Cloud Tech

Return of the JEDI: Why the cloud industry is closely eyeing a big Pentagon cloud contract

The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to… Read More

F5 Networks projects single-digit revenue growth for the next several years amid software transition, sending its stock down 5 percent

A revamped F5 Networks executive team made its pitch to Wall Street investors in New York Thursday, hoping to convince… Read More

Dropbox adds private network services through Equinix and expands global networking footprint

Dropbox customers around the world will now be able take advantage of new private networking services through datacenter giant Equinix… Read More

VMware and AWS roll out new services for the hybrid cloud and bring their joint product to Europe

VMware unveiled the latest step in its evolving partnership with Amazon Web Services Wednesday, bringing the VMware Cloud for AWS… Read More

What are memcached servers, and why are they being used to launch record-setting DDoS attacks?

Two of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded on the internet have been launched over the last seven days,… Read More

Graduation day: Kubernetes hits key milestone as CNCF lays out a cloud-native road map

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was created when Google agreed to release Kubernetes as an open-source project back in 2015,… Read More

Salesforce wants to make it easier to extract analytical data from its service with support for natural-language queries

For lots of people, trying to use powerful analytics tools without a little training in the language of data science… Read More

Widespread outage at Amazon Web Services’ U.S. East region takes down Alexa, Atlassian developer tools

Problems with Amazon Web Services’ Direct Connect service took down several customers Friday morning using the cloud leader’s creaky U.S.… Read More

Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups

There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize… Read More

Asteroid Institute adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners for asteroid tracking

Google Cloud and AGI (a.k.a. Analytical Graphics Inc.) have gotten on board with the B612 Asteroid Institute to develop a… Read More

VMware beats Wall Street expectations as reverse merger with Dell Technologies looms

In what might be one of its last quarters as an independent public company, VMware gave investors something to smile… Read More

The largest DDoS attack yet recorded staggered Github on Wednesday

Web companies are starting to get pretty good at deflecting denial of service attacks, and Github and Akamai largely fended… Read More

Salesforce tops analyst estimates on record Q4 revenue, raises guidance for the coming year

The market for Salesforce’s cloud-based sales and marketing tools continues to be hot, as the company posted records for fourth-quarter… Read More

Google beefs up G Suite with some AI, takes Hangouts Chat out of beta

Google added several new features to G Suite Wednesday in hopes of convincing users to rely on its enterprise software… Read More

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

Algorithmia launches blockchain-based protocol for machine-learning algorithm shoppers

Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reminds everyone that his company has in-house silicon expertise

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella trotted out many of his usual lines during an interview this morning, but, unprompted, also chose… Read More

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its… Read More

Dropbox makes it official, files to go public later this year with $1B in 2017 revenue

Dropbox, one of the first cloud-based file-storage services to gain traction among consumers and businesses, has filed to go public… Read More

Microsoft and Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi deepen ties with new AI and cloud partnership

Microsoft and Chinese electronics company Xiaomi agreed to a new strategic partnership focused on artificial and cloud technology, further cementing… Read More

Microsoft’s Guthrie claims Azure is seeing blockchain momentum, but that’s not moving the cloud needle any time soon

Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound… Read More

HPE surprises Wall Street with strong first-quarter results on storage and networking growth

It’s been a rough few years for old-school IT companies, but HPE easily outpaced Wall Street expectations for its first… Read More

Early-bird tickets on sale for the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, board of advisors announced and speaker submissions opened

The Seattle region sits at the epicenter of cloud computing. And that’s why we’re excited to formally announce the return… Read More