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Zoom revenue spikes to $328M in Q1; CEO thanks Amazon Web Services for help meeting demand

GeekWire

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan gave a special shout-out to longtime partner Amazon Web Services and its CEO Andy Jassy for helping the company meet demand. He also praised Oracle and its CEO Larry Ellison for other cloud-related support. Zoom Chart). Zoom and AWS are among a group of tech companies seeing demand surge due to the pandemic.

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Report: Amazon, Microsoft and Google vie for billion-dollar Boeing cloud contract

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which has its corporate headquarters in Chicago, is reportedly at the center of a bidding war between Amazon, Microsoft and Google for a cloud computing contract. For what it’s worth, Google Cloud sent us a “no comment” email.). The Boeing Co., Boeing Photo).

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Salesforce Names Amazon Its Preferred Cloud Provider

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Salesforce has officially named Amazon Web Services its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider, Amazon announced Wednesday. The announcement follows a report by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month that Salesforce was using AWS for infrastructure that underpins its new Internet of.

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

GeekWire

. — Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. before considering my next role.”

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Amazon reportedly close to deal to acquire Hollywood studio MGM for almost $9B

GeekWire

Amazon is close to a deal to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. (MGM.com Image). The historic Hollywood studio would cost the Seattle-based tech giant almost $9 billion, people familiar with the matter told the newspaper.

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Amazon’s total Washington state employment declines for the first time, new numbers show

GeekWire

The new number for Seattle proper was reported in March by the Puget Sound Business Journal. The latest numbers do not reflect the job cuts announced last week by Amazon Web Services, which impacted hundreds of people in the cloud unit. Virginia, which includes Amazon’s “HQ2,” in Arlington, Va.,

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Fountainhead: A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies. These are the times of the "cloud era" where two technology leaders are struggling to dominate the IT infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud markets. Not just in raw size, but in services.

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