Cloud Tech – Page 11 of 54

GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft

Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository… Read More

Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy

Much has been made of Microsoft’s reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that… Read More

Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events

Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles… Read More

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox

As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his… Read More

Microsoft Azure recovering from major networking-related outage that took out Office 365, Xbox Live, and other services

An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking… Read More

Microsoft unveils a new edge computing database and managed blockchain service ahead of Build

The main event doesn’t kick off until next Monday morning in downtown Seattle, but Microsoft plans to announce a new… Read More

Does Google really run the most reliable cloud service? Even its own sources are skeptical

The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too… Read More

Puppet updates its flagship product with increased support for Bolt, an open-source task automator

Puppet’s latest edition of its flagship infrastructure automation software includes additional support for Bolt, an open-source project that the company… Read More

Leader of Amazon Web Services’ key S3 storage service added to GeekWire Cloud Summit agenda

The agenda for the main stage at the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit is set, and we’re thrilled to welcome one… Read More

Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia is out, replaced by former ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, who oversaw five years of strong growth and enormous fundraising at data warehousing startup Snowflake… Read More

‘Prolific’ firm Tiger Global leads $50M round in Seattle spa and salon software startup Zenoti

Zenoti plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $50 million in new Series C funding round led by Tiger… Read More

Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene and longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaving Alphabet’s board of directors

Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to… Read More

Docker’s quest for big-company revenue continues with Docker Enterprise 3.0, which comes with a fully-managed Docker platform service

Docker hopes that Docker Enterprise 3.0, which it plans to unveil later on Tuesday at DockerCon, will convince companies looking… Read More

Google Cloud is the single-largest driver of headcount growth at Google

The number of people working at Google surged 21 percent in the first quarter compared to the same period last… Read More

Microsoft and VMware unveil new cloud service that lets VMware customers run their apps on Azure

Years after VMware cut a ground-breaking cloud deal with Amazon Web Services that helped make the hybrid cloud a reality,… Read More

Slack renegotiated its deal with Amazon Web Services in 2018, will spend at least $212M more through 2023

Slack revealed Friday that it joined the parade of companies that renegotiated long-term deals with Amazon Web Services over the… Read More

Seattle startup AppSheet raises $15M for no-code app development platform, will open Portland hub

Seattle startup AppSheet has raised $15 million to fuel growth of its platform that helps businesses develop their own data-based… Read More

AWS revenue approaches $8 billion in Q1, up 41 percent compared to last year

As bigger and bigger businesses take the plunge into cloud computing, Amazon Web Services is turning into a pretty big… Read More

F5 shares new details about its plans for NGINX after missing Q1 revenue targets

The $670 million March acquisition of NGINX was the largest purchase in the history of Seattle’s F5 Networks, and financial… Read More

Azure revenue remains a mystery, but cloud services continue to drive Microsoft forward

One of these days, Microsoft will decide that it needs to break out the amount of revenue it is recording… Read More

The creators of Kubernetes to discuss its past and future at GeekWire’s 3rd annual Cloud Summit

This June will mark the fifth anniversary of Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration project designed to bring Google’s infrastructure expertise to… Read More

Docker and Arm team up to speed adoption of containerized applications on Arm servers

It’s not clear how many developers are actually using the Arm cloud servers introduced last year by Amazon Web Services,… Read More

F5 decided to buy NGINX after coming within weeks of unveiling a competing cloud application-management product

As 2019 began at F5 Networks, the company was working on two separate projects that would change the course of… Read More

How multiyear contracts with big business are changing the economics of the cloud

As it scaled its way to unicorn status and beyond over the last few years, Pinterest was more focused on… Read More

Microsoft to equip UAE company’s new HQ with ‘virtual AI persona’ in expansion of cloud strategy

Microsoft is outfitting a striking new office building just outside of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates with a suite… Read More

New features in Sales Cloud aim to help Salesforce customers eliminate some of the busywork

Almost every office job has some level of annoying administrative work involved, but Salesforce thinks that new features added to… Read More

Apple reportedly spending $30 million a month on Amazon Web Services

Apple’s use of Amazon Web Services has increased over the past few years and is now projected to hit $360… Read More

Hear from top speakers in AI, DevOps and Cloud Migration at the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit

One of the biggest tasks facing businesses interested in cloud computing is figuring out how to make the transition without… Read More

Microsoft bets on a real-time operating system for IoT devices with Express Logic acquisition

The devices that make up the internet of things require a different approach to computing, which is one of the… Read More

With a push from Amazon Web Services, Portland’s Anitian bets on compliance automation

After more than 20 years of reselling security software and services, an encounter with cloud giant Amazon Web Services led… Read More