Data breaches

• Second week with no major “new” hacks or exploits.
• Hacks and exploits commonly caused by accidental misconfiguration of cloud (link)

Google

• Cisco partnership expected to rival VMC on AWS for hybrid cloud, huge hurdle (link)

Microsoft

• Says 40% of VMs in Azure are running Linux, up from 33% in 2016 (link)
• Certified for UK’s Cyber Essentials PLUS (link)

Amazon

• Q3 financials show large growth, provides comprehensive highlight reel of 2017 accomplishments (link)
• Announces collaboration with TIBCO for serverless integrations, FaaS on AWS Lambda (link)
• CloudFront CDN now has 100th “Point of Presence” in Tokyo (link)
• Gains wholesale pharmacy licenses in several states (link), $100M made shorting drugstore stocks (link)

IBM

• Launches IBM Cloud Private software for designing cloud-native apps for on-prem, container focus (link)

More

• Alibaba touts 99% cloud growth in Q3 (link)
• Bitcoin rises to over $7400, cryptocurrency market cap tops $200B (link)
• Linux Academy and Cloud Assessments training platforms receive $6.8M in Series A (link)