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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/ 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 Amazon's 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 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 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 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 or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

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 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/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Foundry — Cloud computing study 2022 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 Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection 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 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/atlassian/status/1513913041540333569 Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 Mike wecrashed: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wecrashed/umc.cmc.6qw605uv2rwbzutk2p2fsgvq9 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Back to (in-person) work Big tech conferences aren't coming back 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 Using your dishwasher is more Earth-friendly. Here's why. 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 IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/ Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Remote meetings are big money HP Inc. to Acquire Poly 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/ How much of IT should be self-serve? Cloud self-service doesn't need to invite the orc apocalypse | CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing 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/ 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/ Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web 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 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 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Okta popped Original tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690 Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010 Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/ FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA): https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/ Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60864283 Japan's Self-Defense Forces launch new cyberdefense unit: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/17/national/sdf-cyberdefense-unit/ Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/ Zooming into the Metaverse Zoom's new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990983/zoom-virtual-avatars-animal-face-replacement Of course many of us did this with Snap Camera for a couple of weeks and then forgot all about it: https://snapcamera.snapchat.com 'I'm not a cat': Video shows lawyer can't turn off kitten filter during Zoom court appearance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-m-not-cat-video-shows-lawyer-can-t-turn-n1257168 The Thing With Zoom: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom GIF inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/24/stephen-wilhite-gif-inventor-dies Tune in for an *exciting* discussion about enterprise sales & pricing next week! Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprise https://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase - Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/ - Remote events are still with us Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully online https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981868/google-i-o-2022-may-11th-12th-online-virtual Performance & Security - Ask Me Anything Panel from MongoDB.local London 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgVLgfTB-E - Partnering with cloud providers MongoDB Expands Global Collaboration with AWS https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-expands-global-collaboration-with-aws AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance' https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance- Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/snowflake-cfo-defends-strategy-attacks-google-amid-stock-rout - Maybe you don't want that Apple Studio Display after all Daring Fireball Apple Studio Display — problems with the webcam https://daringfireball.net/2022/03/the_apple_studio_display Opal camera — DSLR quality on a webcam https://opalcamera.com - Customer Experience Personalisation and how it breaks Help, I'm Being Personalised! https://findthethread.postach.io/post/help-i-m-being-personalised - Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 Book: The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-scalzi/the-kaiju-preservation-society/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

NVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/ Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/google-s-mandiant-acquisition-brings-cybersecurity-automation-to-forefront Amazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buyback https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811399-amazon-jumps-10-on-20-for-1-share-split-10-billion-buyback?lctg=60c1e2e9dba83e59148a0f62&mailingid=26973903&messageid=wall_street_breakfast&serial=26973903.883067&userid=50571090&utm_campaign=WSB%203_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&utm_term=wall_street_breakfast https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1501688392915898370 Everything Apple Announced Today in Just Over Seven Minutes https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/08/march-2022-apple-event-everything-announced/ S&P Global Acquires 451 Research https://www.spglobal.com/en/press/press-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc Lydia Leong, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner https://twitter.com/cloudpundit Recommendations Lilac https://www.askamanager.org/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Ukrainian tech companies https://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companies Grammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfits People around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check in https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-airbnb-donations-cec/index.html Nvidia Confirms Company Data Was Stolen in Hack https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-confirms-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/nvidia-hackers-leak-ransomware/ DARVO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO $50/month to plug a mystery box into your home network: https://twitter.com/jackrhysider/status/1498780187776933888 The Register survey on zero-trust https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/reg_reader_survey_zero_trust_results/ EU, US close to replacing defunct Privacy Shield II https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/02/new_hope_for_privacy_shield/ A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html Apple “Peek Performance” event https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-event Recommendations Dominic Notes From The Burning Age, by Claire North https://text.npr.org/1018496548 Zack Wordle - https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Worldle - https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Airportle - https://airportle.scottscheapflights.com Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Ukraine Crisis Ambulance-chasing by security marketers — just don't Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russia https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558 Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move In https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disturbing-mass-text-operation-terrorizes-ukraine-as-russian-troops-move-in/ar-AAUdejJ Cyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websites https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/cyberattack-hits-ukrainian-banks-and-government-websites.html https://twitter.com/aneel/status/1496826799162077189 The Associated Press tried to sell an NFT of migrants adrift at sea https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-24-1 Multi-cloud Europe proposes rules for fair access to connected device data https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/23/eu-data-act/ Interoperable Friendship https://findthethread.postach.io/post/interoperable-friendship Kyndryl, AWS Sign Deal With Aim To Train 10,000 Workers By Year's End https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/kyndryl-aws-sign-deal-with-aim-to-train-10-000-workers-by-year-s-end AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance' https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance- Recommendations Dominic Bone-conduction headphones: (After)Shokz Aeropex / Openrun https://shokz.com/products/openrun Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Forbes — Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-world-could-have-gone-nuclear/ Citrix To Be Acquired, Taken Private And Merged With Tibco In $16.5B Deal - https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/citrix-to-be-acquired-taken-private-and-merged-with-tibco-in-16-5-billion-deal Weighted ACV as more useful SaaS metric - https://whoisnnamdi.com/weighted-acv/ Intel plans - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/18/intel_gelsinger_plan/ Intel — Powering the Metaverse- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/powering-metaverse.html Salesforce Establishes Sustainability as a Core Company Value; Launches Net Zero Cloud 2.0 Globally- https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/sustainability-core-value/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Dominic, Lilac, and Zack chat to Jon Collins of Gigaom about whether "cloud" is still a useful category, who buys enterprise IT these days, and what that means for land & expand strategies. Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Amazon Q4: AWS' Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71B https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71b https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504 https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1488248066389983232 https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1489350978642100230 ⬆️ 20B Jeff Bezos ⬇️ 30B Mark Zuckerberg Alphabet Q4 Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Jumps 45 Percent https://www.crn.com/alphabet-q4-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-jumps-45-percent https://twitter.com/munster_gene/status/1488646948835905536 https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021_Q4_Earnings_Transcript.pdf (page 15) The Apple effect. Is Facebook/Meta in trouble? Slowing sales: Meta revenue hit $33.7B in the last quarter but its guidance for Q1 2022 ($27-$29B) was below expectations The Apple effect: New changes to iPhone's privacy policy will cost Facebook's ad business an estimated $10B this year High-value users (e.g., US coastal) are leaving Facebook and going to TikTok M&A options are off the table due to antitrust scrutiny Founders are choosing not to work at Meta, which means it can't build new products AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ai-insurance-company-faces-class-action-7991163/ Recommendations Dominic Vinegar - Tube Cleaner https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderates https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.html Nvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisition https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-preparing-abandon-acquisition-arm-bloomberg-news-2022-01-25/ Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html Calendly discourse https://twitter.com/lessin/status/1486477359717187589 https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1486747239544459265 https://twitter.com/calendly/status/1486780920048672772 Peloton to halt production of its Bikes, treadmills as demand wanes https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/peloton-to-pause-production-of-its-bikes-treadmills-as-demand-wanes.html Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Microsoft buys Activision for $69B (nice) https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.html Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/18/22889342/microsoft-activision-antitrust-games-streaming-gamepass 3 billion gamers — sure, if you count Candy Crush etc, but how many of those are playing Call of Duty? Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-quietly-preparing-to-enter-the-metaverse.html But the video everyone has seen is old: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/5/22868323/walmart-metaverse-shopping-video-viral-old Is Google taking another run at AR, not quite a decade after Google Glass? https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22892152/google-project-iris-ar-headset-2024 ========= US airports block rollout of 5G, one day before launch AT&T and Verizon limit 5G service near US airports after carriers' outcry https://www.ft.com/content/e1f1d59f-2e9f-4f23-a80a-25dcc0274513 Only happening in US because of different frequencies and higher power levels But why did the issue come to light so late? Opinion | The FAA's 5G freakout raises a big red flag — about its competence https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/18/faa-5g-wireless-freakout-raises-red-flag/ Boeing Takes Hit as Its 777, 787 Planes Appear Susceptible to 5G Network https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/boeing-takes-hit-as-its-777-787-planes-appear-susceptible-to-5g-network/ar-AASW0GM ========= Quick News ========= The FCC proposes new data breach rules for phone companies https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22882281/fcc-telecom-data-breach-notification-rules-proposal-commission-seats ========= Italians continue to prefer real coffee https://www.italy24news.com/local/347225.html Lol: Starbucks closes two locations in Milan because they were so unprofitable. Six locations remain. ========= Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Lilac and Dominic talk to Doug Johnson about the problem of data and what to do with it. What's the data problem? How do we think about it in companies? What's the opportunity … can we dream about what we could do with better handle on enterprise data Open Source and Security https://www.protocol.com/open-source-security-white-house-2656216576 https://www.theverge.com/platform/2022/1/13/22882176/google-government-action-protect-open-source-software-funding-security https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/ Doug is a 25-year veteran building teams and technology products. His experiences span startups as well over 15 years in enterprise product management with 17 years in the low code tooling space. Doug is a musician, having toured as a section violinist with artists like Sarah Brightman (“Phantom of the Opera”), Diana Ross, Moody Blues, and Ray Charles. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasjohnson/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictions Employment changes, new wave of freelancing Fractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-one https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Part-Time-CTO-Salary vs https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Chief-Technology-Officer-Salary Healthcare impacts More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation: https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality Amazon considers changing how it distributes employee stock options to stem exodus of top talent: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-stock-compensation-monthly-vesting-l7-top-employees-2022-1 Season 2 Episode 3: We Get A Klue : https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Season-2-Episode-3-We-Get-A-Klue-ep331n Low-code/no-code Report Electric Capital Developer Report (2021) https://medium.com/electric-capital/electric-capital-developer-report-2021-f37874efea6d https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1478776674648944641?s=20 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Themes of the year that was: - Semiconductor shortages and architecture turnover - Outages and incidents - Security in general (attacks, ransomware, etc) - No-code/Low-Code and the shifting definition of architects - Mental health and the change in employment landscapes - The Great Resignation - The year the employees took the power back The book Dominic referred to is “Feersum Endjinn” by Iain M Banks, first published in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feersum_Endjinn Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Patch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that's being exploited https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/ List of software impacted by log4j https://github.com/cisagov/log4j-affected-db/blob/develop/README.md The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it? https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/17/1042692/log4j-internet-open-source-hacking/ Another AWS Outage This time it's not us-east-1! https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/amazon-owned-twitch-down-many-users-2021-12-15/ Benedict Evans' year-end presentation https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations Our takeaways: Web3: “All the old problems, in exciting new ways” VR/AR: “The technology can always get better… but that doesn't guarantee universal appeal” Mainframe installed capacity still growing Lessons from the past: “who made more from the deployment of cars, and who made more from car-commerce - Detroit, or retailers?” Dominic was thinking of Mary Meeker's monster “Internet Trends” presentations; we look forward to being completely intimidated by the scale of the 2021 edition when it drops Recommendations Dominic Loïc Suberville's “Universal Language” shorts: https://youtube.com/channel/UCywGsTdh_qqZUYmA2Gro2CA Lilac Askamanager.org Mike How to Resolve Duplicate Outlook for iOS Contacts https://office365itpros.com/2020/11/05/resolve-duplicate-outlook-ios-contacts/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà (who likes the Touch Bar). Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

AWS us-east-1 outage (again) https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-now https://deadline.com/2021/12/amazon-web-services-outage-unplugs-netflix-disney-and-many-websites-in-parts-of-u-s-1234886348/ AWS post-mortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/ Quill shutdown https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/twitter-acquires-quill-a-would-be-slack-rival-team-will-work-on-dms-as-quill-shuts-down/ https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-quill-acquisition https://twitter.com/sdw/status/1468289633964290049 Slack investor Index Ventures backs Slack competitor Quill https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/slack-investor-index-ventures-backs-slack-competitor-quill/ Swiss suicide pod: https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/controversial-suicide-pod-that-kills-peacefully-gets-go-ahead-in-switzerland/ Quick News Touch Bar post mortem review Recommendations Dominic Vinegar https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 Un-break YouTube Also! Merry Mixmas http://www.djriko.com Zack Govee Flow Pro LED Smart Light Bars https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KXPRJ5D?maas=maas_adg_2148198443AE66955CA03BDDC20F78D0_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ AWS re:Invent Keynotes https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/track/?trackID=E930FDEA03498D13B5CDACA0833D5A2 F.T.C. Sues to Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Arm https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/technology/ftc-nvidia-arm-deal.html UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Have you tried WebEx lately? Whither Skype? Did Zoom depend too much on growth-hacking dirty tricks? https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom Zoom loses Five9 while WebEx extends gap with Contact Center capabilities https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/contact-center/webex-contact-center/index.html Nvidia's on a Roll - Nvidia's just beginning TinyML Global shipments of TinyML chipsets are expected to reach 2.5 billion units by 2030, representing a 164x increase from 2020. https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/tinyml TinyML solution can decrease the size of the deep learning algorithms by 98% while decreasing accuracy by only 1%. Ford and GM announce plans to develop chips amid ongoing semiconductor shortage https://www.techspot.com/news/92299-ford-gm-announce-plans-develop-chips-amid-ongoing.html No-Code/Low Code Update Taplink is a tool used to quickly create mobile-friendly no-code websites. (Again - everyone is IT) Rebranding of IT - This is relative of the role in organizations https://www.idgconnect.com/article/3576598/the-changing-name-and-face-of-enterprise-it.html Recommendations Dominic Belkin Soundform Connect Zack Like drawing on real paper for your iPad https://paperlike.com/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

MongoDB.local London https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Recommendations Dominic People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life. Mike The Tim Ferriss Show - Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795?i=1000540043607 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Facebook goes Meta https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/ Microsoft wants to beat Meta at its own game https://thehustle.co/11042021-microsoft-meta/ Tinder also goes meta, with NFTs https://social.techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/match-group-details-plans-for-a-dating-metaverse-tinders-virtual-goods-based-economy/ A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence Quick News Low-code/no-code: Botmock acquired by Walmart https://www.botmock.com/blog/walmart-to-acquire-botmock-technology Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon 50% discount code: DominicWellington50 Mike New Oura Ring Coming - $50 discount link: https://ablink.m.ouraring.com/ls/click?upn=N8tmOVmhlLmN-2BvzIQBg5G3IT8A2NTQkRZyCa1tZK-2F0qLMl0-2BqVeEIUKxyjaHEX33kBut-2FVEdMXeCL6Jk8oZcyDytT8r-2FRa4-2Bs8fI29Ubw-2B2DJhSeFUyUMpl0Al58prLQtceo5aMW8QvmF14i8dzdO-2FKnp20cbozCr17BNPGZwcUOCMz620zcTNt1SdhXkc7Mw0xZFB67exKv7hVbb6kdFQ-3D-3DZkCm_Id0GDeWFgkDhRsu8fkH4t9bRZZJLAwwoMgGS5MPZjgaEy4SkX295IFfN0mQk6nuK1Wh5bhkOsvNfCPIvmsi37YyX24kxFacmiFR21ZYFNTj7lZvOWn06rxSJQidVMXKktATiJjCM-2Ba9XB0o-2FL2NiiwgT-2BCPI63U7ZUCbC31M0iDS7vl5HIwOjtpQsJiHcv75D5p4MHyMQM7O-2BHVzAeycjuCc-2FKlzcmYHrukT-2Fi3-2BThazwDEq1-2FXN3HnkJpovSjM0FNOyo3RLLLdzGftR4atNQhGP4bg-2FOC6UcLUJTUUMfm5mYOHQuE9yXGMWyDvjksy4-2Fs35tUgEc9aeDRcc-2FBK2pCg-2FbgD1HZj4fXr6gQBfMcC8p1-2BvMJ7VhJS2Oe5m081I-2FdLr3OxFfg5gaxwnfuw7SmWS01W-2Bfl2bsJLj0IVkp26BA-2BjLEJik2jrqUL2dAwDAD0bxa9BXT85gSIKodMzjFq44nyAXy7LUpmgKNNWs27z2qnryjDQwiMuRECE2VtAjy4CB4Ij1gdxHJ5FwLytxNNPxE-2F2-2FcY31rB25ZQKofZNwod16TJeHMIk928Ik0z-2FcvnhXm1VK1R9yb03EX0hJ7l9v7uwKPgwzOUI-2FCUubgoSF8rhsI85MX-2FyV8OzzV-2FQMn3SjiOWwThR0jrg3ugq25A-3D-3D Zack Drone racing league https://thedroneracingleague.com Lilac People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Google Next '21 https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next Google Cloud Removes Old Guard - Will it be enough? Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.html Google Cloud cuts its marketplace revenue shares from 20% to 3% https://cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2021/sep/29/google-cloud-cuts-its-marketplace-revenue-shares-from-20-to-3/ Upcoming event we talked about: AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Microsoft Ignite https://myignite.microsoft.com/home Apple Event - October 18,2021 https://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2021/?useASL=true Apple Announcement Apple is desperate for you to adopt Siri….so much so they are reducing Apple Music if you use Siri https://www.smh.com.au/technology/with-voice-plan-apple-pays-you-to-use-only-siri-for-music-20211019-p591a5.html New MacBooks — and no new standalone display Apple Pro Display XDR https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/ Apple Pro Stand https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon 50% discount code: DominicWellington50 Mike Microsoft Ignite https://myignite.microsoft.com/home AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Our top 5 technologies we wish never were: Bitnet VDI “Modern” Web front-end stack https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160 Web apps (Google Docs in primis) USB 3.0 spec 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon 50% discount code: DominicWellington50 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Facebook outage, Twitch leak Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ Lost server https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ Twitch source code and payout data leaks https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/twitch_data_leak/ Also blamed on config error Best comment: “It's complex systems all the way down; even the turtles are complex systems.” https://twitter.com/swagitda_/status/1445376680684572678 NPM outage npm Status - Service outage Verica Open Incident Database https://www.thevoid.community/ Low-code/no-code Databricks Acquires Low-code/No-code Company to Expand its Lakehouse Platform to Citizen Data Scientists https://databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-acquires-low-code-no-code-company-to-expand-its-lakehouse-platform-to-citizen-data-scientists Get Started in No-Code App Development with Unqork and MongoDB | MongoDB Quick News Cisco raising prices due to supply chain challenges https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/ciscos_base_price_to_increase/ That Zoom/five9 tie-up we discussed back in episode 30? It's not happening, in large part because it was to have been an all-stock offer, and Zoom's stock is worth 23% less than it was when the deal was agreed. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/30/zoom-and-five9-agree-to-terminate-acquisition-plan.html https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E30-Apology-Podcast-e14uqn4/a-a672hvb Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon 50% discount code: DominicWellington50 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Sorry for making some of our listeners feel old, because their “I feel old now” references are twenty years earlier than Nevermind! Here's what we talked about this week: How IBM lost the cloud https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud Cloudflare Announces R2 Storage; Rapid and Reliable S3-Compatible Object Storage Designed for the Edge https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/press-releases/2021/cloudflare-announces-r2-storage/ EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/23/22626723/eu-commission-universal-charger-usb-c-micro-lightning-connector-smartphones Positive example of standard: RJ-11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon 50% discount code: DominicWellington50 Lilac Rocket customer conference, EVOLVE 21 https://www.rocketsoftware.com/events/evolve21 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

30 years since Nevermind! Listening guide: https://www.nme.com/features/nirvanas-nevermind-at-30-a-track-by-track-guide-dave-grohl-st-vincent-lorde-3048697 30th anniversary reissue: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/ The kids don't get filesystems: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z Dinosaurs evolving — including why email is better at email than Slack can ever be: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/dinosaurs-evolving The college mindset list: http://themindsetlist.com/2017/08/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2021/ Gen-X vs Millennials: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CTS15PcDK-H/ Epikfail Epikfail explainer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/worst-i-ve-seen-in-20-years-how-the-epik-hack-reveals-every-secret-the-far-right-tried-to-hide/ar-AAOw25G Programming is hard: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks Recommendations Lilac Spotify — listening together Dominic Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell https://www.bookbub.com/books/light-chaser-by-peter-f-hamilton-and-gareth-l-powell Mike This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/1635576059 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

A look back at IT and technology in the 90s and the evolution that led us to today. Timeline of Computer History 1993 https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1993/ 1995 https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1995/ The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game) Drug Wars (video game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game) Silicon graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Dominic, Zack and Mike are together again discussing how conferences which should have been in person have now fallen off again. Companies are becoming non-committal to return to work and business travel is looking to be forever changed. They also touch on Ray Ban's new Facebook glasses, Amazon's new TV and the upcoming Apple event. Will the Apple Event shed light on the semi conductor supply chain issues? Facebook Ray-Ban https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1436300410810257408 ‘Forever Changed': CEOs Are Dooming Business Travel — Maybe for Good https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-31/will-business-travel-come-back-data-show-air-hotel-travel-forever-changed Satya Nadella: Companies are 'short-sighted' if they force employees back to office now https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/microsoft-ceo-says-companies-should-use-data-to-determine-when-employees-return-to-work.html Zoom and Teams https://twitter.com/juanmicrosoft/status/1436071323030151170 Remote work https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/workers-moonlighting-two-jobs-work-from-home Apple Event Announced: 'California Streaming' on September 14 With iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 Expected https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/07/apple-september-14-event/ Amazon TV Amazon starts building its own televisions with the Fire TV Omni Series https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/amazon-fire-tv-omni-series-announced/ Opal C1: The first professional webcam https://opalcamera.com Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

In which Mike considers paying for some software, Lilac solves all of Enterprise IT's problems, and all four hosts are re-united once again. Enterprise software financials How about that monster H round — yes, H — from Databricks? https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/ Meanwhile Docker is hoping to get paid by desktop users… https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/ …and we debate digital transformation, prompted by Benedict Evans. https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformation Security — It's still hard If you're a user of Microsoft's Cosmos DB, you definitely want to check up on this Chaos DB vulnerability. https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/ And what does this mean for cloud delivery models more generally? Recommendations Dominic Generalising Wildly | Find the thread Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

The Great Resignation: Why Employees Don't Want To Go Back To The Office A Microsoft survey of more than 30,000 global workers showed that 41% of workers were considering quitting or changing professions this year, and a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland showed 38% of those surveyed planned to quit in the next six months to a year. In the US alone, April saw more than four million people quit their jobs, according to a summary from the Department of Labor – the biggest spike on record. https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2021/07/28/the-great-resignation-why-employees-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-office/?sh=1f2702b02000 https://www.gallup.com/workplace/351545/great-resignation-really-great-discontent.aspx https://www.forbes.com/sites/randyillig/2021/08/24/the-great-resignation-in-sales-is-real-heres-what-leaders-can-do-to-stem-it/?sh=44342e651558 The Great Resignation In Sales Is Real: Here's What Leaders Can Do To Stem It (forbes.com) https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210629-the-great-resignation-how-employers-drove-workers-to-quit. $14.7 Billion Five9 Acquisition Aims To Revive Zoom's Growth https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2021/07/19/147-billion-five9-acquisition-aims-to-revive-zooms-growth/?sh=29da22d32e8b Mike also calls out, “The war for the living room.” “The living room is becoming the office, and the office is becoming the living room. It's all merging into our home space.” Netflix joined the foray with a gaming announcement. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Intel CEO flashes cash, calling company a 'willing buyer' in semiconductor industry https://www.windowscentral.com/intel-ceo-flashes-cash-calling-company-willing-buyer NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2022 https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2022 Nvidia beats earnings expectations, but cryptocurrency chip sales falter https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q2-2022.html Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/02/nvidia-is-tracking-more-than-8500-ai-startups-with-60b-in-funding/ Nvidia admits bid for Arm likely to stretch beyond 18-month deal timeframe https://www.ft.com/content/3758929d-66f0-4095-94f3-ea62b92f9480 Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/microsoft-will-raise-office-365-business-subscription-prices-in-2022.html Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Accenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threats https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/accenture-confirms-hack-after-lockbit-ransomware-data-leak-threats/ Employees may need to keep up ‘the pretense of working' as automation spreads, says A.I. expert Kai-Fu Lee https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/ai-automation-talent-ethics-bias-kaifu-lee/ FedEx Deploys new AI-Robotics E-Commerce Fulfilment System https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-robotics-e-commerce-fulfilment-system Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Intro Glitter bomb vs porch pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4 Ship Your Enemies Glitter https://shipyourenemiesglitter.com Chip Shortages Continue The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech's big quarter https://www.theverge.com/22602104/chip-shortage-tech-quarterly-earnings-intel-apple-microsoft-amd-samsung-tesla Apple CSAM Protection Features Apple reveals new efforts to fight child abuse imagery https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611721/apple-csam-child-abuse-scanning-hash-system-ncmec https://twitter.com/sjmurdoch/status/1423397219491852291 Apple — Expanded Protections for Children https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life Platformer — Apple joins the child safety fight https://www.platformer.news/p/apple-joins-the-child-safety-fight “Dylan Loewe, Biden's former speechwriter, will be Apple's director of public relations and CEO Tim Cook's speechwriter.” (via Politico) Privacy on iPhone commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y XKCD on security https://xkcd.com/538/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

While Dominic is in the alps, doing yoga with goats, Zack, Lilac and Mike got together to talk about the recent Google, Microsoft and Amazon earning report showing that cloud is still growing rapidly. Will it ever end? The gang also gets into product death and how to communicate end of life of products/components and how enterprises should deal with it. AWS Sees 37 Percent Quarterly Growth As Amazon Disappoints https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-sees-37-percent-quarterly-growth-as-amazon-disappoints Alphabet Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Climbs 54 Percent To $4.63B https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/alphabet-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-climbs-54-percent-to-4-63b Microsoft CEO Nadella Touts ‘New Franchises' In Security, Gaming, LinkedIn As Cloud Growth Surges https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-ceo-nadella-touts-new-franchises-in-security-gaming-linkedin-as-cloud-growth-surges Cloud earnings: AWS "reaccelerates," Azure up 51%, Google Cloud up 54% https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloud-earnings-aws-reaccelerates-azure-up-51-google-cloud-up-54/ The 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services https://www.bmc.com/blogs/gartner-magic-quadrant-cips-cloud-infrastructure-platform-services/ https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-1ZDZDMTF&ct=200703&st=sb Product Death How to handle products or component that reach end of life and what to do as an enterprise. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

What happened last week? We failed to record a normal podcast episode, so we tried something different and put out a Textual Podcast instead: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/textual-podcast Management = FOMO? Some people wind up in management more due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) than because they actually want to do the work — and then the rest of us get to rehabilitate the people who suffered the consequences. Management track is not the only track: Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp Quick News Zoom Bets on AI with $14.7 Billion Deal to Acquire Five9 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/zoom-to-buy-cloud-service-firm-five9-for-14-7-billion Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/akamai_edge_dns_outage/ (it's always DNS) A different kind of supply-chain attack: A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xz3/a-defunct-video-hosting-site-is-flooding-normal-websites-with-hardcore-porn Recommendations Dominic Clean install your OS. That's it, that's the recommendation. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Dominic is back! Dominic, Mike and Zack discuss the AWS Infinidash origin and how everyone needs an AWS Infinidash expert on their team. Another supply chain attack has occurred this time at Kaseya. Finally we discuss once again Zack and Dominic's favorite subject, Kubernetes, but this time in relation to run away cloud spend. Cloud keeps growing and the only reason on premise hardware exists is because it's used to solve a problem cloud hasn't solved for yet. AWS Infinidash “Hey, are you hiring for Infinidash experts? I hear nobody can find any!” https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/ Kaseya supply chain attack impacts more than 1,000 companies https://www.techrepublic.com/article/kaseya-supply-chain-attack-impacts-more-than-1000-companies/ https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/ Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/kubernetes_spend_report/ https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/kubernetes-is-a-platform-for-building-platforms Recommendations Dominic Thermacell anti-mosquito device Zack Genetically modified mosquitoes released in Florida Keys, first in US (usatoday.com) Mike Ooni Koda 16 https://ooni.com/products/ooni-koda-16 Thermacell E55 Rechargeable Mosquito Repeller; Highly Effective Rechargeable Mosquito Repellent https://amzn.to/3ecQV3J Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Lilac, Zack and Mike discuss how even after planning an email migration for 18-month, IBM still failed. What is going on with all these underwhelming startup acquisitions? What really happening? and who suffers? Has anyone noticed how even companies that offer “cloud” are moving their core service to Microsoft Azure? Azure is now powering AT&Ts 5G network. Microsoft continues to win. IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/ Arista Buys SDN Pioneer Big Switch 'For a Song' – Sources https://www.lightreading.com/carrier-sdn/arista-buys-sdn-pioneer-big-switch-for-a-song---sources/d/d-id/757076 HPE to acquire cloud disaster recovery startup Zerto https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/01/hpe-acquiring-dr-startup-zerto/ EMC Sues Zerto - Patent Litigation (2016) https://www.zerto.com/blog/company-announcements/emc-v-zerto-update/ AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud https://about.att.com/story/2021/att_microsoft_azure.html MSFT acquires Affirmed Networks https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/microsoft-acquires-5g-specialist-affirmed-networks/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Zack and Mike were joined by this week by David Cheriton, VMware & Google angel investor, as he talks Cloud, AI, and the Internet while weaving in stories from Stanford University, where he was a professor, and the beginnings of Google & VMware. What he reveals may surprise you. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

The gang is back together this week discussing the Windows 11 leak and their thoughts on MacOS versus Windows. Also the value, or not, of teaching coding in school. What code? What do we really want to teach our kids? Plus HBOs recent snafu and the hilarious intern responses. And finally what is happening that is leading to the increase in mental health startup funding? Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu Learn coding in school https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1404197107964301320 The Hard Work Of Success https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-hard-work-of-success Year 2038 problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem HBO blame the intern https://twitter.com/hbomaxhelp/status/1405712235108917249 Venture Funding For Mental Health Startups Hits Record High As Anxiety, Depression Skyrocket https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2021/06/07/venture-funding-for-mental-health-startups-hits-record-high-as-anxiety-depression-skyrocket/ Recommendations Dominic Rectangle app https://rectangleapp.com Mike Divvy Window Management App https://mizage.com/divvy/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

On this episode of Roll For Enterprise the gang is all together to discuss the recent Fastly outage which brought down a large part of the internet. Is this the same or different from on premise outages and just more noticeable with so many companies impacted? Fastly outage and cloud resilience Internet outage: which websites and services were hit by Fastly issue Does the Fastly outage justify “Single Point of Failure” headlines? What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages Grindr Is Down So Users Are Hitting The Downdetector Comment Section To Pick Up SRE and error budgets — need to review the concept https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1402301316165160966 S2E10: SLOs and SREs a conversation with Brian Singer from Nobl9 https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E10-SLOs-and-SREs-a-conversation-with-Brian-Singer-from-Nobl9-ersprg WeWork follow-up — losses continue mounting up https://robcampbell.co/2021/06/09/we-dont-work/ Steven Sinofsky on remote work https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1403112390032388096 Hardcore Software, Steven Sinofsky's newsletter with the history of early Microsoft https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com How to negotiate with ransomware hackers — turns out there are scammers who will negotiate between victims and criminals to try to arbitrage payments and pocket the difference https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/how-to-negotiate-with-ransomware-hackers Recommendations Dominic Love Death + Robots volume 2 on Netflix Lilac Grace and Frankie - in part for the Mac tech support scene Mike WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Back to Work (What do they think we've been doing all this time?) People refusing to come back to the office Lilac: "When I'm in the office I'm not also a mother and someone who has to do a load of laundry" Dominic: Dangers of a hybrid office — people who are physically in the office get the inside track “There is no return to normalcy,” says Mayer-Schönberger, whose research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. “The environment people are reentering is fundamentally changed, so we need to reframe how we see our work and ourselves. If there is a reason why we go to a workplace, it needs to be a different reason than the one that we had: that this is the way we've always been doing it.” Why the wild variation in plans for returning to offices is a good sign Why Women Don't Want To Go Back To In-Person Work News Roundup: Security and Ransomware Hackers have new targets: people returning to the office. Information About the Sale of Products Business to Symphony Technology Group | FireEye Stack Overflow's value to job seekers is what makes it valuable — Quartz Recommendations Dominic Defekt, by Nino Cipri (sequel to Finna, which was nominated for Best Novella in the Nebula Awards) Lilac Pink iPad Air! Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

The team passionately debates the impact of GPT-3 converting speech to code on the business and software developers. Microsoft introduces this as a low code feature at their Build Conference. @Mike points out that IT must provide the business with guard rails. “The biz knows how to read and use the data, more so than someone in a technology role. This is the democratization of software development, and data is the next step. It's going to continue and has to continue.” @Mike reminds us that Bubble & SquareSpace are empowering users to create the next Amazon or Shopify with no-code. @Lilac is looking for a low code version of Atlassian. “A CICD type cycle that allows people to manage these type assets, to cycle them and collaborate against them, relate them, fork them, etc.” A16z pens an article about cloud and repatriation cost but quickly loses credibility with the classic and worn-out Dropbox example. The team debates the report and future of the cloud. Speed round: Apple iPad Pro and the Center Stage feature is impressive. @Dominic shares his feedback on the wide camera angle that focuses on the active speaker and zooms out if someone else enters the frame. “Impressive. The iPad camera has been poor UNTIL NOW.“ Rapid7 has a software supply chain breach that has not hit the news like SolarWinds. People are in shock. Companies are going back and reanalyzing. In-person events…AWS is leading with re:Inforce in Houston this August. Basecamp has learned nothing and doubled down. SFDC threw a lone engineer under the bus for an outage…Really Salesforce!? One employee is the reason for everything that has gone wrong, and they should feel bad? Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes! Show Links: From conversation to code: Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3 https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/from-conversation-to-code-microsoft-introduces-its-first-product-features-powered-by-gpt-3/ Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/microsoft-uses-gpt-3-to-let-you-code-in-natural-language/ Bubble is the most powerful no-code platform, empowering entrepreneurs to build production-ready web apps. https://bubble.io https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1397842550153793536 The State of The Cloud https://app.livestorm.co/p/b445fedf-e2a9-432e-8935-7321c43e29d0 Over 90% of respondents reported growth in on-prem sales over the past 5 years. Over 50% of respondents' revenue can be attributed to on-prem software sales. 86% of respondents are using Kubernetes for their on-prem software The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox — a16z https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/

In this episode Roll for Enterprise welcomes Aneel Lakhani as a guest. Aneel is a Marketing Exec, Startup Advisor, Growth Therapist, and Investor. After 25-plus years in technology, with stints in engineering, product, and marketing in big companies and startups--Aneel now serves as an advisor to mostly b2b enterprise software startups and VCs. Aneel shares his insights with Dominic, Lilac and Mike on the difference in marketing between startups and more established enterprises, getting your first enterprise clients as a startup and why it’s particularly hard on both sides and failure modes of tech marketing. References: Dominic on getting your first customer reference as a startup: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/reference-this You can find Aneel as @aneel on Twitter. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Dominic, Mike and Zack are together again this week to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and all that we’ve learned since. People are still the weakest link in social engineering of attacks. Could China has prevented something like this thanks to their great firewall when compared to American or European companies? They also discussed various news items including: IBM surprise 2nm chip rollout which took everyone by surprise; Elon Musk’s Crypto announcements; and Apple’s hire and fire of Antonio García Martínez. Whom coincidentally is an ad tech person and signifies Apples move into ads, or some ads. https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1392864211630530563 A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/ Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems https://apnews.com/article/va-state-wire-technology-business-1f06c091c492c1630471d29a9cf6529d Colonial Pipeline paid hackers nearly $5 million ransom in cryptocurrency to restore network https://fortune.com/2021/05/13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-5-million-ransom-cryptocurrency-ransomware-attack/ News roundup IBM Creates First 2nm Chip https://www.anandtech.com/show/16656/ibm-creates-first-2nm-chip Musk Sends Bitcoin Tumbling With Shock U-Turn on Payments https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/musk-says-tesla-suspending-bitcoin-purchases-citing-energy-use Musk Renews Critique of Bitcoin as Environmentally Unsustainable https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/musk-renews-critique-of-bitcoin-as-environmentally-unsustainable Spectacular failure of vetting by Apple HR, rapidly corrected https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22433437/apple-hire-antonio-garcia-martinez-out-petition-investigation https://twitter.com/gassee/status/1392665221014032385 Recommendations Dominic Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir — but don’t start it at bedtime, because you will be up late reading “just one more page” Mike Crypto mining! Seriously! Zack Follow Dominic and Mike recommendation. Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

Our guest on the podcast this week is Priya Doty. Priya is the Global VP Product Marketing for IBM’s iconic IBM Z brand and it’s all-Linux sister brand, LinuxONE. Unlike a lot of marketers, Priya has also been a developer, which means she enjoys deconstructing marketing messages by reading technical manuals. Based in Brooklyn, she is a mom, wife, and author of an upcoming fiction novel. Aside from majoring on the topic of Confidential Computing (and Cloud Security in general), Priya is all about the IBM Z platform, Product Marketing (Top 100 Influencer in PMM 2-Years Running!), and outside of work, writing. Confidential computing is a cloud computing technology that isolates sensitive data in a protected CPU enclave during processing. The contents of the enclave - the data being processed, and the techniques used to process it - are accessible only to authorized programming code, and invisible and unknowable to anything or anyone else, including the cloud provider. Gartner has called confidential computing a top trend for 2021, naming it and Fully Homomorphic Encryption as part of a trend for “Privacy Enhanced Computation”. Why IBM believes confidential computing is the future of cloud security Fully Homomorphic Encryption The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you The Changing Value Of Mistakes Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Our theme music is by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

With the recent controversy surrounding Basecamp and David Hansson (https://twitter.com/dhh?s=20) Dominic, Lilac and Mike spent some time discussion their thoughts on the topic. Not an easy topic with a lot of different opinion and many consequences to be considered. Background: https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp https://qz.com/work/2002100/why-basecamps-culture-memo-is-so-controversial/ https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387343362013995009?s=21 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387044958377447424?s=21 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1386773744484552715?s=21 https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1388237962991652865?s=21 Yes, a bunch of people took that severance package https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1388212468510380034?s=21 https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1388300929506582530?s=21 https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of-hate.pdf Reference to Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber https://amzn.to/3vDWbE6 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

The guest on this episode is Rachel Chalmers of Alchemist Accelerator. Rachel joined Alchemist from Autodesk, where she was Director, Transformation Growth Boards and Product Excellence. Prior to Autodesk, Rachel was a VC with Ignition Partners and Merian Ventures, leading investments in Docker, Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook), Unikernel (acquired by Docker) and Honeycomb.io. She began her career as employee number 10 with 451 Research (acquired by Standard & Poor), where she was the first analyst to cover VMware, Cloudera and Splunk. Find Rachel on Twitter and on LinkedIn. Alchemist Accelerator is at https://www.alchemistaccelerator.com Among many other things, our conversation touched on: “Survival strategies that have outlived their usefulness” “The humanities teach us what to do when STEM fails” The importance of core skills (they’re not soft skills!) And some truly excellent SF reading recommendations for those who listen all the way to the end Links mentioned by Dominic: Heart of Blandness: A Walking Tour of Silicon Valley manwhohasitall on Twitter Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

The entire team was back together this week and there was a lot to discuss. There have been a slew of acquisitions in technology lately including Rocket Software acquisition of ASG, Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance and then Dell decided to finally spinoff VMWare. IBM also renamed its services spinout Kyndryl. Nvidia’s ARM announcement, among what felt as 100 others from Nvidia, was also discussed as Nvidia seems to be getting better and better with every announcement and product they release. Finally the team is dreaming of conferences, but gone are the days of Cisco Live and VMWorld being the go to conference as Re:Invent and Ignite have taken the reigns as the go to conferences moving forward. Rocket Software acquires ASG Technologies https://www.rocketsoftware.com/news/rocket-software-extends-its-technology-and-global-reach-agreement-acquire-asg-technologies 70-90% of acquisitions fail https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/06/24/most-mergers-fail-because-people-arent-boxes/ Kyndryl https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/12/business/kyndryl-ibm-corporate-names/index.html Dell spinning off VMware https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/dell-jumps-as-it-unveils-vmware-stock-spinoff-plan.html Nvidia ARM server CPU https://www.anandtech.com/show/16610/nvidia-unveils-grace-a-highperformance-arm-server-cpu-for-use-in-ai-systems Microsoft buys Nuance, creators of Siri https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/microsoft-nuance-aws-google-ai Note: Microsoft is aiming to take over the desktop for the doctors with long-term target set on the front-end workflows in healthcare. Microsoft HealthVault is officially shutting down in November (2019) https://medcitynews.com/2019/04/microsoft-healthvault-is-officially-shutting-down-in-november/ Recommendations Dominic: Lego Space Shuttle https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/lego-has-a-new-2354-piece-nasa-space-shuttle-set-and-its-awesome/ Mike: Sunglasses tens.co Boulevard lenses https://tens.co/pages/boulevard-lens Zack: KLEAR UVC Sterilizing Cap + 32oz Water Bottle (https://mashable.com/shopping/april-9-klear-uvc-sterilizing-cap-32oz-water-bottle) Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!