Google will shutdown The Cloud Pod in 2027 – Ep. 37

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

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

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

• 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

• 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

• Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud
• Cloud Text-to-Speech expands its number of voices by nearly 70%, now covering 33 languages and variants
• Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020

• Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration
• Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites

• Amazon Transcribe now supports Mandarin and Russian
• Support for Windows Shadow Copies is Now Extended to All Amazon FSx File Systems
• Amazon SQS now supports tag on create
• AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from SMB file shares
• Amazon ElastiCache now supports up to 50 characters in cluster name
• Amazon SageMaker Now Works With Amazon FSx For Lustre and Amazon EFS, Accelerating And Simplifying Model Training