Cloud Tech

GitHub introduces new product tier that lets free users keep their code private

GitHub will kick off the new year by allowing free users of the code repository service to maintain private projects,… Read More

Akamai snaps up Portland-based identity management provider Janrain

Proving your identity on the internet is harder than it sounds, and Akamai plans to use technology from Portland’s Janrain… Read More

High time for a better marijuana resource online? Startup finds a niche with legal pot retailers

You knew this was coming. After Washington voters legalized pot six years ago, it was only a matter of time… Read More

Do a majority of Google developers use Visual Studio Code? Microsoft declines to back up its top marketing exec’s claim

There’s little debate that Microsoft has become a company willing to work across competitive boundaries over the last few years,… Read More

Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado

A widespread outage on CenturyLink’s cloud network that lasted almost two days and hampered emergency phone service in Washington and… Read More

Portland’s Megh Computing raises $1.75M to help companies use flexible chips for real-time data processing

An explosion in demand for applications with real-time data analytics has created scaling problems inside companies trying to run those… Read More

Instead of a real check on the growing power of Amazon Web Services, Oracle’s Larry Ellison offers nothing but words

At some point, it starts to get a little sad. Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison uncorked another… Read More

Skytap cuts 25 marketing jobs amid shift to selling its cloud services through partners

Seattle’s Skytap signaled earlier this year it was going to be working much more closely with public cloud providers in… Read More

Oracle’s latest JEDI cloud contract protest spurs Amazon Web Services to defend itself in federal court

As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year,… Read More

Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud

Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure.… Read More

Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage

Another open-source enterprise technology company is walling off parts of its software from cloud infrastructure providers. Confluent announced Friday morning… Read More

Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software

As questions continue to swirl around the future of open-source software licensing and business models, Chef co-founder and Chief Technology… Read More

Tech Moves: Qumulo taps cloud storage vet to lead marketing; BitTitan adds head of global sales

— Molly Presley will head up product marketing at cloud storage startup Qumulo. Presley brings many years of storage marketing… Read More

With JavaScript support, Salesforce wants to make it easier for developers to build apps on its platform

Companies that want to customize their Salesforce experience around their own unique needs will now be able to tap into… Read More

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built… Read More

Red Hat donates a key open-source Kubernetes tool to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Red Hat plans to announce Tuesday that it will donate an important tool that helps ensure Kubernetes clusters run reliably… Read More

Crashing KubeCon: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?

What a difference a year makes. Kubernetes has been one of the most prominent open-source projects in cloud computing over… Read More

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God —… Read More

Microsoft and Docker release new open-source project that’s basically a container for containers

Containers upended traditional software application deployment practices by opening up a whole new range of possibilities across multiple machines, and… Read More

Seattle’s Upbound introduces Crossplane, an open-source project to help companies manage applications across multiple public clouds

If you’re a company that wants to run workloads across multiple cloud providers but need some help making it happen,… Read More

GitHub introduces new product tier that lets free users keep their code private

Akamai snaps up Portland-based identity management provider Janrain

High time for a better marijuana resource online? Startup finds a niche with legal pot retailers

Do a majority of Google developers use Visual Studio Code? Microsoft declines to back up its top marketing exec’s claim

Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado

Portland’s Megh Computing raises $1.75M to help companies use flexible chips for real-time data processing

Instead of a real check on the growing power of Amazon Web Services, Oracle’s Larry Ellison offers nothing but words

Skytap cuts 25 marketing jobs amid shift to selling its cloud services through partners

Oracle’s latest JEDI cloud contract protest spurs Amazon Web Services to defend itself in federal court

Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage

Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software

With JavaScript support, Salesforce wants to make it easier for developers to build apps on its platform

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

Crashing KubeCon: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Microsoft and Docker release new open-source project that’s basically a container for containers

Seattle’s Upbound introduces Crossplane, an open-source project to help companies manage applications across multiple public clouds

Eclypsium raises $8.75M Series A round led by Madrona Venture Group to tackle hardware security

New Relic CEO Lew Cirne is focused on customers “who play offense with software”

Why Amazon Web Services’ Graviton server chip could unleash a new era of cloud-native hardware

Amazon Web Services reveals a managed Kafka service for streaming data

Amazon Web Services expands serverless computing strategy with support for a wider variety of software development tools

New features from Amazon Web Services aim to make cloud security easier to manage

Amazon Web Services will sell hardware to hybrid cloud customers to run in their own data centers

New machine-learning tech from Amazon Web Services includes GPU acceleration and a brand-new custom chip

Amazon Web Services joins the blockchain party with managed blockchain service for Hyperledger Fabric or Ethereum