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Greening the cloud: How Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pursuing the goal of renewable power

Cloud computing and electric vehicles have something in common: they both obscure the source of their power. Often EV owners are… Read More

Here’s why you’re seeing the Amazon Web Services logo during the World Series

Baseball fans probably don’t think too much about cloud computing. But they are certainly being exposed to Amazon Web Services… Read More

Patching desktops and wrangling genomes: Meet the pioneering CIO who’s bringing the fight to cancer at Fred Hutch

If Seattle’s prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is going to use cloud computing power to help eradicate cancer, then… Read More

Amazon Web Services

Study: AWS has 45% share of public cloud infrastructure market — more than Microsoft, Google, IBM combined

Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) —… Read More

Amazon without AWS? Online retailer would have posted big loss if not for booming cloud business

Imagine this scenario: Amazon posts a $286 million operating loss for the third quarter, its sixth losing quarter in 2.5 years. Frustrated… Read More

Amazon Web Services third-quarter sales climb 55%, reaching a record $3.2 billion

Amazon Web Services generated a record-breaking 9.9 percent of its parent company’s net sales for the quarter ended Sept. 30,… Read More

Michael Wasyluka

Tech Moves: Simply Measured names Michael Wasyluka as new CEO; AWS adds VP of cloud architecture; and more

Simply Measured, the Seattle-based social media analytics company, has named current COO Michael Wasyluka as the new CEO. Sameer Kazi, who… Read More

Big DDoS attacks affect some Amazon Web Services customers, but AWS chief Andy Jassy assures cloud is secure

Some Amazon Web Services customers were affected by Friday’s massive DDoS internet attacks, AWS chief Andy Jassy acknowledged today during… Read More

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services expands its budgeting feature, aiming to help cut cloud-computing costs

The days of cloud computing being only for early adopters are long past, as almost half (48 percent) of large… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touts Azure’s advantages over market-leading Amazon Web Services

Microsoft shares hovered around an all-time high this morning after Thursday’s strong quarterly earnings report that beat expectations and was bolstered in large part… Read More

Google Cloud Platform simplifies storage options and cuts prices in bid to compete with Amazon

Google Cloud Platform today moved to compete more directly with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, revamping its storage offerings,… Read More

Surveillance, drones and crime prediction: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services tout cloud services at law enforcement show

Video surveillance-as-a-service in Detroit, automatic crime prediction in California and live-streaming police drones — all with a cloud connection —… Read More

Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy dismisses diatribe by Oracle’s Larry Ellison

A month after Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison spent the better part of an hour trash-talking Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Virtualization meets the cloud: VMware strikes wide-ranging alliance with Amazon Web Services

Virtualization giant VMware is partnering with market-leading public cloud provider Amazon Web Services to offer a version of VMware’s virtualization… Read More

IBM says its new Cloud Object Storage allows easily moving and splitting data

IBM has announced Cloud Object Storage, a service it said lets organizations store large volumes of unstructured data on any combination… Read More

Testing out Amazon’s ‘Internet of Things’ button: Infinite possibilities, requiring infinite patience

You’ve probably seen those colorful Amazon “dash buttons” that will automatically reorder food, paper towels, detergent and even condoms with… Read More

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services to offer security, analytics and IoT

AT&T will partner with Amazon Web Services, letting joint customers use AWS’s cloud services over AT&T’s worldwide network. The multi-year deal — terms… Read More

Amazon Web Services will partner with VMware, Fortune reports

Fortune is reporting that rivals Amazon Web Services and virtualization firm VMware next week will make up and pledge to… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft likely to hang onto their cloud leads, journos say at GeekWire Summit

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will likely hang onto their first- and second-place rankings, respectively, in the public-cloud arena, three… Read More

Microsoft Azure cuts prices on its virtual machines

Just weeks after Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie declared that cloud pricing wars with Amazon Web Services were winding down,… Read More

Amazon announces plan to open Paris-area web services region

Amazon Web Services next year will add a new geographic region to its worldwide network of data centers, this one… Read More

Microsoft sees ‘staggering’ potential for blockchain technology as it releases new ‘Bletchley’ template

Microsoft has released version 1 of Bletchley template for Azure, which lets users create a distributed-ledger, or blockchain, network with minimal knowledge… Read More

Oracle’s Ellison rips Amazon Web Services on performance, price and openness

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison unleashed a flurry of punches against Amazon Web Services this afternoon at the OpenWorld users’ conference, making… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Amazon’s lead in cloud is over

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally… Read More

Amazon is building a massive wind farm in western Texas — its largest yet

To satisfy the voracious energy appetite of Amazon Web Services’ cloud data centers and other parts of Amazon’s business, the… Read More

Microsoft Azure boss Scott Guthrie: Cloud price war with Amazon Web Services is winding down

A few years ago, most of the cloud-computing headlines were about price cuts, as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services battled… Read More

Microsoft scored a ‘takeout’ against Salesforce with HP win, says cloud chief Scott Guthrie

Microsoft registered a “takeout” against Salesforce when it won a six-year contract yesterday to provide Dynamics CRM to HP Inc., said Scott Guthrie,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: An inside look at Amazon Web Services, advice from Alliance of Angels, and more

Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing sectors in tech, and Seattle is an integral part of this revolution… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure best serve app developers, new Forrester study concludes

The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research… Read More

How Hillary Clinton’s tech chief wrangles a 70-person team using agile development, Amazon Web Services and goofy awards

Hillary Clinton’s technology team has built more than 50 software tools and products to date — a surprise even to… Read More

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