GeekWire

AUGUST 26, 2021

She held multiple positions at Amazon, including as Jeff Bezos’ technical advisor from July 2018 to January 2020. 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. billion valuation.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2020

CNBC reported that Amazon is seeking business development managers to “build and grow relationships with commercial and public sector enterprises” for Amazon Care , its telemedicine service currently only available to employees in Washington state. Cascadia) September 24, 2020. Amazon launched Amazon Care in September 2019.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2017

By 2020 major international cities will have car-free downtowns. Adoption of IoT devices will exceed predictions, reaching 50 billion devices by 2020. Prediction: Don’t expect machines to become sentient, but expect Microsoft and Google virtual assistants to actually become helpful. Trend #2—Internet of Things (IoT).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As AI use is ramping up, Amazon Web Services and fellow hyperscale data center companies such as Microsoft and Google are making big investments in their computing capacity and expanding their electricity demands. In 2020 it organized a “virtual walkout” over firings and warehouse conditions, among other actions.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Microsoft Teams getting breakout rooms, virtual commute, and new ‘Together Mode’ backgrounds. Call it the Clash of the Cloud Titans: Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Orbital, a cloud-based satellite data processing platform that competes with Amazon Web Services’ Ground Station offering.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

The release shows how Microsoft is effectively positioning itself as the commercialization arm for OpenAI, a move that could give the Redmond company an edge over rival cloud platforms Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Amazon and a former Amazon Web Services vice president are fighting in court over his proposed assignment reviewing speeches for the upcoming virtual version of the conference this year. Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services vice president of AI. Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google Cloud Next in 2019. Google Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

One anecdote illustrates the challenge from Microsoft’s perspective: “Repeatedly in late 2020 we found people in federal agencies asking us about information in other parts of the government, because it was easier to get it from us than directly from other federal employees. The reality, he says, is somewhere in between.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

With 190 participating countries and 24 million visitors, Expo 2020 Dubai was one of the world’s largest events, connecting everyone to innovative and inspiring ideas for a brighter future. But what does it take to support an event on such a grand scale?

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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. — Matt McIlwain (@mattmcilwain) December 1, 2020. This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Salesforce strikes a deal to acquire Slack for $27.7 Matt McIlwain. Madrona Photo).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

— Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) December 1, 2020. — Aaron Levie (@levie) December 1, 2020. — Lauren Masks Are Goode (@LaurenGoode) December 1, 2020. One of the areas where Amazon could help the combined Salesforce-Slack is in creating a more competitive video calling and virtual meeting solution.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2022

. “The cloud security space is highly competitive, and this deal really only even further enhances that competition,” said Phil Venables, Google’s chief information security officer, addressing a reporter’s question about potential regulatory hurdles to closing the deal during a virtual press conference Tuesday morning.

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GeekWire

MARCH 29, 2024

Veeam moved its headquarters from Switzerland to the United States following its March 2020 acquisition by private equity firm Insight Partners — a deal that valued the company at $5 billion. The company also partners with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Oracle, among others.

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GeekWire

JUNE 12, 2020

Hall left his role as vice president of product marketing for Amazon Web Services in March and took a senior product marketing job with Google Cloud in early April. Amazon said in a court filing that Hall’s “total compensation for 2019 was seven figures and projected to increase in 2020.” … [link].

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Seattle-based Zillow Group was one of the first large tech companies to allow remote work in 2020. Virtual conversations just don’t have enough bandwidth to relay information as effectively,” said Gupta, a former software engineer at Google and Microsoft. Some companies, meanwhile, are going all-in on remote.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

The z900 also had one of the longest periods of follow-on service, at 8.5 IBM’s current mainframe models, the z15 T01 and z15 T02, were introduced in September 2019 and May 2020 respectively, and the company still offers follow-on service for machines right back to the zEC12 released in September 2012.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

. “We chose that date because it’s sentimental for me, the day Amazon was incorporated in 1994, exactly 27 years ago,” Bezos said, addressing shareholders via webcast during his final annual meeting as CEO, held virtually due to the pandemic. “He has the energy needed to keep alive in us what has made us special. .

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Our Young Entrepreneur of the Year award celebrates startup founders in the Pacific Northwest who are 30 or younger at some point in 2020 or 2021. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. Last year, Legalpad co-founder Sara Itucas took home this honor. Avi Schiffmann.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2020

A scene from a video shown by Amazon during its virtual annual shareholders meeting. But the meeting, held virtually for the first time, provided a high-profile platform for criticism of the company. — toddbishop (@toddbishop) May 27, 2020. Each of the proposals was voted down. “This is environmental racism.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

2020 Cloud Native Container Foundation’s data stated an overwhelming preference for Kubernetes among companies that used containers in production. . They don’t need to utilize the same resource as virtual machines do. This technology has since been improved by Red Hat, IBM, and Docker. Challenges. In conclusion.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 31, 2020

Former Cisco engineer admits delete hundreds of virtual machines. Department of Justice published details of his plea which specifically targeted Cisco's WebEx Teams app: "Ramesh admitted to intentionally accessing Cisco Systems’ cloud infrastructure that was hosted by Amazon Web Services without Cisco’s permission on September 24, 2018.

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GeekWire

JUNE 12, 2020

A judge has sided with Amazon on a preliminary issue in its dispute with a former Amazon Web Services marketing executive, preventing him from reviewing and editing speeches for the Google Cloud Next conference in his new role with the rival technology company. but… — Brian Hall (@IsForAt) June 12, 2020. I HATE THIS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

But for Koch Industries, a $115 billion global conglomerate that has acquired five companies in two years, including Infor for $13 billion in 2020, connecting those acquisitions’ networks to its own sprawling network has been a challenge of another magnitude. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says. Laying the foundation.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which extends AWS infrastructure and services outside of AWS owned data centers to customer locations or colocation spaces. ” — Dr.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2021

But it closed its physical locations in May 2020 due to the pandemic, and is now an all-digital community and media brand. Nelson and her husband have been disputing the FBI’s seizure of their bank accounts in an ongoing Amazon Web Services lawsuit. It’s the latest leadership change at Amazon Web Services.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Apart from possible non-compete and trade secrets issues with Microsoft, one potential complication for Panay in accepting a new Amazon role could be his role as a board member of Sonos , which he has held since August 2020. Microsoft would naturally want to ensure that Panay doesn’t leverage any trade secrets in a new role.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services and successor to Jeff Bezos. | A few days after Recode’s report, Charlotte Newman, a Black senior manager in Amazon Web Services, filed a lawsuit against Amazon and current executives for alleged race and gender discrimination, and for allegedly violating the Equality Pay Act.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Chanin Kelly-Rae was a head of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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TM Forum

JUNE 13, 2022

On average, the percentage of total revenues that B2B services (connectivity and beyond) represent, reached 30% in 2020 for many major operators. Our data shows that worldwide to Q4 2020 staffing costs dropped marginally, based predominantly on reduced headcount (see chart on p.29). But it is not all about the technology costs.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2021

At Wednesday’s shareholder meeting — typically hosted in Seattle but held virtually this year — Amazon’s investors will propose more than a dozen initiatives that advocates say are aimed at making the company a more transparent and conscientious corporate citizen. Still, Amazon has never faced a year quite like 2020.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Sullivan was previously head of product for the AI DevOps group at Amazon Web Services, where he led teams helping customers build and manage cloud-based applications. The Earth Fund was launched by Bezos in February 2020 and issued its first grants totaling $791 million nine months later. based Data I/O.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2021

The generation of Amazon Echo Dot devices released in September 2020, which include tiger and panda designs, contain some recycled materials. Its early sustainability actions focused on packaging used by the company sellers in its virtual marketplace. Amazon Photo). It committed to clean energy in 2014, but was short on specifics.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Forcepoint: Forcepoint One is built on Amazon Web Services’ hyperscaler platform, offering 300 points of presence around the world. Fortinet acquired the startup Opaq in 2020 as part of its pivot from SD-WAN to SASE. Features include the ability to support remote browser isolation, DLP, and cloud malware detection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The SolarWinds exploit of 2020 shows how enforcing least privilege could have stopped one of the worst security events in history. Yet even in the twenty-one years of Trustworthy Computing, least privilege is still not given the attention it deserves. And with that, information security suffers significantly.

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