CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8% Wall Street analysts expect the company to report net sales (revenue) of $131.5

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The investment and expanded partnership includes a commitment by Anthropic to make Amazon Web Services its main cloud provider. billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 and its $8.5 That partnership has given the Redmond company new momentum in deploying AI in its own products and for its cloud customers.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing to the International Space Station. This won’t be the first time NASA has connected the space station to cloud computing services. NASA Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals. However, U.S.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Firebrand, the leader in Accelerated Learning , has recently announced it's 2017 delivery schedule for their accelerated CloudMASTER® training course. You’ll learn how the technologies work in each cloud system, from multiple perspectives. You’ll learn how the technologies work in each cloud system, from multiple perspectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In the US, Aggio, founded in 2016, offers a cloud-based sales and market-intelligence platform. Agriculture Industry, Cloud Computing

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

The deal at that price tag would be Amazon’s second largest behind its 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7 ” Amazon competes with Netflix, Hulu, Disney and other streaming services and has had major awards season success at the Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes, among others.

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2023

He served in 2017 as co-chair at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Amazon Web Services India and Southeast Asia President Puneet Chandok stepped down. During his tenure as CEO of Acumatica, Roskill led the enterprise cloud software startup, which was acquired by private equity firm EQT Group in 2019.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing filed for an IPO on Monday, revealing its financial data for the first time as the company prepares to go public. Snowflake’s data warehouse is a specialized type of cloud database built for analytical applications. All three competitors offer their own data warehousing service.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote (general session) at HashiConf 2017 in Austin, TX. Speakers today will (apparently, based on the schedule) include someone from Amazon Web Services and Kelsey Hightower from Google. It’s Kubernetes (on a cloud provider) with Consul and Vault on top, and a bit of Nomad mixed in.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing is aiming to go public. 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.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 26, 2021

Bell was a longstanding, high-ranking Amazon Web Services executive, once considered a potential successor to Andy Jassy as AWS CEO — giving him a level of influence, experience, and insight well beyond many of the former AWS executives at the center of past non-compete disputes.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

It gave us the opportunity to invent a new database architecture that would address to needs of modern cloud-scale applications, departing from the traditional approaches that had their roots in the databases of nineties. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

A lot of this was, in recent years, borne out of a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services, so Choice became able to benefit from cost savings and energy efficiencies, while utilizing many related services AWS offers—such as analytics and AI—to advance its digital offerings. Cloud is just a tool to help you get there.

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2021

Amazon’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS) already has a managed blockchain service. Amazon.com doesn’t accept cryptocurrency as payment, but a spokesperson told Insider that the company was “inspired by the innovation happening in the cryptocurrency space and are exploring what this could look like on Amazon.”.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017. Amazon uses Prime Video as one of many perks — including free shipping, cloud storage, etc. — Brad Stone, author of the new book “ Amazon Unbound ,” wrote this week that Bezos gathered Amazon media execs in 2017 and said, “I want my Game of Thrones.”

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Bezos said in 2017 that he was selling $1 billion a year to fund his Blue Origin space venture, but he has been increasing the size and frequency of the stock sales recently. Amazon’s stock price soared last year to record-highs amid the pandemic as the company’s e-commerce, cloud computing, and advertising arms have boomed.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. and the numerous improvements there, but quickly shifts his focus to the public cloud.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In a sign of the broader tech spending slowdown, revenue for Amazon Web Services grew just 20% in the fourth quarter, compared to 40% growth in the year-ago period. Amazon warned in October that companies were cutting their cloud spend and said that continued in Q4. billion, with $5.2

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Wang recognized the need for a more formal organization and co-founded AWIP in 2017. In 2019, she moved to Seattle to work for Amazon and now has the role of general manager of AWS Backup at Amazon Web Services. A Coursera course on product management and an upcoming course on cloud fundamentals jointly created with AWS.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These are in addition to core businesses of online and physical stores, Amazon Web Services, and advertising. ” Addressing the Whole Food Markets chain, which Amazon acquired in 2017, Jassy said he “really liked the progress that [Whole Foods] has made on profitability in the last year.” ”

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Cloud computing startup Snowflake Computing is aiming to go public. 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.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fans might not be able to engage in football by attending NFL games in person at the start of the upcoming season, but they can dive deeper into the sport thanks to new Next Gen Stats powered by Amazon Web Services. With no stadium crowd, NFL to use pumped-in noise.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Valid8 Photo) Founded in 2017 and a graduate of Techstars Seattle, Valid8 recently raised $1.25 ” The startup is built on Amazon Web Services, making it “much more secure than your average IT infrastructure,” McCall said. ” Valid8 co-founder and CEO Chris McCall. That follows a $6.3

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy was named Amazon’s next CEO this week. ” The interviewer was Andy Jassy, the Amazon Web Services leader, during a session with Carlile at the virtual AWS re:Invent conference. . Amazon Photo). In hindsight, it was a glimpse into the personality of Amazon’s next CEO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Seattle-based firm invested in 2017 when the company’s valuation was around $500 million, said Madrona Managing Director S. In 2017 Madrona invested in a Series E round for healthcare startup Accolade, which opened a second headquarters location in Seattle in 2015. Soma” Somasegar. Accolade went public earlier this year. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

Amazon first took over streaming rights for “TNF” from Twitter in 2017. Beyond broadcasting, Amazon’s relationship with the NFL extends to the league’s use of Amazon Web Services as its official cloud and machine learning provider. billion a year, or $14.5 billion over the length of the deal.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Wilke was long considered a leading candidate to succeed Jeff Bezos as CEO; Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will replace Bezos later this year. GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). Customers include Toyota, Samsung, the DoD, PayPal, and Etsy.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. and opened a Seattle office in 2017. Janine Corey. Qumulo Photo). Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. .

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2020

Bob Muglia, the former Microsoft executive, who was most recently CEO of cloud data warehouse company Snowflake, is joining the 40-person company as executive chairman. Madrona Venture Group Photo, 2017). based company that makes technology for tracking IT and cloud services spending.

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GeekWire

MAY 1, 2021

and served as the president of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture from 2003 to 2017. At the same time, heavyweights ranging from Amazon and Microsoft to Lockheed Martin are looking into ways to extend cloud computing to the space frontier. It’s the latest big move for Meyerson, who lives in Tacoma, Wash.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday, at its annual re:Invent conference, said that it was adding new machine learning capabilities to its cloud-based contact center service, Amazon Connect.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2022

In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new case management feature, dubbed Amazon Cases, to its Amazon Connect cloud-based contact center service. The question is who does AWS want to compete with?

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

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). Icertis is valued at $2.8

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