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Ex-Apple engineers raise $7.5M for new Seattle data storage startup

GeekWire

A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. XetHub lets engineering teams do something similar, but for data storage alongside code in their Git repository. He also previously worked at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.

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Azure adds new infrastructure, storage, and networking products

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Microsoft launched a set of new infrastructure, storage, and networking products during its enterprise-focused Ignite 2021 conference. Read More.

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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

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Founded in 2021 by former engineers at Amazon Web Services, the company is targeting a wide range of customers that use Row Zero for business intelligence, finance, operations, marketing, and more. Fresen was a principal software engineer working on the S3 storage service.

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Amazon’s departing cloud chief: Gen AI can be ‘one of the biggest opportunities AWS has ever seen’

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Adam Selipsky, shown here at AWS re:Invent in November 2023, is working his last day as Amazon Web Services CEO today, before longtime AWS executive Matt Garman takes over the top job next week. When Selipsky rejoined AWS as its CEO in early 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, the run rate was $54 billion.

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AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’ in new revenue

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Microsoft is seeing customers start new projects driven entirely by AI, which leads to increased consumption of other Azure services (i.e., storage and computing). billion , with operating income of $266 million, compared with a $440 million loss in the same quarter last year, fueled in part by demand for AI and data services.

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Amazon cloud chief Adam Selipsky hints at new directions for AWS as re:Invent begins

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Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services CEO. Amazon Web Services this week is holding its first re:Invent conference without Andy Jassy at the helm of the tech giant’s cloud unit. He cited the AWS Cloud Contact Center service for call centers as an example. Amazon Photo).

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft chief partner officer Nicole Dezen described the changes as making it easier for enterprises to bring software they had licensed to a partner’s cloud — for example running applications on Windows 11 on multi-tenant servers — and for service providers to build and sell solutions more easily in their preferred cloud.