AWS names Dow Jones vet to drive its enterprise game plan

by Barb Darro

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SUMMARY:

Stephen Orban, a former CIO at Dow Jones and a Bloomberg veteran as well, brings an enterprise worldview with him to Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Web Services has a new enterprise strategy chief in Stephen Orban, who, as a former CIO of Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and Barrons, probably knows something about the enterprise mindset. Before that he was at Bloomberg where he helped launch Bloomberg Sports, which was sold to STATS LLC, according to CIO Journal (registration required), which first reported the news. Orban disclosed his plans two weeks ago in a Medium post.

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IBM builds up its cloud with Netezza as a service and NoSQL as software

by Derrick Harris

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SUMMARY:

IBM announced a new, promising collection of cloud data services on Monday, adding to an already-impressive collections services on its Bluemix platform. At this point, though, IBM’s biggest challenge isn’t selling enterprise users on the cloud, but convincing them it’s still the best choice.

IBM announced a bunch of new cloud data services on Monday, including an intelligent data-preparation tool, an in-memory analytic database and even a local version of a historically cloud-based database. It’s an impressive and in some cases even unique set of capabilities that complements the work IBM has been pushing with its Bluemix platform since February.

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Twitter Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $361M, But Slowing User Growth Drags Its Shares Down 8%

by Alex Wilhelm (@alex)

Update: Twitter is now down around 10 percent in after-hours trading. Its CEO, in an interview with CNBC, said that his company is the “fastest growing business” in the big-dollar digital advertising space. 

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