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Amazon Web Services generated $2.4B in sales during Q4, up 69% from last year

Amazon’s cloud computing business continues to rake in substantial amounts of cash. Amazon Web Services generated $2.4 billion in net… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the battle over the cloud: ‘It’s a Seattle race’

Tech giants everywhere are fighting for their slice of the cloud pie, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during an… Read More

Box teams up with IBM on cloud storage, making new inroads in the enterprise

IBM and Box are teaming up in an effort to bring a smarter, more centralized cloud-storage model to enterprise customers. Box will integrate… Read More

Blue Box founder Jesse Proudman on private clouds, bootstrapping and why he sold to IBM

Before IBM swooped in to buy Blue Box, the Seattle cloud computing startup entertained at least one other offer. Blue… Read More

Greenpeace blasts Amazon in latest cloud energy report, lauds Apple

Despite making a commitment to use more renewable energy to power its datacenters, Amazon was blasted in a new report… Read More

Azure Premium Storage becomes generally available for high-performance data needs

Microsoft announced today that Azure Premium Storage, a service providing high-performance data storage for users of its Azure cloud platform,… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing unit is worth up to $50B, analyst says

Starting this year Amazon shareholders will know exactly how much revenue the company generates from its cloud computing business when it starts to… Read More

Alibaba opens first U.S. data center, challenging Amazon in the cloud

Alibaba is opening a data center in Silicon Valley — its first outside of China — stepping up its competition with Amazon… Read More

Amazon will break out Amazon Web Services financials in 2015; AWS usage up 90% in one year

Amazon investors and the public will soon have a better idea of how much revenue the company generates from its cloud… Read More

Amazon and Google wrestle over corporate secrets in cloud employment dispute

Google is seeking to formally intervene in a lawsuit filed by Amazon against a former Amazon Web Services employee who left the… Read More

Oracle to hire 100+ engineers in Seattle for new cloud infrastructure center

Seattle’s status as a cloud engineering hub just went up another notch with Oracle’s announcement that it’s opening a new Cloud Infrastructure… Read More

New York Times profiles Seattle as ‘the new center of a tech boom’

Seattle’s reputation as a leader in cloud computing is getting serious national attention. The New York Times today ran a… Read More

Ingram Micro invests in Parallels, in new alliance

Technology distributor Ingram Micro, one of the quiet giants of the industry, is making an equity investment in virtualization and… Read More

Titanfall or Titanfail? Will Microsoft’s cloud technology hold under pressure?

Microsoft will be center stage tonight as Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall begins to roll out at midnight across the globe. Not only… Read More

Ignition scores big return as cloud startup ServiceMesh sells to CSC for $158M

Bellevue venture capital firm Ignition is celebrating today after enterprise cloud management startup ServiceMesh of Santa Monica, Calif. was sold to… Read More

Portland’s CPUsage raises $925K for high performance cloud computing platform

There’s no doubt that cloud computing has made life easier for thousands of businesses around the world. But sometimes setting… Read More

50% of Fortune 500 uses Windows Azure, Microsoft says

Microsoft’s cloud is gathering steam, according to new data released by the company today. Like Amazon and Google, Microsoft is… Read More

Amazon’s huge $600M cloud contract with CIA now up in the air

Back in March, it appeared Amazon had hit a home run with a $600 million cloud computing deal with the… Read More

Parallels opens Johannesburg office, partners with African cloud service providers

Parallels, a privately-held company based in Renton, Wash., today announced an expansion into South Africa to help African service providers… Read More

Amazon Web Services targets bigger companies, going toe-to-toe with Microsoft

Amazon Web Services’ partner network has grown to more than 4,000 members, up from less than 1,000 a year ago… Read More

Parallels nabs cash from Cisco to bolster cloud efforts

Parallels announced today that it has received an investment of undisclosed size from Cisco, money that the Renton-based company will… Read More

Netflix nightmare explained: Amazon apologizes for outage

What happened at Amazon Web Services to take down the Netflix streaming service for hours on Christmas Eve? It was a… Read More

Outage at Amazon Web Services takes down Netflix on Christmas Eve

The elves at Amazon.com are hard at work tonight trying to fix yet another outage at Amazon Web Services. The… Read More

Amazon’s new cloud services may blow your mind

At Tuesday’s Structure:Europe event, Amazon.com’s CTO Werner Vogels hinted that “there are things coming down the pipe you wouldn’t believe,”… Read More

Microsoft and TechStars tap 10 startups for new Windows Azure Accelerator

After receiving 600 applications, Microsoft this morning named 10 startups to participate in its Windows Azure Accelerator, a three-month program… Read More

NFL adopts startup’s technology to detect concussions in real time

The National Football League may not be making all the right calls on the field, but an agreement with a… Read More

Nebulous ‘cloud computing’ term baffles most Americans

Geeks like us hear the words “cloud computing” almost every day, using it ourselves to explain a host of different… Read More

Why tech startups are like rappers, and more gems from Box CEO Aaron Levie

Box CEO Aaron Levie is widely known for cracking jokes on Twitter. When Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement, for… Read More

Big data startup SpaceCurve lands $3.5 million

Seattle big data startup SpaceCurve has pulled in $3.5 million in new financing, including investments by Reed Elsevier Ventures and new… Read More

Confirmed: Paul Maritz steps down as CEO of VMware

It’s official. Paul Maritz has resigned as CEO of VMware, the giant virtualization company that he’s run for the past… Read More