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The US Leads In Public Cloud Services, But Other Regions Are Catching Up

Forrester IT

Public cloud services are one of the biggest disruptions in the tech market in the past 15 years. In September 2016, my colleagues Andrew Bartels , Dave Bartoletti , and John R. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services.

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AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote with Andy Jassy

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the Wednesday keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016. Today’s keynote is led by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. In support of this point, Jassy talks about AWS’ extensive regions, availability zones, and the plethora of application services that AWS offers. Lightsail packages will start at $5/month.

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Scientists share a wiring diagram tracing connections for 200,000 mouse brain cells

GeekWire

MICrONS was funded in 2016 with $100 million in federal grants to the Allen Institute and its partners from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity , the U.S. The data collection, which is now publicly available online , was developed as part of the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks program, or MICrONS for short.

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Your Choice: Cloud Technician or Digital Transformer

Cloud Musings

CloudMASTER® training and certification is comprised of three courses with exams: NCTA Cloud Technologies that provide an overview of cloud computing that will help you develop a deep understanding of the models and understand the landscape of technologies used in the cloud and those employed by users of cloud services.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

GeekWire

Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. Day has held marketing roles at Amazon Web Services and sales engagement startup Highspot. Spitzer retired in 2017 from Google where he oversaw operations for Google Glass and developing VR hardware. Carmen Rojas.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

Grant Thornton’s partnership with Microsoft began when the firm scuttled its Mitel VoIP phone systems in favor of Skype for Business in 2016, just as Swift took over as CIO. The desktop as a service also gives Swift’s IT team the ability to instantly deliver Windows 365 desktops to new employees and contractors on any device they want.

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Amazon will have a new CEO as Jeff Bezos transitions to executive chair later this year

The Verge

Andy Jassy , who currently serves as CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), will replace Bezos as Amazon CEO. He has led the Amazon Web Services team since it was founded in 2003 and was named the CEO of AWS in 2016. Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it’s consuming.