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Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

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Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. The hire is a coup for Microsoft’s Azure arm in its cloud computing battle with AWS, the market leader in the sector. Update: Microsoft declined to comment.

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Dark Data - A Business Definition - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Dark Data - A Business Definition. All of these definitions are true, but somewhat limited.

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Amazon senior cloud exec Charlie Bell is leaving the company after more than 23 years

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Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. ” In a virtual appearance last year at an industry conference , Bell described his time at AWS as “14 years of pure fun.” ”

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Silicon Valley mainstay NEA leads $37.5M investment in Seattle cloud startup Pulumi

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million investment led by NEA , representing a vote of confidence by the longtime venture capital firm in the Seattle startup’s software development tools for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud. Projects that may have been on the backburner are now all of a sudden imperative to get to the cloud.

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Keys to Successful Product Definition - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Keys to Successful Product Definition. In my last post , I discussed some of the key questions around market definition and suggested that in most situations, answers to these questions are needed before going into product or service definition. I believe that optimal product definition is a collaborative process.

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Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

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Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. “We were definitely minimal,” recalls Oracle executive Clay Magouyrk. Synergy Research Group Chart).

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Quantum Computing Delivered From The Cloud

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Photo credit: Shutterstock IBM Cloud is now providing developers with the infrastructure and portal to a 5 qubit quantum computer. In the first half of 2017, IBM plans to release a full SDK (Software Development Kit) on the IBM Quantum Experience for users to build simple quantum applications and software programs.

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