192: The Empire strikes back and picks all the clouds for DOD Contract

Episode 192 December 22, 2022 00:35:57
192: The Empire strikes back and picks all the clouds for DOD Contract
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192: The Empire strikes back and picks all the clouds for DOD Contract

Dec 22 2022 | 00:35:57

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Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

On The Cloud Pod the team reviews the multi-billion-dollar DOD contract formerly known as Jedi awarded to big tech companies; Microsoft buys a stake in LSE, raising questions; Werner shares his 2023 tech predictions and posts the Distributed Computing manifesto to his blog; and lastly, at Azure, Bell hits bumps while trying to make Microsoft safer.

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

AWS: ALL THINGS DISTRIBUTED – WERNER VOGELS’ BLOG

GCP: Break down data silos with the new cross-cloud transfer feature of BigQuery Omni

Azure: Bell hits obstacles in his push to make Microsoft more secure.

Oracle: Oracle announces the availability of OCI

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Scores are now at TCP Lightning Round Justin (9), Ryan (8), Jonathan (5), Peter (0), Joe (1).

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