GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, given Pinterest is valued upwards of $51 billion. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. ” Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. Microsoft Graphic). KSAT Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

The move supports the goal to adopt a standard for all new systems at the bank, whether created by its own tech team or sourced from others, to be built to continuously change using evergreen cloud-native technologies, according to David Walker, Westpac Group chief technology officer. Building a simpler tech environment.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. Microsoft Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., Last year, Phillips joined Stripe after leaving Microsoft but departed one month later.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. Emily Freeman. Dr. Timothy Dellit. (UW

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Oleria emerged from stealth mode last year with software designed to help companies prevent and respond to breaches in an ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. Oleria co-founder Jagadeesh Kunda is the former chief product officer at Colorado-based cloud directory platform JumpCloud.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. Gopuff Photos).

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2024

… Read More Microsoft will base part of senior exec comp on security, add deputy CISOs to product groups Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches, under growing pressure from government leaders and big customers.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge integrates management, observability, and automation tools while using AI and machine learning to analyze the aggregated data and provide IT operations teams with the intelligence they need to keep systems running at peak performance, according to Kyndryl CTO Antoine Shagoury.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. Launched in October 2020, the startup was co-founded by Leo Dirac and Avi Geiger. ”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fletcher recruited former Tableau colleague Michael Arvold to be the company’s co-founder and CTO. Arvold was a former senior director at Tableau who worked in the office of the CTO. He also held software engineering roles at Microsoft and Donnelley Financial Solutions.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Kyle Roche , the startup’s co-founder and CEO, spent more than eight years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in various roles. In his position as head of immersive technology, Roche led teams that built and ran AWS services including Amazon Location Service, Amazon Nimble Studio, Thinkbox, and others.

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TM Forum

JUNE 30, 2021

Microsoft's public cloud in a deal. that involves the software company acquiring AT&T’s Network Cloud platform technology. Microsoft revealed its ambitions in telecom network services last year when it. core network in the public cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ericsson meanwhile.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems. The 25-year veteran of Microsoft left in August to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Sajo Jacob. Magnify Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The 300-person company offers software, APIs, and other behind-the-scenes technology used by retailers and business-to-business brands for many aspects of online commerce, including pricing/promotion, inventory management, digital storefronts, and payments/checkout. ” Fabric CEO Faisal Masud.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. 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. Oracle photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. . He was previously a senior director of product management at Smartsheet and Microsoft.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Surrounding her are Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers, IonQ co-founder and chief technology officer Jungsang Kim, IonQ CEO Peter Chapman and Rima Alameddine, IonQ’s chief revenue officer. IonQ is taking a different technological approach that relies on the quantum properties of trapped ions. .”

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Microsoft alum Kelly Waldher has joined Google as vice president of marketing for G Suite. Waldher most recently served as EVP and general manager for experience management technology company Qualtrics. During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. Kelly Waldher (Google Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Another heavily-funded Seattle-based startup, sales engagement software provider Outreach, announced plans to open a New York City office led by David Rubinstein. Earlier this year, Outreach opened an office in London as part of an expansion in Europe. Microsoft alum Aaron Kornblum departed for the U.K. Aaron Kornblum.

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2023

From left: Protect AI CEO Ian Swanson, CTO Badar Ahmed, and president Daryan Dehghanpisheh. Protect AI sells software that allows companies to monitor the various layers and components of machine learning systems, detecting potential violations and logging information on those attacks. McKinsey and Co.

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2021

Seattle-based Tableau Software generated $394 million in revenue for Salesforce in its first fiscal quarter, up 38% from a year ago. That’s up significantly from Tableau revenue growth of 15% in early 2019, in the data visualization technology company’s final earnings report as an independent operation. billion in 2018.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Techstars and Microsoft vet Dave Malcolm is executive director of the accelerator. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer. They will both report to Chief Strategy Officer Tom Fountain. Gilbert is a co-founder of PSL Studio.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo). 31 was down 5% to $2.23

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. Today, he says, they operate more accurately.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

The company revealed $52 million in total funding and big-name customers using its software that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers. Chief Architect Tom Kleinpeter , most recently a principal engineer at Dropbox who sold a music streaming startup to the cloud giant in 2012.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) — Jacob Sullivan is now chief product officer at Faculty, a London-based company that builds artificial intelligence systems. Sullivan was previously head of product for the AI DevOps group at Amazon Web Services, where he led teams helping customers build and manage cloud-based applications.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Most of these firms seem to be on one of two paths: Success, which will mean being acquired by Facebook, Apple, Microsoft or IBM, or failure, which will see them acquired by the same firms for their talent. Cortana : Microsoft's intelligent personal assistant. Delegates requests to web services powered by Google.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure. Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. Michael Petrochuk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

Indeed, most businesses today are hybrid, with some workloads on-prem and others in the cloud,” VMware CTO Kit Colbert recently wrote. Consistent infrastructure across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba, and the thousands of partners that participate in those environments.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jeffrey Spector , co-founder of Seattle startup Karat which helps companies conduct technical interviews for software engineers. Before launching Karat in 2014, he was chief of staff for Melinda Gates at the Gates Foundation. Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru.

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