GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead,” according to an internal memo Monday morning.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

(Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft). Microsoft says its researchers have found evidence of an exotic phenomenon that’s key to its plans to build general-purpose quantum computers. Microsoft has chosen a particularly exotic technological strategy, which involves inducing quantum states on topological superconducting wires.

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GeekWire

JULY 11, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) Raejeanne Skillern , a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and vice president, GeekWire has learned. Skillern spent more than a decade at Intel, most recently as vice president of the chip giant’s cloud service provider business. .

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2020

Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace and satellite industry — and headed by someone who helped set up the U.S. Amazon Web Services facilitates Capella Space’s catalog of satellite radar imagery. AWS Photo).

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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

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Reporting from Las Vegas … Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky doubled down on the new era of artificial intelligence with a series of product announcements and thinly veiled but repeated criticism of Microsoft and OpenAI. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

million pre-seed investment to accelerate development of its software that lets companies develop customizable AI agents to generate insights and actions based on internal data. He also previously worked at Microsoft. Biswas co-founded Cimba with Vishal Das , a former applied scientist at Amazon Web Services and earned a Ph.D

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. Axiom Space is also partnering with Microsoft Azure and LEOCloud on a separate project to put cloud infrastructure in orbit.).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

“AI projects are not just about AI meters, they have lots of other cloud meters as well,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, citing the impact of AI on the Azure cloud platform. Global spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $68 billion in the third quarter, up 18% year-over-year. storage and computing).

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 12, 2018

Our new “The Forrester Wave™: Full-Stack Public Cloud Development Platforms In China, Q3 2018” report is now live! This Wave evaluation uncovered a market in which Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Tencent Cloud, and Huawei lead the pack. UCloud, Ping An Technology, and […].

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) — Microsoft executive Charlie Bell joined the board of directors of customer engagement software giant Twilio. Bell is executive VP of security, compliance identity and management at Microsoft, and is a member of the company’s senior leadership team.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Panos Panay, the Microsoft chief product officer overseeing the Windows and Devices division, introduces Windows Copilot at Microsoft Build in May. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Panos Panay , the Microsoft chief product officer who oversees the Windows and Devices division, is leaving the company in a surprise departure.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Pablo Castro, distinguished engineer on Microsoft Azure’s AI team, demonstrates the Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft has a solution. The tech giant says it will soon make the generative AI chat technology available as part of its Azure OpenAI Service , which was made generally available on Monday.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The investment and expanded partnership includes a commitment by Anthropic to make Amazon Web Services its main cloud provider. Amazon’s investment in Anthropic echoes Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI. Specific terms of the investment and the size of Amazon’s stake were not disclosed.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2023

He worked in various roles at Microsoft, where he helped build the SQL server, incubated multiple Azure platform services, and integrated third-party services onto the cloud. Bill Cox , a longtime Microsoft business leader , joined Lyra Health as its vice president of product marketing.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.

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GeekWire

MARCH 31, 2021

The IVAS headset will be based on the Microsoft HoloLens. Photo via Microsoft). Microsoft has been awarded a contract by the United States Army to produce a mixed reality headset called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) based on the tech giant’s HoloLens technology. billion over 10 years. ” The U.S.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI’s announcement last night that Sam Altman will return as CEO, under a newly formulated board, brings an apparent end to a wild ride that spotlighted OpenAI’s unusual corporate structure, and demonstrated Microsoft’s tenuous control over the situation despite its giant stake in the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. Amazon Web Services, Technology Industry

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Microsoft contractors mixed test slabs of lower-carbon concrete at the site of a new data center in Quincy, Wash. Dan DeLong Photo for Microsoft) Microsoft is building 120 new data centers this year alone, and operates more than 300 of the server hubs worldwide.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is releasing new capabilities for its Bedrock artificial intelligence service, including the ability for customers to import their own custom AI models to run alongside models from major providers.

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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). Microsoft is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center as a founding member, with a mission to strengthen cybersecurity for critical space assets.

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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). As for Tableau — it also has a new leader.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, showing the company’s major tech platforms during his Microsoft Ignite keynote, including the Power Platform low-code software development technologies and GitHub code platform. Microsoft Photo). And it is basically developed and maintained by one person.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Microsoft and Grafana Labs are developing a fully-managed version of Grafana that runs natively on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Read More.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sam Altman greets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco on Nov. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday it is launching an inquiry that will “scrutinize” investments made by Seattle-area tech giants Microsoft and Amazon in AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

GeekWire File Photo Microsoft’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 The company reported strength in some of its products and services for businesses, led by a 22% increase in Microsoft Cloud revenue, to $27.1 However, other parts of Microsoft’s business experienced significant declines. Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8

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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. before considering my next role.”

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Microsoft has launched a fully managed load testing service for Azure, helping QA testers and developers optimize their app's performance. Read More.

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2020

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers. Bigstock Photo.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

Microsoft has acquired Suplari , a Seattle startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and get a handle on their spending. White worked with Gerber at iConclude as an early employee and did stints at Amazon Web Services and Skytap. Suplari co-founders Jeff Gerber, Brian White, and Nikesh Parekh.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

Gert Drapers and Omri Gazitt have more than six decades of experience working in engineering and product leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, HP Cloud, Puppet, and Hulu. Now they’re teaming up on a new startup building authorization-as-a-service software. Aserto co-founders Gert Drapers (left) and Omri Gazitt.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Intelus CEO and co-founder Patrice Simard previously led Microsoft’s Machine Teaching Group. A new Seattle startup led by a former Microsoft distinguished engineer uses a different approach: machine teaching. Intelus Photo). Although Intelus is starting with text, it can expand over time to images and signals. Intelus Photos).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The International Space Station will soon get a connection to Microsoft Azure. The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing to the International Space Station. NASA Photo). It won’t be the first orbital go-round for HPE, either.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

Community, community, community Microsoft is reportedly having discussions with Discord to buy the communications app. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is in “exclusive talks” to acquire Discord, and a deal could close next month. While all three are very different services, they share one common element: community.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

Microsoft and FedEx will work together to develop new products and services under a multiyear technology and logistics partnership announced Monday morning. The newly announced partnership will rely heavily on Microsoft Azure, the No. Microsoft shares are up about 1%. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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