S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc Apocalypse

S3E17: Podcast's Gone Wild

Brian 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/ [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, down from $974M YoY Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html [https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html] Amazon's [https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/AMZN] cloud unit grew 36.5% year over year in the first quarter, a bit faster than analysts projected. Brian Olsavsky (CFO) - “We saw another strong quarter of innovation and customer engagement in the AWS segment, where net sales were $18.4 billion in Q1, up 37% year over year and now represent an annualized sales run rate of nearly $74 billion.” “I mean, we're continuing to see what the backlog is, right? It's the increase of AWS customers making long-term commitments for AWS. At the March period ended, we had $88.9 billion balance for that. So that's up about 68% year over year. And the weighted average remaining kind of life term for those is 3.8 years.” AWS Wins Out Over Microsoft For $10B NSA Cloud Contract https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-wins-out-over-microsoft-for-10b-nsa-cloud-contract [https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-wins-out-over-microsoft-for-10b-nsa-cloud-contract] Microsoft’s Cloud Growth Propels Quarterly Sales, Earnings https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/microsoft-cloud-growth-propels-higher-quarterly-sales-earnings [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/microsoft-cloud-growth-propels-higher-quarterly-sales-earnings] Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 32% YoY to $23.4B in Q3, including $19.1B from Intelligent Cloud, up 26% YoY, and from Azure and other cloud services, up 46% YoY MSFT Earnings Transcript Microsoft (MSFT) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool [https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/04/26/microsoft-msft-q3-2022-earnings-call-transcript/] Satya Nadella - “This quarter, we helped more customers than ever, simplifying and accelerating their cloud migrations. And it's still early days.” & “As a percentage of GDP, tech spend is, on a secular basis, by the end of the decade, going to double.” Satya continuously doubles down on “Data & AI” - “Data and AI for sure. I mean, the thing that I find really to be something that I think is a long run is going to probably be one of the bigger drivers of our growth and differentiation is our data fabric because we're the only guys who have a complete data fabric from the operational store, that's fully integrated into an analytics engine, that's fully integrated into governance.” Follow the show on Twitter@Roll4Enterprise [https://twitter.com/Roll4Enterprise]or on ourLinkedIn page [https://www.linkedin.com/company/roll-for-enterprise/]. Theme music by Renato Podestà [http://www.renatopodesta.com/]. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

S3E16: Why have searches for GitOps doubled in the past year?

GitOps https://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitops [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 drivers of accelerating IaC growth. Hyperautomation https://explodingtopics.com/topic/hyperautomation [https://explodingtopics.com/topic/hyperautomation] Hyperautomation is the use of technologies to scale the automation of processes within an organization. Hyperautomation is part of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Technology meta trend. According to Gartner, 80% of finance executives have made plans to implement RPA within their organization. And Deloitte estimates that 78% of the companies that have already implemented RPA plan to significantly increase investment in this area in the next three years. ServiceNow adds new RPA capabilities with San Diego release https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/23/servicenow-adds-new-rpa-capabilities-with-san-diego-release/ [https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/23/servicenow-adds-new-rpa-capabilities-with-san-diego-release/] Follow the show on Twitter@Roll4Enterprise [https://twitter.com/Roll4Enterprise]or on ourLinkedIn page [https://www.linkedin.com/company/roll-for-enterprise/]. Theme music by Renato Podestà [http://www.renatopodesta.com/]. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

S3E15: Infrastructure as Code is dead, Cloud is the new VMWare, and IT Operations is forever changed

Foundry — Cloud computing study 2022 https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/ [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 [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/ [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-contracts-that-sideline-rivals [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/microsoft-customers-decry-cloud-contracts-that-sideline-rivals] Atlassian cloud outage could take days to resolve https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252515706/Atlassian-cloud-outage-could-take-days-to-resolve [https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252515706/Atlassian-cloud-outage-could-take-days-to-resolve] https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1513727021087543300 [https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1513727021087543300?s=21&t=MP-dOEXjNtW5la6x5IEyLg] https://twitter.com/atlassian/status/1513913041540333569 [https://twitter.com/atlassian/status/1513913041540333569?s=21&t=o3s2ZayhYR6IHFJb16csSw] Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 [https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022] Mike wecrashed: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wecrashed/umc.cmc.6qw605uv2rwbzutk2p2fsgvq9 [https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wecrashed/umc.cmc.6qw605uv2rwbzutk2p2fsgvq9] Follow the show on Twitter@Roll4Enterprise [https://twitter.com/Roll4Enterprise]or on ourLinkedIn page [https://www.linkedin.com/company/roll-for-enterprise/]. Theme music by Renato Podestà [http://www.renatopodesta.com/]. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

S3E14: People In Three Dimensions

Back to (in-person) work Big tech conferences aren’t coming back https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-events [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 [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/ [https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-much-water-do-dishwashers-use/] Any other news Microsoft Azure to build Arm servers with chips from Ampere https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampere [https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampere] IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/ [https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/?td=rt-3a] Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 [https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022] Follow the show on Twitter@Roll4Enterprise [https://twitter.com/Roll4Enterprise]or on ourLinkedIn page [https://www.linkedin.com/company/roll-for-enterprise/]. Theme music by Renato Podestà [http://www.renatopodesta.com/]. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc Apocalypse

Remote meetings are big money HP Inc. to Acquire Poly [https://press.hp.com/us/en/press-releases/2022/hp-inc-to-acquire-poly.html] 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/ [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 [https://cloudpundit.com/2022/03/28/cloud-self-service-doesnt-need-to-invite-the-orc-apocalypse/] Shadow IT discourse is back, baby! As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/ [https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/] Large-scale npm attack targets Azure developers with malicious packages https://jfrog.com/blog/large-scale-npm-attack-targets-azure-developers-with-malicious-packages/ [https://jfrog.com/blog/large-scale-npm-attack-targets-azure-developers-with-malicious-packages/] Google Docs corner New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-calendar-now-lets-paid-users-create-a-booking-page-website/ [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-calendar-now-lets-paid-users-create-a-booking-page-website/] Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/compose-with-markdown-in-google-docs-on.html [https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/compose-with-markdown-in-google-docs-on.html] Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 [https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022] Macs Fan Control https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control [https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control] Lilac How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life [https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life] Follow the show on Twitter@Roll4Enterprise [https://twitter.com/Roll4Enterprise]or on ourLinkedIn page [https://www.linkedin.com/company/roll-for-enterprise/]. Theme music by Renato Podestà [http://www.renatopodesta.com/]. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!