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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

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(Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. He led teams working on various cloud-related services and platforms, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and the Azure AI Platform. chief research officer Leslie Wood.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

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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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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

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. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

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in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. This builds on the growth that the company posted in the quarter previous to this period , and in a time when the company launched its first small business offering. In the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M

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Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

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“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. as chief of staff, the Seattle fund’s first hire. Jen Haller.

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Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

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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).