Cloud Computing: Microsoft cloud exec open to new ideas
December 29, 2013
Grazed from JournalGazzette. Author: Editorial Staff.
Microsoft’s cloud-computing chief Satya Nadella, who has worked 21 years at the world’s largest software maker, took time in Paris this month to huddle with local startups.It’s important to speak with startups because “the tech cycle is such that the small guys make it big and the big guys die,” Nadella said in an interview in Paris, where he was attending a technology conference.
As a senior manager at Microsoft – and a candidate to be its next CEO – Nadella needs to bone up all he can on how to keep a decades-old technology behemoth from getting lapped by upstarts. Since CEO Steve Ballmer’s August announcement that he plans to retire within a year, Nadella has emerged as one of the leading contenders, people familiar with the matter have said…
The board will complete the search in early 2014, lead independent director John Thompson wrote in a recent blog post. Even if Nadella isn’t appointed CEO, he has said publicly that he absolutely intends to stay at Microsoft. That would set up the 46-year-old as a key lieutenant to whoever becomes the new chief, given Nadella’s long history at the company, where he has worked in everything from small business software to the Bing search engine to cloud services…
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