Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a 4-hour outage last week.  They say it was a result of human error, but was that explanation a savvy public relations move? Photo: Marc Wieland

Oracle had a crazy week thanks to the beginning of their third legal dispute with Google over their use of Java.  Additionally, Oracle is being sued by a former employee over commissions and Seeking Alpha is reporting a not-so-bright future for their database products. Are all three events connected or I am just grasping for straws? Photo: Allef Vinicius

IBM is making headlines due to leaked news that they are asking their marketing employees to relocate to 6 main offices or be terminated. The press is saying this is similar to a decision Marissa Mayer made with Yahoo in 2013. Is IBM doomed to repeat Yahoo’s mistakes or is this something different? Photo: Marisa Buhr

As President Trump attempts to make major immigration reforms, this episode focuses on what happens to the tech sector if he is successful. Photo: Jerry Kiesewetter

It took a few weeks, but 2017 is officially in business thanks to several IT acquisition announcements. Are these purchases part of a trend and giving hints at a larger picture? Or is it just more of the same? Photo: Rubén Bagüés

The cloud has made IT deployment as simple as a few clicks. How can IT security, management, and sourcing departments stay ahead of eager users going rouge? Photo: Konstantin Stupak

With the news of Japan replacing three dozen insurance workers with Watson AI, I am dedicating an episode to how cognitive computing could/will impact my job in strategic sourcing in the years to come. Photo: Denys Nevozhai

With 2016 over, I am presenting my (dubious) IT predictions for 2017. Photos: Dana Critchlow

This week I tell the origin story of SourceCast. How I started making it and why. Photo: Janko Ferlic

As Oracle tries to make their way into the cloud market, they have to overcome more than AWS’s pricing. Redundancy and long term supportablility also factor into an increasingly complex series of decisions. Photo: Joshua Davis