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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