In the News
📰 Thousands of potential phishing sites created to target Zoom users as usage soars — BrandShield (Information Age)
Zoom is getting a bad wrap right now. In our opinion, they were doing a decent job on offering a secure platform before this and have made some amazing new features since. Their biggest issue was not educating their users on how to use their products securely and on defaulting to less security instead of more security in the names of ease of use.
📰 New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware (The Register)
It’s worth mentioning that Arvind is a temporary CEO until Jim Whitehurst can take over in a year or two. We suspect IBM will become much less focused on hybrid cloud when the CEO is from a software company and not a hardware company.
📰 Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology (Google)
Privacy be damned.
📰 Pentagon's inspector general says Microsoft's JEDI cloud win should stand (ZDnet)
Tech journalists are having a hard time with this issue. The IG did not weigh in on whether the cloud win should stand at all but rather on whether or not the White House unfairly influenced the process. We think AWS had good reasons to protest, but we’re waiting to see what comes out of the review before having an opinion overall.
📰 A 10-year, $10B cloud contract is at stake — was the process fair? (Bloomberg)
Spoiler alert. It wasn’t fair.
📰 NetApp to make stateful applications easier to do in Kubernetes (ZDnet)
Legacy enterprise storage company makes it “easier” to make stateful applications in Kubernetes. In unrelated news, dozens of open source projects will also help you do this for free.
📰 GitHub hit with multiple back-to-back outages (ZDnet)
These definitely did not affect us. Definitely.
📰 Oracle wins cloud computing deal with Zoom as video calls surge (Reuters)
Zoom and AWS both, in different ways, made clear that Oracle was picked solely for its cheaper data transfer rates, saving Zoom tens of millions a year. Zoom will continue to expand its footprint with AWS, particularly for back-end systems. This does raise the question of why AWS could not negotiate more competitive transfer rates for such a high profile account.
📰 Microsoft: Why we used programming language Rust over Go for WebAssembly on Kubernetes app (ZDnet)
Rust and Go both shot out of nowhere and have gained a cult following. We’ve never been huge fans of Go and find Rust to be an interesting compromise between “traditional” languages and more modern conventions.