About
Donna Goodison is a senior editor covering the public cloud for CRN. Donna started at CRN in 2019 after 15 years as a business reporter for the Boston Herald and previous stints as a Boston Globe freelancer and business reporter at the Boston Business Journal and Banker & Tradesman. She graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Donna lives in Waltham, Mass., and loves traveling, cooking and the beach.
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Google Cloud Launches Premium Support Offering
by Donna Goodison
'By expanding the offering, increasing features and coverage and adding mission-critical support, Google Cloud is recognizing customers are trusting their most crucial systems to Google and giving them a premium support back line to ensure they continue to run smoothly,' says Aric Bandy, president of Agosto, a Google Premier partner.
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Google Cloud Gets No-Code App Development With AppSheet Acquisition
by Donna Goodison
'AppSheet complements Google Cloud’s strategy to reimagine the application development space with a platform that helps enterprises innovate with no-code development, workflow automation, application integration and API management as they modernize their business processes in the cloud,’ says Amit Zavery, Google Cloud’s vice business application platform.
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AWS Wants Court To Block Microsoft From JEDI Project Work Orders
by Donna Goodison
All parties have asked for a U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruling by Feb. 11.
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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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Val Wright To Women In Tech: ‘Be Brilliant At Demonstrating Your Brilliance’
by Donna Goodison
'You can have amazing results, but if you're not talking about those results, you become unknown, you become the best-kept secret,' says Val Wright, author and innovation consultant, at the Women of the Channel Leadership Summit East.
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New Amazon Builders’ Library: This Is ‘Not Taught At School’
by Donna Goodison
‘I hope that this…helps you build distributed systems at the same scale and the same reliability as Amazon and AWS,’ Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels says.
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AWS Unveils Retail, Public Safety and Disaster Response Competencies
by Donna Goodison
'We've had a lot of recent conversations about first responders and disaster response communities, and how we can help them,' AWS vice president Sandy Carter said. 'Previously, there was really no easy way for these customers to find the right APN partner with that specialized skill that they need to serve this market.'
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Meet Doug Yeum, AWS’ New Channel Chief
by Donna Goodison
'It's my philosophy that things have to be a two-way street,' new AWS channel chief Doug Yeum tells CRN. 'There's got to be a reciprocal value for the investments that partners make into helping to strengthen the partner network.'
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AWS Marketplace Expands Private Offers Program To All Sellers
by Donna Goodison
'Effective 2020, the fee that the ISVs pays for the billing, the fulfillment, the disbursement and collection -- most of these will be adjusted by 10 percent or greater depending on the price tier for that private offer model,' Dave McCann, vice president of AWS Marketplace, Service Catalog and Migration Services, says at AWS re:Ivent 2019 in Las Vegas today.
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AWS CEO Andy Jassy’s ‘Very Ambitious Plan’ To Keep AWS On Top
by Donna Goodison
AWS CEO Andy Jassy aims to keep the cloud giant at the top of the computing pyramid by adding more technology services, lowering costs for customers, and expanding its commitment to the company’s fast-growing AWS Partner Network.
