Chris Hood is a passionate speaker, podcast host, digital strategist, and writer. He currently works at Google as the Head of Business Innovation & Strategy. His leadership and strategic insights on digital and business transformation have propelled digital success at the firm. For more information, click here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Los Angeles, CA, September 17, 2021 – Chris Hood is a speaker, podcast host, digital strategist, and writer who has made a career out of storytelling. His career experience spans over three decades in television, film, music, and video games. He started as a film student, and theatre attendant was propelled by his endless love for theatre and film which made him rise to the ranks of the digital world. Chris has won numerous awards in the digital marketing world, including the National Association of Theater Owners customer service award and the Hollywood Reporter’s grand prize showmanship award three years in a row. Chris Hood has followed his entrepreneurial spirit to invent, develop, and market digital multimedia advertising and interactive technology platforms for movie theaters. His first Innovation was the Digireel technology, which went on to transform cinema advertising and video programming. This technology is the foundation for onscreen advertising in movie theatres today. In 2003, he joined the music industry with Ruckus Network alias Ruckus.com, a legal music service for college campuses. Universal Music Group and Sony Music then acquired it under their Total Music venture. He also developed a cloud-based music player known as TunePost. His keen eye for innovations has led to his …
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Thomas Kurian at the Google Cloud campus in Sunnyvale, California. Google Cloud employees were baffled when they learned that their next boss would be Thomas Kurian, an executive who struggled to shepherd Silicon Valley mainstay Oracle Corp. into the promised land of internet computing. It was November 2018 and the cloud division’s then-chief Diane Greene and Kurian held a question-and-answer session with staff who worried about his impending leadership. “A lot of people have concerns about the fact that you came from Oracle, which is a very different culture,” one person said to Kurian. “So how are you going to preserve the culture at Google Cloud?” At a previous meeting that month, an employee described the hire as alarming and sought reassurances from Greene that Kurian was up for the job. More than two years later, no one is befuddled by Kurian’s appointment. Under his supervision, Google Cloud’s revenue has more than doubled and is growing at a quicker pace than that of its parent company, Alphabet Inc. During the Covid-19 pandemic that caused Google to pause most hiring, Kurian’s division snapped up new employees. While other company divisions have fought for internal resources or been shuttered, the cloud unit continues to receive a constant rush of investment. His workforce is now 37,000 people strong, from 25,000 when he took the reins, making Kurian one of the most important executives at Google. Alphabet will give investors an update on Kurian’s progress in expanding Google Cloud’s business when it reports earnings on July 27. Analysts estimate that the unit’s revenue grew about …
For the past several years, tech giants have been trying to make artificial intelligence in its many guises HPC, data analytics, and other advanced workloads more available and easier to use for enterprises. Traditional OEMs such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, and Lenovo are using a combination of hardware, software, and services to make technologies that in years gone by would only be employed by research institutions and the largest of corporations more widely accessible. The public clouds, particularly those that have their own hyperscale applications driven by machine learning and scale, also function a bit like OEMs when it comes to these workloads. They have exposed the tools they build for their own use through their clouds, giving customers another option to be a modern computing organization. In many cases, this reduces time to market for AI-driven applications and can also reduce costs – particularly huge capital outlays for buying GPU-laden infrastructure but also for high salaried AI experts who are in short supply and high demand. The global AI space is expected to grow from $27.23 billion in 2019 to almost $267 billion by 2027, according to a report from Fortune Business Insights. While on-premises deployments will grab revenue share, “the cloud deployment segment [will] gain traction owing to less implementation expenses,” the report states. “Also, the cloud offers tools and pre-trained networks, which makes building AI applications convenient.” Amazon Web Services – the largest of the hyperscale cloud providers – offers a range of services, from …
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