Cloud Tech – Page 29 of 54

K2 CEO and co-founder Adriaan Van Wyk is out as software company looks for cloud experience

K2, the Seattle-area software company, plans to announce Wednesday morning that CEO and co-founder Adriaan Van Wyk has stepped down… Read More

Drill, baby, drill: Seattle’s DataCloud raises $8M for its cloud-based mining software

DataCloud, a Seattle-headquartered startup that has developed a real-time cloud-based service for helping miners assess the quality of the rocks… Read More

Microsoft admits that the Meltdown/Spectre patches will hit Windows Server performance

After several days of dodging questions about the performance impact of patches designed to fix the Meltdown/Spectre chip design flaws,… Read More

Enterprise cloud company Acumatica expands technology into construction industry

Enterprise cloud software provider Acumatica unveiled a new suite of services Monday designed to help construction companies see and update… Read More

Report: Intel creates new group to focus on hardware security amid Meltdown and Spectre fallout

As the public fallout from a 20-year-old design flaw that left Intel processors unprotected continues, the company told employees Monday… Read More

A week later, the long-term impact of the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws is starting to become clearer

Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip… Read More

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What are Meltdown and Spectre? GeekWire’s guide to the problems with the world’s computer chips

Meltdown and Spectre. You’ve probably been hearing these terms a lot. These are vulnerabilities discovered in many of the computer… Read More

Software as a Service in 2018: Artificial intelligence and new apps are reshaping a key cloud sector

First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is… Read More

Report: Snowflake Computing poised to raise a second massive funding round in less than a year

Cloud data-warehousing company Snowflake Computing is about to raise a $270 million Series E funding round that would catapult the… Read More

Intel, cloud vendors shed more light on two major chip security issues that emerged this week

Hours after reports spread about design flaws in Intel processors that could have compromised an enormous number of computers, the… Read More

Updated: Cloud vendors secretly scramble to patch critical flaw in Intel chips, performance hits expected

Update 5:30pm: Intel held a press conference Wednesday afternoon after this was published, and several researchers released a lot more… Read More

Microsoft acquires flash storage pioneer Avere Systems, less than a year after Google investment

Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a Pittsburgh-based company that leverages flash storage to optimize the process… Read More

Amazon Web Services reportedly named its cloud database RedShift in order to tweak Oracle

Oracle has been the loudest of the legacy enterprise tech vendors when it comes to attacking the leader of the… Read More

The Cloud in 2017: Amazon Web Services shows no signs of slowing during the year of Kubernetes

2017 was an interesting year the cloud, one that saw both the continued power of Amazon Web Services over the… Read More

What is the GDPR? GeekWire’s guide to new European data protection laws that impact the cloud

This May, a sweeping new data protection law will go into effect across Europe that will change the way tech… Read More

Amazon Web Services reportedly eyeing expansion into Saudi Arabia

As the world’s leading public infrastructure cloud company looks for growth in 2018, it looks like Amazon Web Services is… Read More

Where to find the 10 most valuable SaaS startups based in the Seattle area

It’s now well established: Seattle is cloud city. But in the shadow of major platform players Amazon and Microsoft, a… Read More

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans… Read More

Google, NCAA team up on cloud marketing deal, will digitize 80 years of sports data

Ever wondered who was the best basketball player in the Pac-10 in 1982? If that trivia item has been bugging… Read More

Disappointing cloud revenue growth hurts Oracle shares after second-quarter earnings report

Oracle topped Wall Street estimates for revenue and profit Thursday as it continues to turn its battleship in the direction… Read More

Google adds one-time cloud-holdout Etsy, months after Amazon rolled out its own craft shop

Over the last few years, Etsy was something of a stalwart supporter when it came to the virtues of maintaining… Read More

Bellevue single sign-on startup Auth0 names co-founder Eugenio Pace its new CEO

Almost six months after it raised a $30 million Series C funding round, Auth0 announced this week that CEO Jon… Read More

Facebook will build two new data centers in Eastern Oregon by 2021

Eastern Oregon is building quite the reputation as the home of the West Coast data center, and Facebook added to… Read More

How Microsoft’s Brendan Burns is trying to make cloud-native app deployment as easy as coding

Writing software is hard enough, but deploying that software to the cloud is much, much harder. Microsoft’s Brendan Burns, who… Read More

As massive growth awaits, Amazon Web Services adds second region in China

Cloud computing in China is going to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the tech economy over the next… Read More

Cloud services provider BitTitan lays off 15% of staff, plans to ‘get back to our startup roots’

Cloud services provider BitTitan has laid off 15 percent of its workforce as the Bellevue, Wash.-based company reorganizes itself. The… Read More

As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh

AUSTIN – If 2017 was the year of Kubernetes within the cloud-native computing movement, 2018 looks like it might be… Read More

Kubernetes in 2018: When the going gets good, the good get boring

AUSTIN – Backers of the open-source Kubernetes container-orchestration project could be forgiven for taking a victory lap this week at… Read More

Interview: Bob Muglia, Microsoft veteran and Snowflake Computing CEO, on databases and a changing Seattle

Tech is supposed to be a young person’s game, which makes the perspective of someone like Snowflake Computing CEO Bob… Read More

Born on the cloud but behind the times: How Pinterest doubled down on containers and Kubernetes

AUSTIN – Pinterest was one of the first clear cloud-computing success stories: now valued at over $12 billion, the massive… Read More