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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced that Sebastien Marotte will be joining the Box Executive team as President of Box Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective June 7, 2021. The appointment underscores Box’s continued commitment to the region where the Company recently announced a new office opening in Warsaw, Poland, and its recent acquisition of SignRequest, a European electronic signature… Source link

MADISON, Wisc., and SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today announced it is launching a Virtual Career Center (VCC), built on Google Cloud. The VCC will connect Wisconsinites to career services, relevant job opportunities and dramatically expand access to key resources across the state, via an innovative, data-driven, and easy-to-navigate online platform. This $2.9-million project brings together Wisconsin government… Source link

STOCKHOLM, March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SEB and Google Cloud today announced that they have entered into a strategic, long-term partnership to accelerate the bank’s digitization journey. SEB, a leading Nordic financial services company, will use Google Cloud’s innovative cloud technologies, and collaborate to create pioneering new banking services for its customers. SEB’s innovation studio and next-generation banking platform, SEBx, is already benefiting from Google’s Infrastructure and… Source link

Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google … [+] Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP One of Thomas Kurian’s first moves as Google Cloud’s CEO when he joined the company in 2019 was lifting a cap put in place on sales… Source link

Google Cloud has hired Intel engineering veteran Uri Frank to lead new server chip design efforts as part of the cloud service provider’s increasing investments in custom silicon. The Mountain View, Calif.-based cloud vendor announced Monday that it was “doubling down” on custom chips as “one way to boost performance and efficiency” in its servers, expanding beyond the work it has done in introducing the Tensor Processing Unit, the Video Processing Unit and the open-source… Source link

There has been a growing industry trend in recent years for large-scale companies to build their own chips. As part of that, Google announced today that it has hired long-time Intel executive Uri Frank as vice president to run its custom chip division. “The future of cloud infrastructure is bright, and it’s changing fast. As we continue to work to meet computing demands from around the world, today we are thrilled to welcome Uri Frank as our VP of Engineering for server chip design,” Amin… Source link

On Monday, Google Cloud revealed the role it had played in five states’ mass vaccination initiatives and announced that it would be working with more in the months to come.   According to a blog post by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, Arizona, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia have partnered with the company to support their vaccination efforts at scale. Mike Daniels, VP of global public sector at Google Cloud, told Healthcare IT News the company’s efforts are “designed to… Source link

Last year, Google lost $5.6 billion on its cloud computing business—real money even for one of the most wildly profitable companies on the planet. Now it’s taking a new approach that could help it stem a bit of that flood of red ink. Thomas Kurian, chief of Google’s cloud computing unit, recently reintroduced a cap on the commissions earned by Google Cloud salespeople who sell to large companies, according to a person with direct knowledge of the policy and two… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google to recruit from local universities as it creates nearly 1k jobs for Durham cloud engineering hub  WECT Source link

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Google has announced plans to create a hub in Durham, North Carolina, for hundreds of engineers to work on its Google Cloud products. The company said in a statement Thursday that it is already recruiting for the site and that it plans to employ 150 people by the end of the year. The company said it will aim to add 300 more employees next year and 500 more in 2023. The site will eventually support more than 1,000 jobs and be one of Google Cloud’s top engineering hubs…. Source link