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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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.
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AWS Partner Network To Get New Program For Startups
by Donna Goodison
‘We felt like there was an opportunity for us to build a special program to ensure that our startups were able to work closely with our enterprise customers and also for us to make additional investments into startups who are focusing on the B2B space,’ says Doug Yeum, AWS’ head of worldwide channels and alliances.
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AWS To Announce Ingress Routing At re:Invent 2019
by Donna Goodison
'The thing that really gets (partners) excited is just how much we've been able to simplify the process of taking an appliance in AWS Marketplace and putting it into the customer network and making sure that the traffic flows through it,' says David Brown, AWS' Elastic Compute Cloud vice president. 'When you can't do that simply, there's obviously friction for customers.'
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Andy Jassy Sees Partner Opportunities In AWS Outposts, AWS IQ
by Donna Goodison
‘Over time, what we expect in terms of how we can partner with the partner ecosystem is multiple-fold,’ says AWS CEO Andy Jassy. ‘I think that our partner community is pretty excited about Outposts, both as a bridge as well as a way to allow them to sell more software.’
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AWS Launches Quantum Computing Offensive With Amazon Braket
by Donna Goodison
'With quantum engineering starting to make more meaningful progress, customers are asking for ways to experiment with quantum computers and explore the technology’s potential,' says Charlie Bell, AWS’ senior vice president of utility computing services. 'We believe that quantum computing will be a cloud-first technology, and that the cloud will be the main way customers access the hardware.'
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AWS CEO Andy Jassy's Love Of Music And Its Role At AWS re:Invent
by Donna Goodison
‘Apart from the sensory pleasure of hearing great music that's catchy, what I love most about music is the artistry, passion and community that great musicians bring to bear,’ says AWS CEO Andy Jassy. ‘Skilled lyrical writing is like poetry.’
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Gareth Southgate On Google Cloud Empowering English Football
by Donna Goodison
‘We needed to modernize our thinking,’ says Gareth Southgate, manager of England’s national senior men’s football team. ‘In the early stages, that's hard because of high turnover of staff, reluctance to move forward with new ideas. It's a change project, and that's always going to find resistance.’
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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.'
