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S2E16: Microsoft targets healthcare (again), Rocket Software expands reach, and Dell spins out VMware, plus the new must attend conferences, and Nvidia sets aggressive strategy in motion
April 18, 2021 19:06 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBThe entire team was back together this week and there was a lot to discuss. There have been a slew of acquisitions in technology lately including Rocket Software acquisition of ASG, Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance and then Dell decided to finally spinoff VMWare. IBM also renamed its services spinout Kyndryl. Nvidia’s ARM announcement, among what felt as 100 others from Nvidia, was also discussed as Nvidia seems to be getting better and better with every announcement and product they releas...
Season 2 Episode 15: Apple rumours, why creepy adtech doesn't work, and some Gmail tips
April 10, 2021 20:52 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBZack, Mike, and Dominic discuss Tim Cook's interview in which he talks about AR, some news about the long-expected AirTags, and Dominic's delayed plans to spend more money on Apple's products. We also talked about the massive Facebook contact data leak — check if your details were included here. Dominic may have gone off on a bit of a rant about the ills of adtech and surveillance capitalism, but then again, he does have form here. Recommendations Dominic: when you register for some site, ...
S2E14: Fortinet making a home office play, AWS has a new leader, Intel proclaims it is back with a vengeance!?
April 02, 2021 20:27 - 32 minutes - 45 MBFortinet invest in Linksys to focus on securing home office network in a clear play to take advantage of the long term changes due to COVID. Meanwhile at AWS they announced that Tableau CEO, Adam Selipsky, an ex-AWS employee is replacing Andy Jassy. Could this be a sign that AWS is getting ready to spinout or is everyone too busy wondering why someone from the AWS ranks didn’t get the job? In silicon wars Intel announced a 20 billion dollar investment into new foundries in the US and proclai...
S2E13: Talking About Struggle With Grace Marshall
March 28, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBThis week's guest is Grace Marshall. Author of the award-winning How to be Really Productive, Grace is known for her ‘refreshingly human’ approach to productivity. Featured in The Guardian, Forbes and Huffpost, her work as a Productivity Ninja with global productivity training company Think Productive has helped thousands of people to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction. We mainly discussed her new book Struggle: the surprising truth, beauty and...
S2E12: MS Ignite Zeroes In On Industrial IoT & Manufacturing, No Code/Low Code Is the Gateway to Coding, Apple Escapes the Chip Shortage, And Are Analysts Being Surpassed by Business Consultants
March 21, 2021 19:06 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBMS Ignite https://myignite.microsoft.com/home Industrial IoT was a trend at re:invent and continued at MS Ignite with the cloud reaching into the network edge and deep into manufacturing. Manufacturing is going through an evolution, and that's why the cloud is focused there. Companies are taking more of a nationalistic approach toward manufacturing. There's a real push for the first time in a long time for all countries, not only the US, to build more factories at home. This push will res...
Season 2 Episode 11: From Product Management to Product Marketing and Back, with Jason Garbis
March 12, 2021 18:20 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBWith special guest Jason Garbis from Appgate. Jason has worked in the software industry for over 30 years, in roles that include software engineer, technical consultant, marketing, product marketing, and product management. This makes him extremely old! Despite his advanced age, he manages to remain productive in his role as SVP of Products at Appgate, a security vendor. He is also co-chair of the SDP Zero Trust Working Group at the Cloud Security Alliance, and just published a book - “Zero...
S2E10: SLOs and SREs a conversation with Brian Singer from Nobl9
March 07, 2021 16:28 - 36 minutes - 50.8 MBIn this episode of Roll For Enterprise the team sits down with Brian Singer of Nobl9 to discuss SLOs and SREs. Brian Singer is a product-focused entrepreneur with a passion for enterprise software, cloud computing, and reliability engineering. He is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Nobl9, a Battery-backed company building a platform to optimize software reliability. His previous company, Orbitera, was acquired by Google where he adapted the SaaS product to follow Google’s best practi...
S2E9: IT Career Advice, How to Pace Yourself & Avoid Burnout
February 28, 2021 11:02 - 32 minutes - 15 MBSpoon theory ‘Nano transitions’ are the secret to staying productive and avoiding burnout How to avoid being controlled by your digital tools Microsoft giving employees extra paid days off to ease pandemic stress https://twitter.com/beeonaposy/status/1365022176684965896 Airbnb predicts 'significant' travel rebound Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Calls For Workers To Return To The Office — yes, Dominic misspoke and said BlackRock, but it was actually Goldman Sachs Jason Fried Notes Face-to-...
Season 2 Episode 9: IT Career Advice, How to Pace Yourself & Avoid Burnout
February 28, 2021 11:02 - 32 minutes - 15 MBSpoon theory ‘Nano transitions’ are the secret to staying productive and avoiding burnout How to avoid being controlled by your digital tools Microsoft giving employees extra paid days off to ease pandemic stress https://twitter.com/beeonaposy/status/1365022176684965896 Airbnb predicts 'significant' travel rebound Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Calls For Workers To Return To The Office — yes, Dominic misspoke and said BlackRock, but it was actually Goldman Sachs Jason Fried Notes F...
S2E8: Rule 34 of Enterprise IT: There’s An Acronym Of It, No Exceptions
February 20, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBWhat would it mean for IT Ops to be an actually mature discipline, rather than one that is still maturing? One indication would be that there would be no need to follow the developing trends as new ideas (slowly) percolate through to the mainstream. Top 8 DevOps Trends for 2021 Rise of serverless: Is serverless hitting the mainstream? 2021 DevOps Predictions The blog post by Mike Gualtieri at Forrester that started the NoOps conversation: I Don’t Want DevOps. I Want NoOps. Dominic's ...
S2E7: IT Career Advice, Thoughts on Education and the Career Pivot
February 14, 2021 19:14 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBRecently there has been a lot of talk of getting into technology with a degree and the value of degrees compared to online training and certifications, etc.. Dominic, Zack, Mike and Lilac discuss the IT Career Roller Coster. They go through everything from career progression, generalist versus specialist and then dive into education. The differences in education in different countries, specifically US versus other countries. They also touch on the value of a degree and specifically an MBA. ...
S2E6: Cloud Wars and The future Amazon
February 07, 2021 23:11 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBNow that the big three have reported earnings, let’s compare Cloud growth. AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP - The quarterly review Note: In the late 2000s, the top 5 public cloud companies' market capitalization was approximately 14Bil. Today those top 5 public companies have a market cap of over 600Bil, a 40x increase in the value in the past decade. What’s bigger news Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy getting the job, or a new leader for AWS to be announced with Andy Jassy moving o...
S2E5: Integration to the rescue! No-code / Low-code vs Kubernetes vs SaaS
January 31, 2021 20:16 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBOracle launches APEX low-code offering: https://www.techradar.com/news/oracle-wants-to-drastically-simplify-app-development-with-new-low-code-service “SaaS has created an environment where departmental purchasing encourages people to try subscription-based point solutions when they need an edge or face a sudden shift in needs. This has led to an explosion of applications that SaaS purchasing will only accelerate. While this has sometimes encouraged the growth of silos, there is a real movem...
S2E4: Intel’s comedy of errors and cloud platforms compared
January 24, 2021 20:30 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBIntel Intel's new CEO says troubled chip project is recovering https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/intel-intc-earnings-q4-2020.html Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232554/intel-ceo-apple-lifestyle-company-cpus-comment CES 2021 - Intel Mobileye https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/ces-2021-mobileye-avs-on-move/?utm_source=morning_brew#gs.qsf1o6 Intel and Mobileye are developing a lidar system-on-chi...
Season 2 Episode 3: We Get A Klue
January 17, 2021 13:16 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThis week we are joined by Vincent Lo, VP of Product Marketing at Klue, a Competitive Enablement company. A 20 year veteran in tech with a wealth of experiences across product, engineering, sales, and marketing, Vincent is an engineer who loves to bring innovative products to market. He’s also a, literally, certified wine geek and spends his down time poking at ways to discover and uncover interesting wines from around the world. Klue, the highest-rated competitive intelligence platform on ...
Season 2 Episode 2: Security awareness driving patterns in SaaS M&A
January 10, 2021 21:21 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBJetBrains denies being involved in SolarWinds hack JetBrains denies reports that is being under investigation and somehow related to the SolarWinds breach. https://www.zdnet.com/article/jetbrains-denies-being-involved-in-solarwinds-hack/ M&A Market Top fundraiser Thoma Bravo bets software’s red-hot run is far from over https://www.pehub.com/top-fundraiser-thoma-bravo-bets-softwares-red-hot-run-is-far-from-over/ The problem of customer references for startups https://findthethread.post...
S2E1: 2021 Predictions
January 01, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBHappy New Year! Lilac is back for our first episode of the new year! Naturally we kick it off with our predictions for the new year. Amazon dominated prediction like everything else lately. Mike predicts Amazon will spin out AWS before it comes under tighter DOJ scrutiny over their practices. This way they can continue to featuring everyones business and continue killing startups and competition. Everyone agreed that Amazon should take a lesson from Microsoft and lose the arrogance. Domin...
Episode 34: 2020 Hindsight
December 24, 2020 10:44 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBIt's a festive miracle: we made it all the way to the end of 2020! We looked back on the major events in 2020 from an enterprise IT perspective. Lilac Schoenbeck joined us once again, and helped us consider the wider implications of remote work. It's not just about a spike in the sales of webcams; there have also been major career impacts that have fallen disproportionately on women. We were all in agreement that WfH during a pandemic is way harder than during normal times, much more so...
Episode 33: AWS re:Invent recap and why AWS is like Brookstone plus the SolarWinds Hack
December 20, 2020 19:17 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBAWS re:Invent AWS Expands Industrial Offerings https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2020/12/04/aws-expands-industrial-offerings AWS re:Invent 2020 – Top Announcements https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reinvent-announcements-2020/ Amazon Monitron https://aws.amazon.com/monitron/ AWS Panorama Appliance https://aws.amazon.com/panorama/appliance/ Other news SolarWinds https://www.csoonline.com/article/3601508/solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-explained-why-organizations-w...
Episode 32: The One About ITSM
December 13, 2020 17:19 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBSpecial guest: Claire Agutter Claire Agutter is a service management trainer, consultant and author. She is the director at ITSM Zone, providing accredited eLearning in ITIL, DevOps, BRM and more, and also at Scopism, publisher of the SIAM Foundation and Professional books. In 2018, 19 and 20 she was recognised by Computer Weekly as one of the 50 most influential women in tech, and in 2017, 18 and 19 she was recognised as an HDI Top 25 Thought Leader. Claire is the host of the popular ITSM ...
Episode 31: Thoughts on AWS Re:Invent the Channel and Microsoft
December 06, 2020 19:29 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBAWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Andy Jassy’s 10 Boldest Statements At AWS re:Invent 2020 https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/andy-jassy-s-10-boldest-statements-at-aws-re-invent-2020/2 AWS Marketplace Now Offers Professional Services https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-marketplace-now-offers-professional-services/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29 reQuinnvent: A reInvent Partner Keynote Rebutt...
Episode 30: IBM buys Instana, Salesforce may be buying Slack, AWS takes down a big chunk of the web (again) — and we are all thankful for Slack and Zoom
November 28, 2020 14:19 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBIBM buys Instana — what does this mean for the monitoring market https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/18/ibm-acquires-instana-for-its-ai-powered-app-performance-monitoring/ Is this a sign of more monitoring deals to come? 451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase has recorded more than 50 'monitoring' purchases, on average, for each year since 2015, which is two-thirds higher than the number of deals in the first half of the decade. Salesforce may be buying Slack https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/tech/s...
Episode 29: How do you use the cloud? Spoiler Alert: Not with Oracle!
November 22, 2020 15:03 - 36 minutes - 34.1 MBHow do people actually use the cloud? Is it still raw infrastructure components, lifted & shifted from on-premises data centers, or are people architecting apps differently in a cloud-native world? Servers > VMs > Containers > Functions The Big Three providers and what differentiates them Who’s the customer: developers or business users Openshift At The Center Of The Hybrid Cloud Storm https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/17/openshift-at-the-center-of-the-hybrid-cloud-storm/ John Chamb...
Episode 28: Triskaidekaphobia
November 15, 2020 15:14 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBHow technical should you be, as a manager or a marketer? At what point is it okay to accept that you’re no longer hands-on? Vice versa, how do you keep up to speed enough to make intelligent decisions? William Gibson quote, from “Johnny Mnemonic” (published as part of “Burning Chrome”): “These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.” Skill stacking (although Dominic didn’t yet know the term when he wrote this post): https://findthethread.post...
Episode 27: What's a CIO to do, balancing recurring costs, IT fragmentation, and the promised benefits of cloud computing?
November 07, 2020 21:56 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBCloud computing is always in the news — but the reason we are talking about it on the podcast is that this feels like a tipping point. Famously, Snowflake had a cloud-only strategy from day one, and that seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Now, others are moving in the same direction, with Atlassian planning to end sale and support of their on-premise server product and go cloud-only: https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-to-end-sale-and-support-of-on-premise-server-products-by...
Lilac Schoenbeck returns for a discussion on RPA and the acceleration of SaaS
November 02, 2020 00:04 - 36 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week we welcome back friend of the show, Lilac Schoenbeck, VP of Go-To-Market Strategy at Rocket Software. This was very timely, since it gave us a chance to discuss Rocket’s new acquisitions: https://www.rocketsoftware.com/news/rocket-software-acquires-connectiq-and-webconnect-activeops-delivering-rpa-mainframe We were especially interested to talk about the RPA side of things, including what increased automation means for the job market. RPA can be thought of as APIs for humans… Also,...
How remote working is eroding culture and why we are starting to write obituaries for hardware companies; looking at you Cisco
October 24, 2020 20:14 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBDominic, Zack and Mike discuss the long term impact working remote is having on the workforce including: Hiring while retaining culture Pay decreases if you move 3 day work week nonsense Rumors at Cisco and why hardware companies are in trouble. Why Mike thinks even if you aren’t a software companies you need to give the illusion you are like Nvidia. Also why channel partner are shifting to managed services as a result of hardware company troubles. Also the shift in MAC to PC. Is BYOD ...
Accelerating enterprise IT transformation with Presidio
October 16, 2020 07:56 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBZack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by John Hanlon and Steven Palmese, respectively the CRO and CIO for Presidio. As the pandemic accelerated companies' journey to the cloud, challenges have emerged, whether migrating existing applications, building new cloud-native applications, or managing both the cloud and on-premise environments. In parallel with these infrastructure questions, digital business transformations have challenged the IT workforce and created demand for new roles a...
Nylas and the API Economy
October 09, 2020 15:25 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBZack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by Matt Harper. Matt is Vice President of Marketing for Nylas, where he leads global marketing efforts for the API-first developer platform that serves customers like Dialpad, Ceridian, Hubspot and Move.com. Nylas most recently closed a Series B round for $25M this past June. Matt joined Nylas from Moogsoft, where he helped lead the company from Series B through Series D rounds, raising nearly $100M and scaling the company’s revenues by over 6x. P...
Back To The Cloud
October 02, 2020 21:25 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBYou’re doing cloud wrong Lift & shift leads to high costs, missed benefits https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/03/cloud_control_costs/ Cloud economists: Corey Quinn, Owen Rogers Embracing cloud requires org changes — decentralisation, delegation; Shadow IT comes out into the open BUT! All of this is not free, will coexist for some time with existing models — which leads to the dreaded bimodal IT See also https://cloudpundit.com/2020/09/18/the-multicloud-gelatinous-cube Stupid Sh*t Vend...
DevOps, NoOps, GitOps, oh my!
September 26, 2020 22:42 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBYou always need operations Is DevOps an oxymoron with the no code movement? Is it time to move on? What about GitOps? Snowflake can also be considered as shadow IT, or conversely, business empowerment through NoOps Dominic’s NoOps blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/not-noops-but-smartops “Said no CEO ever: Things that don't matter in the cloud”: https://speakerdeck.com/caseywest/said-no-ceo-ever-things-that-dont-matter-in-the-cloud Forrester NoOps article: https://go.forre...
The Arm(s) race that Nvidia is winning; Airtable raising money confirming the LowCode movement; 6 months in the challenges of WFH
September 20, 2020 20:50 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBArm & Nvidia The deal discussed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/09/13/its-officialnvidia-acquires-arm-for-40b-to-create-what-could-be-a-computing-juggernaut/ But UK jobs at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/uk-tech-giant-arm-holdings-to-be-sold-to-us-company-nvidia-in-40bn-deal Follow up Low-code / no-code Airtable raises $185M https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/airtable-raises-185m-and-launches-new-low-code-and-automation-features/amp/#click=http...
Automation making IT Infrastructure invisible and the market adapting to citizen developers; including AI
September 12, 2020 21:13 - 38 minutes - 36 MBReference Episode 3 Stupid Sh*t Vendors do: https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Stupid-Sht-Vendors-Do-eedp3s Topic 1: Moving from monitoring to automation. Chef acquired by Progress (https://devops.com/progress-announces-acquisition-of-chef/) Chef to be acquired for $220M by Progress in ‘next chapter’ for Seattle automation tech company (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/chef-acquired-220m-progress-next-chapter-seattle-automation-tech-company/) Progress Q3 Preliminary Results and ...
Veego: using AI to make your Internet better
September 04, 2020 16:47 - 36 minutes - 34 MBVeego (https://www.veego.io) is an Israeli startup aiming to perfect the internet experience of any connected home. They use AI techniques to detect and resolve any possible connectivity issue, from the home router. This week, we were joined by Denis Sirov, one of the founders. We had a good discussion on using technical monitoring data as a training set for AI/ML models, and how this use of AI can actually be privacy-preserving. Recurring topics: 5G, work from home, privacy. Links: Veego...
Can't Get Out Of The Cloud
August 28, 2020 09:58 - 30 minutes - 28.7 MBDominic's back from the beach, where luckily there were no clouds. The question of the week is, can enterprises also avoid the cloud — and should they? We talked about cloud repatriation, and mentioned Lydia Leong's piece on the topic (https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/). Dominic also shamelessly plugged a piece of his own on multi-cloud in 2020 (https://diginomica.com/three-reasons-why-multi-cloud-back-and-here-stay), as well as Charity Major's pi...
The impact of FOMO on IT Strategy and Operations
August 23, 2020 16:18 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWhile Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/. This week they discuss the "fear of missing out" occurring in IT departments everywhere. The pressure imposed by the analysts & marketing to keep up with all other "cool" companies. Casting doubt on this catch up/keep up culture, and the need to differentiate and strive. Are we doing it all wrong? Does IT really ne...
Pressure Cooker: The constant unrelenting pressure on Enterprise IT to keep up and stay ahead
August 16, 2020 19:24 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBWhile Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/) VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/ Together they discuss what exactly does it mean when cloud is moving on premise and the challenges it poses to IT. Why does it matter? And isn't infrastructure just infrastructure? Followed by a discussion on the mounting pressure on IT to keep up, innovate and change at break ne...
iPadOS breaks through on productivity, while The Great Wall between China and the US can lead to multiple internets
August 09, 2020 21:28 - 38 minutes - 36.1 MBThe “Wall” is expanding, no not that wall, The Great Firewall between the US and China! Five reasons why the government’s Clean Network plan will be difficult to enforce. Plus, what are you waiting for, iOS 14 is here and there’s a reason to download! iPadOS 14 introduces new features designed specifically for iPad https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/ipados-14-introduces-new-features-designed-specifically-for-ipad/ Note taking https://findthethread.postach.io/post/note-taking mmhmm ...
If the cloud is on-prem is it still cloud?
August 03, 2020 16:28 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBIn this week's episode: Dominic, Zack and Mike tackle the antitrust hearing from big tech (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple) and the monster earnings announcement the next day. Virtual Conference and the continuing pain. Conferences need to change! Google Next has moved to 9 weeks long — and what is Gartner doing? Cloud, and specifically on premises cloud. When did cloud move on prem, and can it still be cloud if it is on prem? What exactly is the benefit here? https://cloudpundit.com/2020...
The Future's Cloudy
July 24, 2020 16:52 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBIn this week's episode: Slack vs Microsoft, ARM updates, and what it's like to sell and buy enterprise software that lives in the cloud. Links: Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html; Nvidia Eyes Biggest-Ever Chip Deal in Pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/softbank-s-chip-company-arm-is-said-to-attract-nvidia-interest; Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company...
Open Wide
July 20, 2020 15:47 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBNews: Zoom and Microsoft announce all-in-one devices designed for home-office conference calls Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/zoom-introduces-all-in-one-home-communications-appliance-for-599/ Microsoft Teams smart displays make it easier to work from home https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-teams-smart-displays-make-it-easier-to-work-from-home-09628391/ We compared these to Cisco's existing all-in-one devices: https://w...
Building A Legacy
July 13, 2020 16:18 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MBA Double-Digit Episode Spectacular! For Episode 10 (or should that be Episode X?), we invited a very special guest: Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/). We discussed remote events briefly, riffing off Dominic's recent blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/remote-events After that, we had a wide-ranging discussion about legacy technology, how come "legacy" is a bad word in the technology industry — but not in the outside world, how technologies become legacy, a...
Culture Eats Covid For Breakfast
July 04, 2020 14:16 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MBFollow-up from last week: Apple Silicon Benchmarks: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/developers-leak-benchmarks-from-the-apple-silicon-mac-transition-kit/ Low-code / no-code platform wars: Amazon Honeycode: https://youtu.be/vMR2KOJUEr8 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-honeycode-build-web-mobile-apps-without-writing-code/ The Corey Quinn quote I mentioned was from issue #168 of his newsletter, which is not yet online but will be linked from here when it is: http...
StrongARMed Into The Cloud
June 27, 2020 17:56 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBZack, Mike, and Dominic talk about ethics in AI, Macs moving to ARM CPUs, and what this might mean in the cloud. Links: Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm ARM Mac Impact On Intel Coal-free first for electricity in Great Britain An Unexpected Holiday
Welcome To The Network Of Tomorrow
June 19, 2020 17:29 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBZack, Mike, and Dominic talk about Hey.com versus Apple, the latest Zoom news, and then get into the meat of 5G, SD-WAN, and the future of networking.
What happened to the developers?
June 12, 2020 21:45 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBWhat happened to the developers? Wait, you’re a developer? Everyone’s a developer! Zack, Mike, and Dominic discuss citizen developers, low-code/no-code, shadow IT, and more. Links: That Lehman Brothers spreadsheet story My newsletter story in full
The Robots Are Coming!
June 05, 2020 15:03 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBMike, Zack, and Dominic talk robots — both the physical kind and software bots — and more importantly, what they mean for the IT industry and for society in general.
How The Magic Happens
May 31, 2020 16:09 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBZack and Dominic pull back the curtain and show Mike some of the sales-side perspective on closing deals. It turns out, reputation matters — a lot, and the best way to build and keep a good reputation is to focus on your customer's business. That blog post about the economics of booth babes: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/babe-got-talent
Stupid Sh*t Vendors Do
May 22, 2020 16:27 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBDominic and Zack interview Mike about what it's like to be on the receiving end of all those sales calls. The talk gets spicy, names are named, dirty tricks are shared… Tune in to hear the whole story!
Working From Home
May 15, 2020 15:20 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBIn Episode Two, Dominic, Mike, and Zack talk about what it's like to work from home, and some of the longer-term implications of that switch. Does this mean SD-WAN and VDI are going to have the day? Does the corporate network edge now reach into employee's homes, and does that mean surveillance is okay? What about onboarding, especially for interns or people starting their first job in this climate? And how come we aren't hearing more about VR? Dominic's post about remote internships: htt...