Articles about Cloud Computing – Page 5 of 6

Amazon launches U.S. ‘GovCloud’ with plug from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Amazon Web Services is aiming to land more business from the U.S. government and its contractors with the rollout of… Read More

Ignition leads $10 million round in New York’s Apprenda

We’ve been writing a lot lately about how Ignition Partners is transforming itself into a national firm, doing deals wherever… Read More

Ex-Avanade boss Mitch Hill jumps back into the startup world, joins Opscode as CEO

As the founding CEO of Avanade, Mitch Hill once oversaw close to 9,000 employees. In his latest gig, there won’t… Read More

Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved

Amazon.com’s EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to… Read More

Citrix buys Cloud.com, challenges Amazon and Microsoft’s Azure

Citrix Systems announced today that it is acquiring Cloud.com, raising the competitive bar on other cloud infrastructure services such as… Read More

Technology Law: The Dropbox Doth Protest Too Much

Dropbox updated its terms of service last week and a firestorm of controversy ensued. Many thought Dropbox was setting itself up… Read More

Looking to mine data, Amazon backs analytics startup ParAccel

Amazon.com is investing an undisclosed amount of money into ParAccel, a Campbell, California maker of business analytics software that helps… Read More

How Amazon helped groom Zynga for success, and where the alliance heads next

Without Amazon.com, Zynga might not be where it is today. The social gaming powerhouse, which just last week filed to… Read More

Amazon Web Services cuts prices on Data Transfer, CloudFront

Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage back in April, one that caused all sorts of havoc developers. So, here’s… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Meet the 15-year-old who just sold his tech startup

Our guest on the latest GeekWire Podcast was Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore, north of Seattle, who last week… Read More

Ignition, Accel pump $11M into cloud startup ScaleXtreme

Ignition Partners and Accel Partners have invested $11 million in ScaleXtreme, a Palo Alto, California-based cloud computing startup. As a… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: How this 15-year-old built and sold a cloud-computing startup

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we get to talk with Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore’s Inglemoor High… Read More

Comcast shows next-gen Xfinity TV interface, gets help from your Facebook friends

The rise of free online alternatives to traditional cable television means the big cable operators will need to roll out… Read More

Xbox Live plans cloud storage, Facebook friends game matching

Looks like Microsoft’s Xbox Live didn’t have room in the company’s E3 media event this morning for all of its… Read More

Don’t tell the IT guy: Rogue cloud services on the rise

Avanade, the Seattle-based technology consulting company, this week released the results of its third global survey on cloud computing — finding… Read More

Q&A: VMWare CTO Steve Herrod on cloud competition and the future of apps

Steve Herrod, chief technology officer for VMWare, made a swing through Seattle today, amid news that the company is planning a… Read More

Amazon touts 99 cent Lady Gaga album again, and says this time they’re ready

Amazon.com’s first attempt at selling Lady Gaga’s new album for 99 cents didn’t go so well, with the promotion crashing… Read More

Another black eye for Amazon? Hackers may have used AWS in crippling Sony attack

Amazon Web Services has been taking some PR knocks in recent weeks. First, came the massive outage which sparked anger… Read More

Job tips: Expert advice in mobile development, cloud computing, business intelligence

What can people do to better position themselves for emerging jobs in technology? That was a core question earlier this… Read More

Concur posts $84.6M in revenue, swings to loss on TripIt buy

Concur Technologies swung to a net loss during its second quarter largely due to its acquisition of TripIt. The Redmond… Read More

Amazon apologizes for outage, promises big improvements in communication

Amazon.com has issued a formal apology to customers who suffered through last week’s Elastic Block Store outage, offering a 10-day… Read More

Jeff Bezos to shareholders: ‘Invention is in our DNA’

It’s been a tough few days for Amazon.com. The Seattle online retailer took a PR beating after a massive outage… Read More

Geek humor: How Adolf Hitler would have reacted to the Amazon Web Services outage

It was just a matter of time. Amazon.com’s recent Web services outage has been memorialized in a “Downfall” parody on… Read More

Day 2: Amazon Web Services cites progress on cloud glitches, not everyone seeing it

As some sites continue to show signs of Amazon.com’s cloud computing glitches, the company updated its public Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication

Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And… Read More

Massive failure at Amazon Web Services causes havoc for Quora, Foursquare and others

Amazon.com is experiencing a serious outage this morning with its Elastic Compute Cloud and other Web services, causing downtime at… Read More

Microsoft calls Google out after U.S. disputes Google Apps for Gov’t security claim

Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing… Read More

Marooned on Bainbridge, fast-growing Avalara establishes Seattle outpost

We’ve seen high-tech companies — including Google, Microsoft and Tableau Software — open offices on both sides of Lake Washington… Read More

Mozy executive Russ Stockdale on VMware deal: ‘I’d classify it as a transfer of talent’

Mozy has built a big business around online backups. But most people don’t realize that the company’s headquarters is located… Read More

With a common corporate parent, VMware takes over Seattle back-up service Mozy

Now, here’s some complex corporate maneuvering for you. VMware announced today that it is gobbling up Mozy, the six-year-old Seattle… Read More