Cloud Tech

Software automation platform Azuqua lands Adobe, Zendesk and others for new partner program

Say you’re a software company needing to roll out a bunch of new features — and fast. One big customer… Read More

Qumulo raises $93M to tackle hybrid cloud file storage, total funding now $230M

We are generating unprecedented amounts of data in our personal and professional lives on the internet, and the trend is… Read More

Amazon Web Services now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS

Amazon Web Services was the last of the major cloud vendors to go all-in with the Kubernetes container-orchestration project that… Read More

SAP vows to take on Salesforce, as cloud vendors line up to pitch its database customers

Salesforce upended the traditional market for customer-relationship management software led by Oracle and SAP more than a decade ago, and… Read More

New Microsoft Azure tech could let smart building operators model the links between people and objects at work

As Microsoft leans into its focus this year on cloud services for the internet of things, it’s introducing new platform… Read More

Facebook’s new cooling system might make it easier to put data centers in hot places

As the data centers that run the computing world have become more powerful and sophisticated, just like their marketing executives,… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft agrees to buy GitHub, tech for women’s safety, Alexa & Google Assistant coming to Xbox

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Developers and cloud rivals will be watching Microsoft’s plans for Azure and GitHub very closely

It’s probably the central question surrounding Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of coding repository GitHub: how will the owner of the… Read More

Google to link Meet business video-calling app with Microsoft Skype and other rivals

Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing… Read More

Microsoft reaches deal to buy GitHub; announcement could come Monday, report says

Update, Monday morning: Microsoft confirmed the deal, announcing an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. Microsoft has… Read More

Report: After employee backlash, Google will walk away from Project Maven AI contract with the military after it expires

The employees have spoken. Google has decided that it won’t seek additional business related to a controversial artificial intelligence project… Read More

Helm, an open-source project for managing Kubernetes apps, gets its own home inside the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Another project has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, after members voted to include Helm at the incubation stage within… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services and lock-in: ‘You never want your customers to be trapped’

Enterprise tech buyers have worried about the prospect of “lock-in” — in which their vendors make it nearly impossible to… Read More

Pentagon delays the release of requirements for the once-in-a-generation cloud computing contract

Cloud companies lining up to bid on a ten-year cloud contract for the U.S. Department of Defense will have to… Read More

Amazon targets small businesses, takes aim at Tableau and Microsoft Power BI with new QuickSight pricing model

Amazon Web Services said Thursday that it will offer QuickSight, its data analytics and visualization software, to companies and organizations on… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ newest database, Amazon Neptune, is now generally available

After showing it off last year at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that its new cloud graph… Read More

Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich: cloud-based blockchain services are ready for prime time, even inside Microsoft

Among the emerging technologies of our time, blockchain technology has somehow been the recipient of both the most hype and… Read More

Travel giant Sabre bets big on multicloud, signing deal with Microsoft Azure weeks after a new deal with Amazon Web Services

Thanks to investments in container technology and microservices, Sabre is ready to embark on a multicloud infrastructure strategy, signing a… Read More

Salesforce posts 25 percent jump in Q1 revenue and raises full-year guidance

One week after it opened its new tower in downtown San Francisco, Salesforce showed why it felt confident making that… Read More

Box just made it a little easier to move data around the world with this addition to Box Zones

Box’s new data-management feature probably won’t bail you out if you’re still scrambling to figure out what to do about… Read More

Under new product leader, Chef rolls out strategy for modern app development teams

Simply automating your computing infrastructure won’t cut it anymore; forward-thinking software-development organizations need to automate their processes across the board… Read More

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