article thumbnail

The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

The z900 also had one of the longest periods of follow-on service, at 8.5 years, a record it shares with the z114, launched in September 2011 and destined to be supported through December 2022. The future of mainframe-as-a-service. Fujitsu’s and IBM’s plans to offer mainframe-as-a-service are interesting for a number of reasons.

article thumbnail

Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down

GeekWire

LinkedIn Photo) — Baskar Sridharan , a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team. He will remain on the board of the digital remittance company he helped start in 2011.

CTO 109
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

GeekWire

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

CTO 84
article thumbnail

Top Website Design Companies in India For Design & Development Web Services

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Top Website Design Companies in India For Design & Development Web Services - Information Technology Blog. Established In: 2011. Prime Services: Logo & Brand Identity. They are pioneers in web solutions from 2006. Prime Services. Web Application Development.

article thumbnail

Data warehousing startup Snowflake confidentially files for IPO, could reach $20B valuation

GeekWire

Snowflake’s data warehouse is a specialized type of cloud database built for analytical applications. Snowflake partners and also competes with other cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Frank Slootman, who ran ServiceNow as chairman and CEO from 2011 to 2017, now leads the company.

Data 135
article thumbnail

Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

article thumbnail

Data warehousing Snowflake confidentially files for IPO, could reach $20B valuation

GeekWire

Snowflake’s data warehouse is a specialized type of cloud database built for analytical applications. Snowflake partners and also competes with other cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Frank Slootman, who ran ServiceNow as chairman and CEO from 2011 to 2017, now leads the company.

Data 52