Cloud Tech – Page 24 of 54

Amazon Sumerian, the AWS tool for building AR/VR applications, is now generally available

Amazon Web Services is ready to let all of its customers start playing with Amazon Sumerian, a tool that helps… Read More

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Apple tech leaders headline GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way,… Read More

Auth0 raises $55M to fuel the identity management company’s international expansion

Auth0, a Bellevue, Wash. startup that helps developers build identity authentication capabilities into their applications, raised $55 million to embark on… Read More

Why someone needs to step up and challenge Intel in the data center chip market

For all the discussion of the higher-level technologies that power the modern data center, the processor remains the most fundamental… Read More

Researchers say new ‘Efail’ security risk undermines encrypted e-mail

Hackers have a better chance of getting into encrypted email than previously thought, according to a new paper released Monday… Read More

How Puppet’s chief product officer is navigating the rapidly changing world of modern software development

Nobody ever believes me when I say this, but the world of enterprise technology has actually been pretty exciting over… Read More

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in… Read More

Amazon Web Services is sitting on around $12.4 billion in deferred revenue

For the first time this week, Amazon disclosed how much revenue Amazon Web Services will eventually realize from multiyear cloud… Read More

Containers and microservices become mainstream: Learn how they can work for you at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Over the last several years, containers and microservices have become some of the most quickly adopted enterprise software development technologies… Read More

How the rise of the internet of things prompted a new feature for Microsoft’s cloud database

Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference… Read More

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich touts security during deep dive into the tech behind Microsoft’s cloud

Build 2018 attendees got a peek behind the Azure curtain Wednesday from Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich, who also… Read More

Red Hat and Microsoft teaming up for a managed OpenShift service on Azure

One day after Microsoft announced that its managed Kubernetes service is ready for the general public, Red Hat announced that… Read More

Slack hits 8 million daily users, with 3 million paid subscribers

Slack is carving out a nice piece of the business software market for itself thanks to its workplace chat and… Read More

GeekWire Podcast, Live at Build: Cloud, AI and mixed reality with Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and Lorraine Bardeen

We’re live at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle, where we’ll be joined by two of Microsoft’s top executives,… Read More

Is Azure the cloud for the internet of things? Microsoft doubles down at Build

Microsoft’s rebranding of the internet of things as “the intelligent edge” is arguably an improvement over the original moniker, but… Read More

Microsoft’s Project Kinect for Azure is a package of sensors for IoT applications

Microsoft is bringing Kinect back this week at its Build developer conference, but in a very different fashion that the… Read More

Live blog: Microsoft makes its pitch to developers at Build 2018

One of the key events on Microsoft’s yearly calendar kicks off later this morning, as thousands of developers crowd into… Read More

With $125M Series D round, Mesosphere has now raised over $250M to automate the data center

Data centers have never been more powerful, but they’ve never been more complicated to manage. Mesosphere is hoping that as… Read More

At top of WorkFlowy founder’s to-do list: Keeping his app’s cult-like following happy

In January, when Jesse Patel announced plans to overhaul WorkFlowy, his quirky-but-powerful outline app, he appealed for mercy. “If you… Read More

Kubernetes in Europe: The most significant news from Kubecon this week

The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue… Read More

Twitter moves its part of its massive Hadoop data platform to Google Cloud

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing… Read More

Hate working in a web browser? How a new breed of software is bringing cloud-based apps into a single interface

In 1983, Microsoft developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi wrote a UNIX program that would eventually become Microsoft Word. It… Read More

Ask tech questions in private with Stack Overflow’s new enterprise product for smaller teams

Millions of technical professionals each month use Stack Overflow to answer tricky questions about coding, architecture, and other complicated aspects… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Speakers from Apple, Cloudflare and Google added to conference agenda

Ready to boost your technical chops? Our biggest technical conference of the year — the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit —… Read More

Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes

As more software factories add Kubernetes to their container strategies, a lot of people are getting excited about the container… Read More

Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Algorithmia, speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (Photo: Kevin Lisota)

Machine learning on the blockchain: How Algorithmia’s DanKu experiment unfolded

Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing… Read More

SkyKick raises another $40M to build more products for cloud services companies

Tectonic shifts in information technology strategies are hard to navigate, even for the biggest companies on the planet. The rise… Read More

Intel’s Data Center Group takes advantage of booming cloud business in Q1

With revenue, profits, and capital expenditures up for all of the Big Three cloud computing companies during the first quarter… Read More

Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud group posts a 17 percent jump in revenue on 93 percent growth for Azure

Cloud computing has been a strong part of Microsoft’s turnaround during CEO Satya Nadella’s tenure as CEO, and its Intelligent… Read More

AWS grows 49 percent in Q1 2018 to hit $5.4B in revenue

Amazon Web Services is setting the pace for the cloud computing market once again, growing 49 percent in its first… Read More