GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2020

The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in Redmond, Wash. next year, just three miles away from Microsoft’s headquarters. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

(Amazon Image) Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q , the AI assistant unveiled by Amazon Web Services last fall. Amazon is charging $20/user per month for Amazon Q Business, and $25/user per month for Amazon Q Developer.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. Axiom Space is also partnering with Microsoft Azure and LEOCloud on a separate project to put cloud infrastructure in orbit.).

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2020

Shares have surged more than 200% since the pandemic began as more people rely on the company’s software to work and socialize due to shelter-in-place orders. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan gave a special shout-out to longtime partner Amazon Web Services and its CEO Andy Jassy for helping the company meet demand. Zoom Chart).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) — Microsoft executive Charlie Bell joined the board of directors of customer engagement software giant Twilio. Bell is executive VP of security, compliance identity and management at Microsoft, and is a member of the company’s senior leadership team.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, given Pinterest is valued upwards of $51 billion. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Microsoft says it was able to mitigate a 2.4Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack in August. The attack targeted an Azure customer in Europe, and was 140 percent higher than the highest attack bandwidth volume Microsoft recorded in 2020. Image: Microsoft. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2023

Garudayagari has more than 20 years of enterprise software experience. He worked in various roles at Microsoft, where he helped build the SQL server, incubated multiple Azure platform services, and integrated third-party services onto the cloud. Oleria, which landed $8 million in March, sells access management software.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Panos Panay, the Microsoft chief product officer overseeing the Windows and Devices division, introduces Windows Copilot at Microsoft Build in May. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Panos Panay , the Microsoft chief product officer who oversees the Windows and Devices division, is leaving the company in a surprise departure. .

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2021

Amazon, which one year ago barred police from using its facial recognition software, is extending that moratorium indefinitely. The online retail giant first withheld use of the software by law enforcement last year when waves of protests erupted in cities across the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd during an arrest.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

Seeq’s software: Founded in 2012, Seeq’s analytics software is used by industrial manufacturers to collect and analyze data. It has close partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Seeq CEO Steve Sliwa. Seeq Photo). or, “How much of my product was manufactured under those conditions?”.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Pablo Castro, distinguished engineer on Microsoft Azure’s AI team, demonstrates the Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft has a solution. The tech giant says it will soon make the generative AI chat technology available as part of its Azure OpenAI Service , which was made generally available on Monday.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Founded by two brothers who previously worked at Microsoft and Amazon — Lokesh Taneja and Vishal Taneja — Cloudshim aims to help companies manage cloud infrastructure services and track associated cloud costs. ” The software currently supports Amazon Web Services users but will soon expand to Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. .

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Mark Nelson is stepping down as CEO of Tableau Software, less than two years after he took the helm of the Seattle-based data visualization company owned by Salesforce. He became CEO in March 2021, filling a vacancy created when his predecessor, Adam Selipsky, was named CEO of Amazon Web Services and replaced current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2023

. — Teresa Carlson , a longtime tech executive who was most recently a corporate vice president at Microsoft, joined Flexport as its new president and chief commercial officer. Carlson spent the past eight months at Microsoft as a CVP and executive-in-residence; she previously was a vice president at the company from 2001 to 2010.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., Last year, Phillips joined Stripe after leaving Microsoft but departed one month later.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

(Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft). Microsoft says its researchers have found evidence of an exotic phenomenon that’s key to its plans to build general-purpose quantum computers. Microsoft has chosen a particularly exotic technological strategy, which involves inducing quantum states on topological superconducting wires.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Microsoft says its cloud security tool, Defender for Cloud, now supports Google Cloud, in addition to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure. Read More.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Seeq raised another $28 million for its analytics software used by industrial manufacturers to collect and analyze data. It has close partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Founded in 2012, Seeq helps customers across various industries — oil and gas; food and beverage; metals and mining; etc.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. Altogether, the campaign aims to to train as many as 250,000 new cybersecurity workers in the country by 2025, most of whom will work for businesses other than Microsoft. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong). government agencies.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

A new Amazon service called Honeycode promises to let non-developers quickly create interactive web and mobile apps without knowing how to develop software. Amazon is looking to defend its lead as the top public cloud platform against rivals such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

Gert Drapers and Omri Gazitt have more than six decades of experience working in engineering and product leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, HP Cloud, Puppet, and Hulu. Now they’re teaming up on a new startup building authorization-as-a-service software. Aserto announced a $5.1

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Seattle startup that describes its product as the “world’s fastest spreadsheet” just raised $3 million to take on the likes of Microsoft and Google with a spreadsheet tool designed for complex analysis or big datasets. Fresen was a principal software engineer working on the S3 storage service.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses his book, Tools and Weapons, at a 2019 event in Seattle. Microsoft President Brad Smith says the U.S. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella convened a daily meeting with the company’s top security experts. A new paperback edition includes three new chapters. 11 attacks. .

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TM Forum

JULY 13, 2021

This excerpt from our new report, Exploring marketplaces for software & services, explains why communications service providers (CSPs) are optimistic about the potential for owning marketplaces and participating in them. The Amazon Marketplace has forever altered how people (and companies) buy goods and services.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Emily Freeman. before considering my next role.”

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

Microsoft has acquired Suplari , a Seattle startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and get a handle on their spending. The software serves as an alternative to compiling data in an app such as Excel or Tableau and having a team of analysts comb through the information themselves. Suplari Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon reached an agreement that clears the way for former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell to start his new job leading a newly formed cybersecurity engineering organization inside the Redmond tech company. Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

To alleviate India’s severe oxygen shortage, Microsoft worked with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to provide oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India. FedEx Photo via Microsoft). Taking action: In a blog post Wednesday, Kate Behncken, head of Microsoft Philanthropies, laid out what the Redmond, Wash.-based

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. Unlike traditional partner software defined solutions that relied on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, VMware is being deployed using private bare metal AWS elastic servers.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2024

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, right, speaks with Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas on Nov. He also spent more than 12 years at Microsoft. Amazon’s investment included a commitment by Anthropic to make Amazon Web Services its main cloud provider. He earned a Google Ph.D.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Explosive growth in cloud applications has depressed software license sales, and cloud platforms have upended the traditional on-premises server and storage market. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services. Read more.

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