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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

GeekWire

Longtime Amazon data center leader Joe Minarik departed the tech giant after more than 16 years to join Dallas-based DataBank as chief operating officer. Minarik joined Amazon in 2005, prior to the launch of Amazon Web Services, and was most recently the head of global data center supply. Joe Minarik.

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AppDirect Raises $35 Million, IBM Acquires Silverpop

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud services brokerage company AppDirect raises $35 million to continue its rapid growth in the market, IBM adds to its enterprise marketing portfolio by acquiring Silverpop, and Amazon Web Services launches the next generation of EC2 Memory-optimized instances. Amazon Cloud Computing IBM appdirect'

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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

GeekWire

These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., This explains why Fitzgerald skewered IBM last week for a 21% decrease in CapEx. were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. Facebook parent Meta reported $6.7 What about Amazon?

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Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Ellison Disses IBM, SAP as ‘Nowhere in the Cloud’

Data Center Knowledge

Says Oracle competes with Amazon Web Services in the cloud and "never sees IBM" Read More.

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Structure Conference to take place November 8 – 9 in San Francisco

CTOvision

Join leadership from the top cloud technology companies and startups to discuss computing at the edge, organization use of the public cloud, the use of containers for production workloads, and the future of data center management. Raejeanne Skillern, VP Data Center Group, GM Cloud Service Provider Business, Intel.

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IonQ opens up Forte quantum computing platform for use on Amazon Braket Direct

GeekWire

An artist’s conception shows a data center powered by IonQ’s Forte Enterprise servers. IonQ Forte joins two earlier generations of the company’s processing hardware, Harmony and Aria, as options for Amazon Web Service’s Braket quantum computing service.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

Coincidentally, the same day that Fujitsu gave notice it would discontinue sales of the GS21 , IBM unveiled plans to deliver its IBM Z mainframe platform as a service on IBM Cloud. The future of mainframe-as-a-service.