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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy

GeekWire

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. Jassy led AWS since the cloud computing business launched in 2006.

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Former Facebook, Dropbox, Amazon, Convoy leaders are building a secretive new Seattle startup

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Linda Lian , a former associate at Madrona Venture Group and senior product marketing manager at Amazon Web Services, is leading a group that also includes: Tom Kleinpeter , most recently a principal engineer at Dropbox who sold a music streaming startup to the cloud giant in 2012. He spent nearly eight years at Dropbox.

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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Minarik joined Amazon in 2005, prior to the launch of Amazon Web Services, and was most recently the head of global data center supply. Binde previously held senior engineering roles at Google, Nordstrom and Persistent Systems.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. Before 2007 and the birth of the cloud computing market we are witnessing today, the on-premise model hosted in large local data centers dominated enterprise storage. is already with us.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. on the West Coast. billion. —

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Update: Amazon disputes analyst report saying Prime growth has plateaued in U.S.

GeekWire

However, the company does report revenue from subscriptions, which includes “annual and monthly fees associated with Amazon Prime memberships” in addition to other subscriptions not associated with the Amazon Web Services cloud division. Amazon Prime has undergone several price increases since its launch in 2005.

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Inside Nasdaq’s AI-fueled pivot to SaaS provider

CIO Business Intelligence

Nasdaq, which went public in 2005, employs 7,000, roughly 3,000 of which are devoted to its massive IT organization, which develops an expanding range of technology products, including the trading system, security and surveillance software, and, increasingly, SaaS.

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