GigaomAWS names Dow Jones vet to drive its enterprise game plan
Stephen Orban, a former CIO at Dow Jones and a Bloomberg veteran as well, brings an enterprise worldview with him to Amazon Web Services. Read more »
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MoreStephen Orban, a former CIO at Dow Jones and a Bloomberg veteran as well, brings an enterprise worldview with him to Amazon Web Services. Read more »
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Given their huge resources, it’s obvious who the Big Three companies are in public cloud. The question is, after them, who else can compete. Read more »
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Microsoft posted quarterly results, and there were some surprises. Earnings were $4.54 billion (54 cents a share) on revenue of $23.2 billion. The company took a larger than expected hit of 11 cents a… Read more »
While Amazon corporate posted pretty dismal losses, at least sales of its cloud gear appear to be growing nicely, thank you. Read more »
Mircrosoft’s quarterly financials positively surprised analysts as the company topped $23.2 billion in revenue. The surprise doesn’t end there though. It took three iterations, but Microsoft seems to have gotten in right with… Read more »