The Cloudcast #353 - The 2018 Mid-Year Show

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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Show Notes:



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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