Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights and Charles Araujo of the DC Institute take on the CIO office ramifications of recent announcements including the FinOps Foundation’s launch of FOCUS 1.0 for Cloud Billing Unification, Oracle Autonomous Database on Microsoft Azure, the United States’ Federal Trade Commission Accusing Adobe of Hiding early termination fees, the Biden administration banning US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties, whether Poolside’s new $400 million raise makes Paris another Silicon Valley, and enterprise considerations for AI as Apple focuses on more personalized AI.

FinOps FOCUSes on Cloud Billing Unification

FinOps Foundation: https://www.finops.org/insights/focus-1-0-available/ 

Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Get Friendlier

Oracle: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-autonomous-database-now-generally-available-on-oracle-database-at-azure-2024-06-20/

FTC Takes On Adobe Early Termination Fees

FTC: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/ftc-takes-action-against-adobe-executives-hiding-fees-preventing-consumers-easily-cancelling

Biden Administration Bans Kaspersky Antivirus

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-ban-us-sales-kaspersky-software-over-ties-russia-source-says-2024-06-20/

Mon Dieu, Is Paris the New Silicon Valley?

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/poolside-raising-400m-at-a-2b-valuation-for-supercharged-coding-copilot/

Apple Takes a Privacy-Focused Approach to AI

MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/11/1093577/apple-is-promising-personalized-ai-in-a-private-cloud-heres-how-that-will-work/

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights