Articles about Cloud Computing – Page 4 of 6

Cloudability raises $8.7M to ID spikes in cloud spending

The Foundry Group has led an $8.7 million series A financing round in Cloudability, a Portland upstart that helps companies… Read More

Can Google outflank Amazon in the cloud? Here comes Google Compute Engine

Google is taking direct aim at Amazon.com in tablets, with yesterday’s announcement of the Nexus 7. Today, it is a… Read More

Amazon Web Services blames power loss for outage that’s knocking some sites offline

Amazon Web Services is once again experiencing hiccups, suffering service interruptions that are knocking some sites offline. The problems are… Read More

Ex-AOL tech chief lands cash for stealthy cloud computing startup Concurix

Concurix, a Kirkland cloud computing startup led by former AOL Chief Technology Officer Alexander Gounares, has raised a fresh round of… Read More

Madrona’s Matt McIlwain: Silicon Valley has a bad case of indigestion and may be ready for a correction

On Tuesday, we caught up with Madrona’s Matt McIlwain to talk about his firm’s new $300 million venture fund and… Read More

Cloud storage startup Symform raises $11 million

There’s been a steady stream of venture capital activity in Seattle enterprise software companies in recent weeks, from the $50… Read More

Microsoft reaches carbon goal, but Greenpeace says its cloud is still too dirty

Reaching a goal it established three years ago, Microsoft says it has reduced its carbon emissions as a proportion of its… Read More

Raveld reveals Klout-like score for cloud spending on AWS

It may start getting easier to make optimal Amazon Web Services purchasing decisions. Or, at least, less expensive. Raveld, a… Read More

Amazon’s DynamoDB: What it is, and why it matters

Guest Commentary: Amazon Web Services this morning announced a new service called DynamoDB — rolling out, in public form, a… Read More

Amazon launches ‘DynamoDB’ cloud database service

Amazon Web Services has been dropping hints about a big announcement planned for this morning, and this is it. The… Read More

Q&A: Facebook engineering VP Jay Parikh explains what they look for in developers (and much more)

One of the first things that struck me upon entering Facebook’s 17-month-old engineering office in downtown Seattle today was the… Read More

New Zealand cloud computing company sets up shop in Seattle

GreenButton, a New Zealand company that helps businesses more easily move information to the cloud, has established new offices in… Read More

Ignition, Trilogy bankroll cloud database startup Xeround

Cloud database startup Xeround has reeled in $9 million in venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital. Seattle area… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Road trip leads to disaster recovery startup Doyenz

You’ve got a lot of time to think when traveling by RV from South Carolina to Washington state — a… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Vizua looks to bring medical image viewing into the future

Started by former Microsoft employees and a French scientist, Vizua is looking to transform the way radiologists share MRI, CT and… Read More

Parallels names new finance and tech chiefs, prepping for possible IPO and acquisitions

Parallels, known for its software that lets Windows run on Macs, has hired new finance and technology chiefs, aiming to… Read More

Data furnaces: The next big thing in home heating?

Data centers produce massive amounts of heat, so much so that companies like Facebook have gone to extreme lengths to… Read More

Ignition’s Frank Artale leads $15M round in ServiceMesh

Back in August, I interviewed Frank Artale of Ignition Partners about the torrid investment pace that he’d engaged in since… Read More

EMC boss Joe Tucci loves being in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft

EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci is in Seattle today, celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new 140,000 square foot… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Lightning strikes (literally) to create online backup startup Newline

Entrepreneurs often talk about when lightning strikes, that special a-ha moment when inspiration hits. But for former Microsoft engineer Kory… Read More

Users report Gmail outage

At about 11:25 a.m. Pacific time today, my connection to Gmail failed on both my PC and my Mac. And… Read More

Rappin’ for TappIn to make files available wherever you wander

There’s no shortage of services that allow consumers to access files in the cloud, from Dropbox to Box.net to SugarSync… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Educating the next generation of geeks

In honor of back-to-school season, this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast comes with an educational theme — featuring excerpts… Read More

Hotmail, MSN suffer outage

My wife just tried to log on to her Hotmail account, but no dice. A few minutes later a GeekWire… Read More

Maritz sees Windows PCs below 20% in era of cloud, devices

Paul Maritz is now the CEO of VMware, but he was previously the longtime chief of Microsoft’s platforms group —… Read More

Amazon Web Services bracing for Hurricane Irene in Virginia

Seems like Amazon.com’s data center in Northern Virginia just can’t catch a break lately. And now here comes Hurricane Irene. Officials… Read More

Q&A: Ignition’s Frank Artale is one very busy VC

Frank Artale is new to the venture capital business, so maybe he didn’t get the memo. After all, most VCs… Read More

Microsoft teams with China’s top Linux vendor in the cloud

Microsoft and China Standard Software Co. plan to work together develop and sell cloud cloud computing technologies in the country. The… Read More

Microsoft explains Office 365 outage, offers customer credit

Microsoft’s new Office 365 cloud-based service took a hit this week when customers were unable to access email and other… Read More

Microsoft cloud service Office 365 hit with outage

We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and… Read More