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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

GeekWire

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails.

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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

GeekWire

Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

GeekWire

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. An artist’s conception shows D-Orbit’s ION spacecraft deploying smaller satellites. (D-Orbit D-Orbit Illustration).

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Fluid apps, open models, and free markets: Inside the AI-focused Intelligent Applications Summit

GeekWire

Matt McIlwain, Madrona Venture Group managing director, opens the Intelligent Applications Summit at the Four Seasons in Seattle on Wednesday, Oct. Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, speaks at the Intelligent Applications Summit in Seattle on Wednesday, Oct. “Why not? .”

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Ready, Set, Modernize – A Playbook for Application Modernization on AWS

Tech Republic

The typical portfolio for an enterprise is about 1,000 (mostly monolithic) applications—at least according to Dave McCann, vice president at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with responsibility for AWS Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services.

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Getting a foothold in the 5G applications ecosystem

TM Forum

Application developers have a critical role to play in generating innovative uses of 5G networks, as T-Mobile in the US made clear with its recent. Yet there has been no stampede by communications service providers (CSPs) to repeat the attempts made during the early days of 4G to create an application ecosystem.

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Bud Financial helps banks and their customers make more informed decisions using AI with DataStax and Google Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

By Jude Sheeran, EMEA managing director at DataStax When making financial decisions, businesses and consumers benefit from access to accurate, timely, and complete information. GKE empowers organizations to distribute applications effectively across multiple regions, maintaining performance and availability standards.

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