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The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft ink five-year cloud deal

The Coca-Cola Company has inked a five-year agreement with Microsoft to standardize its business operations on Microsoft's cloud.

Microsoft chief patent counsel Micky Minhas joins Marconi

Micky Minhas has joined the company as senior vice president, said Marconi in a statement. He was most recently chief patent counsel at Microsoft.

IBM picks Slack over Microsoft Teams for its 350,000 employees — The Verge

Internal teams at IBM reportedly started using the chat app as far back as 2014, writes Tom Warren. Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/10/21132060/ibm-slack-chat-employee-rollout-microsoft-teams-competition

We need to talk about ‘cloud neutrality’ — Wired

A multibillion-dollar, privately-owned infrastructure is now essential to the modern internet economy. That should freak you out, writes Molly Wood. Here is the link: https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-to-talk-about-cloud-neutrality/  

It’s official: AWS is challenging Microsoft’s $10 billion JEDI contract win — ZDNet

AWS made the company's decision to file paperwork to challenge the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) public, writes Mary Jo Foley. Here is the link:...