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In this newsletter issues you'll find a lot of new announcements and features. Interesting insights about Azure & IBM cloud businesses. Upcoming community events & conferences.

Hi there! 👋

In this issue of the Cloud Study Weekly newsletter you’ll find:

1. 📢 Announcements

2. 🔜 Upcoming Community Events

3. ⌛ Past Community Events

4. 🤝 Conferences to Attend

5. 💸 Goodies & Discounts

6. 📰 Tech News

7. 💼 Jobs

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Announcements 📢

💼 New Job Search Portal

Check out our new job search portal at http://jobs.cloudstudy.net/. It will search job listings across different job boards. Just type something like "devops" or "cloud architect" and get a list of newly opened positions. You can sort the results by Relevance or Date. Let us know about any suggestions or ideas.

📅 Shared Community Calendar

We are launching a shared Google calendar of all community events. Everyone who want to stay up to date about all community meetups and community calls can now conveniently add this shared calendar to their Google calendars.

Upcoming Community Events 🔜

• What's new with Kyverno, a policy engine designed for Kubernetes?
  📅 Wednesday, January 26, 2022.

• Testing In Production With Feature Flags & Continuous Deployment
  📅 Wednesday, January 26, 2022.

• Introduction to Kubeflow (free webinar + free certification)
  📅 Thursday, January 27, 2022.

• Navigating The Complexity Of Kubernetes And Cloud Native Technologies
  📅 Thursday, January 27, 2022.

• Cloud Community Call on Twitter Spaces

  📅 Sunday, January 30, 2021.

All upcoming community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.

Past Community Events ⌛

• Making your app soar without a container manifest (free webinar)

  📅 Tuesday, January 18, 2022.

• Minimizing Blast Radius Of Chained K8s Misconfigurations & Image Vulnerabilities

  📅 Tuesday, January 18, 2022.

• From zero to production in less than one hour with Krateo PlatformOps (webinar)

  📅 Wednesday, January 19, 2022.

• Cloud Community Call on Twitter Spaces

  📅 Sunday, January 23, 2021.

All past community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.

Conferences to Attend 🤝

• Conf42: Python 2022 - online・January 27, 2022.

Find further conferences & summits in our tech events repository.

Goodies & Discounts 💸

💰 O’Reilly Learning

O’Reilly learning is a paid membership that provides expert-created and curated live online training courses, books, videos, interactive tutorials, and more. It covers the areas like cloud, devops, artificial intelligence, data, UX design, finance, leadership.

Use our exclusive community promo code CSN22 to get a FREE 30-days membership (no credit card required. Will not be automatically prolonged into a paid subscription).

Tech News 📰

• Microsoft’s Shares Rebound as Forecast Focuses on Cloud Growth

  Microsoft Corp. shares rose in early trading on Wednesday after the software giant gave a forecast that reassured investors the company’s Azure cloud-computing business still has potential to drive growth.

• IBM Posts Best Sales Growth in 10 Years on Cloud Demand

  IBM reported revenue that beat analysts’ estimates, buoyed by strong demand in the software unit, which includes IBM’s hybrid-cloud offering, signaling that the company’s efforts to transform the 110-year-old tech giant are bearing fruit.

• Ireland's data centers are an economic lifeline. Environmentalists say they're wrecking the planet

  In the west of Ireland lies a medieval market town, its roots steeped in legend. Beyond the labyrinth of narrow streets of the center are the chimney stacks of housing developments that still puff coal and peat. Past those homes, on the outskirts of Ennis, is an unremarkable but huge plot of land, nestled between a power station and farmland where cattle and sheep graze. This is where a mysterious company has applied to develop a new data center the size of 22 American football fields.

• The 7 best free cloud storage services online

  Free cloud storage is abundant on the internet, with many companies offering free space just for signing up.

• 12 Cloud Companies That Could Be Takeover Targets in 2022

  2022 could be a year of "opportunistic shopping" for the tech giants, analysts say. Here are the firms that may be the cloud industry's next hot buys.

• IBM is selling off its Watson Health assets

  IBM said Friday that it will sell off the healthcare data and analytics assets housed under its Watson Health unit to private equity firm Francisco Partners.

Jobs 💼

• HCL Cloud CoE (Azure Practice) Team in India is hiring various Azure professionals. Find details in this telegram post by our member Sumit. Join our telegram group if you are not there already.

• Sopra Banking Software is hiring for Noida & Pune locations in India. Find details in this telegram post by our member Somesh. Join our telegram group if you are not there already.

• Try our new Job Search portal at http://jobs.cloudstudy.net/

If your organization is providing internships, looking for junior or senior candidates in cloud computing, you can let us know by submitting this form.

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