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Microsoft doubles down on cloud data with new products, makes new appeal to Amazon’s rivals

GeekWire

” Amazon has long maintained that it keeps a strict firewall between its Amazon Web Services cloud division and its customers that compete with other parts of the Amazon business. The prototypical example is Netflix, which uses Amazon Web Services while separately competing with Amazon Prime Video.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Koch Industries began its migration to Amazon Web Services in 2015, when it also started on the first layer of its cloud networking strategy. Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center. Laying the foundation.

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Five Rules That CIOs Have Learned About Working From Home

The Accidental Successful CIO

s Amazon Web Services all offer desktop as a service. Evidence that hybrid work is a new norm can be seen in the use of conference-room videoconferencing systems that had been abandoned during the early stages of the pandemic. Microsoft Corp., Citrix Systems Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.’s What All Of This Means For You.

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