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!
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Cloud WarsGoogle revealed that its cloud business is on run rate of more than $8 billion, and it plans to triple the size of its salesforceAmazon reports $63.4 billion in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, subscriptions up 37%, and ‘other’ up 37%SlackBrainstorm Tech 2019: Slack CEO Sees Microsoft Having Trouble Competing on QualitySlack’s new desktop app loads 33 percent faster and uses less RAMAzureAzure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governmentsExpanding the Azure Stack partner ecosystemMicrosoft-owned LinkedIn is moving to the public cloud, and guess which platform it’s choosing?Office 365German 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-mailsPhishers Use Fake Office 365 Alerts to Compromise Admin AccountsCortanaNew Approaches to Home and Xbox Voice Commands Roll Out to Xbox InsidersPicks
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