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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

CIO Business Intelligence

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East.

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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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Adam Selipsky, the exit interview: Amazon Web Services CEO on AI, competition, and the future

GeekWire

“The opportunities and the challenges for AWS abound, and I think it is still Day One for the cloud, including AI in that.” ” — outgoing Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky. Selipsky: The opportunities and the challenges for AWS abound, and I think it is still Day One for the cloud, including AI in that.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

Research by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has uncovered concerns that cloud users’ established commitments with hyperscalers may limit their future cloud computing options. The study focused on perceptions of their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

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Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo office

GeekWire

LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. The cloud giant also said in January it would invest around $15 billion by 2027 in Japan. Tadao Nagasaki.

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AWS has acquired encrypted messaging service Wickr

CTOvision

Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to government and military groups and enterprises.

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Amazon Web Services debuts 5-week accelerator for clean energy startups

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. The company will select 10 participants. The Seattle-based cloud and online retail giant is partnering with Freshwater Advisors ? Some 53 companies have signed on. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).