Cloud Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Cloudcuity Secure, Unified Cloud Management and Control Services.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Bezos has also prospered as head of the company, with skyrocketing wealth that ( until just a few weeks ago ) made him the single richest human on Earth, with a net worth of nearly $180 billion. trillion company, allowing him to focus his “energies and attention on new products and early initiatives.”

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Net sales rose 15% to $110.8 For the first time in Amazon’s history, the company’s revenue from online and physical retail store sales represented less than 50% of its overall revenue for the quarter, due to steady increases in areas such as its Amazon Web Services cloud business and revenue from advertising.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

(Amazon Photo) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sat down Thursday with Kara Hurst, the company’s chief sustainability officer, to discuss the cloud, retail and entertainment giant’s efforts to meet a pledge of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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Spearline Testing

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With Black Friday's built-up enthusiasm about to be launched across retail stores and websites, contact centers are another industry that will quickly be affected and should be prepared for the spike in traffic. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 84.2 In the same year, 93.2 million that did in 2018.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

Jassy, the longtime leader of the Amazon Web Services cloud business, “is going to be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,” Bezos said. In contrast, there are many successful, small, fast growing retailers that are doing incredibly well selling online. Where are they? They do not exist.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The enterprise edge has become a growing area of innovation as organizations increasingly understand that not every workload — particularly new edge workloads — can move to the cloud. Just 38% of that data will be processed in cloud or core locations, with the remainder headed to a variety of on-premises and nearby as-a-service edge venues.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 7, 2024

Although the company’s largest office is in Seattle, Zillow transitioned fully to a remote-first approach during the pandemic and considers the cloud, not Seattle, its headquarters. Barton is a board member at Netflix, Qurate Retail Group, and Artsy.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

One Wilshire is an iconic 30-story, 663,000 square feet building housing data center, office, storage and retail space with a five-level subterranean parking garage. | High Net World HNW Magazine. Cloud Computing. Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

From insurance to banking to healthcare, organizations of all stripes are upgrading their aging content management systems with modern, advanced systems that introduce new capabilities, flexibility, and cloud-based scalability. After identifying dozens of company requirements, the organization selected OnBase running on the Hyland Cloud.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2024

In its annual sustainability report, the cloud, e-commerce and entertainment giant touted its clean energy accomplishments, noting it has purchased a volume of renewable power equal to its electricity use — meaning Amazon hit its 100% clean energy target seven years ahead of its goal. Its emissions last year were 68.8

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

x for business value even before ChatGPT became a household name. That is why the omnichannel used-car retailer earned a coveted spot on the 2023 CIO 100 Award list: for its early, innovative use of a nascent AI technology that led to a spike in page views as well as higher SEO ranking and placement that drove substantial business growth.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Net income was $0.94 Investors are keeping a close watch on the company’s cloud business, which has seen revenue growth decline in recent quarters. Earlier this week, Microsoft topped expectations for its quarterly results , with increased cloud revenue foreshadowing strong interest in its artificial intelligence products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Behind the scenes at one of South America’s largest retail conglomerates, human resources (HR) professionals manage the movement of tens of thousands of employees. With annual sales in the billions, the retail giant prides itself on delivering superior shopping experiences to customers. The system upgrade corrected this problem.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2023

Seattle real estate tech company Zillow Group leaned into a work-from-home model since early in the pandemic and has doubled down on its “Cloud HQ” strategy, allowing workers to do their job from home and only meeting in person as a group quarterly for “Z retreats.” It reported net income of $4.86

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 13, 2020

The next big thing that happened was that the cloud came along. Back in 1985 companies spent roughly 7% of their net revenue on proprietary IT. In 2016 approximately 24% of a company’s net income went into proprietary IT. This technology permitted them to defeat their smaller retail rivals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In online learning, adaptive content personalizes education to individual needs, while in thoughtful, intelligent retail, automated shelves use real-time data to monitor stock levels, creating a seamless shopping experience. For instance, tools such as Net Promoter Scores (NPS) can assess how IT initiatives improve the customer experience.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 22, 2021

And few companies spend more time leading the news than the nation’s largest employer, online retailer and e-commerce cloud kingpin. Disputing the idea that Amazon is a net benefit for society, U.S. economy and small business was author and Financial Times tech journalist Rana Foroohar.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 17, 2024

Si tratta di una tappa avanzata della strategia dati, solitamente unita a una massiccia migrazione verso il cloud , che permette alle aziende di essere data-driven e su cui poggiano un netto miglioramento della customer experience e un’efficace applicazione delle tecnologie di intelligenza artificiale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

The program gave the British retailer unprecedented insight into its customers and their buying habits. Establishing the net value of data operations. The dashboard stores raw data in Amazon S3, uses Amazon EC2 for cloud computing, and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing. But what if it is a support tool?

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The last couple of years has seen eBook distribution options expanding at a rapid pace with scores of new online eBook retailers and eBook aggregators , to help publishers easily make their books available for sale. eBook distribution refers to the process of making your completed eBook available for download from an online retailer.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It is inching closer to retail rival Walmart, the nation’s largest employer with more than 2.2 ” Amazon has become a lifeline for customers — from consumers ordering groceries online, to businesses shifting to the cloud. billion it reported in net income for the third quarter. million people.

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Last year, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM began offering machine learning tools in the cloud, allowing developers easy access to an array of tools previously available only to data scientists. Three of the major areas for which people are using ML are predictive analysis for retail, fraud detection, and medical imaging analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2022

The industry is now moving toward integrated suites of tools and industry clouds, which open the door to new business models, industry ecosystems, and more collaborative ways of working. Digital twins will likely do for the infrastructure space what various platform models have already done for music, books, retail, and gig economy services.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

ARPU uplift; 15-point improvement in Net Promoter Score and 14% increase in STC’s brand value. National lockdown measures meant that STC had to close its retail shops, which blocked its primary sales and service channel and hindered brand engagement with customers and local communities. subsidiaries. ExcellenceAwards2021logo.jpg.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That includes tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon — Madrona co-founder Tom Alberg was an early investor in the retail and cloud computing behemoth — as well as its partnerships with the University of Washington’s computer science school and the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2). billion as of Nov.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Seattle tech giant will promote a slate of products and services across e-commerce, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and high-tech retail, as well as vehicle technology. based company provides net-generation WiFi, internet, voice and data solutions. Ant Reality. The Redmond, Wash.-based

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The project also benefited from TM Forum’s Digital Operations and Cloud Native community in the design of the loyalty application. With a Net Promoter Score (NPS) over 70, Senkyu has one of the highest NPS of any MTN service. paying for school fees), insurance, gaming and retail. Currently, Senkyu has 13.1

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Numurus offers B2B connectivity solutions between edge devices and cloud services focused on industrial and defense applications. Numurus’ flagship product NEPI is a smart IoT subscription platform that combines a secure IoT backbone, edge-device management, and cloud-portal management, with integrated AI services.

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned publisher or an aspiring author venturing into self-publishing, one crucial aspect is formatting and distributing your eBook to various retailers. Key Features: It is a cloud-based platform that lets you create, publish, and distribute your mobile-ready interactive eBooks.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) For the first time in the five years that Amazon has shared its carbon emissions, the cloud computing, online retail and entertainment giant has stopped the growth of its footprint, marking at 0.4% reduction in 2022. The graffiti appeared the day after Amazon's two-day Prime Day sales event.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2023

As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040, most of its carbon cuts so far have come from its shift to renewables. Amazon Photo) Amazon for three years has ranked as the No. 1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide.

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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In his 2020 letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos said it accounted for nearly 60 percent of Amazon’s retail sales, which come from nearly 2 million sellers. That revenue translates to a lot of profit — more than even Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing platform typically believed to be the company’s most profitable arm.

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Strategy Small Business Policies Report 138

Kitaboo

JANUARY 21, 2021

KITABOO is a well-known cloud-based eBook platform that allows publishers to effortlessly create, publish, and distribute multimedia-rich eBooks. The platform keeps 15% of the net profit and author payments are made using PayPal. The app supports several eBook formats and also allows you to upload your books to the cloud.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

… First off, ecommerce has gone from 18% of retail to 28% in eight weeks. Who’s the biggest cloud provider of computing power? We should have a net, we should be more empathetic to our brothers and sisters. Scott Galloway: If there’s one that was invented for a pandemic, hands down it’s Amazon.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 “Anu’s deep technical expertise in cloud and infrastructure combined with her passion for sharing it has already contributed greatly to Madrona’s investment thesis and our work with new and existing companies.” The company posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2019.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Tanium sells its security products to some of the world’s largest banks, retailers, manufacturers and healthcare companies. And the company also has strategic partnerships with Google Cloud and Salesforce, both of which have fast-growing engineering centers in the Seattle area. .” Taxes and a billionaire’s pledge.

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