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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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New Wikibon research challenges execs to cut downtime costs in half

John Furrier — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:18:30 +0000

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 […]

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SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud expands deal with AWS

John Furrier — Thu, 18 May 2017 20:46:06 +0000

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 […]

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Analysis: It’s Amazon Web Services’ world – Google Cloud is just living in it

John Furrier — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:43:42 +0000

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 […]

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Looking to boost revenue growth, Veritas hires Oracle senior executive Scott Genereux

John Furrier — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:38:39 +0000

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 […]

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Meet the creator of Trump and Dump, a bot that shorts Trump’s corporate targets

John Furrier — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:39:28 +0000

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 […]

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Battling Dell EMC, HPE buys ‘hyperconverged’ system startup SimpliVity for $650 million

John Furrier — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:37:46 +0000

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 […]

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Silicon Valley Friday Show: VC Ashmeet Sidana talks AWS, entrepreneurs and what’s coming in 2017

John Furrier — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 21:30:19 +0000

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 […]

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The next hills for Amazon Web Services: AI and the Internet of Things

John Furrier — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:00:03 +0000

When Amazon Web Services Chief Executive Andy Jassy showed off a raft of new products and services Wednesday, including a big semi truck that carries a device that can store 100 petabytes of data, it was hard not to think of it as a rather ungainly fix for the difficulty of moving large amounts of […]

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How Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy manages at cloud scale

John Furrier — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:00:29 +0000

In pioneering the market for cloud computing a decade ago, Andy Jassy, now chief executive of Amazon Web Services, also had to pioneer some new ways of managing. After all, Amazon.com itself was running on the very same infrastructure of cloud services as the customers to whom he was selling those services. Among other things, […]

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CEO Andy Jassy: How Amazon Web Services won the cloud – and what’s coming next

John Furrier — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:40:53 +0000

Not too many years ago, Peter Burris, head of research for the analyst group Wikibon, recalls being in a room full of chief information officers. They were all giggling about Amazon.com Inc.’s attempt to persuade them to use its fledgling cloud computing services in place of the computer hardware and software on which they were […]

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Kubernetes pioneers raise $8.5 million in bid to make containers enterprise-ready

John Furrier — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:08:08 +0000

Former Google Cloud executive and Craig McLuckie is teaming up Kubernetes pioneer Joe Beda to launch Heptio Inc. with a goal of making software containers mainstream in the enterprise. McLuckie (above) will be chief executive of the new venture, which has raised $8.5 million from Accel Partners LP and Madrona Venture Group. Accel General Partner Ping […]

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Podcast: analyzing the Trump election results on the Silicon Valley Friday Show

John Furrier — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 14:59:30 +0000

In my weekly podcast this week, the Silicon Valley Friday Show, we had as featured guests Tom Joyce, a former executive with EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell, and Bullpen Capital founder Paul Martino, our venture capitalist of the week. The disruption this week, of course, was the presidential election of Donald Trump. I wanted […]

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Understanding the Internet of Things marketplace

John Furrier — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:59:05 +0000

The Internet of Things has great promise and is transforming businesses overnight. As General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt put it recently at Dell EMC World, “Yesterday we went to bed an industrial company and today we woke up as a software company.” But with that promise comes great peril as well. Connected […]

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Silicon Valley Friday Show podcast: TechTruth fellows chart the future of journalism

John Furrier — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:33:15 +0000

This week’s Silicon Valley Friday Show podcast (episode 5), recorded in Houston at the Grace Hopper Celebration in Women in Computing, features young journalists in the TechTruth Fellowship sponsored by SiliconANGLE Media and The GroundTruth Project. The fellows, who produced news stories from the conference and did reporting for upcoming features, are Karis Hustad, Pooja […]

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