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Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, announces new remote-first work policy: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1519831566486147073  

Simpsons meme about Elon Musk criticism: https://i.imgflip.com/3mtyfq.jpg  

Google parent Alphabet’s results come up short despite cloud strength

https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/26/google-parent-alphabets-results-come-short-despite-cloud-strength/

Google Cloud hit $5.82B in Q1 sales, up from $4.05B YoY and above estimates of $5.75B, and an operating loss of $931M, down from $974M YoY

Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html

Amazon's cloud unit grew 36.5% year over year in the first quarter, a bit faster than analysts projected.

Brian Olsavsky (CFO) -

“We saw another strong quarter of innovation and customer engagement in the AWS segment, where net sales were $18.4 billion in Q1, up 37% year over year and now represent an annualized sales run rate of nearly $74 billion.”

“I mean, we're continuing to see what the backlog is, right? It's the increase of AWS customers making long-term commitments for AWS. At the March period ended, we had $88.9 billion balance for that. So that's up about 68% year over year.

And the weighted average remaining kind of life term for those is 3.8 years.”

AWS Wins Out Over Microsoft For $10B NSA Cloud Contract

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-wins-out-over-microsoft-for-10b-nsa-cloud-contract

Microsoft’s Cloud Growth Propels Quarterly Sales, Earnings

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/microsoft-cloud-growth-propels-higher-quarterly-sales-earnings

Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 32% YoY to $23.4B in Q3, including $19.1B from Intelligent Cloud, up 26% YoY, and from Azure and other cloud services, up 46% YoY

MSFT Earnings Transcript

Microsoft (MSFT) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool

Satya Nadella - “This quarter, we helped more customers than ever, simplifying and accelerating their cloud migrations. And it's still early days.” & “As a percentage of GDP, tech spend is, on a secular basis, by the end of the decade, going to double.”

Satya continuously doubles down on “Data & AI” -

“Data and AI for sure. I mean, the thing that I find really to be something that I think is a long run is going to probably be one of the bigger drivers of our growth and differentiation is our data fabric because we're the only guys who have a complete data fabric from the operational store, that's fully integrated into an analytics engine, that's fully integrated into governance.”

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GitOps

https://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitops

Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months.

The reason for growing interest in the practice is that GitOps can lead to increased productivity, higher reliability and better stability.

GitOps is part of the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) meta trend.

According to E-Topics, Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months. The mainstreaming of cloud practices and the continued increase in adoption of DevSecOps are two main drivers of accelerating IaC growth.

Hyperautomation

https://explodingtopics.com/topic/hyperautomation

Hyperautomation is the use of technologies to scale the automation of processes within an organization.

Hyperautomation is part of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Technology meta trend.

According to Gartner, 80% of finance executives have made plans to implement RPA within their organization.

And Deloitte estimates that 78% of the companies that have already implemented RPA plan to significantly increase investment in this area in the next three years.

ServiceNow adds new RPA capabilities with San Diego release

https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/23/servicenow-adds-new-rpa-capabilities-with-san-diego-release/

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Foundry — Cloud computing study 2022

https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/

Puppet acquired (by Perforce)

https://puppet.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-the-ceo-of-puppet

Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/12/nasuni-ransomware-without-backup/

Microsoft Customers Decry Cloud Contracts That Sideline Rivals

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/microsoft-customers-decry-cloud-contracts-that-sideline-rivals

Atlassian cloud outage could take days to resolve

https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252515706/Atlassian-cloud-outage-could-take-days-to-resolve

https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1513727021087543300

https://twitter.com/atlassian/status/1513913041540333569

Recommendations

Dominic

Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022

Mike

wecrashed: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wecrashed/umc.cmc.6qw605uv2rwbzutk2p2fsgvq9

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Back to (in-person) work

Big tech conferences aren’t coming back

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-events

Microsoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emails

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/microsoft-ceo-warns-of-the-impact-of-all-those-late-night-emails

Using your dishwasher is more Earth-friendly. Here's why.

https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-much-water-do-dishwashers-use/

Any other news

Microsoft Azure to build Arm servers with chips from Ampere

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampere

IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/

Recommendations

Dominic

Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022

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Remote meetings are big money

HP Inc. to Acquire Poly

Poly is the lash-up of Polycom and Plantronics. And where was Zoom when this was going down?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-buy-poly-33-bln-deal-2022-03-28/

How much of IT should be self-serve?

Cloud self-service doesn’t need to invite the orc apocalypse | CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing

Shadow IT discourse is back, baby!

As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/

Large-scale npm attack targets Azure developers with malicious packages

https://jfrog.com/blog/large-scale-npm-attack-targets-azure-developers-with-malicious-packages/

Google Docs corner

New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-calendar-now-lets-paid-users-create-a-booking-page-website/

Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/compose-with-markdown-in-google-docs-on.html

Recommendations

Dominic

Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022

Macs Fan Control https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control

Lilac

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life 

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Okta popped

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690

Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010

Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/

FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA): https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/

Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60864283

Japan's Self-Defense Forces launch new cyberdefense unit: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/17/national/sdf-cyberdefense-unit/

Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/

Zooming into the Metaverse

Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990983/zoom-virtual-avatars-animal-face-replacement

Of course many of us did this with Snap Camera for a couple of weeks and then forgot all about it: https://snapcamera.snapchat.com

'I'm not a cat': Video shows lawyer can't turn off kitten filter during Zoom court appearance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-m-not-cat-video-shows-lawyer-can-t-turn-n1257168

The Thing With Zoom: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom

GIF inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/24/stephen-wilhite-gif-inventor-dies

Tune in for an *exciting* discussion about enterprise sales & pricing next week!

Recommendations

Dominic

Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022

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- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprise

https://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/ 

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase 

- Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again 

BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/ 

- Remote events are still with us 

Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully online 

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981868/google-i-o-2022-may-11th-12th-online-virtual 

Performance & Security - Ask Me Anything Panel from MongoDB.local London 2021 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgVLgfTB-E 

- Partnering with cloud providers 

MongoDB Expands Global Collaboration with AWS 

https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-expands-global-collaboration-with-aws 

AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance’ 

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance- 

Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/snowflake-cfo-defends-strategy-attacks-google-amid-stock-rout 

- Maybe you don’t want that Apple Studio Display after all 

Daring Fireball Apple Studio Display — problems with the webcam 

https://daringfireball.net/2022/03/the_apple_studio_display 

Opal camera — DSLR quality on a webcam 

https://opalcamera.com 

- Customer Experience Personalisation and how it breaks 

Help, I'm Being Personalised! 

https://findthethread.postach.io/post/help-i-m-being-personalised 

- Recommendations 

Dominic 

Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 

Book: The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-scalzi/the-kaiju-preservation-society/ 

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NVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/

Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront

https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/google-s-mandiant-acquisition-brings-cybersecurity-automation-to-forefront

Amazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buyback

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811399-amazon-jumps-10-on-20-for-1-share-split-10-billion-buyback?lctg=60c1e2e9dba83e59148a0f62&mailingid=26973903&messageid=wall_street_breakfast&serial=26973903.883067&userid=50571090&utm_campaign=WSB%203_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&utm_term=wall_street_breakfast

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1501688392915898370

Everything Apple Announced Today in Just Over Seven Minutes

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/08/march-2022-apple-event-everything-announced/

S&P Global Acquires 451 Research

https://www.spglobal.com/en/press/press-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc

Lydia Leong, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner

https://twitter.com/cloudpundit

Recommendations

Lilac

https://www.askamanager.org/

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Ukrainian tech companies

https://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companies

Grammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfits

People around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check in

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-airbnb-donations-cec/index.html

Nvidia Confirms Company Data Was Stolen in Hack

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-confirms-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/nvidia-hackers-leak-ransomware/

DARVO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

$50/month to plug a mystery box into your home network: https://twitter.com/jackrhysider/status/1498780187776933888

The Register survey on zero-trust https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/reg_reader_survey_zero_trust_results/

EU, US close to replacing defunct Privacy Shield II https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/02/new_hope_for_privacy_shield/

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html

Apple “Peek Performance” event https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-event

Recommendations

Dominic

Notes From The Burning Age, by Claire North https://text.npr.org/1018496548

Zack

Wordle - https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Worldle - https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

Airportle - https://airportle.scottscheapflights.com

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Ukraine Crisis

Ambulance-chasing by security marketers — just don’t

Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russia

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558

Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move In

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disturbing-mass-text-operation-terrorizes-ukraine-as-russian-troops-move-in/ar-AAUdejJ

Cyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websites

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/cyberattack-hits-ukrainian-banks-and-government-websites.html

https://twitter.com/aneel/status/1496826799162077189

The Associated Press tried to sell an NFT of migrants adrift at sea

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-24-1

Multi-cloud

Europe proposes rules for fair access to connected device data

https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/23/eu-data-act/

Interoperable Friendship

https://findthethread.postach.io/post/interoperable-friendship

Kyndryl, AWS Sign Deal With Aim To Train 10,000 Workers By Year’s End

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/kyndryl-aws-sign-deal-with-aim-to-train-10-000-workers-by-year-s-end

AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance’

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance-

Recommendations

Dominic

Bone-conduction headphones: (After)Shokz Aeropex / Openrun https://shokz.com/products/openrun

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