Podcasts Technology Software Defined Talk Episode 132: Capturing dumpling juice, the Pentagon selects AWS, & Thor

Episode 132: Capturing dumpling juice, the Pentagon selects AWS, & Thor

Published: April 30, 2018, 7 p.m.

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Eating dumplings, it turns out, is more complicated than just sticking them in your dumpling hole, as Cot\\xe9 found out in Bangkok thanks to a Singaporean friend. We\\u2019re live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Jakarta this episode, just Cot\\xe9 and Matt Ray. We discuss the Pentagon\\u2019s stubbornness of (seemingly) picking just one cloud provider for their major cloud project and then have an oddly lengthy discussion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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US military says \\u201cget of my lawn, you kids\\u201d to AWS mono-usage

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  • \\u2018Rival contractors complain that the winner-take-all approach favors Amazon.com Inc., the biggest supplier of cloud services. But Pentagon officials made clear they have little patience for continuing debate over the issue. In response to a question on the \\u201crationale for a single award for this contract,\\u201d the answer posted was blunt: \\u201cThis rationale is not going to be published at this time.\\u201d\\u2019
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  • More: \\u201cIt was a decision the department made based on its needs, so adding context there doesn\\u2019t benefit us.\\u201d
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  • But, actually, it\\u2019s just one pick for now: \\u201cThe contract, known as JEDI -- for the the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Program -- won\\u2019t prevent the Defense Department from working with other cloud vendors in the future.\\u201d IBM doth protest too much?
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  • Check out Bloomberg\\u2019s layman\\u2019s definition of cloud: \\u201cCloud services -- in which computing power and storage are hosted in remote data centers run by a third-party company rather than on-site in locally owned machines -- can make it easier for large organizations to move and integrate data across different platforms, quickly expand the data storage it needs based on usage and make system-wide security upgrades to software.\\u201d Not too shabby, and it thankfully doesn\\u2019t mention THE CYBER.
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