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)