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Cybersecurity’s new battleground: strategic imperatives and emerging threats

John Furrier — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:04:20 +0000

As digital transformation redefines the business landscape, cybersecurity is becoming increasingly complex and urgent. So it was timely that the mWISE 2024 conference, hosted by Google LLC’s Mandiant, brought together industry leaders last week to explore the latest challenges, innovations and strategic priorities in the field. No longer confined to information technology departments, cybersecurity has […]

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Salesforce living the Dreamforce: Revolutionizing business workflows and data governance

John Furrier — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:39:19 +0000

As we approach Salesforce Inc.’s highly anticipated Dreamforce event, it’s clear that the company is positioned at the forefront of the enterprise artificial intelligence revolution. Generative AI is driving massive changes across industries, and Salesforce is harnessing this transformative technology to optimize workflows, enhance customer engagement and empower non-technical users to build customized experiences. Note: For […]

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Exclusive: Inside the mind of AWS CEO Matt Garman and how he aims to shape the future of cloud and AI

John Furrier — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:00:05 +0000

In the world of professional football, few coaching relationships are as legendary as that of Bill Parcells and his protégé, Bill Belichick. Parcells built formidable defenses, but it was Belichick who took the New England Patriots to unprecedented heights, largely thanks to an unknown player who would become a football icon: Tom Brady. This story […]

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World reboots as CrowdStrike update cripples global systems running Microsoft Windows

John Furrier — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:18:09 +0000

In an incident that underscores the vulnerabilities of our technology-reliant world, a massive information technology software update failure rippled across key sectors today, affecting everything from airlines to medical facilities, news outlets and public safety systems. At the center of the disruption lies a significant malfunction with CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Windows and […]

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Qumulo appoints former Arista exec Doug Gourlay CEO, eyeing growth in data systems storage market

John Furrier — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:35:13 +0000

Data storage platform Qumulo Inc. today named Doug Gourlay, previously a vice president and general manager who led the growth at Arista Networks Inc., its new chief executive officer. Gourlay brings extensive experience in driving innovation and operational excellence to his new role. He replaces Bill Richter, who is stepping down as CEO. Strategic vision and market […]

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Unveiling MongoDB.Local: Setting the stage for next-gen AI applications

John Furrier — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:00:27 +0000

At MongoDB Inc.’s flagship developer conference in New York City last year, I spoke with Chief Executive Dev Ittycheria, who offered his take on the burgeoning generative artificial intelligence wave. Ittycheria predicted that as developers began to experiment with new AI tools, including those within MongoDB’s developer data platform, they’d see productivity gains and would […]

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Turning golf shots into insights: How IBM is driving an AI-powered Masters digital experience

John Furrier — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:35:48 +0000

At SiliconANGLE, we love tech, we love sports and we especially love it when both come together. A prime example of this is on full display this week at the 88th Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, where IBM Corp. is providing a compelling use case for how a storied tradition meets state-of-the-art technology. The Augusta […]

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A vision for AI and the future: How Boldstart Ventures seeks to fund the next wave of enterprise innovation

John Furrier — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 02:10:55 +0000

The stage is set for a wealth creation cycle that we have never seen before. The roles played by data and AI highlight the instant use cases of a generational shift in how things are produced and consumed. Power dynamics are shifting to the founders of exciting new startups that are well-positioned to take advantage […]

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Exclusive Q&A: Ahead of re:Invent, AWS chief Adam Selipsky lays out a broad AI strategy

John Furrier — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:00:29 +0000

As Amazon Web Services Chief Executive Adam Selipsky prepares for his third re:Invent conference, it’s no surprise that artificial intelligence dominates his thinking. AWS needs a big boost given all the competition lately from the likes of Microsoft Corp., Google LLC and a raft of smaller clouds latching onto generative AI. Meanwhile, growth at Amazon.com […]

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A re:Invent exclusive: AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to reveal a new generative AI stack

John Furrier — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:34:06 +0000

As the rush to generative artificial intelligence only gains more momentum every day, Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Adam Selipsky think there’s one core capability to ensure it fulfills its promise: adaptability. “With all of the different directions that generative AI, and AI, are going to go in, the key characteristic that people need […]

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Analysis: Amazon earnings show AWS’ importance, but it needs more gen AI production workloads

John Furrier — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 01:45:12 +0000

Amazon.com Inc.’s third-quarter earnings demonstrate its Amazon Web Services Inc. unit’s financial strength and its role as a cornerstone for Amazon’s overall financial health. Key results were more on the cost-cutting side than the revenue side. Generative artificial intelligence is the big focus. Because of the late entry into the generative AI marketing war and […]

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MongoDB unveils data encryption tech for developers to boost data privacy and compliance

John Furrier — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:31:32 +0000

MongoDB today announced at its developer conference MongoDB.local Chicago the general availability of Queryable Encryption, which it says is a first-of-its-kind technology that helps organizations protect sensitive data when it is queried and in-use on MongoDB. As data volumes skyrocket, so do the intricacies of modern applications. Coupled with growing regulatory demands, companies face a […]

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AWS appoints Raejeanne Skillern as new chief marketing officer

John Furrier — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:57:33 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the hiring of Raejeanne Skillern as its new vice president and chief marketing officer. As the new AWS CMO, Skillern brings a wealth of industry experience and a proven track record of success, which will be instrumental in driving AWS’s marketing strategy forward. The news, sourced from an internal […]

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Exclusive: MongoDB foresees AI-powered future as it navigates shifting software development landscape

John Furrier — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:30:18 +0000

Following a stellar first-quarter earnings performance, MongoDB Inc., the forerunner in the database platform domain, prepares for its global conference tour with MongoDB.local NYC this week. I had a chance to chat with MongoDB Chief Executive Dev Ittycheria (pictured) and Andrew Davidson, its senior vice president of products, in advance of this week’s conference to […]

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Exclusive Q&A: MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on empowering developers and how AWS is changing

John Furrier — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:56:01 +0000

I had a chance to sit down for an exclusive conversation with the Dev Ittycheria, chief executive of MongoDB Inc., ahead of Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, where SiliconANGLE and its video studio theCUBE will be providing wall-to-cloud coverage of the event. We talked about how much AWS is changing and the role the partners […]

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AWS CEO Adam Selipsky: The cloud is about to reinvent corporate cultures

John Furrier — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:00:21 +0000

On the surface, the timing of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week doesn’t seem ideal — but AWS Chief Executive Adam Selipsky doesn’t seem too worried. The event is always a relentlessly upbeat gathering, but this year Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit is facing, well, a lot of storm […]

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AWS chief Adam Selipsky hints at the next-gen cloud

John Furrier — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:55:01 +0000

What’s going on at Amazon Web Services these days? What’s with the new CEO? What will we hear at re:Invent this year? I get these questions a lot these days, so recently I sat down with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at his office in Seattle to talk about its business, his vision, the new focus, […]

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AWS chief Andy Jassy on managing during COVID – and beyond

John Furrier — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:55:18 +0000

If there’s any year when Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference has resonated the most, it’s 2020. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic has sent nearly every business scrambling to reinvent themselves. And when it comes to technology, that means cloud computing — where AWS remains the far-and-away leader even amid heightening competition from the […]

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How AWS aims to democratize machine learning with cloud services

John Furrier — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 03:05:42 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. has made a big bet on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and just how big a bet is likely to become apparent Tuesday when its AI chief presents his keynote at the cloud giant’s re:Invent virtual conference that continues this week. Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Amazon AI, will hold the […]

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How AWS is computing the future of the cloud

John Furrier — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 14:04:25 +0000

The highlight of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference is always the marathon three-hour keynote by Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy, and despite the show going virtual this year, it’ll be the same today. As he always has, the longtime leader of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company will debut a dizzying array of new and upgraded […]

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How Amazon’s cloud chief aims to reset the competitive landscape

John Furrier — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:10:14 +0000

As Amazon Web Services Inc. opens its ninth annual re:Invent conference this week online rather than at its longtime Las Vegas venue, it confronts a world that needs its services more than ever during the worsening COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit has helped a raft of companies during the pandemic, enabling Zoom Inc. to handle rocketing growth from millions […]

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Exclusive with AWS chief Andy Jassy: The wakeup call for cloud adoption

John Furrier — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 06:33:20 +0000

Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March, many companies had to become digital businesses nearly overnight — and they turned quickly to Amazon.com Inc.’s massive cloud computing business to help them. Even for Amazon Web Services Inc., by far the leading provider of cloud services, it required scaling up to an unprecedented degree to […]

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Exclusive: How AWS chief Andy Jassy plans to compete in the multicloud

John Furrier — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:57:26 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos famously refuses to talk much about his competition, and Andy Jassy, CEO of the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud computing operation doesn’t much like it either — occasional jabs at Oracle Corp. aside. But the fact remains that in the midst of its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, […]

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Exclusive: With new tech, Andy Jassy aims to take Amazon’s cloud everywhere

John Furrier — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:45:08 +0000

The marquee appearance at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference is always the marathon two- to three-hour keynote by Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy. And as usual, the longtime leader of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company is expected to introduce a raft of new and upgraded services, from compute instances and databases to processors […]

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Exclusive with Amazon’s cloud chief: Enterprises must use cloud to transform

John Furrier — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:41:46 +0000

As Amazon Web Services Inc. opens its eighth annual re:Invent conference this week in Las Vegas, it’s facing a new cloud computing landscape that it no longer has mostly to itself. Even as some rivals such as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp. struggle in the cloud, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud infrastructure company now faces an increasingly credible […]

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Commentary: Andy Jassy aims to reinvent Amazon Web Services for the cloud’s next generation

John Furrier — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:17:16 +0000

In an exclusive one-on-one conversation, Amazon’s cloud chief reveals how he views the future of the cloud, the competition, market shifts, customer demands and controversies Amazon Web Services is in the midst of its biggest reinvention since its founding and the look in Chief Executive Andy Jassy’s eyes is that of a CEO who isn’t […]

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Exclusive: Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy calls JEDI award process unfair and ‘risky’

John Furrier — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:22:35 +0000

Political interference by President Donald Trump in the process by which the Pentagon granted a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft is “very risky for the country,” rival Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE. Amazon.com Inc. late Friday filed a protest of the Pentagon’s award […]

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How Amazon’s cloud chief finds the next billion-dollar businesses

John Furrier — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:32:39 +0000

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 […]

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Amazon’s cloud chief eyes the next revolution in software: serverless computing

John Furrier — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:55:17 +0000

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 […]

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How Amazon Web Services aims to win cloud computing’s next big battle

John Furrier — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 04:28:41 +0000

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, […]

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