Cloud Tech

Slack takes a step closer to an IPO with confidential filing of its registration statement

The first wave of 2019 initial public offerings appears back on track after the government shutdown, with Slack announcing Monday… Read More

AWS revenue grows 45% to $7.4B in fourth quarter; full-year revenue hits $25B

Revenue from Amazon Web Services’ market-leading cloud business crossed $7 billion for the first time during the last quarter of… Read More

Seattle’s Cloudentity lands $2M in funding for its secure cloud traffic-management product

After realizing that it was building the same cloud security solution over and over again for consulting clients trying to… Read More

After seven months of searching, Intel gives interim CEO Bob Swan the top job

Just a week ago, interim Intel CEO Bob Swan promised that the company’s board of directors would name a permanent… Read More

Strong Q2 cloud revenue growth continues to drive Microsoft forward

Microsoft’s embrace of cloud computing continues to pace its growth, as revenue from several key cloud products made steady gains… Read More

Data startup Koverse uses NSA tech to spot risks in supply chains

You wake up, drink a cup of Colombian coffee, check a phone made of rare earth metals, and drive a… Read More

Puppet makes a change at the top with new CEO Yvonne Wassenaar

After years of buying enterprise technology from software vendors, new Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar will get a chance to run… Read More

‘We cannot let the next generation down’: Women in Cloud Summit rallies crowd to turn the tide in tech

In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology… Read More

Intel projects flat 2019 revenue amid slowdown in China, sending shares down more than 6 percent

Intel expects revenue growth to slow to a crawl in the upcoming year, and coming off a fourth quarter in… Read More

Microsoft acquires Citus Data, creators of a cloud-friendly version of the PostgreSQL database

Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday… Read More

Amazon Web Services continues open-source push with code behind SageMaker Neo

Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project,… Read More

Automation company Nintex partners with Adobe to challenge DocuSign in electronic signatures

Nintex, the Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company, announced this morning that it is getting into the electronic signature business. In… Read More

F5 Networks’ first fiscal quarter revenue comes in lighter than expected

The ongoing transition of F5 Networks from a hardware to a software company continues to drag on its growth. For… Read More

Amazon Web Services thinks new cloud service will make it easier to coordinate backups

One of the hardest parts of running modern enterprise technology infrastructure is keeping track of everything that is going on,… Read More

Google hikes G Suite prices for the first time, Business edition now $12 per user per month

Google’s quest to find revenue from something other than search advertising has led it in some interesting directions. G Suite… Read More

MongoDB’s licensing changes led Red Hat to drop the database from the latest version of its server OS

After MongoDB decided last year that it was changing the license for its open-source database to a more restrictive version,… Read More

Microsoft wins $1.76 billion DoD deal as massive U.S. government cloud contract looms

Microsoft started off the year with two wins in the federal government sector, winning a $1.76 billion contract with the… Read More

AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project

The promise of so-called “low code/no code” software-development tools is to enable anyone to create business applications around their custom… Read More

Seattle hybrid cloud security startup ExtraHop touts bookings growth, says it’s on an IPO path

After plunging into the network security market nearly two years ago, Extrahop’s bookings have topped the $100 million mark, and… Read More

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare

A week after unveiling a plan to reinvent grocery shopping with Kroger, Microsoft announced another major retail partnership: a seven-year… Read More

Bellevue’s Polyverse brings on significant “strategic investors” as it raises $2M for its secure Linux product and courts the Pentagon

Interest from the federal government into Polyverse’s secure Linux product prompted several undisclosed “strategic investors” to get in on a… Read More

Slack takes a step closer to an IPO with confidential filing of its registration statement

AWS revenue grows 45% to $7.4B in fourth quarter; full-year revenue hits $25B

Seattle’s Cloudentity lands $2M in funding for its secure cloud traffic-management product

After seven months of searching, Intel gives interim CEO Bob Swan the top job

Strong Q2 cloud revenue growth continues to drive Microsoft forward

Data startup Koverse uses NSA tech to spot risks in supply chains

Puppet makes a change at the top with new CEO Yvonne Wassenaar

Intel projects flat 2019 revenue amid slowdown in China, sending shares down more than 6 percent

Microsoft acquires Citus Data, creators of a cloud-friendly version of the PostgreSQL database

Amazon Web Services continues open-source push with code behind SageMaker Neo

Automation company Nintex partners with Adobe to challenge DocuSign in electronic signatures

F5 Networks’ first fiscal quarter revenue comes in lighter than expected

Amazon Web Services thinks new cloud service will make it easier to coordinate backups

Google hikes G Suite prices for the first time, Business edition now $12 per user per month

MongoDB’s licensing changes led Red Hat to drop the database from the latest version of its server OS

Microsoft wins $1.76 billion DoD deal as massive U.S. government cloud contract looms

AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project

Seattle hybrid cloud security startup ExtraHop touts bookings growth, says it’s on an IPO path

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare

Bellevue’s Polyverse brings on significant “strategic investors” as it raises $2M for its secure Linux product and courts the Pentagon

Amazon Web Services acquires TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup working on cloud spending analysis

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Supporting women in tech, and exploring the mysteries of the universe

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta gets $196 million payday as private equity buyout closes

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure

Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database

Square takes aim at Stripe, PayPal with new payments kit for mobile software developers

Reports: Amazon adds new disaster-recovery tech to AWS with purchase of CloudEndure

Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors