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’s Looker Gets Microsoft Azure Support, Other New Features
by Donna Goodison
‘The new Looker development portal enables developers to focus entirely on deriving insights from an organization’s data estate, creating new value from those golden nuggets while relieving them of repetitive development activities,’ says Paul Lewis, chief technology officer at Pythian Services, Google Cloud’s 2020 Specialization Partner of the Year for Data Management.
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8 Top Announcements From The Google Cloud Security Summit
by Donna Goodison
‘Every day, every week, there’s something coming up, and it’s to a point where, in fact, many companies — through ransomware or otherwise — are actually almost abdicating their responsibility,’ says Sunil Potti, Google Cloud’s general manager and vice president of cloud security. ‘There’s a meme going around where a CISO is hesitant to spend $1 million on security tools, but writes a check for $10 million for ransomware very quickly.’
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Amazon Web Services Simplifies AWS Partner Training Program
by Donna Goodison
‘We think that this is going to really address the needs of our customers in the best way possible,’ AWS channel chief Doug Yeum says. ‘This is also going to allow our partners to continue to grow their business with AWS around training and certification.’
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Amazon HealthLake Is GA Under New ‘AWS for Health’ Banner
by Donna Goodison
‘Cloud providers developing industry-specific solutions is a positive, logical next step in the digital transformation to cloud, especially for healthcare, which has traditionally been behind other industries when it comes to technology and is frequently limited by legacy systems and their constraints,’ says Aater Suleman, vice president of cloud transformation at NTT DATA Services.
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Satya Nadella’s 10 Biggest Statements At Microsoft Inspire 2021
by Donna Goodison
‘We want to be the best partner for our partners,’ Nadella says. ‘What we are witnessing is a generational shift — not just in technology platforms, but in digital adoption curves. We have built the most trusted and comprehensive cloud to translate this structural change into opportunity for you as partners and maximize the value for our mutual customers.’
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11 Top Azure Announcements From Microsoft Inspire 2021
by Donna Goodison
CRN breaks down the new Microsoft Azure products, features and services unveiled by the No. 2 cloud computing provider at its annual partner conference.
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The 10 Hottest Google Cloud Tools Of 2021 (So Far)
by Donna Goodison
CRN highlights some of the top new Google Cloud products and services to watch this year.
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Tighter AWS-Salesforce Integration An ‘Enabler’ For Partners
by Donna Goodison
‘It provides us with some tailwinds that should be able to help us bring more integrated solutions together for customers,’ said Andrew Vose, co-founder and CEO of CopperHill Consulting, an AWS Select Consulting Partner and Salesforce implementation partner.
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7 Things To Know About JEDI And DOD’s Revised Cloud Strategy
by Donna Goodison
After scrapping its JEDI contract, the U.S. Department of Defense now plans to make awards to multiple cloud computing providers under its new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract.
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Pentagon Shelves JEDI Cloud Contract Won By Microsoft And Appealed By AWS
by Donna Goodison
The DOD announced a new multi-vendor contract — the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability — saying it still requires enterprise-scale cloud capabilities.
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Google Cloud Taps SAP Vet Adaire Fox-Martin As EMEA Cloud President
by Donna Goodison
Adaire Fox-Martin fills the vacancy left by Chris Ciauri, who served in the position for two years before leaving the company in March.
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The 10 Coolest New AWS Tools Of 2021 (So Far)
by Donna Goodison
CRN highlights some of the top new Amazon Web Services products and services to watch this year.
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Partner On AWS’ ‘Rebel Alliance’: ‘The Force Is With Microsoft’
by Donna Goodison
Amazon Web Services reportedly is in talks with companies including Dropbox, Slack and Smartsheet to bundle their products to better compete against Microsoft 365.
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AWS, Microsoft, Alibaba Led IaaS Cloud Services In 2020: Gartner
by Donna Goodison
‘The era of CIOs investing in cloud IaaS and platform as a service (PaaS) discretely is long over,’ says Sid Nag, Gartner’s research vice president.
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