Cloud Tech – Page 8 of 55

Sep 30, 2019, 12:45 PM

Amazon launches AWS IQ, a marketplace of third-party cloud experts for on-demand projects

Amazon.com opened up its online retail marketplace to third-party sellers early on, shaking up the e-commerce industry and extending the… Read More

Sep 27, 2019, 5:54 AM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: AI and faith, a LEGO convention, advice for hardware startups, and more

– Advances in artificial intelligence raise new questions about the future of humanity. But what will AI mean for faith?… Read More

Sep 25, 2019, 5:18 AM

Interview: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on AI, the cloud and the bank’s big bet on Seattle tech

Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman, will visit Seattle on Wednesday, which happens to be a key date… Read More

Sep 23, 2019, 10:24 AM

Tech company Chef won’t renew U.S. immigration contracts, changing course amid employee activism

Software engineers are powerful players in the technology industry. Typically, they exercise that power to negotiate sky-high salaries that companies… Read More

Sep 17, 2019, 10:23 AM

The unicorn that got away: HashiCorp’s journey from Seattle to SF to billion-dollar cloud company

First things first: the “Hashi” in HashiCorp is pronounced haw-shee. Not hash-ee. But don’t worry, most people get it wrong,… Read More

Sep 17, 2019, 9:31 AM

Oracle adds its digital assistant to Microsoft Teams, building off new cloud alliance between tech giants

Oracle and Microsoft’s cloud partnership took another step forward Tuesday. Oracle announced that its digital assistant can now be used… Read More

Sep 13, 2019, 6:44 AM

Microsoft and Disney aim to speed up movie and TV production with new ‘scene-to-screen’ cloud deal

Microsoft and The Walt Disney Co. agreed to a five-year deal to leverage the tech giant’s cloud prowess to speed… Read More

Sep 11, 2019, 8:28 AM

How Stackery found its new CEO: Puppet exec Tim Zonca ‘met the spec’ for serverless startup

The board of Portland-based startup Stackery had a specific wish list in its search for a new CEO after the… Read More

Sep 10, 2019, 9:15 AM

Skytap partners with Microsoft, brings its cloud service for legacy apps to Azure

Skytap today announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as the company continues its shift to becoming a capability within public… Read More

Sep 5, 2019, 8:05 AM

Pulumi takes on cloud juggernauts with flagship product for deploying infrastructure as code

Seattle startup Pulumi is formally launching its technology for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud, looking to land new… Read More

Aug 28, 2019, 5:56 PM

Indictment says accused Capital One hacker also used exploited cloud servers for cryptojacking

Updated with Vodafone statement. A federal grand jury indicted Paige Thompson, a former Amazon engineer, on multiple counts of wire… Read More

Aug 28, 2019, 3:28 PM

Cloud services company Skytap lays off 25 workers in first major change under new CEO

Enterprise cloud services company Skytap is laying off 25 employees, or around 12 percent of its workforce, in an effort… Read More

Aug 28, 2019, 5:00 AM

How Microsoft and Oracle became cloud buddies, and what’s next for their improbable partnership

Splashy partnerships between big tech companies can be hard to take seriously. Implementing them with success is much harder than… Read More

Aug 26, 2019, 3:25 PM

Oracle to appeal court ruling on Pentagon cloud contract as Microsoft and Amazon vie for $10B deal

Oracle’s JEDI fight isn’t over. The company will appeal a Court of Federal Claims ruling that rejected its attempt to… Read More

Aug 21, 2019, 9:38 AM

Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others join forces for cloud security in ‘confidential computing’ group

A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces… Read More

Aug 21, 2019, 6:49 AM

Chef names new CTO to succeed its co-founder, eyes broader market for enterprise automation

It’s a new era at Chef, and not just because the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has suddenly created… Read More

Aug 19, 2019, 11:40 AM

Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred

Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity, a London-based venture that has become a key player behind a popular open-source implementation of… Read More

Aug 13, 2019, 6:00 AM

Cray to develop insanely fast $600M ‘El Capitan’ supercomputer for U.S. nuclear simulations

Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy,… Read More

Aug 8, 2019, 9:08 AM

Amazon seeks to root out any ties to 8chan, as tech firms grapple with implications of extremist sites

Amazon’s cloud powers vast swaths of the internet, so perhaps it was only a matter of time until the debate… Read More

Aug 5, 2019, 3:05 PM

Seattle-area web services provider becomes haven for online extremism following El Paso shooting

The Seattle region may have a reputation as a liberal enclave but it’s also home to a safe haven for… Read More

Aug 2, 2019, 12:01 PM

Google Cloud vets launch Seattle startup Kaskada to bolster machine learning tech with real-time data

After spending several years working at Google Cloud, Davor Bonaci and Ben Chambers saw an opportunity to help companies take… Read More

Aug 1, 2019, 3:34 PM

Pentagon reconsiders $10B cloud contract as Trump sounds alarm over alleged Amazon favoritism

The Department of Defense announced Thursday it is reviewing a $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military’s war cloud.… Read More

Jul 31, 2019, 10:19 AM

Amazon sues former AWS exec for joining rival Google division as cloud wars escalate

Amazon’s pioneering cloud business gave the company an early lead in an emerging and lucrative industry but competition is heating… Read More

Jul 31, 2019, 10:02 AM

Amazon acquires enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage

Amazon has acquired enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage. Founded in 2014, the company sold a rack-scale software storage solution… Read More

Jul 31, 2019, 6:00 AM

Ex-Microsoft engineers land $3M to launch distributed computing platform Edge Delta

Edge Delta, a Seattle-based startup that’s building a distributed analytics platform, raised $3 million in seed funding from lead investors… Read More

Jul 29, 2019, 1:50 PM

AppViewX raises $30M to grow networking infrastructure automation software platform

Seattle-based company AppViewX just raised $30 million to help expand its networking automation technology, GeekWire has learned. Brighton Park Capital,… Read More

Jul 29, 2019, 9:46 AM

Microsoft acquires BlueTalon to bolster its Azure Data Governance group

Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup that builds data governance and compliance software for Fortune 100 companies.… Read More

Jul 25, 2019, 3:59 PM

Amazon Web Services powers tech giant’s profits, again, but slower growth raises new questions

Amazon Web Services posted $8.4 billion in net sales and $2.1 billion in operating profits in the second quarter, continuing… Read More

Jul 25, 2019, 11:50 AM

New tool from cloud startup Stackery streamlines AWS serverless development on local machines

Cloud technology startup Stackery, a graduate of the Seattle Techstars program, released a new tool that promises to make developing… Read More

Jul 24, 2019, 1:41 PM

F5 Networks reports $563M in Q3 revenue with web server NGINX now under its umbrella

In the first quarter with popular web server company NGINX under its umbrella, F5 Networks reported stronger revenue growth but… Read More