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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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IT Execs On DOJ’s Google Antitrust Lawsuit: A ‘Lot Of Noise’ — With Caveats
by Donna Goodison
‘I don‘t think anything big is going to come out of it,’ said Ethan Simmons, managing partner of PTP, a born-in-the-cloud consulting and services firm based in Norwood, Mass. ‘I think it’ll be a slap on the hand, maybe a fine, and it’ll probably be business as usual. It’s going to take years to figure out.’
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The Highest Paying IT Jobs For 2021: Robert Half
by Donna Goodison
While higher unemployment and workforce up-skilling are expanding the IT candidate pool, employers are finding many applicants do not possess the right technical skills and experience or the desired soft skills, according to the staffing company.
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Google is ‘A Monopoly Gatekeeper:’ DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit
by Donna Goodison
‘Two decades ago, Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative way to search the emerging internet,’ the lawsuit states. ‘That Google is long gone. The Google of today is a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet and one of the wealthiest companies on the planet, with a market value of $1 trillion and annual revenue exceeding $160 billion.’
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Google Cloud’s Lending DocAI Tackles Mortgage Paperwork
by Donna Goodison
The artificial intelligence offering, designed to reduce the time and cost of closing home loans, streamlines data capture from the reams of scanned and digital documents detailing borrowers’ income, assets and other application information.
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Google Cloud Lands Accenture Exec For Manufacturing Role
by Donna Goodison
The cloud provider can help process manufacturers navigate a ‘critical digital transformation journey,’ whether it’s by helping accelerate their information technology/operational technology convergence efforts with its hybrid and multi-cloud Anthos platform or further industrializing artificial intelligence, according to the newly hired Suchitra Bose.
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Nokia To Modernize Its IT Infrastructure On Google Cloud
by Donna Goodison
‘In winning Nokia, Google is again demonstrating that they are operating at a scale to compete (for) new business that only AWS could have won five years ago and either AWS or Azure could have won three years ago,’ says Jeff Valentine, chief technology officer at CloudCheckr, a Google Cloud partner. ‘GCP is moving up-market, and that’s a win for Google Cloud partners that service enterprises rather than SMBs.’
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Google Cloud Nabs HPE Exec For GCP Go-To-Market Role
by Donna Goodison
Jason Schroedl joins a contingent of his former HPE and Cisco colleagues also recently brought on by Google Cloud, which has been on a hiring spree after pledging in 2019 to triple the size of its sales organization over the next few years.
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‘Smart Move:’ IBM Splits In Two With Blockbuster Managed Infrastructure Services Unit Spin-Off
by Steven Burke
‘Now is the right time to create two market-leading companies focused on what they do best,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. ‘IBM will focus on its open hybrid cloud platform and AI capabilities. NewCo will have greater ability to design, run and modernize the infrastructure of the world’s most important organizations. Both companies will be on an improved growth trajectory with greater ability to partner and capture new opportunities—creating value for clients and shareholders.’
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GameStop Looks For Boost With Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions
by Donna Goodison
‘We believe Microsoft’s integrated retail technology platform will enable the continued development of our frictionless, omni-channel digital environment, providing customers with an exceptional cross-channel experience for all things video gaming,’ says Jim Bell, GameStop’s chief financial officer.
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5 Google Cloud Takeaways From The House Antitrust Report
by Donna Goodison
“As remote work became commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic, Google attempted to manipulate users into using its Google Meet videoconferencing tool instead of upstart competitor Zoom,” according to the report by House Judiciary Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee.
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AWS Turns To Twitch To Teach Cloud Skills
by Donna Goodison
‘AWS Power Hour: Cloud Practitioner’ and ‘AWS Power Hour: Q&A’ are two new interactive Twitch series from AWS Training and Certification that start next week.
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Google Cloud’s Rebranded Workspace ‘A Shot Across the Bow’
by Donna Goodison
With the newly named Google Workspace and its added features, Google Cloud is ‘playing to win’ in the enterprise market, according to Tom Galizia, lead commercial partner for Deloitte Consulting’s Alphabet/Google alliance.
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Google Workspace’s 6 Biggest Security And Privacy Updates
by Donna Goodison
‘We are adding these features to your Google Workspace security toolkit to help prevent abuse and malicious behavior, and to help admins with powerful tools that help them manage security for their organization,’ says Karthik Lakshminarayanan, director of product management for Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite before today’s rebranding.
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Microsoft To Build New Azure Cloud Data Centers In Greece
by Donna Goodison
‘By a substantial margin, this is the largest investment Microsoft has made in Greece in the 28 years we have been operating here,’ Microsoft president Brad Smith said today in Athens.
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