Cloud Tech – Page 37 of 54

Microsoft Azure’s Scott Guthrie: Serverless technology will drive further cost reductions in the cloud

New adopters of cloud computing services marvel about the cost efficiency they’re seeing compared to their traditional infrastructure, but Microsoft… Read More

Microsoft’s new internal video hub, Microsoft Stream, is now generally available

Microsoft Stream, a video service that helps companies organize those boring training videos for their employees, is now generally available,… Read More

Adam Bosworth, VP, Amazon Web Services (Linkedin photo)

Tech vet Adam Bosworth directing mysterious Amazon Web Services project at crux of non-compete dispute

There’s a lot we still don’t know about the mysterious Amazon Web Services project that prompted the company to sue… Read More

Chinese tech giant Alibaba joins key open-source cloud computing foundation

Kicking off a week in which it plans to encourage American businesses to invest in China, Alibaba Group announced plans… Read More

Why is PitchBook shifting its infrastructure to microservices? Because speed wins

Customers of PitchBook, a Seattle-based investment guidance company, need up-to-the-second information to make decisions about their money during the trading… Read More

Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition might take some cloud revenue off Microsoft’s table

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Friday also took a major customer away from its closest rival in the… Read More

It’s business, and it’s personal: How Amazon Web Services decides to enforce non-compete contracts

Career decisions are always stressful, but employees at Amazon Web Services face an additional source of anxiety when evaluating new… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any… Read More

Is Make.TV the new Elemental? Seattle video cloud startup raises $7.2M

Seattle’s Make.tv, a cloud-based video management portal, has raised $7.2 million in new funding and aims to raise a total… Read More

Mount Rainier in the distance, viewed from MemSQL's new Seattle office.

MemSQL’s real-time in-memory data warehouse is now ready for the cloud

Companies that want real-time data for analytics but prefer a cloud native or hybrid cloud infrastructure strategy have a new… Read More

Microsoft’s open-source redemption tour continues, joins Cloud Foundry Foundation

Microsoft’s once-unthinkable evolution into a major open-source player continued Tuesday with its decision to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Microsoft… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Amazon Web Services AI exec: How cloud computing is driving artificial intelligence breakthroughs

Artificial intelligence research is still in its infancy, at least as compared to computer science in general, but the concept… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud customers will have an East Coast region option starting in 2018

Amazon Web Services will open a second region for its GovCloud customers next year, moving its government-services cloud closer to… Read More

China’s QingCloud hits unicorn status with latest funding round of $159M

QingCloud, a Chinese cloud computing company, is now worth over $1 billion after completing a financing round of 1.08 billion… Read More

Amazon’s suit against former AWS VP hints at bigger move into workplace collaboration

Amazon is one of the most notoriously tight-lipped companies in the tech industry when it comes to discussing its future… Read More

Amazon Web Services planning new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services plans to build a new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia, in the same general area that… Read More

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Bundle

Bellevue’s DimensionalMechanics releases the engine behind its AI templates

Bellevue-based DimensionalMechanics wants to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence models to companies across different industries that can’t afford to develop their… Read More

Inside GeekWire’s first-ever Cloud Tech Summit in ‘the cloud capital of the world’

“Cloud computing is the new operating system.” That’s what one venture capitalist said on stage at the inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech… Read More

Facebook’s AI training models can now process 40,000 images a second

Artificial intelligence researchers at Facebook have figured out how to train their AI models for image recognition at eye-popping speeds.… Read More

Shippable releases a server version of its devops tool, giving on-premise teams new tricks

Seattle-based devops startup Shippable plans to release the server version of its flagship product Thursday, giving IT shops looking to… Read More

Here’s how venture capitalists are thinking about cloud computing companies and technologies

Cloud computing is changing the technology world and creating opportunity for hundreds of new companies — so how are investors… Read More

Cloudy with a chance of profit: Cloud drives value for tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft

Three hundred billion dollars and growing: that is the size of the cloud market in front of Amazon, Microsoft and… Read More

Google continues to emphasize its cloud tech chops as it scrambles to catch AWS and Azure

Despite a lot of grumbling that Google needs to improve its enterprise sales outreach to properly compete in the cloud,… Read More

Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’

Google’s Seattle expansion is no secret, but the search giant hadn’t gone into much detail about which groups would work out… Read More

Apptio, which helps CIOs monitor IT spend, reveals which cloud platforms customers are adopting

Apptio sits at a unique position in today’s rapidly-changing enterprise technology world, as the Bellevue, Wash.-based publicly-traded company helps CIOs understand spending… Read More

Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie on competing with Amazon, and standing out in the cloud

Amazon and Microsoft are at the top of the food chain in the growing cloud world, battling for everything from customers… Read More

Spinnaker, an open-source project for continuous delivery, hits the 1.0 milestone

Spinnaker, an open-source project that lets companies improve the speed and stability of their application deployment processes, reached the 1.0… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Swami Sivasubramanian on the future of AI in the cloud

It’s pretty clear that the next big battleground for public cloud providers will involve artificial intelligence. Just as companies like… Read More

Seahawks legend and former Congressman Steve Largent on tech, sports, politics and Trump

To say Steve Largent has kept busy after an illustrious 14-year NFL career would be an understatement. The former Seattle… Read More