Security News

• No “new” major hacks reported this week! Hooray!
• Bermuda based law firm Appleby reports 2016 data breach, may involve wealthiest Brits (link)
  
• Equifax adds cybersecurity expert to board (link)

Google

• Announces hybrid cloud partnership with Cisco (link1 link2)
• Alphabet sees 24% growth in Q3 (link)

Microsoft

• $600B market valuation, best performance in 17 years (link)
• Announces AKS, a managed Kubernetes container service (link)
• Announces access to Cray supercomputers in some Azure datacenters (link)
• Now has 120M Office business users, up 20M since April (link)
• Invoke, Cortana-powered smart speaker released, rivals Amazon Echo and Google Home (link)

Amazon

• Announces GPU intensive P3 instances, largest and most expensive yet, aimed at AI (link1 link2 specs)
• Announces Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL general availability (link)
• Adds support for R4, T2 and M4 instance types for Oracle on RDS (link)
• Receives 238 proposals for HQ2 from cities across North America, including offer of new Atlanta suburb named “Amazon” where Bezos would be lifetime Mayor (link)
• Offers new service Amazon Key that allows couriers to unlock your door to deliver packages, uses Amazon’s Cloud Cam and smart lock (link)

Containers

• Docker and Moby add support for Kubernetes (link)

More

• Cisco acquires BroadSoft for $1.9B, specializing in unified communications delivery (link)
• Intel sees biggest growth in IoT and Memory business groups, says AI will drive future growth (link)
• Facebook releases desktop app for Workplace chat and group video chat, competing in enterprise collaboration space (link)