GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2025

L-R: Microsoft President Brad Smith, former CEO Steve Ballmer, and former CTO Nathan Myhrvold. Special thanks to Accenture , presenting sponsor of Microsoft@50. The goal of the series, and the event, is to understand not only Microsoft’s history but also where it’s headed next. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Mark Berly, CTO, data center networking at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, noted that things like zero touch provisioning have expanded the use of automation in recent years. De Grace acknowledged that currently, Microsoft is not opposed to using InfiniBand, as it is the established standard for the GPU stack.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

So, Microsoft is launching a new technology for Windows Server and Azure that protects the data while it’s being processed. Microsoft claims the service, called Azure confidential computing, makes it the first public cloud provider to offer encryption of data while in use.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. Microsoft, with Atom, has a scalable way of achieving logical qubits, says Gartners Dekate.

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GeekWire

MARCH 22, 2025

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold makes a point during a fireside chat with GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event at Town Hall Seattle. Today, it doesn’t take a tech guru to see that AI is becoming more capable, and that Microsoft is taking a leading role in partnership with OpenAI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board. In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. There are too many separate tasks in too many places.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2024

(Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin spent the past five years at Microsoft leading artificial intelligence efforts and teams working on Bing, Edge browsers, advertising, web services, and more. Matt Hulett.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Expedia Group Photo) Shilpa Ranganathan is back at Expedia Group as its new chief product officer. Ranganathan spent the past 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as a corporate vice president on the senior leadership team of Windows. Pamela Maynard , the company’s former CEO departed in August for a job at Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2025

Microsoft announced a major expansion of its Security Copilot platform today, introducing a suite of AI agents designed to automate common security operations tasks and reduce the burden on cybersecurity professionals. T he platform's natural language interface and deep Microsoft 365 / Defender integration are appealing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. I’ve been in four industries, but while I was at Microsoft, I served several more — healthcare and retail, for example.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

The integrated F5/Intel offering, which is available, will be particularly beneficial for edge applications, such as video analytics and IoT , where low latency and high performance are crucial, wrote Kunal Anand, chief technology officer with F5, in a blog about the technology. “F5

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

OpenAI se alía con Oracle y Microsoft con el fin de adquirir nuevas capacidades. De hecho, los tres gigantes tecnológicos trabajan codo con codo para extender la plataforma de Microsoft Azure AI a Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) para proporcionar una capacidad adicional al buque insignia de Sam Altman.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Gates Frontier, an investment arm of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, co-led the round with Silicon Valley fund MetaVC. based Intellectual Ventures , focuses on optical semiconductor technology that can steer laser light and is used in mobile devices, autonomous vehicles, and robots. (Lumotive Photo) Lumotive , a Redmond, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

The move supports the goal to adopt a standard for all new systems at the bank, whether created by its own tech team or sourced from others, to be built to continuously change using evergreen cloud-native technologies, according to David Walker, Westpac Group chief technology officer. Building a simpler tech environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. You can go to the Azure portal, you can provision an Oracle autonomous dataset, our very latest technology, on an Exadata server, our very fastest technology,” he said. “You

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GeekWire

MARCH 20, 2025

We’re excited to host a special community event tonight at Town Hall Seattle as we bring together key leaders from Microsofts past and present to examine the impact of the Redmond technology giant, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. There are still a limited number of tickets remaining grab them here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. She co-founded Trend Micro in 1988 and has been leading the company ever since; first as executive vice president, CTO in 1996, and CEO since 2005. Johnson was named president and CEO of Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) in 2022.Saddled

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GeekWire

MARCH 31, 2025

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas (left), CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Quotable: This funding allows us to advance our mission of making execution reliability the default, whether for traditional enterprises or the next generation of AI-driven workloads,” Temporal CTO and co-founders Samar Abbas said in a statement.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

… Read More Tech Moves: iSpot’s new CTO; VMWare exec returns to Microsoft; Expedia CFO to resign — Nipun Dureja is now chief technology officer for iSpot, a Bellevue, Wash., company that measures the impact of advertising campaigns on TV and video streaming. … Read More

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

— Ali Dasdan , chief technology officer of ZoomInfo Technologies , is resigning from his role at the publicly traded company to “pursue a new opportunity,” according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Benmalek left Microsoft in 2018 after 22 years at the Redmond, Wash.,

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

He was also the former CTO at Porch and was a senior director of development at Zynga, and spent a decade at Microsoft from 1994 to 2004. Moondream CTO Vik Korrapati previously spent nine years at AWS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Vipin Jain, founder and chief architect of Transformation Enablers Inc. brings over 30 years of experience crafting execution-ready IT strategies and transformation roadmaps aligned with business goals while leveraging emerging technologies like AI. federal agencies. He is currently a senior advisor at WVE.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

For example, Microsoft this week introduced consumption-based pricing for Copilot Chat. A simple yet effective approach is to track the relationship between tokens, watts, and dollars, says Chris Sharp, Digital Realty CTO. This is largely the No. 1 constraint I hear from peers, he says, regarding concerns about bad outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

For many enterprises, Microsoft Azure has become a central hub for analytics. Taking the broadest possible interpretation of data analytics , Azure offers more than a dozen services — and that’s before you include Power BI, with its AI-powered analysis and new datamart option , or governance-oriented approaches such as Microsoft Purview.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In recent weeks and months Expedia announced Shilpa Ranganathan as its new chief product officer, which marks her return following 16 years at Microsoft, and former Fanatics exec Ramana Thumu is the incoming chief technology officer. Nametag offers its Deepfake Defense technology for identity verification.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential. Being a successful IT consultant requires knowing how to walk in the shoes of your IT clients and their business leaders, says Scott Buchholz,CTO of the government and public services sector practice at consulting firm Deloitte.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

(Qualtrics Photo) — Qualtrics appointed Microsoft veteran Rachita Sundar as its chief financial officer and member of the executive leadership team. Previous to that role she was at Microsoft for 13 years, rising to the position of senior finance director of Microsoft U.S. Sundar will be based in Seattle.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 14, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Sebastien Bubeck , a top researcher from Microsoft who was most recently vice president of AI and a distinguished scientist, is joining OpenAI. The Information first reported on Bubeck’s departure, describing him as one of Microsoft’s “most prominent artificial intelligence researchers.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Our expert this week is Nikesh Parekh , a longtime Seattle tech executive and entrepreneur who is a general manager at Microsoft leading teams building enterprise applications for the Microsoft Copilot and Power Platform. He co-founded enterprise software startup Suplari, which Microsoft acquired in 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. In addition, SAP is also working closely with Microsoft and Google on AI.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Polana AI co-founders, from left: CEO Maria Zhang, Chief Scientist Steve Liu, and CTO Tim Howes. Zhang’s background also includes stints at Microsoft and Zillow. She was a VP of engineering at Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn, and Instagram, and was CTO at Tinder. She launched Proactive AI Lab in June.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2025

Gradial co-founders from left: CEO Doug Tallmadge, chief growth officer Anish Chadalavada, CTO Deip Kumar, and COO Anup Chamrajnagar. Gradial Photo) Gradial , a Seattle startup that uses AI agents to help marketing operations teams increase productivity, raised $13 million in new funding, the company announced Monday.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Certivo CEO Kunal Chopra (left) and CTO Ahmed Khan. Chopra also spent time at Microsoft, Amazon, Unikrn, and Groupon in executive roles. Certivo CTO Ahmed Khan is the former CTO at Houston-based Poetic and was a senior software manager at Avanade and NASA. His most recent gig was as CEO of Beckett Collectibles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Especially with companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce and others in the news recently with announcements of agentic AI and agent creation tools and capabilities. Microsoft recently announced the release of Copilot agents. Microsoft is describing AI agents as the new applications for an AI-powered world.

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