Cloud Tech – Page 7 of 54

15 years of blogging at Amazon: Lessons in DIY communications from Jeff Barr, the voice of AWS

Back in 2004, when Jeff Barr started a blog for Amazon Web Services, no one was really sure how it… Read More

HBO doubling Seattle engineering outpost, fortifying key tech center for HBO Max development

Like an army assembling troops for an epic conquest, HBO is building its Seattle engineering team to prepare for the… Read More

Facebook reportedly ‘heavily recruited’ Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie — to no avail

Facebook really wanted to hire Scott Guthrie. That’s one revelation from the internal Facebook documents leaked by NBC this week. Mashable… Read More

Former Uber, Microsoft engineers raise $11M for cloud data monitoring tool Chronosphere

Chronosphere, a startup founded by former Uber and Microsoft engineers, has raised $11 million to build a platform that lets… Read More

Microsoft and Nokia reunite for new alliance, 5 years after failed $7B smartphone megadeal

It’s been more than five years since Microsoft’s $7 billion ill-fated acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business, and now the companies… Read More

Microsoft unveils Azure Arc, aiming to fend off Google and Amazon with new hybrid cloud tech

Microsoft has long made hybrid technologies a core part of its Azure platform, letting customers run cloud technologies on their… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Satya Nadella on Microsoft’s new world view, dual-screen devices and Pentagon cloud deal

A lot has changed in the world, in tech and at Microsoft since Satya Nadella published his book, “Hit Refresh,”… Read More

Google Cloud hiring spree: Alphabet adds 6,450 employees in Q3, cites cloud as biggest factor

Google parent company Alphabet grew by a net total of 6,450 employees in the third quarter, up nearly 6 percent… Read More

Amazon ‘surprised’ after Pentagon awards coveted $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to rival Microsoft

The Department of Defense announced Friday it is awarding the coveted $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military’s war… Read More

Amazon Web Services approaches $9B in quarterly revenue, but growth slows again, missing analyst expectations

Amazon Web Services yet again powered the tech giant’s bottom line in Q3, but for the second quarter in a… Read More

F5 Networks and Amazon Web Services team up in cloud partnership of Seattle tech giants

F5 Networks and Amazon Web Services inked a multi-year cloud deal that will bring together the sales teams from the… Read More

SAP and Microsoft team up on 3-year cloud deal, strengthening relationship between tech giants

SAP and Microsoft struck a three-year partnership to help companies move their data to the cloud, a move that tightens… Read More

It’s true: Amazon has been profitable for nearly two years, even without AWS cloud windfall

Amazon has compiled a run of record profits over the last few years. There’s a perception that the highly profitable,… Read More

Singapore investor ST Telemedia will buy majority stake in Seattle-based cloud provider 2nd Watch

Singapore-based investor ST Telemedia has agreed to take a majority stake in 2nd Watch, a 9-year-old Seattle cloud services startup.… Read More

Oracle plans to hire 2,000 cloud workers; hundreds of open positions listed in Seattle

Oracle wants to ramp up its cloud business, and what better place to grow and pick off engineers than in… Read More

Universal blood test from Microsoft and Adaptive is a Google-sized data challenge

A novel effort from Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies to diagnose multiple diseases from a single blood test is a data… Read More

Shujinko raises $7.5M to help companies comply with regulations as they shift to the cloud

About three years ago, Matt Wells and Scott Schwan had a huge task ahead of them. They were charged with… Read More

First look: Inside Google Cloud’s new Seattle campus — right across the street from Amazon

Google and Amazon are officially next-door neighbors in Cloud City. Google Cloud on Thursday officially opened up the first portion… Read More

Amazon launches AWS IQ, a marketplace of third-party cloud experts for on-demand projects

Amazon.com opened up its online retail marketplace to third-party sellers early on, shaking up the e-commerce industry and extending the… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: AI and faith, a LEGO convention, advice for hardware startups, and more

– Advances in artificial intelligence raise new questions about the future of humanity. But what will AI mean for faith?… Read More

Interview: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on AI, the cloud and the bank’s big bet on Seattle tech

Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman, will visit Seattle on Wednesday, which happens to be a key date… Read More

Tech company Chef won’t renew U.S. immigration contracts, changing course amid employee activism

Software engineers are powerful players in the technology industry. Typically, they exercise that power to negotiate sky-high salaries that companies… Read More

The unicorn that got away: HashiCorp’s journey from Seattle to SF to billion-dollar cloud company

First things first: the “Hashi” in HashiCorp is pronounced haw-shee. Not hash-ee. But don’t worry, most people get it wrong,… Read More

Oracle adds its digital assistant to Microsoft Teams, building off new cloud alliance between tech giants

Oracle and Microsoft’s cloud partnership took another step forward Tuesday. Oracle announced that its digital assistant can now be used… Read More

Microsoft and Disney aim to speed up movie and TV production with new ‘scene-to-screen’ cloud deal

Microsoft and The Walt Disney Co. agreed to a five-year deal to leverage the tech giant’s cloud prowess to speed… Read More

How Stackery found its new CEO: Puppet exec Tim Zonca ‘met the spec’ for serverless startup

The board of Portland-based startup Stackery had a specific wish list in its search for a new CEO after the… Read More

Skytap partners with Microsoft, brings its cloud service for legacy apps to Azure

Skytap today announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as the company continues its shift to becoming a capability within public… Read More

Pulumi takes on cloud juggernauts with flagship product for deploying infrastructure as code

Seattle startup Pulumi is formally launching its technology for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud, looking to land new… Read More

Indictment says accused Capital One hacker also used exploited cloud servers for cryptojacking

Updated with Vodafone statement. A federal grand jury indicted Paige Thompson, a former Amazon engineer, on multiple counts of wire… Read More

Cloud services company Skytap lays off 25 workers in first major change under new CEO

Enterprise cloud services company Skytap is laying off 25 employees, or around 12 percent of its workforce, in an effort… Read More