengthy profile of CEO Marc Benioff… Read More

Aug 24, 2016, 8:00 AM

How to maximize your pay in IT and DevOps: New study reveals the most lucrative jobs

Attention, DevOps workers: If you’re seeking the best-paid position, don’t answer to the title “system administrator.” Though the jobs may carry identical… Read More

Aug 22, 2016, 8:12 AM

Microsoft acquiring natural language scheduling startup Genee to add ‘intelligent experiences’ to Office 365

Microsoft has agreed to buy Genee, a scheduling service it said uses natural-language processing to automate setting up meetings. The… Read More

Aug 19, 2016, 9:04 AM

Amazon introduces by-the-hour pricing for WorkSpaces, a Windows-anywhere cloud service

Amazon today made it cheaper, or at least more flexible, for companies to let their workers access WorkSpaces, a secure Windows… Read More

Aug 18, 2016, 1:15 PM

Amazon Web Services and Google tout support for users of Microsoft’s products

What a wonderful new world it is! Or does this mean war? Today both Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web… Read More

Aug 18, 2016, 8:14 AM

Microsoft debuts Linux PowerShell scripting language, with competitors AWS and VMware as launch partners

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more… Read More

Aug 17, 2016, 2:32 PM

Cisco, hurt by the cloud, will cut 5,500 jobs after a 2-percent quarterly revenue decline

Cisco, a maker of routers, switches and data-center gear whose sales are jeopardized by the movement to cloud computing and by… Read More

Aug 16, 2016, 11:19 AM

Google Cloud Platform releases new database services, fighting AWS and Azure for corporate customers

Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they’re ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud… Read More

Aug 16, 2016, 9:53 AM

Salesforce buys analytics firm BeyondCore, adding new artificial intelligence capabilities

Pursuing its stated goal to make software smarter, Salesforce has made yet another acquisition, this time agreeing to buy BeyondCore, a… Read More

Aug 15, 2016, 3:31 PM

Adam Selipsky, sales and marketing head at Amazon Web Services, leaving company

Adam Selipsky, the head of sales and marketing at Amazon Web Services and a lieutenant to AWS CEO Andy Jassy,… Read More

Aug 15, 2016, 8:08 AM

IBM touts multi-year cloud deal with SaaS finance and HR firm Workday

Finance and HR software-services firm Workday, of Pleasanton, Calif., will put its primary development and testing on IBM’s cloud under… Read More

Aug 12, 2016, 3:19 PM

Microsoft winding down Azure RemoteApp in favor of XenApp ‘express,’ developed with Citrix

Microsoft is phasing out its Azure RemoteApp over the next year in favor of relying on its partnership with Citrix… Read More

Aug 12, 2016, 2:26 PM

Poll of 300 container developers shows most prefer Google Cloud Platform for host and registry

More developers use Google Cloud Platform to run their containerized applications (52 percent) than either Microsoft Azure (49 percent) or… Read More

Aug 11, 2016, 1:07 PM

Microsoft explains why Azure Stack will initially work on only a handful of servers

Microsoft today explained its reasoning for restricting the forthcoming Azure Stack to servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo — a… Read More

Aug 11, 2016, 10:35 AM

Amazon Web Services announces Layer 7 application load balancer, 47% cut in cost of Elastic Block Store ‘snapshots’

Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new application load balancer as part of the… Read More

Aug 8, 2016, 10:44 AM

Google acquires cloud commerce company Orbitera, embracing ‘multi-cloud world’

Update: Google and Orbitera are not disclosing terms of the deal but TechCrunch reports the startup sold for just over… Read More