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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft chief partner officer Nicole Dezen described the changes as making it easier for enterprises to bring software they had licensed to a partner’s cloud — for example running applications on Windows 11 on multi-tenant servers — and for service providers to build and sell solutions more easily in their preferred cloud.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Containerization originated in 2001 as a project that allowed several general-purpose Linux servers to run on a single box with autonomy and security. Container-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings such as Google Cloud Anthos, Red Hat Open Shift, VMWare Tanzu Application Service, and SUSE Rancher are also prevalent.

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Tech Moves: Ad Lightning CEO Scott Moore steps down; Amazon Prime Video adds Nike vet

GeekWire

Frechtling was most recently president of G2 Web Services, a Verisk Analytics company. G2 Web Services provides risk management services for e-commerce merchants. Before joining G2 Web Services in 2015, Frechtling was vice president of global website products for digital marketing company Hibu.

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Analysis: Google-Wiz deal sparks questions about cloud security strategy at AWS and Microsoft

GeekWire

This makes it clearer that Google sees security as a competitive differentiator in the cloud and is another step toward Microsofts model of integrating cloud and security in-house and away from Amazon Web Services’ more hands-off strategy of relying primarily on a security partner ecosystem.

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Tech Moves: Flexport hires Microsoft CVP; Avalara adds chief revenue officer; and more

GeekWire

Carlson spent the past eight months at Microsoft as a CVP and executive-in-residence; she previously was a vice president at the company from 2001 to 2010. Carlson also spent more than a decade at Amazon Web Services, and joined Splunk in 2021 as president and chief growth officer.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

GeekWire

She joined Starbucks in 2001, helping to launch the Starbucks Card as a member of the company’s accounting team. Miha Kralj , a vet of Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Accenture, is now VP of cloud strategy and transformation at EPAM Systems.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

” Sharma joined Madrona last year from Amazon Web Services. San Francisco biotech startup Earli added Juno Therapeutics founding scientist Phil Greenberg and former Fred Hutch President Lee Hartwell , who received a Nobel Prize in 2001, to its scientific advisory board. Redmond, Wash.-based

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