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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CEO ANDY JASSY
How Amazon’s cloud chief finds the next billion-dollar businesses
Now that Amazon Web Services Inc. is disrupting the entire information technology business and running at an $18 billion annual revenue run rate after scarcely 11 years in business, it almost looks like it was easy. But to hear AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy (pictured) tell it, it was the result of the same kind ...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CEO ANDY JASSY
Amazon’s cloud chief eyes the next revolution in software: serverless computing
Nobody likes the misleading name of the latest hot trend in cloud technologies, but “serverless” computing nonetheless has captured the hearts and minds of an increasing number of companies looking for an easier onramp into cloud computing. Serverless refers to an emerging way of creating cloud applications that doesn’t require software developers to fuss with ...
Exclusive interview with CEO Andy Jassy
How Amazon Web Services aims to win cloud computing’s next big battle
There’s no doubt by now that Amazon Web Services Inc. won the first phase of cloud computing, the revolutionary disruption to traditional information technology that’s reshaping the entire technology landscape. Now it’s gunning to win the next phase, too. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit remains far out in front of rivals such as Microsoft Corp.’s Azure, ...
New Wikibon research challenges execs to cut downtime costs in half
A perfect storm of heightened regulation, advanced cyberthreats and greater business risk is creating a new imperative for Global 2000 organizations to rethink data recovery for high-value applications. That’s according to new research by Wikibon analyst David Floyer. In a recent Wikibon research report (subscription required), Floyer introduces a new phrase, “application-led backup and recovery,” which ...
SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud expands deal with AWS
SAP SE today announced the expansion of a four-year relationship between its SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud and Amazon Web Services at Sapphire Now 2017, the software giant’s annual conference in Orlando, Florida. SAP is touting this as the two companies forging new cloud possibilities. I had a chance to talk with Stephen Spears, Senior Vice President ...
Analysis: It’s Amazon Web Services’ world – Google Cloud is just living in it
Since Diane Greene (pictured) took over as senior vice president of Google Cloud in late 2015, we’ve seen a big transformation to make Google Inc.’s cloud more enterprise-friendly. I had a chance to chat with her briefly on Monday, and it’s clear she is proud of Google’s progress. But the key questions everyone is asking ...
Looking to boost revenue growth, Veritas hires Oracle senior executive Scott Genereux
Veritas Technologies is getting serious about expanding into the converged infrastructure market, and there’s no more obvious sign than a key hire it made earlier this month. The company announced it has hired away Scott Genereux, Oracle Corp.’s leader of cloud and converged infrastructure sales in North America, to be executive vice president of worldwide field operations. The ...
Meet the creator of Trump and Dump, a bot that shorts Trump’s corporate targets
Companies are often losing millions or billions of dollars in market value when President Trump slams them in a tweet. Now, one company has found a way to make a profit on Trump-related stock swoons — and maybe save a few puppies. Actually, this clever stock trader is a bot. Created by the ad agency ...
Battling Dell EMC, HPE buys ‘hyperconverged’ system startup SimpliVity for $650 million
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced it will pay $650 million in cash to acquire SimpliVity Corp., a provider of unified server and storage hardware and software for corporate data centers. Known in the industry as software-defined, hyper-converged infrastructure, these systems bring together servers, storage and networking to handle tasks inside data centers much more ...
Silicon Valley Friday Show: VC Ashmeet Sidana talks AWS, entrepreneurs and what’s coming in 2017
Entrepreneurs are driving an ever-faster pace of innovation in information technology, and the venture capital industry is scrambling to change its investing algorithm in an effort to keep up. That was a key theme explored in the Dec. 9 episode of SiliconValley Friday Show, which featured guest venture capitalist Ashmeet Sidana (left), founder and managing partner of Engineering ...