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Strata + Hadoop World is March 13–16, 2017 in San Jose, CA

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Strata + Hadoop World 2017 (happening March 13–16 in San Jose) has its strongest program ever. Sessions on essential topics like Data Science & Advanced Analytics, Enterprise Adoption, Real-time Applications, Spark (& Beyond), and Stream Processing & Analytics—nearly 180 sessions to choose from. Bob Gourley.

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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. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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Generative AI hackathon in Seattle encourages entrepreneurs to tinker with ‘magic wand’

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.” Generative AI is taking the tech world by storm and has already developed to the point that a full stack ecosystem exists, allowing for the rapid prototyping and development of a new generation of applications and innovations. We’ve increased the size and yet we’re still massively oversubscribed.” to 8:00 p.m.

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Madrona leads $27M round in Twitter vets’ Fauna database startup; Bob Muglia named chairman

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Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is leading a $27 million investment in Fauna , a company founded by two former Twitter engineers that is positioning itself as a leader in databases for a new generation of applications. Evan Weaver, Fauna co-founder and CTO. Madrona Venture Group Photo, 2017).

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo). Dave Heiner.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. When we first talked to Societe Generale Group about opening the AWS region, Carlos Goncalves, Head of Global Technology Services, said, "We are delighted to learn that Amazon Web Services will open a region in France.

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Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

GeekWire

Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. “Oracle’s CAPEX has been declining in absolute and relative terms since 2017.

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