GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft describes the Azure Maia AI Accelerator as the first designed by Microsoft for large language model training and inferencing in the Microsoft Cloud. One of the Microsoft-designed chips, the Azure Maia AI Accelerator, is optimized for AI tasks, including generative artificial intelligence.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. where Microsoft is based, which speaks in part to fierce nature of the longtime rivalry between the companies.

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

Microsoft has an agreement with the startup to purchase its clean power — if the company is able to produce it. Projections for future energy needs for data centers are startling. alone, data center operations are expected to account for 6% of America’s total electricity use within two years.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

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 founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2021

A series of pictures documents the construction of an Azure Orbital ground station at Microsoft’s data center in Quincy, Wash. Microsoft Azure via YouTube). Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s top rival in the market for cloud computing services, is also targeting space-based cloud applications.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, with Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, announcing their recent partnership. Microsoft Photo / Dan DeLong) “All partnerships are tactical. I asked if he would have imagined, when running Microsoft’s server and database businesses, that the rivals would someday be partners.

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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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GeekWire

MARCH 27, 2024

The gas would be used to power three data centers in the state. Last week, the Troublemakers sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, asking him to cancel plans to tap into the GTN Xpress gas pipeline and use the fuel for its data centers, which house powerful computers that create the backbone for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Lo scorso lunedì, Microsoft ha annunciato di essere in procinto di lanciare la sua prima cloud region in Italia. La nuova realtà, che avrà tre data center [in inglese] , sarà situata in Lombardia. L’iniziativa è parte del programma “Ambizione Italia” che Microsoft ha lanciato nel 2018.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses his book, Tools and Weapons, at a 2019 event in Seattle. Microsoft President Brad Smith says the U.S. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella convened a daily meeting with the company’s top security experts. A new paperback edition includes three new chapters. 11 attacks. .

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Network World

JUNE 14, 2021

We reached a big milestone in 2020: Cloud services revenue finally surpassed enterprise spending on data centers, according to the Synergy Research Group. But the endless capacity to add horsepower without provisioning your own infrastructure isn’t the biggest draw. Machine learning libraries ?

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2023

Most popular stories on GeekWire New round of Microsoft job cuts hits customer service, support, and sales teams Microsoft announced a new round of job cuts internally Monday morning, impacting an unknown number of employees in customer service, support, and sales. … Read More . … Read More .

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2023

Revenue growth at Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, continued to slow in the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 as enterprises pressed on with their cost-cutting measures. Microsoft, another rival, posted a mere 1% drop in its growth rate for the June quarter when compared to its previous sequential quarter.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. The post Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Venture Beast

MAY 17, 2021

France said its state and corporate data can be stored on Google and Microsoft's cloud services which have been licensed to French companies. Read More.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services VP of Product, shows some of the third-party services that Amazon Connects with in its new Amazon Q artificial intelligence tool for work. “NEED GPU?” ” it read, in bold letters. “We have good relationships with with a lot of folks that we compete with in other areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Certifications are offered in a variety of topics such as collaboration, CyberOps, data centers, DevNet and automation, design, enterprise networking, and security. Microsoft also offers certifications focused on fundamentals, specific job roles, or specialty use cases.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

CSC, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have won a major cloud computing contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a deal valued at $108,992,884 that could reach up to $1 billion over 10 years. Read More.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

MARCH 17, 2016

Apple's are more high-profile bytes moving away from Amazon Web Services, so soon after recent news of the Dropbox mostly-defection. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers foresee a return to pomaceous in-house data centers. Apple boots out Amazon AWS -- it's migrating most of its S3 storage to Google's Cloud Platform.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

But other tech giants including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook are requiring vaccines for those who do return to work in offices. Bloomberg said the lottery is open to its frontline workers, including hourly workers at Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh grocery stores and those in Amazon Web Services data centers. “We

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2023

Read More Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do Microsoft is expanding its digital identity technology to LinkedIn with a new tool that lets companies give their employees a way to prove to the outside world that they’re not fibbing about their place of work.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2018

Traditional networking architectures over the past two decades or so prescribe that the hub of the network be build around a specific location, such as a data center or a company’s headquarters building. For one thing, there has been a major migration to the cloud. In fact, companies often use multiple cloud platforms these days.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Macroeconomic conditions led by the pandemic and the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine have further slowed down growth of Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in the third quarter of 2022. During the quarter, rivals Microsoft and Google have increased their cloud revenue by 35% and 38% respectively.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2023

“Renewable energy is the place where you have a big impact on our carbon footprint today,” said Charley Daitch , the Amazon Web Services director of energy and water strategy. ” Charley Daitch, the Amazon Web Services director of energy and water strategy. We have a data center region in central Oregon.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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. Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft.

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2022

A flurry of tech companies — including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are halting sales of services and products in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting government sanctions. tech giants could take it a step further and cut off access to Russian companies using their cloud computing services.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2023

The GPUs and related electronics are an essential part of computer servers that are housed in data centers. The data centers are where the “cloud” resides. But the rise in generative AI will keep boosting demand for data centers. “I see a lot of opportunities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

This also includes safeguarding prospective customers from unexpected costs: the company’s Cloud Pricing Calculator gives enterprises a detailed quote for cloud services, whether it’s for the multi-tenant or dedicated private IT Vortex Cloud or VMware integrations with public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

Google said on Thursday that it signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the space company’s growing satellite internet service, Starlink, with its cloud unit. The Google-SpaceX deal marks another competitive win for Google in its own rivalry with Amazon’s behemoth cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2020

billion; Amazon Web Services makes some surprising news at its annual re:Invent cloud conference ; and a new tech giant arrives in our backyard. billion could create tougher competition not just for Microsoft Teams but also for Adobe, which is acquiring work management platform Workfront for $1.5 Matt McIlwain. Madrona Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

On-prem data centers have an outsized impact on carbon emissions and waste. Public cloud data centers, by contrast, are 93% more energy-efficient and produce 98% lower GHG emissions than on-premises datacenters, according to Microsoft and WSP Global. Let them do the job of efficiently running data centers.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Clark said Amazon employees who can’t work from home — such as those at fulfillment centers, Amazon Web Services data centers, or Whole Foods stores — should be vaccinated “at the earliest appropriate time.” ” “We will assist them in that effort,” Clark wrote.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2023

And for AMD’s most critical engineering applications, the answer remains its own data centers — not the cloud. Gartner analyst Sid Nag, however, points out that cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services offer instances that go up to 224 cores, with companies already running HPC workloads in the cloud.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2020

RCE: "A Microsoft Exchange validation key remote code execution vulnerability exists when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory.". The majority of the products are either for remote access or for external web services, and should be prioritized for immediate patching.".

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