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AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer in this episode, standing in for Brandon.

• Good job, Old Bay land. There’s more cities too on the case too.

• Four new Pivotal white papers: CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH).
• We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations.
• Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit.

• There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen?
• Machine learning, and such. Deep dive blog post.
• Interview with Amazon exec, Matt Wood.
• AI Winter.
• Maths.
• Also, on various industry CEOs strategamizing around Amazon.
• “Alexa, what’s ‘anti-trust’?”

• Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing.
• A market ready for some cash, both for HPC and analytics: “[a]ccording to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise Cloud Transformation survey, 21% of data and analytics workloads will move to public clouds in the next two years”
• What about the GreenButton acquisition in 2014? Peep the long piece on that from 2014.
• Excellent chart showing migrating COTS to SaaS, etc.

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