Episode Details

VMWare acquires Pivotal and Carbon black, plus VMworld debrief.  Google kills more products and AWS reduces the cost of SageMaker training.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Topics

General News

• Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process

VMWorld

• VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black
• VMWorld US 2019 Monday Recap
• VMWorld US 2019 Tuesday Recap
• VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger weighs in on acquisitions, blockchain, security and more
• VMware Delivers a Hybrid Cloud Platform Powering Next-Generation Hybrid IT
• VMware Announces VMware Tanzu Portfolio to Transform the Way Enterprises Build, Run and Manage Software on Kubernetes

AWS

• Amazon Forecast is now GA 
• Introducing AI powered health data masking
• Managed Spot Training: Save Up to 90% On Your Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs
• AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store announces intelligent-tiering to enable automatic parameter tier selection

Google

• Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud
• Cloud Text-to-Speech e