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

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. — Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He was most recently director of data science for ads at Google.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai Microsoft Photo).

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Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center » Data.

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Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis , the cloud hosting unit of CenturyLink, announced global availability of an infrastructure as a service offering called Cloud Data Center. By: Jason Verge July 25th, 2013. It has a new user interface.

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Cisco Acquires Sourcefire For $2.7 Billion » Data Center Knowledge

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.” “Cisco’s acquisition of Sourcefire will help accelerate the realization of our vision for a new model of security across the extended network,” said Martin Roesch, founder and chief technology officer of Sourcefire. Cisco Targets ‘Data Center 3.0′ Modular Data Centers.

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Silver Lake's Choksi Becomes CEO at Vantage » Data Center.

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Vantage Data Centers. The exterior of the’ V2 data center on the Vantage Data Centers campus in Santa Clara, Calif. Vantage Data Centers has appointed Sureel Choksi as President and Chief Executive Officer, the company said Thursday. Silver Lake’s Choksi Becomes CEO at Vantage. Photo: Vantage).

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27 » Data Center Knowledge

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Servers pack the racks in a Facebook data center. The social network’s data center power usage grew 33 percent in 2012 as it added thousands of servers to support new users. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 6.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop.