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FRIDAY MARCH 11 2016 3CDepthIDAHOSTATESMAN.COM needs work on Jassy joked. Better cloaked was the reason for his enmity: Oracle had been slow to get into the cloud busi- ness, but recently made multiple hiring raids on AWS. Both Oracle and Amazon declined to com- ment on dig. The hunt for the hard- to-find talent that can build and run the massive data centers behind cloud computing is pitting three generations of companies against one another. Old- guard companies like Oracle, current giants like Amazon and its peers, as well as Bay Area startups are offering big salaries and big perks for cloud computing experts.

On the social media site LinkedIn, for example, there are over 130 engi- neering positions available at Oracle Seattle. Many of them are the kind of jobs that now pay $300,000 to $1 million a year, accord- ing Shannon Anderson, who has been recruiting engineers in Seattle and the Bay Area for 25 years. Seattle and its surround- ing towns are a hot spot for this kind of tech talent because they are home to AWS, which runs the big- gest cloud computing service, and Microsoft, which has a large cloud business called Azure. Google also has a cloud computing office in the area. So does Facebook.

working deep inside Amazon is getting five to 20 recruiting offers a Anderson said. has dou- bled in five For a recruiter, who is typically paid a percentage of a star compensation, is a very good she said. Cloud computing, which powers an increasing number of our devices and services, allows a vast collection of computers often spread around the world to operate like one giant machine. These computing clouds are being filled with once unimaginable amounts of data from apps, websites and sensors on all sorts of things. Fast-growing on- line services like Snapchat run on cloud systems.

Apple has its own cloud, as does Facebook. Cloud systems even offer the computing muscle needed for things like artificial intelligence. As other tech sectors show signs of slowing, cloud services have cre- ated unprecedented de- mand for highly educated engineers and mathemat- icians who can build and operate these flywheels of data. Instead of asking about the latest computer coding languages or how to make a Web page load faster, the most important question in tech hiring has become: Can you handle petabytes? That is the data in about 13 billion images, or roughly the amount of printed information that would fit in 20 million file cabinets. In the Bay Area, $125,000 a year is not an uncommon salary for someone newly out of graduate school with the expertise to do cloud com- puting work.

With five years of experience, $300,000 along with a range of stock or job op- portunities that greatly inflate the value of those paychecks have become the norm. For smaller companies, the gold rush is more complicated. In San Fran- South Park neigh- borhood, Tom Chavez runs a company called Krux that scans data from more than 3 billion de- vices, creating a trove of seven petabytes of in- formation retrieved by several hundred compa- nies. Many of his 160 or so employees are just the kind of people the giants, along with other startups, are looking for. or Facebook can offer an engineer with a few experience a package close to $1 mil- said Chavez, who co-founded Krux and is its chief executive.

wanted someone out of Stanford for an internship, and Google offered her an annualized $180,000 for the or about $60,000 for three months. Facebook also wants employees like the people Chavez has hired. In fact, Vivek Vaidya, a Krux co- founder, calls the steep salaries Krux is compelled to pay Facebook Krux takes up several floors of a brick building at the base of South Park, a onetime place of sweat- shops that has filled with startups and venture cap- italists. On the ground floor, development engineers get daily calls asking if they want to jump ship. A nearby team of data scien- tists gets 20 or more unso- licited emails a week via LinkedIn.

Upstairs, recruiter strives to keep people, even as he looks to take from others. compete with a $50,000 signing bonus from Google, so I focus on the person, what really motivates said Cade Garrett, who has recruited about 100 peo- ple to Krux. Besides offering stock options that could be valu- able if the company has initial public offering, a fast-growing startup can offer younger engineers a crash course in technology the kind of training that could one day allow them to start their own compa- nies. tell them this the best-paying job, but they have to think about where things are going: Every- thing they do here is mis- sion Garrett said. go to Google, you be sure that in a couple of years you'll have a product to LAURA MORTON The New York Times Peter Han is a platform engineer at Krux, a San Francisco firm that scans data from more than 3 billion devices, creating a trove of seven petabytes of information accessed by several hundred companies.

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The news was reported Monday by a team of investigative reporters from the Munich daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and public broad- casters NDR and WDR, but the story received widespread attention only when Sky News, a British broadcaster, said Thurs- day it had also obtained similar documents. Sky News said its trove in- cluded the names of 22,000 foreigners said to have crossed into Syria from Turkey. The three German news organizations and Sky News all said they had obtained copies of the list from an informant. Ger- man officials declined to say how they had come in possession of the informa- tion. But Peter Neumann, director of the Interna- tional Center for the Study of Radicalization at College London, said such documents have become widely available in Kur- dish areas and along Tur- border with Syria as discipline within the Is- lamic State, also know as ISIS or ISIL, has eroded in recent months.

Some experts have questioned the authen- ticity of the documents, citing inconsistencies in the name used to refer to the Islamic State and a different flag than that usually associated with the organization. TARGETING TERRORISM List shows 22,000 foreigners fight for ISIL Germany has names, aims to prosecute any fighters returning home Some doubt authenticity BY MELISSA EDDY New York Times News Service Groups want U.S. to label killings genocide The U.S. State Department has until March 17 to decide whether the terror being waged by the Islamic State against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East meets the requirements of being labeled genocide. Two Christian organizations, the Knights of Columbus fraternal organization and In Defense of Christians advocacy group, held a news conference Thursday to urge the State Department to use that label.

They shared a bound booklet of examples of atrocities against Christians by the Islamic State. A congressional deadline requires the department to issue a decision on whether the atrocities meet the definition of genocide. The Christian groups listed 1,131 confirmed deaths of Christians living in Iraq from 2003 through 2014..