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Tech Moves: BECU hires first chief data officer; Amazon exec to depart; and more

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Erickson, a former executive at early Seattle tech software sales company Egghead Software, founded Know Labs in 2003. Praveen Seshadri left Google as a distinguished software engineer. He previously co-founded AppSheet, which was bought by Google, where he stayed for three years after the acquisition.

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Allen Institute hits 20 years on the frontier of bioscience, and Seattle will be all aglow

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Check the institute’s website to sign up for in-person or virtual attendance.) Back in 2003, the institute was devoted exclusively to brain science, with the goal of creating the Allen Brain Atlas and mapping the role of genes in brain development.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 17, 2020

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

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Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. These factors will prevent some global companies from successfully deploying bandwidth-hungry enterprise IT strategies worldwide, such as virtualization and data center consolidation. – bg.

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Microsoft and VMware vet Paul Maritz backs social app built on promise of user privacy

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But he also has a longstanding interest in the intersection of technology and personal data, as reflected in his founding in 2003 of Pi Corp., a Seattle-based company that made software for managing personal information. Cox’s prior startup, virtual infrastructure company Evostor Inc. ,

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Guess what: Windows Server is still around

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Forbes is asking the question if solutions like Docker mark the end of virtualization. Without getting into the debate of how containers can be a compliment to virtualization, it got me to thinking about how out of touch the tech news media is with the enterprise. General Virtualization'

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Why I Might Leave OS X

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I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system.