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Alexa, certify me: Amazon Web Services launching training program for Alexa skill builders

Amazon Web Services plans to launch a certification program Tuesday that will give developers building so-called “skills” for its Echo… Read More

Ex-Cray CEO Jim Rottsolk lands $2M for Seattle security startup using graph analytics

Trovares, founded by former Cray Inc. CEO Jim Rottsolk, announced Monday that it has raised $2 million in new funding… Read More

Stripe for ID verification: Investors bet on new Madrona Venture Labs accelerator startup Vouched

Vouched, a Seattle startup using AI to verify people’s identities online, has joined the Madrona Venture Labs accelerator. The 3-month… Read More

Cloud monitoring company PagerDuty goes public, shares close up 59 percent

PagerDuty, which offers an enterprise computing monitoring software as a service that has grown quite popular with companies looking to… Read More

Hear speakers from Slack, Icertis, Solo.io, and SendGrid at the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit

It might be spring break in Seattle, but plans for the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit, presented by F5, are in… Read More

And then there were two: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft named finalists for the Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract

The U.S. Department of Defense narrowed down the list of contenders for its ten-year $10 billion cloud contract to the… Read More

Google hopes Cloud Code encourages developers to deploy their apps to Kubernetes

Kubernetes is as much of a north star as anything for Google’s cloud computing efforts, and it thinks software developers… Read More

Google takes aim at Amazon Web Services with Google Cloud for Retail

Google plans to launch one of its first vertical-market cloud services packages introduced under new CEO Thomas Kurian Wednesday at… Read More

Google Assistant now works with your G Suite work calendar

Voice assistants are moving into the office, prompting Google to integrate its Google Assistant technology with G Suite customer calendars.… Read More

Google renews its cloud security pitch: If it’s good enough for Google, it’s good enough for you

As one of the most prominent tech companies of the last 25 years — and the victim of a sophisticated… Read More

Google plans to offer a managed version of Microsoft’s SQL Server database

Google is expanding the quiet relationship it has with Microsoft’s commercial software division, with plans to offer a managed version… Read More

Interview: Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, and working with the military

New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. The company that basically invented the concept… Read More

Google Cloud introduces Anthos, a hybrid cloud management product based on Kubernetes

Invoking the mythical tech promise of “write once, run anywhere,” Google Cloud announced a new product Tuesday that customers running… Read More

How Dropbox’s partnerships with Microsoft, and now Google, have shaped its SaaS approach

Dropbox’s decision to partner with Microsoft five years ago has paid off handsomely for the company. Tuesday it plans to… Read More

Google Cloud makes a big open-source move: Managed databases from Redis Labs, MongoDB, and Elastic coming soon

Google plans to raise the stakes Tuesday in the ongoing debate over open-source software in a cloudy world with the… Read More

Cloud Run: How Google Cloud plans to bring serverless computing to containerized applications

One downside of paying a cloud computing vendor to manage a lot of your computing infrastructure is that if you… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds more clean energy to its cloud with three new wind farm deals

More than 229 megawatts of clean power will be added to Amazon Web Services’ data centers by the end of… Read More

Top AI researchers call on Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

A group of artificial intelligence researchers — including this year’s winner of the Turing Award — issued a joint statement… Read More

Intel’s latest Xeon server processors are now generally available

Atop the server processor market but under renewed competitive pressure, Intel introduced its most powerful server processors to date, promising… Read More

Microsoft and BMW add industrial IoT platform to their long-running cloud partnership

A giant shift is underway in manufacturing as sensors and robotics make their impact on the factory floor, and Microsoft… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Summit: Learn where today’s cloud leaders are placing bets at our biggest technical conference

The GeekWire Cloud Summit, our biggest technical conference of the year, is coming up on June 5 at Meydenbauer Center… Read More

Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2019 after focusing on making the popular software development tool easier to use

Developers planning to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio code-writing platform will find a new and improved… Read More

Pivotal adds features from service-mesh tech Istio and Envoy into new version of Cloud Foundry

When companies tap into the benefits of cloud computing, a lot of complexity comes along for the ride. Pivotal’s latest… Read More

Chef unveils new commercial product strategy, will now sell distributions of its open-source projects

Chef hopes to bring a little clarity to the future of its open-source and commercial software work Tuesday by taking… Read More

Amazon Web Services unveils pre-packaged containers that make deep learning models easier to run

Customers of Amazon Web Services looking for easier ways to get their deep-learning models into production will be able to… Read More

Microsoft Azure Stack now supports customers betting on hyperconverged infrastructure

Customers that want to run application workloads across their own servers and cloud providers continue to exemplify the second wave… Read More

Pinterest cut a deal with Amazon Web Services that requires it to spend $750 million with the cloud leader by 2023

Back in 2017, as Pinterest’s spending with Amazon Web Services skyrocketed thanks to user growth, the company cut a deal… Read More

With its Elasticsearch distribution, Amazon Web Services sends more shockwaves through open-source software

Nobody really knows what lies ahead for the future of open-source software as cloud computing becomes the dominant force in… Read More

Google’s Stadia leverages tech advances to bring the lucrative video-game market into the cloud

After spending billions over the last few years to upgrade its cloud computing infrastructure, Google thinks it is ready to… Read More

A console in the cloud: Google unveils ‘Stadia’ streaming service, looks to shake up video games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HikAuH40fHc Google unveiled a new gaming streaming service called Stadia on Tuesday morning, looking to shake up the video game… Read More