Aaron and Brian talk about the first half of 2018: Acquisitions and IPOs, Rating and ranking the Public Cloud, a look at aspects of Private Cloud, Containers and Kubernetes, HCI and GDPR, as well as their perspectives on AI and IoT.
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Topic 1 - It’s been a busy year for Cloudcast alumni in 2018
- Microsoft acquires GitHub - 7.5B
- BonsaiAI acquired by Microsoft
- Pivotal IPO - $555M
- Evident.io acquired by Palo Alto - $300M
- CoreOS acquired by Red Hat - $250M
- Splunk acquires VictorOps - $120M
- Elastic (formerly ElasticSearch) - announced IPO plans
- Loggly acquired by Solarwinds
Topic 2 - How would you handicap the public cloud market (leaders, laggards, emerging trends)?
- Gartner only has 6 companies in their IaaS Magic quadrant
- AWS keeps growing (apparently 30-35% of public cloud spending)
- Microsoft keeps acquiring
- Google is still TBD, but we’re going to GoogleNEXT in July
- Alibaba is growing and starting to hear about more US companies using AliCloud
- IBM and Oracle still seem like large Enterprise vendors
Topic 3 - Brian’s involved with containers, Aaron’s involved with Storage and HCI and some cloud integration, what’s interesting in those areas? What are the biggest trends you’re seeing in the private cloud / data center market?
Topic 4 - We’ve been trying to incorporate more AI and IoT into the shows this year. What have you learned so far, what has surprised you, where do you still have questions?
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