Cloud Tech

While growth remains slow, F5 Q2 earnings beat expectations amid software-focused turnaround

F5 Networks told Wall Street analysts earlier this year that it expects slow revenue growth as it shifts its business… Read More

ServiceNow snaps up VendorHawk to help its customers manage their SaaS spending

ServiceNow has acquired Seattle’s VendorHawk, a recent TechStars Seattle graduate, for an undisclosed amount in order to add cloud software… Read More

Puppet signals shift in product strategy with new tech asset inventory dashboard

Puppet is shaking up its product strategy, announcing on Wednesday the first product that will become part of an expanded… Read More

Announcing the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Top tech leaders from Microsoft and Amazon added to agenda, early-bird tickets on sale

Our biggest technical conference of the year — the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit — is coming up on June 26-27… Read More

Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, which lets you deploy containers with utter disregard for hardware, now generally available

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances,… Read More

Seattle DevOps vets launch Sodo, a startup that helps companies modernize their software teams

Two longtime Seattle-area engineers are teaming up to launch Sodo, a new professional-development startup that wants to help software development… Read More

Google spent a lot of money on its cloud business during Q1 as it gears up for a big year

Operating a modern public cloud is an enormously expensive undertaking. It looks like Google expanded its cloud computing capacity in… Read More

Heptio launches new open-source load-balancing project with Kubernetes in mind

Heptio added a new load balancer to its stable of open-source projects Monday, targeting Kubernetes users who are managing multiple… Read More

Update: Pivotal goes public at $15 a share, CEO Rob Mee calls it “message of strength and independence”

Pivotal broke free of the Dell Technologies conglomerate Friday morning, listing its shares on the New York Stock Exchange at… Read More

FoundationDB, a very interesting NoSQL database owned by Apple, is now an open-source project

Three years ago, database geeks were disappointed to learn that FoundationDB and its unique database product had been acquired by… Read More

Longtime Amazon Web Services customer Netflix said to be cozying up to Google

Netflix was arguably Amazon Web Services’ most important customer during its rise to the top of the public cloud market… Read More

With support for Kubernetes now baked in, Docker makes its case as the most flexible container management platform

Docker lost the Container Orchestration War of 2017, as brief and relatively amicable as it was. Now the company is… Read More

VMware bets that new versions of vSphere and vSAN will make the hybrid cloud easier to manage

There was a time when it looked like the public cloud might consign VMware to the long list of bygone… Read More

Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M

Modern cloud deployments are a tough thing to keep a handle on, which is part of the reason why Portland’s… Read More

Report: Google wants the Pentagon cloud deal, but doesn’t want its employees to know

All major and minor vendors in cloud computing are currently polishing their bids for one of the biggest cloud deals… Read More

Plenty of growth in store for cloud computing, according to Gartner, will hit $186B in 2018

Most people no longer need to be convinced that cloud computing is the next big thing in enterprise technology, and… Read More

Google readying new design for Gmail that includes a snooze email button and better G Suite integration

Get ready for a few changes to the screen millions of people wake up to: Google is contemplating a new… Read More

Box admins now have improved tools for managing user activity and governance policies

Box users generate a lot of data that administrators might find very interesting, and the latest edition of the Box… Read More

Google and Netflix team up on Kayenta, an open-source project for automated deployment monitoring

A new open-source project from Google and Netflix aims to help other companies that want to modernize their application deployment… Read More

DimensionalMechanics releases second-generation of its AI product, announces new funding

Some of the biggest and most powerful companies in technology are racing each other to make machine learning easier to… Read More

Puppet lays off three percent of workforce as it looks for more growth

Portland-based DevOps startup Puppet has laid off three percent of its workforce, around 20 people, as it gears up for… Read More

Stripe launches new subscription-billing service aimed at SaaS companies

If you’re selling software these days, you’re probably selling it over the internet on a subscription basis. Stripe’s new version… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds new features to SageMaker and makes its AI-powered transcription services generally available

Developers using Amazon SageMaker to build machine-learning applications will now be able to take advantage of new computing resources and… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches AWS Secrets Manager and other new tools, as cloud customers continue to prove they need security help

As companies move more of their workloads into the cloud, too many of them are doing a poor job securing… Read More

Microsoft puts more eggs in cloud leader Scott Guthrie’s basket, moving core Windows development and some AI teams to his group

Microsoft’s cloud business is the company’s economic engine these days, hitting aggressive revenue targets earlier than expected with plenty of… Read More