The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions

Show Notes
Mergers and AcquisitionsBiggest Tech M&A of 2017 and VC Funding is downBig Mergers: Amazon+Whole Foods; CVS+Aetna; Intel+Mobileye; AT&T+Time Warner; Disney+21st Century Fox
2017 TrendsStorage 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” architecturesPublic cloud is a portfolio game and data acquisition game, not a cost reduction gameBuilding new applications is still a small % of corporate applicationsThere’s such a big gap between cloud releases and non-cloud releases (timeframes, updates, informing the market, etc.)
2018 Cloudcast Areas of InterestWhat 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 PredictionsContinued decline of the middleman in all industriesAwareness of Cloud Computing “costs” becomes more mainstreamDoes Security even matter anymore? What bigger events can happen?