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Cloud Tech

GeekWire’s Cloud Tech channel breaks news and explores key trends in cloud computing, DevOps, enterprise technologies and more. Story ideas? Email tips@geekwire.com.

OpenStack’s public cloud dreams are still dreams, but emerging tech trends offer new hope

OpenStack, an open-source project that early backers once thought could provide an alternative to Amazon Web Services, has fallen decidedly… Read More

F5 Networks tops Q4 estimates after cutting costs, but revenue outlook disappoints investors

Seattle’s F5 Networks ended its 2017 fiscal year on an up note, posting revenue and net income that exceeded analyst… Read More

HashiCorp raises a $40M Series C round as more businesses realize they need help with the cloud

Moving your applications to the cloud isn’t always as easy as those selling cloud services would like you to believe.… Read More

New version of Microsoft’s Azure Container Service offers managed Kubernetes, with free clusters

Microsoft plans to step up its support for Kubernetes, announcing plans Tuesday for a new managed Kubernetes service that promises… Read More

Two new open-source security projects are joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The organization at the heart of modern open-source cloud-computing standards has taken another two projects under its umbrella, tackling container… Read More

Cray teams up with Microsoft to offer Azure customers new supercomputing options

Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to… Read More

Wall Street likes databases, as MongoDB soars over 30 percent in its IPO

Shares of fast-growing cloud database provider MongoDB closed well above the initial asking price of $24, finishing the day at… Read More

Google’s Deepmind AI unit releases new version of AlphaGo that learns on its own

Deepmind, the artificial intelligence research organization owned by Google, announced some stunning results Wednesday from research into the next generation… Read More

New partnership between Apple and GE another sign the industrial internet is getting real

Software developers interested in creating applications that use GE’s Predix cloud-based industrial analytics services have a new mobile outlet for… Read More

Docker acknowledges reality, adds support for Kubernetes to its container technology

Docker was one of the few companies attempting to compete with the white-hot Kubernetes container-orchestration open-source project, but when you… Read More

Microsoft unveils Azure Government Secret to help U.S. agencies handle classified data

More and more government agencies are realizing the benefits of cloud computing, and Microsoft is poised to unveil several new… Read More

Oracle expanding in Seattle with big new office lease, escalating cloud battle with Amazon

Post updated with comments from Oracle Oracle is significantly boosting its presence in Amazon’s backyard with a new lease in… Read More

Amazon Web Services chief Jassy on HQ2 plans: ‘That’s above my pay grade’

As cities across the U.S. fall all over themselves to pitch themselves as the best destination for Amazon’s second headquarters,… Read More

New open-source project led by Google aims to help companies track the history of their software

A large amount of modern software development involves re-using components from older applications, open-source projects, and across teams within a… Read More

How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella got Wall Street to look past its cloud battle with Amazon Web Services

About a year after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella became the third chief executive officer in the company’s history, he outlined… Read More

How do you succeed in tech? ExtraHop CEO Arif Kareem thinks you must invest in people

Tech startups tend to break through in their early days with a game-changing product or an irresistible service, but companies… Read More

Google and Puppet strike partnership deal designed to ease migration to the cloud

Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their… Read More

New Salesforce IoT Explorer Edition lets marketing automate campaigns generated by IoT data

As the Internet of Things becomes a thing, adopters are generating lots of data that isn’t necessarily making its way… Read More

With Datacastle acquisition, cloud storage company Carbonite looks to grow in Seattle

Carbonite became one of Seattle’s latest arrivals with its acquisition of Datacastle earlier this year, and it’s evaluating expansion plans… Read More

SEC filing shows Docker is raising a $75 million funding round

Docker has been pretty quiet in the months since Steve Singh was named CEO of the once white-hot container startup,… Read More

Report: The Pentagon plans to increase its use of cloud computing in security push

After his recent trip to the West Coast to check out how cloud tech companies are fending off cybersecurity attacks,… Read More

Microsoft adds support for Java to its Azure Functions serverless service

Developers interested in using Java to build serverless apps using Microsoft Azure Functions will now have that option, Microsoft plans… Read More

Microsoft Azure fire system glitch shows why everyone benefits from transparent cloud outage reports

Outage reports issued by most cloud companies tend to be meaningless exercises in brevity, designed by lawyers and put into… Read More

Oracle cloud acquisitions bear fruit, with a new serverless platform and container services

Eager to court developers and tech executives who have long seen it as a cloud also-ran, Oracle unveiled a new… Read More

New AI-oriented cloud business apps and a blockchain service highlight Oracle OpenWorld news blast

Oracle unveiled nearly a dozen new products and services Monday morning on the second day of Oracle OpenWorld 2017, beefing… Read More

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison slams Amazon Web Services in OpenWorld keynote, also mentions new database product

Given an hour in front of thousands of his company’s most important customers Sunday evening, Oracle co-founder and executive chairman… Read More

How Microsoft became a destination for a new generation of open-source developers

An old tongue-in-cheek journalism canard suggests that once something has happened three times, it’s a trend. Along those lines, when… Read More

With a focus on stability and security, Kubernetes 1.8 is ready for container management

The latest version of Kubernetes shows that the white-hot container-orchestration technology is increasingly focused on making it sure the core… Read More

Portland’s Stackery releases management console for aspiring serverless developers

Serverless development is still a new concept among mainstream software developers, many of whom are still wrapping their heads around… Read More

Gartner: Amazon Web Services on top of the public cloud, as Alibaba gains the most ground

The top four major public cloud vendors all grew faster than the overall market last year, according to a new… Read More

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