Cloud

• AWS Establishes ‘Service Ready’ Certification For Partner Product Integrations

  by Donna Goodison

  'Right now, the process for how customers are able to tell which products are well-integrated is not that simple,' says Doug Yeum, AWS’ head of worldwide channels and alliances.

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  Microsoft Channel Chief On The Four Biggest Partner Opportunities In 2020

  by Kyle Alspach

  Microsoft Corporate Vice President Gavriella Schuster speaks with CRN about the massive opportunities in cloud, data, security and Windows Virtual Desktop.

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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 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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  AWS CEO Jassy: Trump's ‘Political Influence’ Over JEDI Cloud Threatens National Security

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  ‘I think it's really risky for the country and for democracy,’ Jassy told reporters, if the decision for a platform to host military apps is not made objectively. AWS got a ‘lot of information about the evaluation,’ he added, without getting into specific evidence of a corrupted process.

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  Andy Jassy On How Deloitte, Slalom, Rackspace Became AWS Superstars

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  The CEOs of those large AWS channel partners all understand the most important attribute of a senior leader: the ability to make hard decisions as to where to prioritize their businesses.

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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.'

• AWS Launches New EC2 Arm-Based, Machine-Learning Inference Instances

  by Donna Goodison

  'If you look at instances to start, it's not just that we have meaningfully more instances than anybody else, but it's also that we've got a lot more powerful capabilities in each of those instances,' AWS CEO Andy Jassy said in his keynote address at the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas.

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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.

• AWS, Slalom Unveil Joint Cloud Launch Centers

  by Donna Goodison

  This is the first time AWS and Slalom’s joint customers will have the experience of working with them at the same time, in the same location, solving the same problem, says Michael Cowden, president of Slalom Build.

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  AWS Outposts Is Now GA

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  The on-premises AWS cloud, available in AWS-native and VMware flavors, is ready to ship, but will continue introducing features going forward, including a VMware control plane and AWS S3 storage next year. AWS also introduced Local Zones, which builds on Outposts innovations to put AWS infrastructure closer to clients in major cities.

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  AWS Advances ‘Broadest And Most Complete’ AI Strategy

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  At the re:Invent conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy unveiled a plethora of services across the stack to make it easier for customers of all stripes to build AI into their business applications, looking to differentiate its cloud’s ML offerings with breadth and variety.

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  Sundar Pichai To Lead Both Google And Alphabet; Larry Page, Sergey Brin Step Down

  by David Harris

  Pichai ‘will be the executive responsible and accountable for leading Google, and managing Alphabet’s investment in our portfolio of Other Bets.’

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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.’