GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. ” Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. Microsoft Graphic).

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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. She joined the Ethics and Society team in 2017 and specialized in cloud and AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. In addition, SAP is also working closely with Microsoft and Google on AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

Westpac decided to increase its investment in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services platform earlier in 2022, to underpin the wholesale modernisation of the bank’s technology environment in a five-year deal to help drive the bank’s digital and hybrid multicloud strategy. Multi Cloud

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2021

Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer and interim chief technology officer at communications company Liberty Latin America. Cloud-based IT management company Apptio promoted Toyan Espeut to chief customer officer.

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CTOvision

MARCH 18, 2019

Microsoft graduated from its rebellious, ’90s, teenage years to become an enterprise leader across some of the hottest computing domains, from software and cloud to analytics and AI. Smart is […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The Series C round is a vote of confidence in Pulumi, which helps developers build underlying cloud computing infrastructure using general purpose languages such as JavaScript and Python.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2021

A series of pictures documents the construction of an Azure Orbital ground station at Microsoft’s data center in Quincy, Wash. Microsoft Azure via YouTube). Microsoft is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center as a founding member, with a mission to strengthen cybersecurity for critical space assets.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

(Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., ” Google Cloud revenue rose 28% to more than $8 billion in the second quarter. .

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

. — 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 previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. She is based in New York City.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In the telecoms sector, Kyndryl is partnering with CSPs as they migrate their legacy IT systems and mainframe computer applications and workloads to cloud and cloud native. This requires the workforce to be fluent in operational technology and information technology spanning cloud and mainframes. external_url.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. 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. Microsoft Photo). Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai The Redmond, Wash., Seattle, Wash.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

. — Peter Petesch , a longtime Microsoft engineering leader, departed after more than 32 years at the Redmond tech giant. He spent the past 11 years as a principal program manager lead for Microsoft Azure. ” Petesch left Microsoft in November and is moving on to “my next adventure.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, given Pinterest is valued upwards of $51 billion. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

(Millworks Analytics Photo) Former Tableau CFO Damon Fletcher is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps tech companies get a hold of their cloud costs amid a surge in spending driven by artificial intelligence. Fletcher recruited former Tableau colleague Michael Arvold to be the company’s co-founder and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. With questions around ROI, increasing outlay, and corporate scrutiny on IT cost savings on the rise, CIOs must know not only what contributes to their organization’s overall cloud spend but also how to optimize it.

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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

MAY 10, 2023

Helion’s co-founders, left to right: Chris Pihl, chief technology officer; David Kirtley, CEO; and George Votroubek, director of research. Helion Photo) Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, with Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, announcing their recent partnership. Microsoft Photo / Dan DeLong) “All partnerships are tactical. ” That’s one of the lessons that business and technology leader Bob Muglia tells the companies he works with these days.

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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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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles.

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TM Forum

JUNE 30, 2021

Microsoft's public cloud in a deal. that involves the software company acquiring AT&T’s Network Cloud platform technology. with Google Cloud to develop and deliver 5G and edge solutions for telcos and enterprises. Microsoft revealed its ambitions in telecom network services last year when it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dopo anni di marcia al ritmo della migrazione al cloud, i CIO stanno diventando sempre più cauti riguardo al mantra cloud-first, comprendendo la necessità di estromettere alcuni carichi di lavoro dal cloud pubblico verso piattaforme in cui verranno eseguiti in modo più produttivo, più efficiente e più economico. “La

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

PwC and Microsoft are committed to developing local AI talent in Saudi Arabia with the launch of an artificial intelligence Centre of Excellence in Riyadh. By investing in local talent, PwC is set to pioneer a new era of technological excellence that will not only serve the Kingdom but also the wider region.

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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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Chronosphere co-founders Martin Mao (left, CEO) and Rob Skillington (CTO). Founded in 2019 by former Uber and Microsoft engineers, Chronosphere offers “data observability” software that helps companies using cloud-native architecture monitor their data. Chronosphere Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2023

With OpenAI’s unveiling of GPT-4 today , its partner Microsoft acknowledged something that had been largely assumed but never confirmed: its AI-powered Bing search engine has been using GPT-4 all along. Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie and CTO Kevin Scott make cameos in OpenAI’s GPT-4 teaser video.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Chipotle IT’s secret sauce Garner credits Chipotle’s wholly owned business model for enabling him to deploy advanced technologies such as the cloud, analytics, data lake, and AI uniformly to all restaurants because they are all based on the same digital backbone. And the cloud is at the center of all that.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Founded in 2021, the startup’s main product is its Data Operations Cloud, acting as a “co-pilot” for data teams to optimize data transfers to and from their cloud warehouses. Before that, he held software engineering roles at Microsoft and Google. (Revefi Photo) Seattle startup Revefi raised $10.5

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2024

Most popular stories on GeekWire Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down — Baskar Sridharan, a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud. The growth in total revenue was driven by the momentum in the company’s total cloud sales (IaaS and SaaS combined), which grew 30% year-on-year to $4.6 Revenue from IaaS was up 66% to $1.5

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

— Audio technology company Sonos named Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to its board of directors. DocuSign announced 20-year Microsoft veteran Kamal Hathi as its new chief technology officer. Hathi departed Microsoft in 2018; at the time he was general manager for Power BI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2024

Mike Amend, Ford’s chief enterprise technology officer, was once CTO for Dell’s global online business. But it is the cloud — and Ford’s cloud-first strategy — that is propelling Ford’s transformation where the rubber meets the road.

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