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Oracle touts AI as major driver of Q3 gains

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The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We Enterprise Applications, Oracle, Technology Industry

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Tech Moves: Ex-Meta infrastructure VP joins Microsoft; DoorDash adds Amazon vet to board

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(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. He also held exec roles at Mocana and Oracle.

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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. Photo by Marc Fiorito / Gamma Nine Photography, via Oracle.). Synergy Research Group Chart).

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Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

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Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle photo). Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office.

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Amazon vet Dorothy Li joins trucking startup Convoy as CTO, says company is at ‘inflection point’

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Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. Goodale was previously CTO; he will transition to a new role overseeing the company’s carrier marketplace. . She most recently was vice president of BI and Analytics at Amazon Web Services, and previously spent time at Oracle.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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(Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. She also held vice president roles at Yahoo, VMWare, and Oracle. “Preeti is an exceptionally talented engineering leader,” Temporal CTO and co-founder Samar Abbas said in a statement.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. “As we grow our team, we will do so without being limited by location.”