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Former VMware Channel Chief Ross Brown Joins Oracle
by Joseph Tsidulko
Brown has filled the position of vice president responsible for Oracle’s go-to-market operations. Oracle declined to further elaborate on his role, and whether it will directly involve Oracle Cloud’s channel.
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AWS Taps Matt Garman For Top Sales And Marketing Role
by Donna Goodison
Garman, who now will report to AWS CEO Andy Jassy, previously was vice president of AWS Compute Services since 2013, overseeing AWS’ team for its core Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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Goldman Sachs IT Spending Survey: Top Vendor Winners And Losers
by Donna Goodison
Microsoft tops the survey’s ranking of companies considered to be Global 2000 CIOs’ most strategic vendors, followed by Cisco Systems, which by 2022 is expected to be displaced by Amazon Web Services, now in a fourth-place tie with Oracle
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30 Notable IT Executive Moves: December 2019
by Dylan Martin
The promotion of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the retirement of Dell President Marius Haas and a slew of executive hires at Intel were among December's most significant IT personnel moves.
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The 10 Biggest Data Center News Stories Of 2019
by Mark Haranas
From new Data Center as-a-service offerings by Dell Technologies and Lenovo to the massive M&A spree, CRN breaks down the biggest data centers stories of 2019 that shaped the market.
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Oracle Will Not Replace Mark Hurd As Co-CEO
by Joseph Tsidulko
Larry Ellison tells investors in a Q2 earnings call that a unique relationship prompted splitting the top job between two executives in 2014. Now Safra Catz will maintain the position on her own.
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Oracle Plans To Ride ERP And Database To Greater Cloud Glory
by Joseph Tsidulko
Autonomous Database is ‘on its way to being the most-successful new product introduction in our company's history,’ Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison says.
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‘Screw Amazon’: AWS JEDI Legal Fight Details Trump Attacks
by Joseph Tsidulko
The selection process for the military’s $10 billion cloud transformation initiative raises a fundamental question of whether a sitting president can use the budget of the Defense Department ‘to pursue his own personal and political ends,’ AWS argues to a federal court. Evidence of a flawed process can be found in comparing AWS capabilities to those of JEDI recipient Microsoft Azure.
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AWS CEO Jassy: Trump's ‘Political Influence’ Over JEDI Cloud Threatens National Security
by Joseph Tsidulko
‘I think it's really risky for the country and for democracy,’ Jassy told reporters, if the decision for a platform to host military apps is not made objectively. AWS got a ‘lot of information about the evaluation,’ he added, without getting into specific evidence of a corrupted process.
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AWS Launches JEDI Cloud Counteroffensive
by Joseph Tsidulko
The cloud leader is arguing that President Donald Trump exerted political influence on the military’s selection process for a cloud computing vendor out of antipathy stemming from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' ownership of the Washington Post
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Robert Enslin On Google Cloud’s Seven-Month Building Tear: Exclusive
by Donna Goodison
'We know that we want to actually scale the organization rapidly,’ says Robert Enslin, Google Cloud's president of global customer operations. 'I knew a lot of talent in the industry and so did (CEO Thomas Kurian), so we knew pretty quickly what we wanted to do to achieve that level of scale.'
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20 Minutes With Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian At Next '19 UK
by Donna Goodison
‘A lot of enterprises have four or five workloads that dominate their IT landscape, and one of the gaps we had earlier is we didn't have solutions for them,’ says Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. ‘As we shifted into enterprise, we had to provide tools to migrate the existing estates that they had.’
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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s 9 Boldest Statements At Next ’19 UK
by Donna Goodison
'We give you this platform to paint a new vision for your company, to imagine what was once considered impossible and to transform the way you serve customers in every industry,' says Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.
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Oracle Reportedly Taking Time Appointing Co-CEO Mark Hurd’s Successor
by David Harris
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison has put forward five candidates for the co-CEO job, but the plan is nuanced.
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