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

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General News

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

VMWorld

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

AWS

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

Google

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

Azure

Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration

Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 14, and Guest 3): 

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