GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. Altogether, the campaign aims to to train as many as 250,000 new cybersecurity workers in the country by 2025, most of whom will work for businesses other than Microsoft. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong). government agencies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the company’s new cloud data products. Microsoft is rolling out new cloud technologies for wrangling, protecting and analyzing large amounts of corporate data, escalating its competition with Google, Snowflake and Amazon in the $25 billion global market for data analytics and business intelligence.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon reached an agreement that clears the way for former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell to start his new job leading a newly formed cybersecurity engineering organization inside the Redmond tech company. Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. He joined UiPath in 2018 after a long stint at Microsoft, where he held various engineering leadership roles.

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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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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2022

Microsoft had reportedly been in the running to acquire Mandiant , before bowing out. Microsoft said in January that its security revenue in the prior 12 months topped $15 billion, up 45% year over year. Although it’s in another technology sector, Microsoft already has its hands full with the regulatory review of its $68.7

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft confirmed that it has hired longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell to lead a newly formed engineering organization to address cybersecurity and related issues, but said it has so far been unable to reach an agreement with Amazon over Bell’s non-compete contract with the company.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 26, 2021

News of longtime AWS executive Charlie Bell’s hiring by Microsoft broke this week. What exactly will longtime Amazon executive Charlie Bell do at Microsoft? News of his hiring by Microsoft broke Wednesday afternoon. That could be a placeholder pending the outcome of the talks between Microsoft and Amazon.

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GeekWire

MARCH 29, 2024

Anand Eswaran , who joined Veeam as CEO in December 2021, previously worked out of Redmond as the corporate vice president of Microsoft Enterprise. The company also partners with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Oracle, among others. 25% experienced four or more attacks in the last 12 months.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 14, 2015

Cloud Services Providers continue to extend their feature, function and capabilities and the following are two examples. Being a customer of both Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as Microsoft Azure (among others), I receive monthly news updates about service improvements along with new features.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Microsoft, Slack and Salesforce Photos, GeekWire Illustration.). The combination promises to address one of Slack’s biggest relative weaknesses in its competition with its largest rival, Microsoft Teams.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. “That is exactly what we’re going for,” he said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The certification is designed for those interested in a career as a service desk analyst, help desk tech, technical support specialist, field service technician, help desk technician, associate network engineer, data support technician, desktop support administrator, or end user computing technician.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 19, 2022

Microsoft's Azure Managed Grafana service is now available in preview, five months after first revealing plans for the offering. Read More.

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TM Forum

JUNE 30, 2021

Microsoft's public cloud in a deal. Microsoft revealed its ambitions in telecom network services last year when it. The acquisition covers AT&T's engineering and lifecycle management software, used for its carrier-grade cloud that runs containerized or virtualized network services. Ericsson meanwhile.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

billion in cash and stock, perhaps not coincidentally topping Microsoft’s $26.2 Microsoft went unmentioned, of course, but it’s the biggest target. Box CEO Aaron Levie, who grew up near Microsoft in Mercer Island, Wash., Box CEO Aaron Levie, who grew up near Microsoft in Mercer Island, Wash., ” Boom!

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2021

Rekognition is part of the company’s web services division, AWS. Around the same time, Microsoft also imposed a similar ban on the sale of its facial recognition technology to police. Around the same time, Microsoft also imposed a similar ban on the sale of its facial recognition technology to police.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 26, 2021

Previous “shadows” to Bezos include Andy Jassy, the former Amazon Web Services CEO who took over for Bezos last month as the company’s CEO; Amit Agarwal, who runs Amazon India; and others. Hopin has seen huge growth over the past 18 months with the pandemic driving demand for virtual events. billion valuation. ”

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2020

But Microsoft Teams has the unique advantage of blending video and voice calls with chat. The growth that is split by Zoom and Slack, Microsoft Teams is able to capture completely. Slack can finally start to reap the benefits by going deeper in one of the most critical aspects of remote workplace collaboration: virtual meetings.

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Network World

MARCH 30, 2020

That’s why we’re excited about the CIS Hardened Images for NGINX on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This pre-configured virtual image is available on a CIS Hardened Linux base image and container image. To read this article in full, please click here

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The post Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog. Unlike traditional partner software defined solutions that relied on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, VMware is being deployed using private bare metal AWS elastic servers.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2023

Brant Berglund, senior director of coaching and GM applications at the NHL, demos new statistics the league is rolling out in partnership with Amazon Web Services. I checked out the action at Climate Pledge — named after Amazon’s carbon neutral initiative — and ran into Amazon Web Services chief Adam Selipsky.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy speaks at re:Invent 2018. And it connects directly to Jassy’s current day job of leading Amazon Web Services, the cloud juggernaut that earlier this week disclosed a mind-blowing $13.5 After all, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a similar case at a virtual event in December. “No

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Microsoft has created an Azure and Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Map (corresponding services from both providers). The post Cloud Conversations Azure AWS Service Maps via Microsoft appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Christopher Young, Microsoft executive vice president of business development, strategy and ventures, speaks at the 2021 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. Christopher Young’s priorities are a window into the future of Microsoft’s business. Recent examples include Microsoft’s pending $19.7

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Network World

MAY 9, 2017

Because virtual machines, application instances and workloads change rapidly it’s hard to get a good picture of what’s going on within cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, says RedLock’s CEO Varun Badwhar. It’s hard to manually monitor and control,” he says.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

Large language models that power generative AI “will transform and improve virtually every customer experience,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says in his letter to shareholders. Serendipitous interactions help it, and there are more of those in-person than virtually. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) What about Amazon?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The seismic shift toward digital services during the pandemic served as a wakeup call for the insurance industry, which by and large lagged other industries in technology modernization, analysts say. “In Aflac’s Virtual Enrollment Experience fully utilized the cloud and SaaS solutions in its construction, Gilbert says. “We

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Satya Nadella sells half his Microsoft stock, weeks before state implements capital gains tax. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold half of his stake in the company in a series of transactions last week, divesting about 840,000 shares for a sum of more than $285 million, according to a regulatory filing. Most popular stories on GeekWire.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

The news garnered attention also because it differs from other large employers in Washington state such as Zillow and Microsoft , which are embracing more of a hybrid approach where employees split time between the office and home. Jassy said “invention” is hard to do virtually compared to people brainstorming together in person.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage last week, the company said in a detailed technical analysis over the weekend. A past AWS re:Invent conference. GeekWire Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Analysis: Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda is a massive disruption for the video game industry. Microsoft started its working week by announcing that it intends to purchase ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into cloud-based space race with Amazon.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2020

Microsoft Photo). Entrepreneur Jeff Ma is now general manager of Microsoft for Startups. The prospect of working with startups with the incredible backdrop of Microsoft was extremely exciting,” said Ma. Hayes spent the past nine years at agency POP with clients that included AWS, Sony Playstation, Microsoft and Intel.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Tableau, the Seattle-based data visualization company, is slated to announce the new “Slack-First Analytics” at its virtual Tableau Conference on Tuesday morning. Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 and business applications also compete with Salesforce’s customer-relationship management software. .

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