Cloud Tech

Evolving cloud services need flexible chips, and Portland’s Megh Computing thinks it can contribute

The artificial-intelligence renaissance of the last few years has transformed data center design at both cloud providers and inside self-managed… Read More

According to Cisco, Amazon Web Services isn’t making a “commercial” networking switch. It still could be making a switch

A week after a report that Amazon Web Services was building its own bare-bones networking switch in a potential threat… Read More

Amid the 20th anniversary of open source, Tim O’Reilly warns that platform companies built on open-source software have lost their way

PORTLAND – It’s rare to hear Chinese philosophy quoted on stage at a software-development conference. But O’Reilly Media founder and… Read More

Spotify, Snapchat taken offline by networking problems at Google Cloud

Google took a turn in the cloud doghouse Tuesday afternoon, after several issues forced popular consumer sites like Spotify, Snapchat,… Read More

Why Amazon’s Prime Day glitches shouldn’t hurt future Amazon Web Services sales

If you overcook the roast, it’s not the oven’s fault. That’s one way to think about Amazon Web Services’ connection… Read More

Walmart signs sweeping cloud deal with Microsoft, joining forces against Amazon

Last year’s acquisition of Whole Foods raised tensions between Amazon and the retail community to new heights, and Walmart, the… Read More

How to deal with SaaS slackers: CIOs share lessons from unreliable Software as a Service vendors

Most enterprise software is delivered as a service these days because paying an expert to manage a complex application just… Read More

Amazon Web Services might be courting hybrid cloud customers in an interesting way

There are lots of companies that understand the benefits of cloud computing but, for a variety of good reasons, can’t… Read More

Top Microsoft chip researcher shifts to mysterious new Azure hardware division

When Microsoft shuffled the deck of cards that makes up its Azure cloud computing division a few months ago, it… Read More

As cloud competition heats up, Microsoft will pitch its partners on new Azure and Power BI features

Visiting Las Vegas in the middle of July seems like a questionable idea, but thousands of Microsoft partners will descend… Read More

Hot cloud database startup Snowflake Computing, born on Amazon Web Services, adds support for Microsoft Azure

After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data warehousing market on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Computing… Read More

Usermind lays off some employees amid pivot in sales strategy for its marketing software

After realizing that it stood a better chance selling its customer-support software as part of larger deals, rather than generating… Read More

Salesforce wants to give customer service workers using Service Cloud better AI-powered tools

Salesforce continues to build out the non-salesy parts of its software-as-a-service portfolio, making new features for its Service Cloud generally… Read More

Slack addresses one of its major weaknesses with search improvements

Workplace collaboration app Slack is great for chatting with co-workers and discussing project plans in the moment, but if you… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Peter DeSantis sheds more light on the cloud giant’s custom chip strategy

Evolving cloud workloads are going to require evolving hardware strategies to anticipate those future demands, and Amazon Web Services continues… Read More

Microsoft Azure CTO: AI and machine learning “are going to transform every industry”

Now that the basic appeal of cloud computing has been established — compute and storage resources managed by your vendor… Read More

Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes… Read More

Even Morgan Stanley’s conservative estimate of the next five years of cloud growth looks pretty good

We already know cloud computing is going to be a huge business; that’s why we devoted a full day to… Read More

A passing front? Diane Bryant out as Google Cloud COO after 7 months

Former Intel executive Diane Bryant, who joined Google Cloud just last November to give some executive support to Diane Greene,… Read More

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks networks and neo-Nazis at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

The internet has changed the world in countless ways over the last 23 years, and we’re only beginning to grapple… Read More

Dell clears up its financial future, will sell shares to public while maintaining stake in VMware

Five years ago, Michael Dell took his pioneering PC and server company private, citing a desire to avoid the short-term… Read More

Apple’s Carlos Guestrin cautions AI leaders to think very carefully about how they use their data

The rise of machine learning has been one of the most exciting developments in modern technology, but according to Carlos… Read More

Inside the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Photos and recap from a perfectly cloudy day

Our second annual GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit brought together some of the most interesting people in cloud computing for a… Read More

Google Cloud CEO wanted to buy GitHub, hopes Microsoft really keeps it neutral; Azure CTO vows not to mess with it

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene was interested in buying GitHub, but she isn’t ready to buy Microsoft’s promise to keep… Read More

David vs. Goliath in the cloud: Do investors see an opening for startups to take on AWS and Azure?

Cloud computing is big business dominated by the world’s largest tech companies. Three of the four most valuable tech companies… Read More

Venture capitalists ‘love’ Microsoft’s buy of GitHub, call it a ‘super smart’ move to win developers and compete against AWS

Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of GitHub is a whopper by nearly every standard — creating a path into 28 million… Read More