173: Oracle Begins Its Invasion of Sovereign Nations

Episode 173 July 21, 2022 01:01:43
173: Oracle Begins Its Invasion of Sovereign Nations
The Cloud Pod
173: Oracle Begins Its Invasion of Sovereign Nations

Jul 21 2022 | 01:01:43

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Hosted By

Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses shorting Jim Chanos amid the great cloud giant vs. colo standoff. Plus: Google prepares for a post-quantum world, Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances are now generally available, and master of marketing Oracle introduces sovereign cloud regions for the European Union.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

This week’s highlights

Top Quotes  

“Quantum computing has been taken very seriously from a security perspective. Conservative estimates [are] 10 to 20 years before we have quantum computers large enough and reliable enough to run short algorithms to factor these large primes. But we’re starting … It’s going to take a long time for businesses to actually catch on and realize and modernize and adopt this before the bad things start to happen. If they ever do.”

“The big issue is from a federal government perspective: In a world where quantum computing can actually go through those primes fast enough and decrypt all this data … it’s a huge national security risk [and] a huge problem for the world. … Does it follow into the corporate world as quickly? No. Will it become a big issue when it happens? Hell yeah. There’ll be a Y2K-level disaster that we’ll have to be dealing with.”

General News: Walmart Muscles In

AWS: New York, New York

GCP: The Future Is Scary

Azure: Why, Microsoft, Why!?

Oracle: The Sometime-Master of Marketing Returns

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Justin (6) jumps ahead again with the rest of the team trailing behind — Jonathan (3), Ryan (2), Peter (1).

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