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101 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Four tech thinkers and doers who came up through the trenches of enterprise IT talk about the news that's relevant in this world.
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S3E17: Podcast's Gone Wild
May 01, 2022 17:57 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MBBrian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, announces new remote-first work policy: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1519831566486147073 Simpsons meme about Elon Musk criticism: https://i.imgflip.com/3mtyfq.jpg Google parent Alphabet’s results come up short despite cloud strength https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/26/google-parent-alphabets-results-come-short-despite-cloud-strength/ Google Cloud hit $5.82B in Q1 sales, up from $4.05B YoY and above estimates of $5.75B, and an operating loss of $931M...
S3E16: Why have searches for GitOps doubled in the past year?
April 24, 2022 12:16 - 31 minutes - 57.5 MBGitOps https://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitops Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months. The reason for growing interest in the practice is that GitOps can lead to increased productivity, higher reliability and better stability. GitOps is part of the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) meta trend. According to E-Topics, Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months. The mainstreaming of cloud practices and the continued increase in adoption of DevSecOps are two main...
S3E15: Infrastructure as Code is dead, Cloud is the new VMWare, and IT Operations is forever changed
April 17, 2022 18:19 - 35 minutes - 65.3 MBFoundry — Cloud computing study 2022 https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/ Puppet acquired (by Perforce) https://puppet.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-the-ceo-of-puppet Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/12/nasuni-ransomware-without-backup/ Microsoft Customers Decry Cloud Contracts That Sideline Rivals https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/microsoft-customers-decry-cloud...
S3E14: People In Three Dimensions
April 10, 2022 16:51 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBBack to (in-person) work Big tech conferences aren’t coming back https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-events Microsoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emails https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/microsoft-ceo-warns-of-the-impact-of-all-those-late-night-emails Using your dishwasher is more Earth-friendly. Here's why. https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-much-water-do-dishwashers-use/ Any other news Microsoft Azure ...
S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc Apocalypse
April 03, 2022 20:30 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBRemote meetings are big money HP Inc. to Acquire Poly Poly is the lash-up of Polycom and Plantronics. And where was Zoom when this was going down? https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-buy-poly-33-bln-deal-2022-03-28/ How much of IT should be self-serve? Cloud self-service doesn’t need to invite the orc apocalypse | CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing Shadow IT discourse is back, baby! As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation https://techcrunch.com/2022/...
S3E12: Oktapoppin’
March 27, 2022 15:08 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBOkta popped Original tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690 Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010 Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/ FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA): https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/ Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-crim...
S3E11: Pigeons In The Net
March 20, 2022 16:35 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MB- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprise https://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase - Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/ - Remote events are still with us ...
S3E10: IT Research Analysts, what exactly are they good for? Plus more on the NVIDIA breach, Amazon’s stock split and the latest Apple event
March 12, 2022 19:55 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MBNVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/ Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/google-s-mandiant-acquisition-brings-cybersecurity-automation-to-forefront Amazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buyback https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811399-amazon-jumps-10-on-20-for-1-sh...
S3E9: More On Infosec Consequences Of Ukraine War
March 06, 2022 18:14 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBUkrainian tech companies https://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companies Grammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfits People around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check in https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-airbnb-donations-cec/index.html Nvidia Confirms Company Data Was Stolen in Hack https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-confirms-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/n...
S3E8: Cyber Security in trying times, EU data regulation and multi-cloud frenemies
February 27, 2022 16:10 - 36 minutes - 66.4 MBUkraine Crisis Ambulance-chasing by security marketers — just don’t Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russia https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558 Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move In https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disturbing-mass-text-operation-terrorizes-ukraine-as-russian-troops-move-in/ar-AAUdejJ Cyberattack hits Ukrainian bank...
S3E7: Shipping Citrix and Tibco — Citco? Tibrix?
February 20, 2022 16:39 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBForbes — Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-world-could-have-gone-nuclear/ Citrix To Be Acquired, Taken Private And Merged With Tibco In $16.5B Deal - https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/citrix-to-be-acquired-taken-private-and-merged-with-tibco-in-16-5-billion-deal Weighted ACV as more useful SaaS metric - https://whoisnnamdi.com/weighted-acv/ Intel plans - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/18/intel_gelsinger_plan/ Inte...
S3E6: The One With Jon Collins
February 13, 2022 17:07 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBDominic, Lilac, and Zack chat to Jon Collins of Gigaom about whether "cloud" is still a useful category, who buys enterprise IT these days, and what that means for land & expand strategies. Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!
S3E5: Amazon AWS the giant of cloud compared to Microsoft Azure and the often forgotten Google GCP
February 06, 2022 15:49 - 36 minutes - 66.7 MBAmazon Q4: AWS’ Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71B https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71b https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504 https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1488248066389983232 https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1489350978642100230 ⬆️ 20B Jeff Bezos ⬇️ 30B Mark Zuckerberg Alphabet Q4 Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Jumps 45 Percent https://www.crn.com/alphabet-q4-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-jumps-45-per...
S3E4: Microsoft Windows license and cloud growth, Nvidia and Arm not happening, and Calendly drama
January 30, 2022 18:59 - 36 minutes - 66.9 MBMicrosoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderates https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.html Nvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisition https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-preparing-abandon-acquisition-arm-bloomberg-news-2022-01-25/ Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html Calendly discourse https://twit...
S3E3: Games, Metaverse, and Coffee
January 22, 2022 10:43 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBMicrosoft buys Activision for $69B (nice) https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.html Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/18/22889342/microsoft-activision-antitrust-games-streaming-gamepass 3 billion gamers — sure, if you count Candy Crush etc, but how many of those are playing Call of Duty? Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-qui...
S3E2: Big Data! What Is It Good For?
January 17, 2022 17:45 - 38 minutes - 36 MBLilac and Dominic talk to Doug Johnson about the problem of data and what to do with it. What’s the data problem? How do we think about it in companies? What’s the opportunity … can we dream about what we could do with better handle on enterprise data Open Source and Security https://www.protocol.com/open-source-security-white-house-2656216576 https://www.theverge.com/platform/2022/1/13/22882176/google-government-action-protect-open-source-software-funding-security https://www.bleepin...
S3E1: Here We Go Again, Welcome to the year of the employee
January 08, 2022 22:08 - 33 minutes - 60.6 MB2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictions Employment changes, new wave of freelancing Fractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-one https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Part-Time-CTO-Salary vs https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Chief-Technology-Officer-Salary Healthcare impacts More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation: https://www.vox....
S2E51: Year In Review
December 23, 2021 14:56 - 38 minutes - 36 MBThemes of the year that was: - Semiconductor shortages and architecture turnover - Outages and incidents - Security in general (attacks, ransomware, etc) - No-code/Low-Code and the shifting definition of architects - Mental health and the change in employment landscapes - The Great Resignation - The year the employees took the power back The book Dominic referred to is “Feersum Endjinn” by Iain M Banks, first published in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feersum_Endjinn Follow th...
S2E50: Exploits, outages and the not so different future
December 19, 2021 16:28 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBPatch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s being exploited https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/ List of software impacted by log4j https://github.com/cisagov/log4j-affected-db/blob/develop/README.md The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it? https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/17/1042692/log4j-internet-open-source-hacking/ Another AWS ...
S2E49: Services, Dead Or Alive
December 12, 2021 16:56 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBAWS us-east-1 outage (again) https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-now https://deadline.com/2021/12/amazon-web-services-outage-unplugs-netflix-disney-and-many-websites-in-parts-of-u-s-1234886348/ AWS post-mortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/ Quill shutdown https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/twitter-acquires-quill-a-would-be-slack-rival-team-wi...
S2E48: AWS re:Invent experience and the potential end of big tech acquisitions
December 05, 2021 15:02 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBAWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ AWS re:Invent Keynotes https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/track/?trackID=E930FDEA03498D13B5CDACA0833D5A2 F.T.C. Sues to Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Arm https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/technology/ftc-nvidia-arm-deal.html UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our Linked...
S2E47: WebEx Is Good, Actually
November 21, 2021 21:13 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBHave you tried WebEx lately? Whither Skype? Did Zoom depend too much on growth-hacking dirty tricks? https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom Zoom loses Five9 while WebEx extends gap with Contact Center capabilities https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/contact-center/webex-contact-center/index.html Nvidia's on a Roll - Nvidia’s just beginning TinyML Global shipments of TinyML chipsets are expected to reach 2.5 billion units by 2030, representing a 164x increase from...
S2E46: Return of single threaded life
November 14, 2021 15:02 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBMongoDB.local London https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Recommendations Dominic People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life. Mike The Tim Ferriss Show - Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795?i=1...
S2E45: In which we get meta
November 06, 2021 11:44 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBFacebook goes Meta https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/ Microsoft wants to beat Meta at its own game https://thehustle.co/11042021-microsoft-meta/ Tinder also goes meta, with NFTs https://social.techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/match-group-details-plans-for-a-dating-metaverse-tinders-virtual-goods-based-economy/ A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence Quick News Low-code/no-code: Botmock acquired by Walmart https...
S2E43: Google Cloud reorg/culture shift and Apple being Apple
October 24, 2021 15:39 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBGoogle Next ’21 https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next Google Cloud Removes Old Guard - Will it be enough? Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.html Google Cloud cuts its marketplace revenue shares from 20% to 3% https://cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2021/sep/29/google-cloud-cuts-its-marketplace-revenue-shares-from-20-to-3/...
S2E42: Life, the Universe, and Everything
October 16, 2021 08:39 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBOur top 5 technologies we wish never were: Bitnet VDI “Modern” Web front-end stack https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160 Web apps (Google Docs in primis) USB 3.0 spec 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon 50% discount code: DominicWellington50 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà...
S2E41: BGP brought down Facebook; Databricks moves into Low-Code/No-Code; What does it mean for the future of IT organizations everywhere?
October 10, 2021 14:31 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBFacebook outage, Twitch leak Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ Lost server https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ Twitch source code and payout data leaks https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/twitch_data_leak/ Also blamed on config error Best comment: “It’s complex systems all the way down; even the turtles are complex systems.” https://twitter.com/swagitda_/stat...
S2E40: The Big Four-Oh
October 04, 2021 14:19 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBSorry for making some of our listeners feel old, because their “I feel old now” references are twenty years earlier than Nevermind! Here’s what we talked about this week: How IBM lost the cloud https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud Cloudflare Announces R2 Storage; Rapid and Reliable S3-Compatible Object Storage Designed for the Edge https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/press-releases/2021/cloudflare-announces-r2-storage/ EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, inclu...
S2E39: In which we feel very old
September 26, 2021 07:31 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MB30 years since Nevermind! Listening guide: https://www.nme.com/features/nirvanas-nevermind-at-30-a-track-by-track-guide-dave-grohl-st-vincent-lorde-3048697 30th anniversary reissue: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/ The kids don’t get filesystems: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z Dinosaurs evolving — including why email is better at email than Slack can ever be: https...
S2E38: The IT way back machine
September 19, 2021 19:32 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBA look back at IT and technology in the 90s and the evolution that led us to today. Timeline of Computer History 1993 https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1993/ 1995 https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1995/ The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game) Drug Wars (video game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game) Silicon graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics Follow the show on Twitter ...
S2E37: The uncertainty around conferences, return to work and business travel
September 12, 2021 14:22 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBDominic, Zack and Mike are together again discussing how conferences which should have been in person have now fallen off again. Companies are becoming non-committal to return to work and business travel is looking to be forever changed. They also touch on Ray Ban’s new Facebook glasses, Amazon’s new TV and the upcoming Apple event. Will the Apple Event shed light on the semi conductor supply chain issues? Facebook Ray-Ban https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1436300410810257408 ‘Foreve...
S2E36: All Together Now
September 05, 2021 21:04 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBIn which Mike considers paying for some software, Lilac solves all of Enterprise IT's problems, and all four hosts are re-united once again. Enterprise software financials How about that monster H round — yes, H — from Databricks? https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/ Meanwhile Docker is hoping to get paid by desktop users… https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/ …and we debate digital transformation, prompted by Benedict Evans...
S2E35: The One About “The Great Resign”
August 29, 2021 21:33 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBThe Great Resignation: Why Employees Don't Want To Go Back To The Office A Microsoft survey of more than 30,000 global workers showed that 41% of workers were considering quitting or changing professions this year, and a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland showed 38% of those surveyed planned to quit in the next six months to a year. In the US alone, April saw more than four million people quit their jobs, according to a summary from the Department of La...
S2E34: Intel and Nvidia, how two giants in the same industry are looking to grow and execute; and Microsoft is turning on the M365 cash machine
August 22, 2021 17:15 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBIntel CEO flashes cash, calling company a 'willing buyer' in semiconductor industry https://www.windowscentral.com/intel-ceo-flashes-cash-calling-company-willing-buyer NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2022 https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2022 Nvidia beats earnings expectations, but cryptocurrency chip sales falter https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q2-2022.html Nvidia is tracki...
S2E33: When the company that provides security consulting gets hacked and ransomware what do you do? Plus are we going to be doing fake job for AI to judge our value?
August 15, 2021 21:02 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBAccenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threats https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/accenture-confirms-hack-after-lockbit-ransomware-data-leak-threats/ Employees may need to keep up ‘the pretense of working’ as automation spreads, says A.I. expert Kai-Fu Lee https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/ai-automation-talent-ethics-bias-kaifu-lee/ FedEx Deploys new AI-Robotics E-Commerce Fulfilment System https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-roboti...
S2E32: Glitter, chip shortages, and Apple privacy concerns
August 08, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 16.5 MBIntro Glitter bomb vs porch pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4 Ship Your Enemies Glitter https://shipyourenemiesglitter.com Chip Shortages Continue The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter https://www.theverge.com/22602104/chip-shortage-tech-quarterly-earnings-intel-apple-microsoft-amd-samsung-tesla Apple CSAM Protection Features Apple reveals new efforts to fight child abuse imagery https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611721/apple-csam-child-...
S2E31: Cloud growth continues at speed for the big three
August 01, 2021 15:45 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBWhile Dominic is in the alps, doing yoga with goats, Zack, Lilac and Mike got together to talk about the recent Google, Microsoft and Amazon earning report showing that cloud is still growing rapidly. Will it ever end? The gang also gets into product death and how to communicate end of life of products/components and how enterprises should deal with it. AWS Sees 37 Percent Quarterly Growth As Amazon Disappoints https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-sees-37-percent-quarterly-growth-as-amazon-d...
S2E30: Apology Podcast
July 24, 2021 15:47 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBWhat happened last week? We failed to record a normal podcast episode, so we tried something different and put out a Textual Podcast instead: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/textual-podcast Management = FOMO? Some people wind up in management more due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) than because they actually want to do the work — and then the rest of us get to rehabilitate the people who suffered the consequences. Management track is not the only track: Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a...
S2E28: AWS Infinidash, Kaseya’s security issue, Kubernetes cost problem and why hardware is just a problem the cloud hasn’t solved yet
July 12, 2021 23:39 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBDominic is back! Dominic, Mike and Zack discuss the AWS Infinidash origin and how everyone needs an AWS Infinidash expert on their team. Another supply chain attack has occurred this time at Kaseya. Finally we discuss once again Zack and Dominic's favorite subject, Kubernetes, but this time in relation to run away cloud spend. Cloud keeps growing and the only reason on premise hardware exists is because it's used to solve a problem cloud hasn't solved for yet. AWS Infinidash “Hey, are you...
S2E27: IBMs failed email migration, why startups fail and who suffers, and 5G powered by Microsoft Azure
July 04, 2021 13:54 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBLilac, Zack and Mike discuss how even after planning an email migration for 18-month, IBM still failed. What is going on with all these underwhelming startup acquisitions? What really happening? and who suffers? Has anyone noticed how even companies that offer “cloud” are moving their core service to Microsoft Azure? Azure is now powering AT&Ts 5G network. Microsoft continues to win. IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say https://www.theregister...
S2E26: David Cheriton (VMware & Google angel investor) talks Cloud, AI and the changing tech landscape in the US
June 29, 2021 22:59 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBZack and Mike were joined by this week by David Cheriton, VMware & Google angel investor, as he talks Cloud, AI, and the Internet while weaving in stories from Stanford University, where he was a professor, and the beginnings of Google & VMware. What he reveals may surprise you. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!
S2E25: Microsoft Windows 11 leak, who is copying who? Plus learning code in school and mental health startup funding
June 20, 2021 15:25 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBThe gang is back together this week discussing the Windows 11 leak and their thoughts on MacOS versus Windows. Also the value, or not, of teaching coding in school. What code? What do we really want to teach our kids? Plus HBOs recent snafu and the hilarious intern responses. And finally what is happening that is leading to the increase in mental health startup funding? Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-lea...
S2E24: Down goes Fastly, down goes the internet
June 14, 2021 00:31 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBOn this episode of Roll For Enterprise the gang is all together to discuss the recent Fastly outage which brought down a large part of the internet. Is this the same or different from on premise outages and just more noticeable with so many companies impacted? Fastly outage and cloud resilience Internet outage: which websites and services were hit by Fastly issue Does the Fastly outage justify “Single Point of Failure” headlines? What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error me...
S22E23: Break’s Over, Back On Your Heads
June 07, 2021 07:16 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBBack to Work (What do they think we’ve been doing all this time?) People refusing to come back to the office Lilac: "When I’m in the office I’m not also a mother and someone who has to do a load of laundry" Dominic: Dangers of a hybrid office — people who are physically in the office get the inside track “There is no return to normalcy,” says Mayer-Schönberger, whose research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. “The environment people are reentering is fundamental...
S2E22: Microsoft pushes low-code deep into the business by turning natural speech into code with GPT-3; state of cloud & a16z’s on-prem report; Rapid7 breach & AWS re:Inforce
June 02, 2021 02:38 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBThe team passionately debates the impact of GPT-3 converting speech to code on the business and software developers. Microsoft introduces this as a low code feature at their Build Conference. @Mike points out that IT must provide the business with guard rails. “The biz knows how to read and use the data, more so than someone in a technology role. This is the democratization of software development, and data is the next step. It’s going to continue and has to continue.” @Mike reminds us tha...
S2E21: Aneel Lakhani on startup marketing and enterprise clients
May 23, 2021 12:58 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBIn this episode Roll for Enterprise welcomes Aneel Lakhani as a guest. Aneel is a Marketing Exec, Startup Advisor, Growth Therapist, and Investor. After 25-plus years in technology, with stints in engineering, product, and marketing in big companies and startups--Aneel now serves as an advisor to mostly b2b enterprise software startups and VCs. Aneel shares his insights with Dominic, Lilac and Mike on the difference in marketing between startups and more established enterprises, getting you...
S2E20: Ransomware on the rise with real world consequence; IBMs 2nm announcement and Apple hire/fire
May 16, 2021 17:20 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBDominic, Mike and Zack are together again this week to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and all that we’ve learned since. People are still the weakest link in social engineering of attacks. Could China has prevented something like this thanks to their great firewall when compared to American or European companies? They also discussed various news items including: IBM surprise 2nm chip rollout which took everyone by surprise; Elon Musk’s Crypto announcements; and Apple’s hire a...
Season 2 Episode 19: Misusing Excel with Priya Doty
May 09, 2021 19:55 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Priya Doty. Priya is the Global VP Product Marketing for IBM’s iconic IBM Z brand and it’s all-Linux sister brand, LinuxONE. Unlike a lot of marketers, Priya has also been a developer, which means she enjoys deconstructing marketing messages by reading technical manuals. Based in Brooklyn, she is a mom, wife, and author of an upcoming fiction novel. Aside from majoring on the topic of Confidential Computing (and Cloud Security in general), Priya is all...
S2E18: Basecamp: Politics and Culture at work
May 02, 2021 18:25 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBWith the recent controversy surrounding Basecamp and David Hansson (https://twitter.com/dhh?s=20) Dominic, Lilac and Mike spent some time discussion their thoughts on the topic. Not an easy topic with a lot of different opinion and many consequences to be considered. Background: https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp https://qz.com/work/2002100/why-basecamps-culture-memo-is-so-controversial/ https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387343362013995009?s=21 https://twitter...
Season 2 Episode 17: The Importance Of Core Skills (they’re not soft skills!)
April 25, 2021 20:22 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBThe guest on this episode is Rachel Chalmers of Alchemist Accelerator. Rachel joined Alchemist from Autodesk, where she was Director, Transformation Growth Boards and Product Excellence. Prior to Autodesk, Rachel was a VC with Ignition Partners and Merian Ventures, leading investments in Docker, Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook), Unikernel (acquired by Docker) and Honeycomb.io. She began her career as employee number 10 with 451 Research (acquired by Standard & Poor), where she was the first ana...