Episode 313 | Solo Cj and the News

This week CJ flies solo and recaps some of the goings on in the cloud world, including amazon, slack, azure office 365 and more! Short, sharp and to the point!

News

• Cloud Wars
  • Google revealed that its cloud business is on run rate of more than $8 billion, and it plans to triple the size of its salesforce
  • Amazon reports $63.4 billion in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, subscriptions up 37%, and ‘other’ up 37%
• Slack
  • Brainstorm Tech 2019: Slack CEO Sees Microsoft Having Trouble Competing on Quality
  • Slack’s new desktop app loads 33 percent faster and uses less RAM
• Azure
  • Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments
  • Expanding the Azure Stack partner ecosystem
  • Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is moving to the public cloud, and guess which platform it’s choosing?
• Office 365
  • German state bans the use of Office 365 tools in its schools due to privacy concerns (Update)
  • Microsoft Office 365 web-based e-mail is leaking out IP addresses in e-mails
  • Phishers Use Fake Office 365 Alerts to Compromise Admin Accounts
• Cortana
  • New Approaches to Home and Xbox Voice Commands Roll Out to Xbox Insiders

Picks

• CJ’s Pick
  • NASA is just giving away an Apollo-era Saturn rocket to anyone who wants it Guest Pick: Michael Jonsson
  • Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, And The Photos Are Nuts