CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. “We’re providing a much simpler model for developers,” he said. million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. Why limit yourself to just saying, ‘We need a network upgrade to move to the cloud,’ when you can also make other suggestions?

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

T-Systems is the latest European communications service provider (CSPs) to announce national data services for organizations, as telcos’ legal teams grapple with tough questions around managing customer data within the cloud. T-Systems has said it is partnering with Google Cloud to build and deliver. sovereign cloud services.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit , a new Seattle startup aiming to help developers with software integration capabilities, has raised a $3.3 Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. Fusebit Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

(Amazon Image) Sarah Rhoads , who previously led Amazon’s aviation operations as vice president of Amazon Global Air, was promoted to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations. Rhoads joined Amazon more than a decade ago after an 11-year career with the U.S.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

. — Kim Swift has been named the senior director of cloud gaming for Xbox Game Studios Publishing. In her new role at Xbox, Swift will work on innovation and collaborating with independent studios to build games for the cloud, according to an announcement Monday. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Gulabani previously worked at Microsoft and Google. “After 12 years at AWS taking databases and analytics from a tiny startup to the biggest player in the cloud database space, I left Amazon last month. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. based Absci.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems. The 25-year veteran of Microsoft left in August to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Freeman is the author of “DevOps for Dummies” and “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.” Ketelsen joined in July 2022 and was a principal developer advocate. Dr. Timothy Dellit. (UW

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APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. contract with the U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Longtime Microsoft executive Brad Anderson is moving back to his hometown in Utah as part of his new role at Qualtrics. Brad Anderson, a longtime Microsoft corporate vice president, has joined Qualtrics as president of products and services. He joined Microsoft in 2003 as a general manager after 12 years at Novell.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Microsoft Photo). Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Pulumi Photo) As more companies move to the cloud and adopt AI tools, Seattle startup Pulumi is looking to capitalize. Startup wins contract to inspect space debris: NASA awarded Tukwila, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. We have a very diversified portfolio,” says Morin, who oversees roughly 1,000 IT employees within the company’s technology arm but estimates that between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in total are developing, selling or servicing JLL’s software.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Microsoft Photo). Microsoft added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Christopher Young as executive vice president of business development. based cloud automation company Puppet named two new board appointments as it preps for an IPO next year. Christopher Young. Vacasa raised $108 million in June.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Former Microsoft Corporate Vice President Marc Brown joined EQT as a partner and global head of EQT Growth, a new strategic initiative focused on technology. The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. Seattle startup ThruWave hired Lance Troutman as vice president of sales. tech giant.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Seattle cloud services provider Skytap announced Chris Min as its new CFO. Skytap Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. It’s bigger than working on interesting problems. I can tell you he didn’t come for the weather,” Rau jokes.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI will continue to be a growth area for the company, driving “the next major wave of computing.” ” But Microsoft, which last week announced the layoff of 10,000 employees , isn’t saying exactly how much it’s investing, or how much of OpenAI it will own as a result.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Tech leader and Microsoft Deputy CTO Lila Tretikov to lead Cervest Board of Directors. Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. . Rubenstein spent more than five years as regional vice president of marketing cloud sales for Salesforce.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Dev Stahlkopf, departing Microsoft general counsel. Microsoft Photo). After 14 years at Microsoft, Dev Stahlkopf is joining Cisco in August as executive vice president and chief legal officer. She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2018.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. Techstars and Microsoft vet Dave Malcolm is executive director of the accelerator. (F5 Prior to that, she served as CISO at Oracle Cloud and PeopleSoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

OpenAI’s November 2022 announcement of ChatGPT and its subsequent $10 billion in funding from Microsoft were the “shots heard ’round the world” when it comes to the promise of generative AI. in concert with Microsoft’s AI-optimized Azure platform. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. Six startups have at least one active co-founder with Microsoft ties. And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Microsoft alum Kelly Waldher has joined Google as vice president of marketing for G Suite. During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. At the time of his departure, he was general manager of Microsoft 365. At the time of his departure, he was general manager of Microsoft 365.

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JULY 9, 2020

Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. Seattle hybrid cloud storage startup Qumulo appointed Adriana Gil Miner as its chief marketing officer. contract management startup Icertis. Adriana Gil Miner.(Qumulo Qumulo Photo). Brian Smith.

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