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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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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