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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. But he sought to assure the virtual audience that AWS is not even close to its zenith, citing the 96% of the estimated $3.6 Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo). A recent U.S.

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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event

GeekWire

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. Startup of the Year, presented by BCRA. Young Entrepreneur of the Year, presented by ALLTech. Deal of the Year: IPO and Acquisitions, presented by WSGR.

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Graviton progress: 50% of new AWS instances run on Amazon custom silicon

Network World

Half of all instances spun up on Amazon Web Services over the past two years used Graviton, Amazons custom silicon built on Arm processor technology, rather than x86 processors. The new Graviton4 instances, called R8g, support up to 8GB of memory per virtual processor and up to 192 processors.

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NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper

Cloud Musings

GovCloud Presentations. NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper: Paper Clarifies the Confusion Surrounding PaaS for Federal IT Buyers—Why It Is Important and How It Can Cut Development Costs by 50 Percent. Cloudcuity Secure, Unified Cloud Management and Control Services. Cloud Musings on Forbes.

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Fountainhead: Follow IT's Money: A Survey of IT Financial.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Other more sophisticated IT finance tools then allocate those costs to projects and/or organizations across the enterprise, and some even integrate that data into other finance applications (See this Blog by Paulo Prazeres on the topic). Web Services).

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How the NHL is using AI to predict key moments in games

GeekWire

Brant Berglund, senior director of coaching and GM applications at the NHL, demos new statistics the league is rolling out in partnership with Amazon Web Services. I checked out the action at Climate Pledge — named after Amazon’s carbon neutral initiative — and ran into Amazon Web Services chief Adam Selipsky.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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