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    Software Defined Talk

    Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference – we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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    Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile. Nov 04, 2016
    Show notes

    Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever.

    Show Notes

    Follow-up

    • Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap.
    • Check out the last episode, the show page is- God-damned nifty!
    • Review in iTunes France
    • Osprey “one bag” style backpack.

    The Best Uber Driver Ever

    • Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan.
    • The Sweat Hotel

    Coté’s Agile shit

    • Excerpt from a PDF in process.
    • IBM design people.
    • We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely.
    • It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming.
    • UK GDS rant.
    • Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture
    • How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom.
    • Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions
    • The Product Manager's Lament.
    • If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile
    • The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on - leave some comments!

    The End-roll Mid-roll

    • Coté: Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
    • Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference.
    • Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list.
    • Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows.
    • Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
    • Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code”.

    BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.

    OpenStack Anyone?

    • There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona 35% annual growth sounds good
    • With friends like these…: “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.”
    • Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.”
    • OTH, 🤔: "If you do these things the old fashioned way with Puppet, Chef and Ansible, they can be incredibly expensive because now you need the experts for everything," he says. "If you do them with Juju and Charms, you're sharing the cost of operational code with everybody else using those Charms."
    • Meanwhile: 451 says “OpenStack revenues to grow at a 35% CAGR and exceed $5bn by 2020.” See chart in my newsletter from this week.

    New York Times Buys The Wirecutter for $30 Million

    • Good write-up about how The Wirecutter is/was very different from Gizmodo and the like
    • Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guide

    Adrian Cockcroft to AWS

    • This is like the Warriors getting Kevin Durant, if the Warriors had won the championship last season ;)

    AWS Server Migration Service

    • “automatically replicate live server volumes to AWS and create Amazon Machine Images (AMI) as needed.”
    • Currently VMware, more hypervisors coming
    • Thanks for the partnership VMware!

    RackN gets Funding

    Looks like a seed round, yay for Rob.

    The Barbarian Establishment

    • Economist on Private Equity
    • “private equiteers”
    • “The fees they pay each time they buy or sell a company provide a fifth of the global banking system’s revenues from mergers and acquisitions.”
    • “This is a particular issue for pension funds, which often need to earn 7% or 8% to meet their obligations.”

    Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter

    • “The company now claims that its commercial cloud annualized run rate has passed $13 billion (it was $12.1 billion last quarter), and that the gross margin of its commercial cloud business is up 7 points quarter-on-quarter to 49 percent.”
    • Azure revenue growth was 116% last quarter; now have 11% market share compared to Amazon's 31%

    IBM

    • Hiring lots of people?

    Stackanetes as a Product?

    • “OpenStack on Kubernetes, or “Stackanetes” as the CoreOS team sadly likes to call it”

    VMware & AWS: Harder Than it Looks

    • Former VMware/EMC exec, now at Oracle.
    • “hope is not a strategy.”
    • “VMware wants the world to use their stack, AWS wants the same for their technology. Not exactly what I would call a long-term stable situation.”

    Picks

    • Brandon: Westworld.
    • Coté: Sugar Bowl Madeleines at CostCo. I just ate five and the box ain't empty! Also, while you’re there: Tillamook Cheddar cheese slices, in the expensive refrigerated section. And I got another pair of brushed khaki Kirkland 5 pocket pants.
    • Matt: Tokyo!
    • Coté’s Bonus Recommendation: Matt Ray’s hair!

    Sponsored By:

    • Pivotal: Omaha Cloud Native Roadshow - Coté is giving the opening keynote, and jabbering through-out the day. Join Pivotal and ProKarma technologists for this half-day workshop where you will discover how you can accelerate software development on a modern cloud platform without compromising operations.
    • DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016
    • Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
    • Pivotal: Come learn what Pivotal does and why with hands on workshops and keynote show-boatin'. Free breakfast and lunch! Cincinnati - Nov 10 St. Louis - Nov 14 Hartford - Nov 16 Denver - Nov 18 New York - Nov 22 Los Angeles - Nov 28

    Episode 76: Convergental and the battle for the new stack Oct 21, 2016
    Show notes

    With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations.

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

    Mid-roll
    • Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney.
    • Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
    • Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
    Show notes
    • If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.

    VMware doing Kubernetes

    • VMware's post, and a product page.
    • Photon platform is VMware’s container-play, trying to leverage the VMware ecosystem (vSAN & NSX stuff)
    • The New Stack coverage
    BONUS LINKS, not covered in the show

    Ubuntu 16.10

    • Canonical’s doing Kubernetes too

    AWS & Government

    • Debunking FUD and using AWS in (Australian) government

    Randy Bias Leaves EMC

    • OpenStack advocate/critic, Pets vs. Cattle
    • 2 years to the day after the Cloudscaling acquisition Heading to… Juniper

    Cisco is AWS Skeptical

    • Good luck with that

    What $50 buys You at Huaqianbei

    • Fascinating article, I hadn’t realized how ridiculously cheap everything had gotten
    Recommendations
    • Brandon: Accused Podcast.
    • Matt: Song Exploder podcast and the Tobacco album “Sweatbox Dynasty”
    • Coté: Kirkland brushed khaki pants. Also, espadrilles from that store in BCN, La Manual Alpargatera. Apple Live Photos.

    Sponsored By:

    • Pivotal: Check out the free cloud native road-show in Kansas City, November 2nd. Coté will be there and you can see Pivotal Cloud Foundry in action, all for free.
    • DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016

    Links:

    • VMware Photon to Present ‘Kubernetes as a Service’ - The New Stack

    Episode 75: "AWS and VMware are having a LAN party” or “Matt Ray’s deep story” or “some five year old gibberish” Oct 15, 2016
    Show notes

    Summary

    Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, Oracle, and something about Google phones. It’s a regular episode on all the hot topics!

    See full show notes: http://cote.io/sdt75

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

    Sponsors/Mid-roll

    • Check out cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
    • Also: Lords of Computing is now Coté.show. Will put upcoming DrunkAndRetired.com special episode in there. And as always check out Pivotal Conversations.
    • Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
    • For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
    • DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
    • Matt at DevOps Sydney October 20.
    • Matt at AWS North Sydney October 25.
    Show notes

    Follow-up

    • Buy-side commentary on Oracle storming the AWS castle
    • Those reviews are awesome, thanks so much!
    • I’ll be re-jiggering the podcast back end again, so expect some annoying weirdness (fireside.fm appears to be awesome, if expensive)
    • So who’s buying Twitter?
    • Tyler Cowe’s short term focus and going private escape hatch.

    VMware and AWS

    • “VMware Cloud on AWS”
    • “The service will be operated, sold and supported by VMware (not AWS) but integrate with the rest of AWS’ cloud portfolio (think storage, database, analytics and more).”
    • https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/aws-blinked–20cddbb537ed#.9cuvcp75o
    • “these customers will go to Cloud, but its really a glorified co-lo.”
    • “AWS should be encouraging customers to develop their workloads to take advantage of Cloud ( microservices, serverless etc ) and not delay it further.”
    • InfoWorld piece:
    • They keep talking about hybrid cloud, but what does that mean here? Just “we use multiple cloud types/providers,” or one application running across different clouds?
    • “As part of the deal, VMware will be AWS’s preferred private cloud partner and Amazon will be VMware’s preferred partner in the public cloud.”
    • Some MSP action: “One of the key differences between this deal and the one VMware announced with IBM in February is that this service is being offered and managed by VMware.”
    • “Interested customers can request access to the service’s private beta starting Thursday, but VMware doesn’t expect the service to be live until early next year. General availability of VMware cloud on AWS will have to wait until even later in 2017.”
    • Brief 451 note
    • No data in DevOps

    Google Devices Roundup, and AI interlude

    • Revisiting the Apple or Google ecosystem question. I hate having to think about ecosystems when buying electronics.
    • And AI.
    • Walt Mossberg Thinks Siri is Dumb
    • Wired Interview with Obama - dude knows AI.
    BONUS LINKS, not covered in podcast

    Container Madness!

    • Nothing much new, just content to riff on
    • Microsoft shipping Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine
    • Red Hat and containers - relabel, transitioned from originally a PaaS to CaaS.
    • DockerCon coming to Austin

    Opentracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    • Announcement
    • Open tracing

    Luke transitions to new Puppet CEO

    • Luke’s announcement in Twitter
    • Luke is one of the main people who started all this stuff, based on annoyance of BladeLogic, cfengine, etc.
    • Did I ever tell the one of how I did a terrible sales job getting Reductive Labs signed up with RedMonk?
    • The new dude looks like the real deal of enterprise infrastructure.
    Recommendations
    • Matt: Warren Ellis’ Normal - From his latest newsletter “What science fiction, as a field, is good for, is looking at ten thousand possibilities at once," Zapp Branigan reading Trump quotes
    • Brandon: Slate Plus. Also, Harry’s Blades.
    • Coté: iPhone 7 Plus. Live Photos, Rotate mode, Bokeh stuff actually in beta, Home button takes getting used to, Two speakers is better?

    Episode 74: Being a tech evangelist, with Bridget Kromhout Oct 01, 2016
    Show notes

    This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here.

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.


    Episode 73: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle Sep 23, 2016
    Show notes

    Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk.

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

    SPONSOR
    • Check out cote.io/pivotal for free books, free cloud time, etc.
    • Come to DellEMCWorld on Oct 18th to 20th, in Austin. I'll be speaking there.
    • There's also the annual vBBQ event, Oct 17th at the Salt Like. Pivotal is sponsoring (check out my CORPORATE AMEX, BITCHES!). Come to it, it's mostly free-ish.
    • For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
    Show notes

    Wordpress Talk

    • Pantheon
    • Dreamhost
    • WP Engine

    macOS Sierra

    • Try rebooting.
    • Can't get Apple Watch thing to work. Bartender broke-dick.
    • What have you done for me lately, FREE SOFTWARE?
    • (Just freed up 15 gigs of space with the storage optimizer, so, there's that.)
    • Also, ordered a ~$1,000 phone today. JESUS!
    • Another way to find big files on OS X.
    • YubiKey support for OSX

    Oracle is gonna cream AWS. Wait, wut?

    • Lydia has a good write-up. She's a bit wry, you know.
    • This is like the 3rd or 4th go at it.
    • To be an apologist: doing cloud is freakin' hard. Maybe Oracle should try being less of a jerk rhetorically though? It's help with their credibility.
    • Ben Thompson is on the case
    BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.

    This week in tech PE

    • Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6 Billion

    Microservices - Please don't

    • Maybe microservices ain't all they're cracked up to be
    • 5 "truths" (spoiler, maybe not)
      1. It keeps the code cleaner
      2. It's easy to write things that only have one purpose
      3. They're faster than monoliths
      4. It's easy for engineers to not all work in the same codebase
      5. It's the simplest way to handle autoscaling, plus Docker is in here somewhere
    • This piece by my man Kenny is ball-exploding awesome.

    Too Old to Code?

    • Tim Bray is old and codes.
    • "That's fine for you, Marge, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. ... Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.". – Homer Simpson
    Recommendations
    • Brandon: Reminders App
    • Matt: Usual Suspects; also, my wife’s blog
    • Coté: Logitech Keys-To-Go Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets, Red - $37.90 at Amazon: only 16 left in stock! GOOD PRICE! Also, don’t get Fantastical...if you’re like me.

    BONUS: DevOpsDays DFW, with ADO and The Food Right Show Sep 22, 2016
    Show notes

    At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.


    Episode 72: “Oh! Scurvy! Again.” Sep 16, 2016
    Show notes

    Too old

    It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee...plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets.

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

    Show Notes

    Twitter going to sell:

    • The rumors
    • “I still think Alphabet makes for the most logical acquirer of Twitter”
    • Dark Horse: Apple.
    • Really Dark Horse: IBM.

    This Week in Tech PE: HPE Spins off Software

    • They got divested
    • “HPE will be retaining tools that support the company’s cloud and infrastructure businesses but will be spinning off tools for application delivery management, big data, enterprise security, information management, governance and IT operations management.”
    • From what I know of HPE, this seems to be overlapping. I’d love a list of “stays vs. goes”
    • Q3 2017, and you thought Dell/EMC was slow
    • Where does this leave HP? Will they acquire more SW or stay a “systems” company.
    • It makes you realize how “small” their SW group was.
    • Coté’s notebook on this topic.
    • Also, Thoma Bravo says it gets, like, 20-45% returns on assets it takes private.

    Mid-roll

    • Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
    • Lead-gen free webinar with an actual, real customer talking about cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. An analyst and Coté too.
    • Check out my Sep. column over on The Register, about ROI and shit for DevOps. I’m really desperate to answer this “question.” Put on some high-waders and check out the comments, leave some to go spice it up in that asylum.
    • For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event.
    • Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!

    Google buying Apigee. The whole API Economy thing.

    • They got bought!
    • More
    • Hear us talk about it on Pivotal Conversations: the gigantic strangler pattern! MASHUPS FTW!

    Hashicorp Gets $24 million B-round

    • Vault Enterprise, Nomad Enterprise, Terraform Enterprise, Consul Enterprise
    • Coté: what’s the deal with these folks? Are they a competitor to all us?

    Blogging is dead

    • Coté gets better views/reads in Medium than on his broke-dick blog. (Maybe about 80-100 RSS subscribers.)
    • This makes him sad and confused about what he should do.
    BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show

    A16Z Not Best of the Best?

    • Clickbait
    • “Thought(sp?) it may fall short of some rivals, the company outperforms the average fund: Overall, its three funds have almost doubled their investment capital since inception.”

    What’s Cisco Up To?

    • Our favorite Halo Effect company
    • What’s up with “software defined networking”? I was talking with someone recently and they posited that it’s
    • “dead-as-in-over-cause-all-the-big-cos-won.” Plus NSX does a lot (1,700 customers), right?

    Short History of Open Source Forks

    • Lots of examples of successful open source forks
    • “Oracle doesn’t seem to have a very good reputation with open source communities.”
    • OS X <- NeXT <- “select parts of BSD”

    Thoughts on Nano Windows Server 2016

    • Is this the future of Windows (no Windows)?

    Moving from Docker to Rocket

    • Bumps in the road but rkt is staying “smaller” per last week’s conversation.
    Picks
    • Brandon: The Night Of.
    • Coté: Complete Works of HP Lovecraft. Checks out. Also see the series of commentary from the two authors over on tor.com.
    • Matt: Silent music videos: Dancing In The Streets (And, the original). The Terror. They found the boat.

    Episode 71: Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants Sep 02, 2016
    Show notes

    Eventually, you have to decide how your open source software is going to make money, and your partners probably won’t like it. That’s what the dust-up around Docker is this week, it seems to us. We also talk briefly about VMware’s big conference this week, and rumors of HPE selling off it’s Software group to private equity.

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

    SPONSOR
    • Check out the multi-cloud webinar lead-gen free! I really like Brian’s part and then the discussion at the end between all of us.
    • I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16.
    • Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
    Show notes
    • Nippers - "Nippers learn about safety at the beach. They learn about dangers such as rocks, and animals (e.g. the blue-ringed octopus), and also about surf conditions, such as rip currents, sandbars, and waves. Older Nippers also learn some basic first aid and may also learn CPR when they reach the age of 13."

    Can someone explain this “Docker forking” hoopla?

    • Coté’s write-up.
    • Docker Inc. doesn’t want to be a commoditized building block From a Red Hat person: “The conflict started to escalate earlier this summer, when Docker Inc used its controlling position to push Swarm, it’s own clone of Kubernetes-style container orchestration, into the core Docker project, putting the basic container runtime in a conflict with a notable part of its ecosystem. Docker Inc. then went on to essentially accuse Red Hat of forking Docker - at the Red Hat Summit no less. After that, Docker Inc’s Solomon Hykes came out strongly against the efforts to standardize the container runtime in OCI - an initiative his company co-founded.”
    • Re: that episode where we discuss Docker ecosystem challenges: “Yet on a regular basis, Red Hat patches that enable valid requirements from Red Hat customer use cases get shut down as it seems for the simple reason that they don’t fit into Docker Inc’s business strategy.”
    • A fight over where to draw the line between free/open/commodified and costs/proprietary/competitive: "And while I personally consider the orchestration layer the key to the container paradigm, the right approach here is to keep the orchestration separate from the core container runtime standardization. This avoids conflicts between different layers of the container runtime: we can agree on the common container package format, transport, and execution model without limiting choice between e.g. Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm."
    • Don't bring a pistol to a bazooka fight. Enterprises love RHEL - have you ever tried to sell Ubuntu into organizations? It’s like what selling NT must have been like.

    VMware hybrid cloud solutionaring

    • Brief notebook from Coté. More coverage
    • Keywords “mostly cloud”
    • A representative, not too poorly supported VMware obit
    • NSX up in the cloud

    This Week in Tech Private Equity…

    • HPE looking to sell off Software group, sources say.
    • “hoping it can fetch between $8 billion and $10 billion”
    • “HPE's software unit generated $3.6 billion in net revenue in 2015, down from $3.9 billion in 2014.”
    • Dell/EMC thing set to close on Sep 7th, 2016
    • Quest Software, One Identity To Operate Separately From SonicWall After Dell Software Sale
    BONUS LINKS! Not covered in podcast.

    Spaces vs. Tabs

    • The data delivers the truth (spaces)
    Recommendations
    • Matt: Bubble-sort algorithm explained with Hungarian ("Csángó") folk dance
    • Brandon: LastChanceU
    • Coté: Ulysses - I don’t think there’s any expensive text editors left for me to buy. [This American Life's Worst Song Ever], hear it.

    Episode 70: “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.” Aug 27, 2016
    Show notes

    This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray's first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya.

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

    SPONSOR
    • On August 31st, come hear about launching your cloud strategy and why multi-cloud matters with myself, an analyst, and an actual enterprise user of all this stuff. Register and watch it for free!
    • I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16. Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
    • Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services. See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal.
    • See cote.io/promos for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
    Show notes

    RAX goes private for $4.3bn

    • The usual need to hide from the Wall Street eye

    OpenStack dead, again.

    • "Tough times ahead".
    • "There was a time when it was hard to read an article about OpenStack without hearing about 'pets vs. cattle,' and OpenStack was designed to herd cattle"
    • "It has itself become a big, complex pet, which is why Mirantis and others can make a living providing services, software and training."
    • What could have happened: (1.) "we can beat AWS," or, (2.) "containers, shoulda thought of that."

    Innovation is hard, esp. business-wise

    • How could you compete with AWS?
    • Word vs. Google Docs vs. Office 365.
    • Uber has spent at least $4bn?
    BONUS LINKS! Not Covered in show

    AWS Sentinel is Coming

    • Skunkworks-ish project from AWS for managed services. Potentially lots of partner conflict
    • "MSPs need to work with customers to convert their infrastructure to Platform-as-a-Service using microservices architecture," said one AWS partner. "They also need to bring DevOps into the heart of the organization. Unfortunately, most MSPs don't have the developers that truly understand this."
    • “Few AWS Partners Are Really Surprised By Sentinel's Emergence“

    MariaDB switches away from open source license

    • MaxScale proxy switching to commercial-only license
    • “The MaxScale move shows MariaDB Corporation wants to switch from a Red Hat-style service and support model to a Sugar-style sole-vendor approach.”

    Hashicorp Shuts Down Otto

    • Interesting to see an open source project publicly shut down.

    Microsoft Open Sources Powershell

    • Coverage
    • MSFT blog post
    • Follows open-sourcing of .NET earlier this year
    • available for Linux and Mac OS
    Recommendations
    • Brandon: first US college football game in Australia
    • Matt: Rugby, help me learn it.
    • Coté: BCG on two speed IT; Wizard of Oz series.

    Episode 69: The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs Aug 19, 2016
    Show notes

    There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet.

    (Sorry the audio quality is so bad.)

    Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.

    With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

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    Show notes
    • If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.

    Gartner IaaS MQ is Out.

    • Check out the free re-print, from Amazon I believe.
    • I collected these notes in it's own blog post, check it out.

    Layoffs at Cisco

    • Several thousand get pink slips, more
    • "I do not think that they are going to be done after this."
    • "We are committed to making the necessary decisions to drive our future growth"
    • The performance didn't impress investors as Cisco's stock shed 42 cents to $30.30 in extended trading after the numbers came out. The decline may have been driven by disappointment that Cisco's job cuts weren't nearly as deep as published reports had speculated they would be.
    • But it’s not just Cisco.
    • Be sure to read The Halo Effect.

    Walmart buys Jet

    • $3.3bn.
    • I miss Amazon, Matt in Australia.
    • Ben Thompson provides extensive color.
    Recommendations
    • Brandon: PIN/Kings podcast.
    • Matt: Flying in Australian is awesome, civilized even; the curved screen of the Samsung SAMSUNG C27F390F 1800R Curved 27 inch LED Free Sync Full HD 1920x1080 VA panel HDMI D-Sub Monitor, Australian edition, but Yankee plugs are cool too.
    • Coté: James Governor on Pivotal and SpringOne Platform; Irie's Island Food in Port Aransas.

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