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CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MIGRATION
Exclusive with Amazon’s cloud chief: Enterprises must use cloud to transform
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 ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MIGRATION
Commentary: Andy Jassy aims to reinvent Amazon Web Services for the cloud’s next generation
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’
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 ...
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 ...