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Global experts urge increased research into geoengineering, a Hail Mary for climate change

GeekWire

Now nearly 100 climate experts internationally have signed an open letter urging the world to accelerate and beef-up geoengineering research — but not deploy the technology. The leading strategy for slowing warming is “solar radiation modification (SRM),” where particulates or aerosols are added to clouds or the stratosphere.

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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

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(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Director of Product Management, Cloudera. Eva Andreasson has been working with JVMs, SOA, Cloud, and infrastructure software for 15+ years. Finding Value in Enterprise Data with High-Performance Analytics. Dr. Daniel Duffy. Eddie Garcia. 10:50 – 11:35 AM.

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How to Build Security and Resilience into Your Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Those partners must also build cyber resilience into newer initiatives, underpinned by cloud and zero trust principles. 2] 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence; Source: Voice of the Enterprise: Storage, Data Management and Disaster Recovery 2021. [3] Cloud Management Find more about it here. [1]

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Tech Moves: Former Expedia leader joins Peerspace; Flexport adds another Amazon exec

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She also was previously director of product at Seattle mobile software development company Medio and spent nine years at Microsoft as a lead program manager. Washington Research Foundation appointed Carol Dahl and Desney Tan to its board of directors.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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Sheldon’s other roles at the tech giant included principal lead program manager for Bing and principal engineering manager for Dynamics Applied Research, where he led a team of data scientists and engineers to build predictive systems for business applications.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management.