VMWare acquires Pivotal and Carbon black, plus VMworld debrief. Google kills more products and AWS reduces the cost of SageMaker training. Sponsors: * Foghorn Consulting - fogops.io/thecloudpod

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VMWorld * VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black * VMWorld US 2019 Monday Recap * VMWorld US 2019 Tuesday Recap * VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger weighs in on acquisitions, blockchain, security and more * VMware Delivers a Hybrid Cloud Platform Powering Next-Generation Hybrid IT * VMware Announces VMware Tanzu Portfolio to Transform the Way Enterprises Build, Run and Manage Software on Kubernetes

AWS * Amazon Forecast is now GA * Introducing AI powered health data masking * Managed Spot Training: Save Up to 90% On Your Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs * AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store announces intelligent-tiering to enable automatic parameter tier selection

Google * Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud * Cloud Text-to-Speech expands its number of voices by nearly 70%, now covering 33 languages and variants * Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020

Azure * Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration