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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . 

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The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions


Aaron and Brian have many, many, many thoughts on the tech that shaped 2017, and make some predictions about 2018 and beyond.

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Show Notes
    Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Biggest Tech M&A of 2017 and VC Funding is down
  • Big Mergers: Amazon+Whole Foods; CVS+Aetna; Intel+Mobileye; AT&T+Time Warner; Disney+21st Century Fox

    2017 Trends
  • Storage companies are becoming HCI companies (thoughts on owning a server supply chain vs. software defined vs. commodity hardware)
  • Containers are becoming more mainstream - but so many misleading “surveys”
  • Nobody has a clear advantage in “hybrid cloud” architectures
  • Public cloud is a portfolio game and data acquisition game, not a cost reduction game
  • Building new applications is still a small % of corporate applications
  • There’s such a big gap between cloud releases and non-cloud releases (timeframes, updates, informing the market, etc.)

    2018 Cloudcast Areas of Interest
  • What happened to DevOps? Is it now in Phase 2 as “SRE”, or is it unobtainable?
  • What’s happening in China? How will it impact the rest of the Global markets?
  • Will AI & ML become tangible to non-Data Scientists? What’s the Fantasy Football of AI & ML, for business?
  • Where and how will voice technologies (Alexa, Google Home, etc.) fit in long term?
  • How will we track the Public Cloud tipping point?
  • What is Serverless most disruptive to, or is it additive to app-dev market size?
  • Should we track “Serverless” by the ServerlessConf or AWS events?
  • Should we be following “edge computing”? What are the core focus areas?

    2018 Predictions
  • Continued decline of the middleman in all industries
  • Awareness of Cloud Computing “costs” becomes more mainstream
  • Does Security even matter anymore? What bigger events can happen?
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