Take a Network Break! This week’s episode reviews significant announcements from Amazon’s Re:Invent conference, opines about how a mistaken rumor about Nokia wanting to buy Juniper got reported, and examines the latest security slip-up from a misconfigured AWS S3 storage bucket.
IDC reports that global server revenue jumped almost 20%, Nutanix and VMware announce their quarterly financial results, and SnapChat tries something new in an effort to spur growth.
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Show Links:
All the new software Amazon announced at its huge developer conference – Quartz
AWS launches bare metal instances – TechCrunch
AWS Partner Network Launches New Networking Competency – Amazon
Announcing Support for Inter-Region VPC Peering – Amazon
AWS re:Invent | AWS News Blog – All the announcements from Amazon
AWS s container service gets support for Kubernetes – TechCrunch
Introducing AWS Fargate Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure – Amazon
Nokia denies that it’s preparing offer to buy Juniper Networks – CNBC
Nokia comments on rumors related to Juniper Networks – Nokia
Black Box, Red Disk: How Top Secret NSA and Army Data Leaked Online – UpGuard
Worldwide Server Market Revenue Soars 19.9% in the Third Quarter as the Enterprise Catches Up, According to IDC – IDC
Nutanix Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2018 Financial Results – Nutanix
VMware’s Cloud Fortunes Continue in Q3 – Enterprise Cloud
How SnapChat is separating social from media – Axios
Snapchat emphasizes human content moderation in app redesign – Axios