Cloud Computing

Startup Spotlight: Vizua looks to bring medical image viewing into the future

Started by former Microsoft employees and a French scientist, Vizua is looking to transform the way radiologists share MRI, CT and… Read More

Parallels names new finance and tech chiefs, prepping for possible IPO and acquisitions

Parallels, known for its software that lets Windows run on Macs, has hired new finance and technology chiefs, aiming to… Read More

Data furnaces: The next big thing in home heating?

Data centers produce massive amounts of heat, so much so that companies like Facebook have gone to extreme lengths to… Read More

Ignition’s Frank Artale leads $15M round in ServiceMesh

Back in August, I interviewed Frank Artale of Ignition Partners about the torrid investment pace that he’d engaged in since… Read More

EMC boss Joe Tucci loves being in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft

EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci is in Seattle today, celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new 140,000 square foot… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Lightning strikes (literally) to create online backup startup Newline

Entrepreneurs often talk about when lightning strikes, that special a-ha moment when inspiration hits. But for former Microsoft engineer Kory… Read More

Users report Gmail outage

At about 11:25 a.m. Pacific time today, my connection to Gmail failed on both my PC and my Mac. And… Read More

Rappin’ for TappIn to make files available wherever you wander

There’s no shortage of services that allow consumers to access files in the cloud, from Dropbox to Box.net to SugarSync… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Educating the next generation of geeks

In honor of back-to-school season, this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast comes with an educational theme — featuring excerpts… Read More

Hotmail, MSN suffer outage

My wife just tried to log on to her Hotmail account, but no dice. A few minutes later a GeekWire… Read More

Maritz sees Windows PCs below 20% in era of cloud, devices

Paul Maritz is now the CEO of VMware, but he was previously the longtime chief of Microsoft’s platforms group —… Read More

Amazon Web Services bracing for Hurricane Irene in Virginia

Seems like Amazon.com’s data center in Northern Virginia just can’t catch a break lately. And now here comes Hurricane Irene. Officials… Read More

Q&A: Ignition’s Frank Artale is one very busy VC

Frank Artale is new to the venture capital business, so maybe he didn’t get the memo. After all, most VCs… Read More

Microsoft teams with China’s top Linux vendor in the cloud

Microsoft and China Standard Software Co. plan to work together develop and sell cloud cloud computing technologies in the country. The… Read More

Microsoft explains Office 365 outage, offers customer credit

Microsoft’s new Office 365 cloud-based service took a hit this week when customers were unable to access email and other… Read More

Microsoft cloud service Office 365 hit with outage

We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and… Read More

Amazon launches U.S. ‘GovCloud’ with plug from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Amazon Web Services is aiming to land more business from the U.S. government and its contractors with the rollout of… Read More

Ignition leads $10 million round in New York’s Apprenda

We’ve been writing a lot lately about how Ignition Partners is transforming itself into a national firm, doing deals wherever… Read More

Ex-Avanade boss Mitch Hill jumps back into the startup world, joins Opscode as CEO

As the founding CEO of Avanade, Mitch Hill once oversaw close to 9,000 employees. In his latest gig, there won’t… Read More

Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved

Amazon.com’s EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to… Read More

Citrix buys Cloud.com, challenges Amazon and Microsoft’s Azure

Citrix Systems announced today that it is acquiring Cloud.com, raising the competitive bar on other cloud infrastructure services such as… Read More

Technology Law: The Dropbox Doth Protest Too Much

Dropbox updated its terms of service last week and a firestorm of controversy ensued. Many thought Dropbox was setting itself up… Read More

Looking to mine data, Amazon backs analytics startup ParAccel

Amazon.com is investing an undisclosed amount of money into ParAccel, a Campbell, California maker of business analytics software that helps… Read More

How Amazon helped groom Zynga for success, and where the alliance heads next

Without Amazon.com, Zynga might not be where it is today. The social gaming powerhouse, which just last week filed to… Read More

Amazon Web Services cuts prices on Data Transfer, CloudFront

Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage back in April, one that caused all sorts of havoc developers. So, here’s… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Meet the 15-year-old who just sold his tech startup

Our guest on the latest GeekWire Podcast was Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore, north of Seattle, who last week… Read More

Ignition, Accel pump $11M into cloud startup ScaleXtreme

Ignition Partners and Accel Partners have invested $11 million in ScaleXtreme, a Palo Alto, California-based cloud computing startup. As a… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: How this 15-year-old built and sold a cloud-computing startup

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we get to talk with Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore’s Inglemoor High… Read More

Comcast shows next-gen Xfinity TV interface, gets help from your Facebook friends

https://youtu.be/KBnLCbzMR9Y The rise of free online alternatives to traditional cable television means the big cable operators will need to roll… Read More

Xbox Live plans cloud storage, Facebook friends game matching

Looks like Microsoft’s Xbox Live didn’t have room in the company’s E3 media event this morning for all of its… Read More

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