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Report: Amazon’s HQ2 Search Grew Out of Jeff Bezos’s Tesla Envy

Getty Images Amazon’s doomed search for HQ2, its second headquarters, came about because Jeff Bezos was envious of the large incentive Elon Musk was able to command from Nevada for Tesla’s giant battery factory, a new report says. There’s a lesson there for every leader: Be careful of letting emotions, especially negative emotions, drive your business decisions. The search for HQ2 lasted more than a year and consumed untold hours of time from Amazon executives and government officials in 238 cities and counties.… Read more

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HOW USEFUL IS ANSIBLE IN A CLOUD-NATIVE KUBERNETES ENVIRONMENT?

A question I’ve been hearing a lot lately is “why are you still using Ansible in your Kubernetes projects?” Followed often by “what’s the point of writing your book Ansible for Kubernetes when Ansible isn’t really necessary once you start using Kubernetes?” I spent a little time thinking about these questions, and the motivation behind them, and wanted to write a blog post addressing them, because it seems a lot of people may be confused about what Kubernetes does, what Ansible does, and why both are necessary technologies in a modern business migrating to a cloud-native technology stack (or even a fully cloud-native business). One important caveat to mention upfront, and I quote directly from my book: While Ansible can do almost everything for you, it may not be the right tool for every aspect of your infrastructure automation.… Read more

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Amazon Is Challenging Microsoft’s $10 Billion Pentagon Contract, but a Much Bigger Battle Between the Tech Giants Is Just Getting Started

Yesterday, according to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon formally filed a challenge over the Pentagon awarding its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract to Microsoft. It would be easy to view that move through a political lens. In some ways, that’s fair since the company isn’t exactly a favorite of the current administration.… Read more

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Why Customers Are Moving Their Windows Desktops to the Cloud with Amazon WorkSpaces

With an estimated 50% of businesses still running Windows 7, migrating those millions of desktops and laptops to Windows 10 remains a top priority for businesses globally. The impetus, of course, is the end of mainstream support for Windows 7 coming up in January 2020, which may make Windows 7 PCs more vulnerable to malware, ransomware, and other types of security issues unless specific action is taken.… Read more