Cloud Tech

After killing the consumer version, Google will try to turn Google+ into a real enterprise tool

Google+ was one of the search giant’s notable failures along its road to becoming one of the most powerful companies… Read More

With huge new $450M funding round, Snowflake Computing has now raised almost $1 billion

In January, after raising $263 million, Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia indicated that the next time his fast-growing cloud data… Read More

Report: Amazon Web Services cuts deals with SAP, Symantec valued at a combined $1B

It’s become clear over the last several quarters that Amazon Web Services is signing longer-term cloud computing deals with big… Read More

Microsoft vows to protect Linux from future patent wars by joining the Open Invention Network

After years of waging patent war on Google’s Linux-based Android mobile operating system, Microsoft agreed Wednesday to join the Open… Read More

Pioneer Square Labs spins out Shujinko, which wants to automate compliance work in the cloud

Two pervasive trends in modern enterprise computing could work out very nicely for Shujinko. The Seattle startup is launching Tuesday… Read More

Microsoft makes its pitch for the Pentagon cloud contract with expanded federal certifications

The bids for the $10 billion Department of Defense cloud computing contract are due by the end of the week,… Read More

Puppet launches new product line to help companies get the most out of their DevOps efforts

Building on the work done by its most recent acquisition, Puppet plans to announce a brand new product line Tuesday… Read More

Google Cloud drops out of the running for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract

Google’s decision to articulate a set of principles around its use of artificial intelligence has officially cost it business. EARLIER:… Read More

Amazon’s other brick-and-mortar move: Inside the growing network of ‘AWS Loft’ co-working spaces

SAN FRANCISCO — The co-working space at 525 Market St. looks, at first glance, like many others in this city and… Read More

Capping a year of change, Chef taps former Impinj CFO Evan Fein as its new CFO

With the appointment of three new executives, Chef believes it is most of the way through a year-long strategy shift… Read More

Another strong IPO for SaaS investors, as open-source search provider Elastic enjoys huge pop on opening day

Shares in Elastic, a software-as-a-service company that helps other companies find, sort, and analyze their internal data, soared Friday in… Read More

Amazon Web Services, Apple dispute report that China placed spy chips in some of their servers

A blockbuster Bloomberg report that Chinese spies infiltrated the networks of Amazon Web Services and Apple was met with unusually… Read More

D-Wave’s quantum computing cloud service is now available for developer experiments

After years of hype about the potential of quantum computing, D-Wave is about to let mainstream developers finally take its… Read More

Updated: Big data stalwarts Cloudera, Hortonworks to merge, Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly to run new company

Cloudera and Hortonworks have been symbolic of the “big data” era as two of the most successful companies built around… Read More

After historic court decision on e-commerce taxes, Avalara launches new licensing program to help manage the new world

National e-commerce retailers might have bemoaned the recent Supreme Court decision allowing states to require retailers to collect sales taxes… Read More

Apptio buys Boston-based FittedCloud, adding a cloud infrastructure cost analysis tool to the mix

Apptio completed its third acquisition Wednesday, announcing that it has bought FittedCloud, a fellow provider of tools for monitoring cloud… Read More

Nortal acquires cloud modernization startup Dev9, will expand Seattle-area footprint

Nortal, an Estonia-based multinational end-to-end technology services provider, today announced the acquisition of Seattle-area cloud services startup Dev9 as it expands its… Read More

Salesforce singles out gaps in Microsoft and Oracle’s services as its road map for growth

Business-to-business marketing, at least in tech, is all about making the tech buyer absorb the talking points they need to… Read More

After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company

Weeks after Oracle said its top cloud executive was taking a temporary leave of absence from the company, it confirmed… Read More

Volkswagen strikes cloud partnership deal with Microsoft, will open Seattle-area cloud office

Volkswagen has chosen Microsoft as its cloud partner, with plans to build a network of Azure-connected cars as well as… Read More

Failing up: Former Amazon engineers land $18M to help companies find weak spots in their apps

“Chaos engineering” is not the planning process for a Senate committee hearing, but a growing discipline within software engineering that… Read More

Iridium plans to launch CloudConnect satellite IoT system in partnership with Amazon Web Services

Iridium, the satellite communications network, announced Thursday that it intends to work with Amazon Web Services to connect the leading… Read More

Cloudflare enlists Microsoft and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs

With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group… Read More