Techstrong News Recap – December 12, 2022

Everyone here the headlines for December 12th. First up the Pentagon is given nine billion dollars of cloud computing contracts to Google Amazon web services Microsoft and Oracle. The contracts are part of this joint warfighting Cloud capability to create a globally available cloud service across all security domains in classification levels.

The contracts will be awarded in Parts with an estimated completion date of June of 2028. This comes as the Pentagon cancel that's previous cloud computing award The Joint Enterprise defense infrastructure. Last July due to delays in contract proceedings changes in technology and legal challenges.

Partnering up with multiple Cloud providers. We put the Pentagon more in line with private sector companies that use multi-cloud strategies. Next up an EU Court ruled that Google must delete search results of people if it's proven that that result is false.

The European court of justice stated that search engines must dereference material if it's inaccurate as part of Europe's right to be forgotten. The ruling originates from a group of investment companies in Germany that ask Google to take down articles given factually incorrect information about the companies in Google refusing by saying that it didn't know whether or not if the Articles were accurate. since the rule in Google has said that it is welcomed the decision in this process over five million right to be forgotten requests since 2014 and will continue to do so in other news meta and the FTC have begun a trial over the future of virtual reality.

The FDC is trying to prevent meta from buying the virtual reality app developer within and it's fitness app Supernatural. The FCC is stated that this acquisition would hurt competition in violate antitrust laws arguing that it would create a monopoly in the Virtual Reality Fitness app space. If the FTC wins it would limit the ability for meta to grow and what it calls the next generation of computing.

Meta agreed to buy within all the way back in October of last year a day after switching its name from Facebook an estimates say that the deal was for approximately 400 million dollars. While on the subject of the FTC it announced that it would sue to block Microsoft from buying the gaming giant Activision Blizzard. In the suit the FDC stated concerns that it would allow Microsoft to suppress competitors to Xbox its Game Pass and its cloud gaming service.

Microsoft is responded by saying that deal would actually create new opportunities instead of living in competition. Additionally Microsoft is also taken to promising IPS such as Call of Duty to be given equal treatment on other consoles if the deal goes through This is the most recent development in a long line of anti-consolidation sentiment and Regulatory scrutiny in a deal which would change the entire landscape of Gaming. On digital cxo, we have a digital cxl leadership Insight video where Mike vizard speaks with Steven me CEO of verhana to talk about how digital transformation requires a data lake house in the cloud.

com. We have an article giving an introduction to the development tool flutter. Flutter was created by Google with the purpose of building cross application platforms.

com. Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at how Amazon web services announced the Amazon sagemaker Studio notebook tool that leverages containers to make it easier to deploy machine learning in production environments. AWS has said that the goal of this new tool is to reduce the amount of time needed to move a notebook to production.

com. And I'll say it's Tech strong news recap.