Welcome to episode 253 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss data centers, OCI coming in hot (and potentially underwater?) in Kenya, stateful containers, and Oracle’s new globally distributed database (Oracle Autonomous Database) of many dollars. Sit back and enjoy the show!

Titles we almost went with this week:

• The Cloud Pod: Transitioning to SSPL – Sharply Satirical Podcast Laughs!
• The Data Centers of Loudoun County
• The Forks of Redis were Speedb
• AWS, I’d Like to Make a Return, Please
• See…Stateful Containers Are a Thing
• Azure Whispers Sweet Nothings to You
• I’m a Hip OG-DAD 
• Legacy Vendor plus Legacy Vendor = Profit $$
• Wine Vendors >Legacy Vendors 
• I’m Not a Regular Dad, I’m an OG Dad

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Follow Up

02:25  Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff 

• Listener Note: Payway article 
• Last week, we talked about Microsoft hiring the Inflection Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman and their Chief scientist, as well as most of the 70-person staff. 
• Inflection had previously raised 1.5B, and so this all seemed strange as part of their shift to an AI Studio or a company that helps others train AI models. 
• Now, it has been revealed that Microsoft has agreed to pay a 620M dollar licensing fee, as well as 30M to waive any legal rights related to the mass hiring. As well as it renegotiated a $140M line of credit that aimed to help inflection finance its operations and pay for the MS services. 

03:22 Justin – “…that explains the mystery that we talked about last week for those who were paying attention.”

General News 

05:17 Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb to go beyond its core in-memory database 

• Redis, one of the popular in-memory data stores, is switching away from its Open Source Three-Clause BSD license. 
• Instead it is adopting a dual licensing model called the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public Licensing (SSPLv1).  
  • Under the new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Redis. The first company to do so was Microsoft. 
• Redis also announced the acquisition of Speedb (speedy-bee) to take it beyond the in memory space. 
• This isn’t the first time that Redis has changed the licensing model. 
  • In 2018 and 2019, it changed the way it licensed Redis Models under the Redis Source Available License v1.