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Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates

Storage IO Blog

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. The post Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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HashiConf 2017 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

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.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

If you look at Amazon’s journey, and the way they run their data centers, they claim to be five times more energy efficient than an average data center.” Choice closed one data center last year and plans to close its second data center in 2023.

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Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services had embarked on a data center building boom to handle soaring demand as attendees gathered for its 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Eleven data center deals are now the subject of a suit by Amazon vs. two former AWS real estate managers and others. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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Liveblog: VMworld 2017 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. The evolution of virtualization, according to Gelsinger, lead to the virtualization of the entire data center. However, there are still challenges, and Gelsinger announces VMware Skyline, a service to provide better service and support to customers. (He

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

GeekWire

She has worked for Qualtrics, which has dual headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, since 2017. GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO. “The technology changes all the time. . Francis was most recently an engineering leader at AWS.

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What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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