Who takes over Satya Nadella's old job of Cloud Executive? For now Scott Guthrie

One of the questions I have bounced around with friends is who will take over Satya’s old job which included being the Cloud Executive.

Looks like the answer for now is Scott Guthrie.

Microsoft appoints Scott Guthrie new Cloud & Enterprise chief

Summary: ScottGu, the red-shirted Azure development lead, is the new head of Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise division.

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Who will succeed Satya Nadella as Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise chief?

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The answer to this question -- to which I was asked numerous times today following the announcement that Microsoft's new CEO will be Satya Nadella, who was head of Cloud & Enterprise -- is Scott Guthrie.

Yes. The red-shirted ScottGu is, for now, the "interim" Cloud & Enterprise Executive Vice President at Microsoft. I hear he's likely to be made the permanent one, as well, though no one is saying that in any official capacity for now.

What is Open Compute Summit? A gathering of the leaders in scale-out data center industry

I’ve gone to all the Open Compute Summits (five in all) and I know many of the people in the organization.  It can be hard to describe what the open compute summit is given I have seen it grow. 

Here is a Forbes article on the Open Compute Summit and Intel’s Software defined infrastructure.  The part that jumped out was the description of the event.

I attended the Open Compute Summit last week in San Jose, where industry leaders in the scale-out datacenter industry gathered to discuss and attempt to get some kind of alignment on future architectures and building blocks. By architecture, I mean the building blocks, the interconnects and the rules by which future football field size datacenters will be designed and operate.

The Open Compute Summit continues to grow in attendance.  Last one had 1,500, this one had 2,400.  It is free to attendees and the presentations are much better than many other data center events.

The Open Compute Summit is not about the low level infrastructure of power and cooling.  The event is more about the stuff you put in a data center for scale-out infrastructure. 

We’ll see if the next event hits 3,000, but even if they hit only 2,500 again, the event will be significant.

Do you have Sniper Attacks as part of your power outage scenario? Calif grid was hit last year

How many of you have thought about the possibility of the power grid to your data center being attacked by Snipers?  GigaOm’s Katie Fehrenbacher has a post on what happened in CA.

Snipers took down major grid systems in California last year & it could have been a dress rehearsal

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Turns out cyber security might not be the biggest threat to the power grid after all.

There are cases of power being taken out by hunters who choose to shoot at transformers.

My Aug 2013 prediction of Microsoft's Next CEO is True, Satya Nadella has the job

I wrote back in Aug 2013 an Analysis The Next Microsoft CEO, and put Satya as the leading candidate.

Well today is the press release, and Satya has the job.

Microsoft Board names Satya Nadella as CEO
Feb. 04, 2014
Bill Gates steps up to new role as Technology Advisor; John Thompson assumes role as Chairman of Board of Directors.
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REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 4, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Nadella previously held the position of Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group. 

“During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” said Bill Gates, Microsoft’s Founder and Member of the Board of Directors. “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth.” 

The above fits with what I said.

Summary: The next CEO of Microsoft is going to be someone Bill Gates and his advisors trust and respect to fulfill the CEO role over the next 15-20 years. Microsoft is a company built on writing software, therefore the CEO should have the ability to support the vision of developing innovative software that leads the industry in growth.  Satya Nadella is a leading candidate.  What is unknown is what Bill Gates thinks of the other candidates vs. Satya.

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My perspective on Satya is different than many as I remember Satya from days of working on Microsoft's Interactive TV where he was a product manager and I was a program manager. We were chatting a bit back in June 2013 at GigaOm Structure. Satya joined Microsoft in Feb 1992.  I joined in Apr 1992.  Satya has worked in a wide range of roles at Microsoft and has taken the path of being groomed for executive leadership.

Now that the Microsoft CEO is identified the company can move on.  Who will take over Satya’s job?  What is the new organization now that Satya has the backing of the board?

“Satya is clearly the best person to lead Microsoft, and he has the unanimous support of our Board,” Thompson said. “The Board took the thoughtful approach that our shareholders, customers, partners and employees expected and deserved.”