The Cloudcast #300 - The Good, the Bad and the Boring

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - We’re done nearly 7 days of shows (~160hrs), had 30 companies acquired, and over 3M+ listens. Thank you to everyone that listens and tells a friend. Rate the show on iTunes!

Topic 2 - Looking back at the last 6+ years, what has surprised you the most or been the most expected? Pace of change? Rise of public cloud?

• 2011 - AWS at ~$250M/qtr; 2017 - AWS at $3.66B/qtr
• The Clouderati crowd
• OpenStack / Foundations
• Lack of Mega Mergers (“EMC Federation” model?)
• No one really talks IaaS, Paas, SaaS anymore
• All the $1 Billion investments in cloud…
• AWS grew to support Amazon, Google Cloud is spin off and not core to growth
• Kubernetes as the “final architecture” / or is it serverless...

Topic 3 - Follow the money - How has VC funding been tracking? What about exits?

Topic 5 - The divide between those on the cloud bandwagon (e.g. meetups, AWS/Serverless/CNCF events) and those not (e.g. Interop) seems to be growing. The revenues don’t exactly track this, but how do you see the next 3-5 years of the industry playing out for people in the industry?

Topic 6- Where are we thinking about going with the show? AI, Business-Centric SaaS Apps, Multi-Cloud realities (or horrors)

Topic 7- Let’s end on something boring. There has been some talk about the need to make some element of technology boring (e.g. infrastructure). Do you think that’s possible in the competitive technology markets? We’ve seen on smartphones, virtualization, etc.