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It is no understatement to say that public cloud computing is revolutionizing how technology is used. Executives from the top three public cloud providersAmazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platformspoke at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit in Bellevue, Wash. this week.

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Microsoft ( msft ) and Amazon are courting major software companies to run their operations on their respective clouds, and manyTableau ( data ) , Salesforce ( crm ) , Workday ( wday ) are doing so.

"We want to win both big customers and the software companies selling to those customers," Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of cloud and enterprise, said at the conference.

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The problem is that the major cloud providers offer more than basic computing, networking, and storage building blocks. They are adding more capabilities that compete with software companies they are courting.

For example, while SAP ( sap ) financial software runs on Microsoft Azure public cloud, SAP also competes with Microsoft Dynamics applications. As Guthrie noted: "If we overlap in places, we have to do that in disciplined ways." Guthrie, who manages both Azure cloud and financial software that competes with SAP, added: "I see SAP as both a competitor and a partner, but we're able to manage that well."

This is dj vu for Microsoft. Years ago as the company built its Windows franchise, it wanted other software companies to move Microsoft products, which ran on the older DOS operating system. But even as the Windows team pushed third-parties like Lotus Development Corp., then a leader in DOS spreadsheet software, to move to Windows, Microsoft was building its own competitive Windows Excel spreadsheet software. This did not work out so well for Lotus, which ended up being acquired by IBM ( ibm ) .

Guthrie told Fortune that Lotus' fate had more to do with that company being late to Windows than any competition from Microsoft's competitive software. In similar fashion, Guthrie said software companies should quickly commit to cloud or risk falling behind.

Amazon Web Services ( amzn ) , the leader in the public cloud market, was born in Seattle approximately 11 years ago . Microsoft, the second largest public cloud company, is based a few miles east in Redmond. And while Google ( goog ) is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., a good chunk of its cloud development work takes place in the Seattle area. Oracle ( orcl ) also fields much of its nascent cloud work in the area.

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At the conference, Docker's new chief executive Steve Singh said his company will open a significant engineering hub in Seattle or Bellevue soon. Docker, which backs container technology easing the deployment of software that runs in the cloud or in company data centers, is based in San Francisco.

Greg DeMichillie, director of product management for Google Cloud, said that company is constructing a new facility in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood to house more Google cloud personnel.

"If you look at the rate at which we are hiring, not just in engineering, our growth here in Seattle is pretty phenomenal, DeMichillie said. Google also has offices in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.

Fortune 500 companies run lots of decades-old business software, simply patched up and updated over time. Databases, financial accounting systems, and software managing manufacturing tasks all fall into that category. Cloud providers think much of that key business software should move from corporate data centers to the cloudbut such migrations are difficult.

Guthrie, however, said most of Azure's cloud business comes from truly new computing jobs that have never ran in anyone's data center. The Internet of thingsin which billions of connected devices from fitness gadgets to appliances to factory gear in order to gather datais partially responsible for enabling those new scenarios.

"We havent seen a huge lift and shift of existing things until recently," Guthrie said. "I think Amazon would say the same thing. Core IT hasnt been lifting and shifting core workloads until lately."

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Brand new computing taskslike German auto giant BMW's connected car work , which brings the driver's smartphone, contacts, calendar into the car itselfcould not happen without a cloud. Projects like this, Guthrie added, are not necessarily driven by traditional IT staff, but by business units at the company.

Brian Nowak, executive director at Morgan Stanley , agreed that much cloud workand revenueis driven by totally new tasks like these.

"Autonomous cars didn't even exist two years ago," Nowak noted. Connected home devices, like Amazon Echo, are also new. The data that these gadgets collect needs to be analyzed in the cloud, he explained, and that is driving the bulk of public cloud business going forward.

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Cloud computing is changing the technology world and creating opportunity for hundreds of new companies so how are investors thinking about which ones to put their investmentbehind?

Three Seattle-area venture capitalists Frank Artale of Ignition Partners; S. Soma Somasegar of Madrona Venture Group; and Sheila Gulati of Tola Capital spoke on stage Wednesday at the inauguralGeekWire Cloud Tech Summit about the state of the cloud computing industry and opportunities they see for related technologies and startups.

The panelists all agreed that its an exciting time for cloud technology and that this isonly the beginning.

We are early in this game, and its a game that is fundamentally changing how computing happens, Gulati said. Cloud is the new operating system.

The discussion, moderated bySeattle angel investor Charles Fitzgerald, ranged from the most attractive cloud-related areas of investment to how Seattle is becoming the cloud capital of the world.

Heres a quick rundown of their insights, which have been edited for brevity.

S. Soma Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group: In the last six to 12 months, we have been investing in a fair amount of what I call cloud-native, next-generation cloud infrastructure-related startups. Its everything from serverless computing, to the world of containers, to event-driven functions. There are a bunch of things people can go solve in a startup environment.

As you move the stack, there is still a lot of value that people can think about delivering at the application level. We get excited about what we call intelligent applications. Its not just predictable behavior from an application, but one that can learn from the data you have access to and continuously learn from thatand do a better job for customers. There are lots of enterprise use cases that are possible.

Sheila Gulati, Tola Capital: A lot of the opportunities for venture capitalists these days is up-stack, as you take advantage of the incredibly rich platform elements and the ability to develop and deploy more seamlessly and more easily.

But also, the real benefitthat the cloud gives you is that data ownership, that data predictability, that comparabilitybetween your different customersbecause youare running all of thatdata in cloud and then able to do very business-appropriate, business-useful comparisons. Its incredibly invaluable. Our last investment was in the insurance software space. Its specific to a vertical, its adding value. You have the industry incumbents really betting on this company in order to take forward the learnings and the benefit of cloud, mobile, and data-centric computing for their industry. We also like serverless.

Frank Artale, Ignition Partners: One of the things we look at, relative to cloud, are applicationsthat could not exist were it not for what the cloud brings, from an application perspective. That may include low cost access to things like cognitive services; low cost access to elastic compute and storage; networking; availability. Its all of these things that to build on-premise would just be too expensive to even go after. Enablement is always a big word for us.

Gulati: As you take each layer of traditional IT spend and map it out, cloud revenue is eating different layers of the stack. Cloud vendors are coming out with services that replace a lot of thetraditional, massive businesses. As venture capitalists, its important that we think of everything we do in the context of, lets makesure we understand how thisworks.

Artale: With the public cloud, now that it has become a trusted infrastructure as opposed to a technical curiosity, well see a similarpattern with enterprise IT that we saw inthe late 90s when hypervisors first came into existence. You saw a lot of lighter duty, older workloads being moved into virtual machines, and virtual machines being collected on backs of servers for cost efficiency. You could do more with less hardware, you havesome software, and you can run more apps.One of the first orders of business for enterprises of all sizes will be to identify existing on-premise applications that are candidates to make that move. People call this lift and shift, or modernization.'

Somasegar: Hybrid cloud will be around for at least the next 10, 20, 30 years. Not everyone can move everything they have on premise to the public cloud overnight. Its going to take time. People also need to take time to get comfortable to feel like they have the right levels of security and data protection. It takes time to get that level of trust. And even then, there will be extreme situations, whether government related or industry-specific, where youll want some stuff on premise. Hybrid is how I think the world will operate for at leastthe next two or three decades.

Somasegar: Its definitely changing for the positive. I was at a dinner last month with venture capitalists and the whos-who of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. They were saying that theyve never seen so many Silicon Valley VCs come together in one place and were wondering whats happening here. Its a testament to people getting exciting about whats happening in Seattle and how they can be apart of it.

Weve also seen, at least in the past year, a tremendous amount of interest in terms of whats happening in Seattle and the startups here. We host people from Silicon Valley a couple times a week because they want to come here and understand the ecosystem. They know something great is happening and they want to participate more.

And as much as we get excited about Seattle being the cloud capital of the world, its not just cloud computing. There are many other areas where we have a tremendous amount of innovation here, between the bigger companies and the startups. We are the No. 1 or No. 2 in what I call the hot technology trends. All of this together makes us better and better each day that goes by.

Gulati: Its fine to call Seattle Silicon Valleys little sister, but its not true.Everyone is moving up here; everyone is opening an office up here. Theprevalence of more cloud computing happening here than in any other city in the world does change the game.

Artale: If you look at the movement, one thing people do notice is the amountof real estateleasesthat are being taken by mid-cap, large-cap, even startups from the Bay Area. Weve had companies move here from the Bay Area. There is great access to not just software development talent, but people want to be close to the epicenter and thinkers in cloud computing.

We also find that we are much more concentrated geographically here. Silicon Valley stretches from San Francisco down to south of San Jose thats about 75 miles and many hours sitting in a car. [In Seattle] we are concentrated, so there is good promise around that.

The other thing is that, at least for high value software development talent and programmanagement and marketing functions, people tend to stay in their jobs longer here. They dont go work some place for two years and find the next hotly-funded startup and move on. There tends to be more durability of teams. From my perspective, that is super important. Its something that is very attractive to businesses of all sizes.

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ByMolly Wood and Clare Toeniskoetter

June 08, 2017 | 4:49 AM

Youve probably heard by now: the tech industry is in need of talent. Some companies are looking to veterans of the military to fill those roles.

Amazon has partnered with the Department of Labor, creating the Amazon Veterans Apprenticeship Program. Veterans enrolled in the 16-week program train for positions in cloud computing.

Ardine Williams is vice president of talent acquisition for Amazon Web Services, and she's also a veteran herself. Williams spoke with Marketplace's Molly Wood about the difficulties of finding a civilian job, and Amazon's efforts to help.Below is an edited excerpt of their conversation.

Ardine Williams:The challenge that people have on the tech side is, in many cases, the technology that they've been working with doesn't change as quickly in the military as it does in the civilian sector, and so helping veterans who are a good fit culturally and have good basic technical skills learn that next, more state of the art capability is really what helps bridge them into a role in tech, and then open up other career opportunities.

Molly Wood:What other things about the transition might be hard for veterans coming into the private sector, Amazon in particular?

Williams:You have to be willing to take a stand and say this is what I want to do. We have thousands of job openings at Amazon and I get contacted regularly by veterans who say "I'm really a capable leader and I can do just about anything." And I don't have any jobs like that. I need someone to come and say "Hey, these are three jobs that are a great fit for me" and "I want to be a project manager in supply chain." It's a very different experience in the military where you have a branch officer or someone the career side saying, "Hey Ardine, we're going to send you to Fort X and you're going to do Y."

Wood: The tech industry takes a lot ofcriticism for being in a bubble in a lot of ways. Do you think that hiring from the military, creating a pathway for veterans, could improve the sort of pipeline problem that the tech industry often cites in terms of improving diversity? Or is the military its own bubble?

Williams:While it's imperfect, the military is a relatively good snapshot demographically of the U.S., not geographically perfect, but from a demographic perspective if you look at gender and ethnicity. So in that regard, it's a very valuable pipeline for any industry.

Wood:How will you know if you've succeeded?

Williams: The first piece for me is "are they successful, are we actually able to bring people in?" and then, "can we scale it, can I grow it to be a very robust pipeline?" So late last year, we worked with the Department of Labor to build an apprenticeship program and we're running a number of cohorts this year in different locations. And success to me will be that we have a great graduation rate from those programs and that those graduates go on to roles that continue to increase in responsibility at Amazon.

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C2ROis a new innovative startup company that launched in October of 2016 out of the startup incubator TandemLaunch. Its mission is to introduce a new way for robots to collaborate via cloud computing. The C2RO developed a robot-agnostic software platform that streams in real-time data processing to provide cloud server-based artificial intelligence (AI) -enabled software solutions. This helps the robots by augmenting their perception and collaboration capabilities.

The software increases the intelligence and autonomy of the robots. It enables collaboration between several different robots to perform complex tasks. The robots connect via the software and their sensor data processes in real time in the cloud. This increases the way robots share knowledge, work in a joined network, enhance their sensor perception, and even helps robots that have limited sensing and computational resources.

[C2RO has] developed a software platform that connects robots in the cloudand processes their sensor data in real timein a secure and reliable manner, said Soodeh Farokhi, the companys founder and technology lead, who holds a Ph.D. in cloud computing. Using our software-only solution, robots can share knowledge using the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms.

The C2RO platform uses the machine learning and vision systems of robot one to help teach other robots via its cloud connected software platform.

Cloud robotics was coined in 2010 to describe network-connected robots using parallel computation and data sharing. The interconnection with other computer hardware and environments enable data sharing, and these environments are customizable based on customers needs. Connecting robots to the cloud dramatically enhances their efficiency and capabilities because it opens up possibilities for collaboration and collective learning.

C2RO offers a Multi-Robot Collaboration module, which connects multiple robots (regardless of type or manufacturer) so they can work together. There are two main benefits to collaboration: efficiency, such as when multiple robot vacuums are used to clean a large area; and complementary sensing, such as when drones and land robots combine their sensors and viewing angles in a search-and-rescue scenario.

Connected robots also tend to be lighter and cheaper, since they do not require expensive processors or memory localized on board the robot. Inexpensive robots can be made smarter with C2ROs product because intensive processing and computation is partially offloaded onto the cloud platform, which can process the data in real time due to our patent-pending technology.

Speaking with Farokhi, engineers will see benefits from working in the cloud. Programming robots becomes an easier task, even for those without expertise in machine learning or software engineering, because all of the modules have been pre-programmed into the cloud as a software-only solution. According to Farokhi, All the user has to do is install a package on his/her robot, and the platform has a dashboard that acts like an app store or marketplace in a way that the user can choose the modules they want for a monthly, subscription-based fee for each module per robot.

Cloud-based robotic networks can be measured by its response timethe total time it takes from when a request is made by a user until a response is received. Response time is in turn determined by two factors: latency and processing time. Processing time is the amount of time a system takes to process a given request, while latency is the delay incurred in communicating a message.

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According to Farokhi, the C2RO platform tackles the twin problems of processing time and latency. We have brought down the processing time of any request to mere milliseconds using our parallel computing technology, he explained, and to address latency, we have partnered with PubNuba telecommunication providerproviding a speedy connection, heighten security, and less network delays. PubNub is a data stream network company headquarter in San Francisco.

C2RO has also collaborated with Indiana Universitys School of Informatics and Computing. Professor Geoffrey Fox serves as a technical advisor for the company. With regard to C2ROs software platform, It will allow my cuddly robot, vacuum cleaner, high-speed lawnmowers, and even any smart home devices to share backend services and generate new ideas by linking their data together, Fox said. Our intelligent systems engineering department is uniquely positioned to support C2RO.

C2RO is currently signing up users for its beta release.

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On 17 May, 2017 the Luxembourg Financial Regulator (CSSF) published four new circulars concerning cloud computing and IT outsourcing. The new regulations will immediately affect credit institutions, professionals of the financial sector, payment service providers, and electronic money issuers (Entities). The four CSSF circulars, which came into effect on the date of their publication, introduce new rules and replace existing requirements set out in existing circulars.

This circular addresses the obligations that Entities must meet when their IT infrastructure uses or will rely on a cloud computing infrastructure.

The circular applies to the partial or full transfer of the activities and does not make many differences between an external provider and an internal provider within a group of companies.

The CSSF defines the term of material activity as any activity that, when not properly performed, reduces the ability of an Entity to meet regulatory requirements or continue its operations, and any activities that are necessary for the sound and prudent risk management.

Three different IT service models are described:

For each of the above service models, the CSSF provides an interpretation of the levels of control on the systems and the software that an Entity must respect when applying such model.

Within these service models the CSSF differentiates four different cloud types:

An Entitys outsourcing of IT matters will qualify for particular regulatory treatment, if it meets specific criteria set out by the CSSF and will be excluded from the scope of other existing regulations relating the Entitys central administration, accounting organization, internal governance and risk management (e.g. Circulars 12/552 or 17/656).

The criteria that the CSSF uses to define the specific regulatory treatment are:

If the above criteria are fulfilled an Entity must obtain the CSSFs prior approval (if a material activity is concerned). In case a Luxembourg based professional of the financial sector is used, an Entity must only file a prior notification to the CSSF.

Once the outsourcing is implemented, all the changes to the set-up and the service providers as well as the in-sourcing must be notified to the regulator before an Entity enacts them.

Entities under the supervision of the CSSF that would like to offer cloud computing services or related operating services to their clients must submit a program description to the CSSF to obtain its prior approval.

This circular amends the requirements applicable to credit institutions, investment firms and professional lenders. The amendments introduce Circular 17/654 and clarify that Circular 05/178 is repealed.

In addition, the amendments clarify that every time specific infrastructures are used or changed, authorized entities must observe data protection and professional secrecy rules.

The circular clarifies the conditions for the use of other group entities that are not authorized by the CSSF. The systems of such group entities may be used under the condition that no confidential information is stored in a readable manner on those systems. If this is the case, the supervised entity must inform its clients and, if required, collect their consent.

This circular aligns the IT outsourcing requirements for professionals of the financial sector other than investment firms, payment service providers and electronic money issuers to those applicable to credit institutions and investment firms. It copies the wording of the relevant sections of Circular 12/552 to ensure consistency and ease further alignments.

Finally, the circular introduces Circular 17/564 and clarifies that professionals of the financial sector that offer IT services to their clients, may use the infrastructure of a third party or sub-delegate a part of their services only with the prior consent of the concerned clients.

This circular amends Circular 06/240 and is applicable to all credit institutions and professionals of the financial sector. One important clarification of this circular consists of providing that only the production environment should contain confidential data, whereas the test and development environment(s) (that as per applicable regulation may be accessed by third parties) should not contain confidential data.

As the four circulars came into effect on the date of their publication, the Entities auditors are expected to pay particular attention to the new requirements when carrying out their audits.

Entities supervised by the CSSF will have to carefully study the new circulars and analyze the impact on their existing administrative organization and IT infrastructure, because if affected, theymust be aligned to the new requirements. Therefore, changes may need to be implemented at multiple levels:

As service providers located outside of Luxembourg will be required to accept contractual provisions that they have never been requested to comply with before, (for instance, amendments to certifications and controls), the time to implement the changes should not be underestimated.

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Wells and city water have more in common with the cloud than you might think.

With Father's Day approaching, it got me thinking about my father, Darrel, and some of the great stories and lessons he shared with me while I was growing up. His father died when he was young, and although he had a loving mother, he had a hardscrabble childhood growing up in a small town in Utah. One lesson he inadvertently taught me when I was young that I would later reflect on was the importance of cloud computing.

As a kid, we used to visit the house he grew up in. One summer, my brother and I came across an old cemented water well on the property, and we started to talk to my dad about it. I thought that it was way cool to have this "free" source of water on the land that his family had complete dominion over. Then dad (as dads are apt to do) set me right.

Once, the well dried up and the well digger had to drill a deeper well to strike water. For the most part, we could pull water from the well on a regular basis, but during the hot Utah summers, the wind-powered well reliability was not optimal, and they had to use it judiciously.

They eventually moved to an electric well, but the cost of electricity to power the pump could get spendy. Money aside, dad said the worst part of having the well was worrying about potential health hazards; one autumn, the whole family became very ill and the doctor suspected that it had something to do with well water.

Taking these negative aspects of having a property well into account, my dad told me that it was a blessing when the city created a central water system by constructing a reservoir high up in the mountains. The city piped the water down to a station where it was monitored and treated. The vast majority of residents in the town jumped on the chance to join the new central water supply. Some agricultural and industrial users didn't cement up their wells, using them to supplement their city water; but for the most part, people found city water to be cheaper, more reliable and safer to use than well water.

So, how does my father's story about his family's well and city water relate to cloud computing? For the past 50 or so years, we've been using "well" technology in our datacenters. We put in our own servers, and although we sometimes get it right, we more than likely have to rely on getting professionals to help us set things up to make our servers efficient and workable.

We have a finite set of compute and storage resources that need to be closely monitored to prevent them from being used up. Even though we are diligent in preventing viruses and other security vulnerabilities, they still can get through the cracks and cause our datacenters great harm.

But just as a central city water supply solved problems for the citizens of my father's town, cloud computing can solve common issues and inconveniences in your datacenter. The cloud is a reservoir of compute and storage to draw upon as needed, and is almost impossible to deplete. Cloud compute centers are located near cheap, reliable power sources such as hydro-electric dams. Cloud providers can buy compute and storage devices by the boxcar load to get prices you can only dream about.

Due to the economy of scale, cloud centers can be staffed around the clock with dedicated professionals specialized in one aspect of the cloud, delivering a more reliable service. The staff can monitor compute and storage security, detecting and, more likely than not, preventing viruses and other security concerns from affecting your datacenter.

That's how my father taught me about the importance of cloud computing.

(In memory of my father, who taught me more than he realized, encouraged my curiosity, and loved his his wife and kids. He was a good man.)

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Guess what? Its not CIO or other leaders who are calling in the cloud consultants these days. Its the CFOs who are picking up the phone.

Thats logical if you think about it. CFOs are charged with keeping the company financially healthy. They are not happy about most IT expenses, and they have a deep-seated belief that IT is spending more money than it needs to. So, the concept of cloud computing seems to be a hammer that the CFO can use to beat IT into being much more efficient.

Although CIOs love to complain about the CFOs constant harping over expenses, the reality is that IT got its way for a long time. Indeed, many CEOs have confided in me that they felt that their IT shop was holding them hostage. Ive heard stories about IT stopping mergers due to that amount of work needed to integrate the systems. And about building new data centers about every five years to deal with the growing need for data storage that reduces earnings per share, and causes CEOs some tense times at shareholder meetings.

IT is of course not evil far from it. Most are moving in directions that they truly believe in. However, although were seeing progress, its still hard for many IT organizations to consider concepts such as cloud computing that reduces their span of control.

Enter the CFO. CFOs are the ultimate objective party because that they dont understand anything about IT and so dont have a dog in the technology hunt. They just want to spend less money so the company can make more. They dont really care if its cloud computing or voodoo.

The CFOs read technology vision as dollars and cents, not as span of controls They are focused on doing things as efficiently as possible, so the business can do what the business needs to do: return shareholder equality.

As a result, many IT organizations are getting pushed to the cloud by the CFO, and to a lesser extent by the CEO or COO. That reality is likely to cause some political turmoil; in fact, Ive been in the middle of a few such fights in the last few years.

Whoever is going to do whats best for the business is always who I will listen to. I dont care who they are. Neither should you.

David S. Linthicum is a consultant at Cloud Technology Partners and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. Dave has authored 13 books on computing and also writes regularly for HPE Software's TechBeacon site.

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