Cloud Tech

Progress makes layoffs at Chef after $220M acquisition, says it remains committed to roadmap

Business application platform Progress is making an unspecified number of job cuts at Chef after completing its previously announced $220… Read More

As ‘low-code’ competition grows, Microsoft integrates Power Apps with GitHub and Teams

One of T-Mobile’s most important applications is one its customers rarely see. It’s called ORBIT, and apart from the requisite… Read More

Acumatica jabs at SAP Concur with new expense reporting features in latest challenge to tech titans

Business technology company Acumatica expanded its expense reporting capabilities as part of a broader wave of product updates this week,… Read More

Chef to be acquired for $220M by Progress in ‘next chapter’ for Seattle automation tech company

Updated below with details from interview with Chef CEO Barry Crist. Business application platform Progress will acquire Seattle-based automation technology… Read More

Amazon tears into Trump after Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract

[Updated at 3 p.m. Pacific on Friday, Sept. 4.] Amazon issued a searing response Friday to the Department of Defense’s… Read More

Seattle startup Cloudentity raises $13M to expand identity and authorization tech

Seattle startup Cloudentity announced a $13 million Series A investment round to grow its security software. The startup helps Fortune… Read More

Former Amazon, Microsoft engineers raise $120K for Seattle cloud startup Cloudshim

A new startup out of Seattle called Cloudshim just raised $120,000 to help grow the company’s self-serve cloud management platform.… Read More

Cloud startup Snowflake reveals financials in IPO filing as it battles Amazon, Microsoft, others

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the… Read More

Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. When… Read More

DoD requests one month extension on JEDI reevaluation decision

[Update, Tuesday Aug. 11: U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith granted the one-month extension in an order today.] The… Read More

F5 Networks software revenue jumps 43%, as CEO offers vision for applications as ‘living organisms’

F5 Networks continued to benefit from its expansion into software and services, boosting revenue by 4% overall to $586 million,… Read More

Amazon uses Twitch technology for new AWS live interactive video service

Amazon Web Services is giving content creators a new way to include live streaming video into their apps and websites… Read More

Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M

Portland, Ore.-based cloud automation company Puppet today announced a $40 million funding round from BlackRock. Founded 15 years ago, Puppet… Read More

Seattle’s newest billion-dollar startup: Qumulo reaches unicorn status with $125M round

Qumulo is joining an elite club of Seattle startups. The company just announced a $125 million funding round that propels… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed… Read More

Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of… Read More

Meet the ‘chief availability officer’: Salesforce names Seattle-area exec to unusual C-suite role

Salesforce, the San Francisco-based cloud company known for its flagship customer relationship management software, has created a new C-suite role:… Read More

AWS ‘Honeycode’ makes Amazon a player in booming no-code software movement

A new Amazon service called Honeycode promises to let non-developers quickly create interactive web and mobile apps without knowing how… Read More

Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ

The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot… Read More

Data warehousing startup Snowflake confidentially files for IPO, could reach $20B valuation

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing is aiming to go public. Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that the company has… Read More

Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches

Amazon is seeking a court order to keep Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, from… Read More

Slack expands Amazon partnership, will switch to AWS Chime infrastructure for user calls

Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded… Read More

Chef hits key financial milestone as digital boom fuels demand for software automation

Chef CEO Barry Crist delivered the opening ChefConf keynote address on video from his Seattle home on Tuesday morning, with… Read More

Microsoft reportedly teamed up with Oracle to fend off Amazon for the Pentagon’s JEDI contract

The Information revealed Monday how Microsoft had a “secret ally” — Oracle — to help land the coveted Joint Enterprise… Read More

Amazon rips Microsoft for ‘spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis’

Amazon took a swipe at Microsoft’s cloud computing technology performance this week, calling out the company’s “spotty operational performance during… Read More

Microsoft slams Amazon’s latest protest over Pentagon cloud contract as ‘a way to avoid the consequences of its own bad business decisions’

Amazon is once again challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft. Amazon… Read More