Cloud Tech

Can Seattle become a financial technology hub? Why some tech leaders are banking on it

Madrona Venture Group managing partner Tom Alberg has witnessed and participated in the rise of the aerospace, wireless and e-commerce… Read More

Stackery CEO steps down as serverless technology startup seeks new leader for its next phase

Stackery CEO and co-founder Nate Taggart is leaving the serverless software development startup, telling employees in a message that he… Read More

JPMorgan Chase expands Seattle engineering center to 100 people, plans to add hundreds more

JPMorgan Chase is building a major technology engineering center in Seattle, quietly growing to 100 people in its first year… Read More

Amazon Web Services rolls out Control Tower and Security Hub, courting big business customers

After seven months in preview, Amazon Web Services on Monday night announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower and… Read More

Podcast

Slack vs. Microsoft: Inside the competition to reshape how work gets done

If you tuned into the news this week, you probably heard one name over and over again. Slack, the workplace… Read More

No Slack for you! Microsoft puts rival app on internal list of ‘prohibited and discouraged’ software

As Slack makes its stock market debut, there’s a major company that won’t be allowing its employees to use the… Read More

DHS moving biometric screening system to Amazon Web Services amid debate over government tech

The Department of Homeland Security is migrating the system it uses to search for people using biometric data to Amazon’s… Read More

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Podcast

Interview: Slack CTO explains the company’s tech strategy in its quest to rid the world of email

Workplace chat and collaboration technology company Slack is set to become a public company on Thursday, with implications for a… Read More

Acumatica acquired by global private equity firm in bid to take on Oracle, Microsoft and other business software giants

In what it calls an attempt to take on global enterprise software giants including Microsoft, Oracle and Sage, Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More

Microsoft’s GitHub acquires Pull Panda, will integrate code review tools into its platform

Microsoft-owned GitHub has acquired Pull Panda, a startup that makes code review tools for developers using GitHub. Pull Panda’s products… Read More

Microsoft shrugs off CERN’s planned “Microsoft Alternatives” transition to open-source software after price hike

Citing unbearable price increases after Microsoft decided it was no longer eligible for an academic discount, CERN announced this week… Read More

Multicloud is here, and it will level the playing field for everyone, according to Seattle cloud CEOs

As cloud computing matures, more and more companies are looking to diversify their IT spending across different vendors, and that’s… Read More

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Amazon Web Services’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is preparing for a future in which data lives forever

Ridding themselves from the burden of managing hardware is one of the primary reasons why companies are moving their technology… Read More

Dropbox unveils a brand-new design and user experience for its desktop app

Dropbox introduced a new desktop application Tuesday that brings a new look to the file-sharing service as well as new… Read More

Seattle startup Pulumi unveils new service for brand-new Amazon Web Services customers looking for help

If you want to take full advantage of cloud computing and providers like Amazon Web Services, it helps to have… Read More

Microsoft’s M12 venture fund leads $25M round for API marketplace RapidAPI

Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are essential building blocks of the online apps and connected services we use everyday. That’s… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy supports federal regulation of facial-recognition technology

After widespread criticism of Amazon Web Services’ decision to sell cloud-based facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, CEO Andy Jassy… Read More

Microsoft adds some no-code AI and blockchain tools to its Power Platform

Microsoft plans to announce several improvements to its Power Platform later on Monday, including a new tool that will make… Read More

Kubernetes Panel - GeekWire Cloud Summit 2019

Kubernetes at 5: Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie on its past, future, and the true value of open source

At a time when open-source enterprise software is at a crossroads, wracked by debates over licensing and monetization, Kubernetes stands… Read More

Inside the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit: Cloud leaders brace for the coming ‘data explosion’

There were several themes running through the sessions of our third annual GeekWire Cloud Summit Wednesday, but one thing is… Read More

Google acquires Looker for $2.6 billion to add its business intelligence software to Google Cloud

Google is getting deeper into enterprise software with the $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker, which makes business-intelligence software for data… Read More

Seattle is the ‘landlord’ of the internet, thanks to Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud prowess

Depending on the day, Amazon and Microsoft are the two most valuable companies in the U.S., and a big part… Read More

Is AI overhyped? Cloud startup CEOs call out proliferation of trendy technology

The world’s biggest technology companies are pouring billions of dollars into developing sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities, but its usefulness in… Read More

Microsoft and Oracle will link two of their East Coast data centers, promising better performance for mutual customers

Oracle and Microsoft announced a partnership Tuesday that will allow mutual customers to run workloads within both Azure and Oracle’s… Read More

Another open-source database company will tighten its licensing strategy, wary of Amazon Web Services

Cockroach Labs, the New York-based database company behind the open-source CockroachDB database, will change the terms of the license agreement… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Summit FAQ: What to know for Wednesday’s conference featuring tech leaders from Slack, Microsoft, AWS and more

Our biggest technical conference of the year — the GeekWire Cloud Summit — is taking place Wednesday. Here’s everything you… Read More