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This episode explores:“Decision shapers,” supply chain planning leaders that leverage three personas to guide supply chain planning leaders' decision making through informed, data-driven recommendations. (1:22)The skills decision shapers leverage as part of the “codebreaker” persona to analyze and capitalize on key data points. (4:25)How the “alchemist” persona, a combination of business acumen, adaptability and AI readiness that decision shapers use to turn data into intelligent insights. (7:56)Ways the “storyteller” persona packages data and insights to meet audiences where they're at with language that resonates with them. (13:42)Essential recommendations for supply chain leaders that want to become decision shapers in their own organizations. (19:35)In this episode of the Supply Chain Podcast, host Lindsay Azim discusses the impact “decision shapers” have on supply chain planning (SCP) with guest Noha Samara, a Gartner senior director analyst. The pair explore their shared research into the current state of SCP, and how SCP leaders can evolve their approach to it through data analysis, intelligent insights and robust communication. They close the show with recommendations for SCP leaders that want to affect similar changes in their own org.About the Guest:Gartner Senior Director Analyst Noha Samara covers several areas of supply chain planning. She has authored and coauthored numerous research on supply chain planning processes' evolution, supply chain planning organization design and talent, and supply chain planning transformations. She joined Gartner in 2020 after a long career at several multinational organizations such as Procter & Gamble and Microsoft where she was leading different supply chain teams. Noha has been leading the supply chain planning track agenda at Gartner Symposium for the past couple of years and currently chairs the upcoming Supply Chain Planning Summits in 2025 and 2026.
In today's episode, I have the pleasure of inviting Theo Priestly. Theo is a leading tech futurist and globally recognized business leader, author, and public speaker specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the convergence of many emerging trends towards the metaverse. He is one of LinkedIn's more outspoken evangelists who aren't afraid to challenge the conventional view or champion the unconventional. He is the founder of Metapunk™, an agency consulting on the business, technology, and cultural impacts that will arise from the metaverse and helping brands, organizations, and investors navigate this revolution. Priestley has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and business, including SAP, Siemens, Bosch, Software AG, AON, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, consulting and implementing innovation strategies, strategic foresight, and emerging technologies, and providing content marketing services. He has mentored many startup accelerators, including HTC Vive X and Alchemist. Priestley has published more than 200 articles on topics including Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Smart Cities, Education, Healthcare, Marketing, Digital Transformation, and Virtual Reality, for Forbes, the European, WIRED, Huffington Post, and Business2Community. He has also contributed to VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Times Raconteur and interviewed for BBC Radio and UK national television news on technology trends. He recently authored the book; The Future Starts Now, published internationally through Bloomsbury, and is working on his second title: Metapunk - The Business, Technology, and Culture of the Metaverse. An energetic, informative, and polished speaker, he has engaged groups ranging from 20-2000 on Emerging Technology Trends, Artificial Intelligence, the Future of Work, Experiential Technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Strategy, and more. Featured talks have occurred at CeBIT, TEDx, Marketing Society UK, Big Data Expo China, Gartner Symposium, IDC, meetups, webinars, innovation summits, and corporate events. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
CIO UK Editor Edward Qualtrough caught up with seven CIOs and a Gartner research director at the 2019 Gartner Symposium and ITxpo in Barcelona to reflect and debrief the sessions, trends and themes which struck a chord at the analyst firm’s annual European gathering. Equinor SVP and CIO Åshild Hanne Larsen, Avon VP of Digital Nick Burton, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Associate Director of Digital Sarah Moorhead, Venator CIO Jose Baeza, AWE Chief Technology Officer John Fenwick, Chief Digital Officer for Scottish Local Government Martyn Wallace, Places for People Chief Data and Information Officer Norma Dove Edwin, and Gartner Senior Research Director Ian Cox shared their views on innovation, digital transformation, sustainability and more. Recorded in conference rooms, exhibition halls, beach bars and corridors - hear some of the reflections from leading CIOs, CTOs and Chief Digital Officers. Åshild Hanne Larsen, Equinor SVP and CIO [3min 02sec] Nick Burton, Avon VP of Digital [17min 10sec] Sarah Moorhead, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Associate Director of Digital [22min 53sec] Jose Baeza, Venator CIO [26min 41sec] John Fenwick, AWE CTO [33min 15sec] Martyn Wallace, Scottish Local Government Chief Digital Officer [40min 25sec] Norma Dove-Edwin, Places for People Chief Data and Information Officer [50min 56sec] Ian Cox, Gartner Senior Research Director and Analyst [1hr 01min 59sec]
How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Relevant to your interests Executive Shuffles Google just hired a former Microsoft exec to spearhead G Suite (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hired-former-microsoft-exec-javier-soltero-vp-g-suite-2019-10) and Javier Soltero’s Bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Soltero) Microsoft’s Q1 earnings boosted by cloud and Office as Surface and Xbox stall (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928856/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-revenue-cloud-services-surface-gaming-xbox) ServiceNow Announces Bill McDermott to Become CEO, Succeeding John Donahoe, Who Is Stepping Down to Become CEO of Nike (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191022006131/en/ServiceNow-Announces-Bill-McDermott-CEO-Succeeding-John) Nike, ServiceNow and SAP CEOs play a game of musical chairs (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-servicenow-and-sap-ceos-play-a-game-of-musical-chairs-2019-10-22) Free Software a.k.a Open Source In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move? (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/is-the-software-world-taking-too-much-from-the-open-source-community/) Free Software and Open Source Business - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2019/10/21/free-software-and-open-source-business/) Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/databricks-announces-400m-round-on-6-2b-valuation-as-analytics-platform-continues-to-grow/) What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community (https://grafana.com/blog/2019/10/24/what-24-million-means-for-our-open-source-community/) — Grafana Security Getting Started with Security Keys (https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b017837a75-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+309&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-b017837a75-70424493&mc_cid=b017837a75&mc_eid=288b3f86c8) Don’t use admin/admin as username/password (http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHLMQzTXkAEgHHx.png) The Chintzy Way Zappos Wants to Compensate Victims of a 2012 Data Breach (https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/zappos-amazon-data-breach-settlement-coupon.html) Kelsey Hightower asks a question… (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1186832245664997377) Good news for developers: The CLI is back | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-news-for-developers-the-cli-is-back/) IBM stock downgraded on fears of long-term Red Hat impact, other worries (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/10/21/ibm-stock-downgraded-on-fears-of-long-term-red-hat-impact-other-worries/) Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy (https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-catalina-are-so-buggy/) Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/libreoffice_latest_victim_of_curse_of_catalina/) Nonsense Gulfstream’s New G700 Is Set to Become the World’s Biggest Private Jet (https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/gulfstreams-g700-worlds-biggest-private-jet-2875781/) Sponsors SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their APM tools – Loggly. To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. PagerDuty: This is episode is brought to you by PagerDuty. To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. Conferences, et. al. Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). † SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Joker (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286456/) Matt: Daemon (https://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731) by Daniel Suarez Photo by Ben White on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/ZCv_tXbTsNA)
"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is. Mood board: Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots. We can educate Coté. Learning from each other, the more you know! There’s a lot of kube shit. Non-subjugating windows. Anyone can do a hyphen, you have to go out of your way to do an em-dash. What’s a ‘fixie’? HOT LINKEDIN ETHICS DEBATE. You’re probably using the Twitter webpage and following the “Suggested Follows.” There have been reports in social media. It’s the chaos monkey for business models. We can Armchair Product Management this thing. I've been asked if crocodiles are considered "pescatarian-friendly." It’s kind of like the yaml version of the Rational dream. The whole rest of the world was putting together best of breed tools. If you say so, Grammerly. “Monty-python simulation” Stay out of the room Mr. AI! It’s paper size A-somebullshit. We’re puttin’ the Plan column back on! Space carpets. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Relevant to your interests Meetups Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20893343/meetup-users-furious-new-rsvp-payment-test) LinkedIn Launches Events to Facilitate Professional Meet-Ups (https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-launches-events-to-facilitate-professional-meet-ups/565171/) freeCodeCamp is building an open source alternative to Meetup (http://mattray 5:55 PM https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241) GitLab Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/) GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/gitlab_reverse_ferret/) AWS AWS Promotional Credits for Open Source Projects | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/) Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/amazon-migrates-more-than-100-consumer-services-from-oracle-to-aws-databases/) Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/) Security Google teams up with Yubico to build a USB-C Titan Security Key (https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/14/google-yubico-usb-c-titan-security-key/) Thoma Bravo makes $3.9 billion offer to acquire security firm Sophos (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/14/thoma-bravo-makes-3-9-billion-offer-to-acquire-security-firm-sophos/) Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions (https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html) Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They're Restricted (https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html) Kube Corner Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/) Red Hat Flexes OpenShift Kubernetes Muscles (https://www.lightreading.com/cloud/network/red-hat-flexes-openshift-kubernetes-muscles/d/d-id/754862) MuleSoft Announces Anypoint Service Mesh, Extending the Power of Anypoint Platform to Any Microservice | MuleSoft (https://www.mulesoft.com/press-center/october-2019-release-anypoint-service-mesh) Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/technology/facebook-europe.html?utm_source=Memberful&utm_campaign=e1340d4a90-daily_update_2019_10_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4c7fece27-e1340d4a90-111265207) Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra (https://www.axios.com/mark-zuckerberg-libra-facebook-congressional-testimony-6665e91a-e520-4cda-92c7-50783393cd17.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Inside Mozilla's 18-month effort to market without Facebook (https://digiday.com/marketing/after-mozilla-stopped-spending-on-facebook-the-company-increased-its-focus-on-offline-marketing/) Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Memo on HKmap.live Doesn’t Add Up (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live-email) Open Source Gerrymandering (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/10/08/open-source-gerrymandering/) Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku (https://twitter.com/ripienaar/status/1182794059297050624) Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz (https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252471956/Docker-Desktop-asset-fiscal-stress-prompt-acquisition-buzz) Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says (https://www.zdnet.com/article/building-chinas-comac-c919-airplane-involved-a-lot-of-hacking-report-says/) Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/headless-cms-company-strapi-raises-4-million/) Why Richard Stallman doesn’t matter (https://maffulli.net/2019/10/17/why-richard-stallman-doesnt-matter/) IBM stock falls on revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/16/ibm-earnings-q3-2019.html) IBM Reports Messy Results @themotleyfool #stocks $IBM (https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/10/16/ibm-reports-messy-results.aspx?Cid=UheJXN) Nonsense The Best Burritos in San Francisco (https://www.seriouseats.com/places/best-burritos-in-san-francisco?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseatsfeaturesvideos+%28Serious+Eats%29) Sponsors SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. Conferences, et. al. Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). † SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Epson Scanner (https://epson.com/For-Home/Scanners/Document-Scanners/WorkForce-ES-400-Duplex-Document-Scanner/p/B11B226201). Matt: Anti-pick: The Dead Don’t Die (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8695030/). This Must Be The Gig (https://consequenceofsound.net/thismustbethegig/) podcast: Mike Patton (https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/this-must-be-the-gig-mike-patton/). Coté: The Fifth Season (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161852-the-fifth-season).
The mystery of the 2,000 Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk. Mood board: The East India Company and Kodak I just want your best 5 hours. Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes. I’m in for a panel. I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting. Ten year journey with billions of burn. We’re talking about trillion dollar companies. You can’t have enough storage for your podcasts. Fired 2,000 people…and now hiring 2,000 people. First-gen cloud building people are often a handful. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). See the archives (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/how-to-moderate-a-panel/) for more. Relevant to your interests How to moderate a panel (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/how-to-moderate-a-panel/). Oracle Shelves Larry Ellison’s Dream of Cloud Dominance (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/oracle-is-no-longer-dreaming-of-cloud-dominance) tl;dr: “this is a bummer, man” (https://gfycat.com/soupyenlightenedblackbuck)…? “Midlevel product managers were being offered $750,000 in compensation while some engineers with a vice president title were paid more than $5 million a year, people familiar with the matter said.” - Shoulda listed “Oracle cloud” on my LinkedIn… Oracle to Make 2,000 Hires in Cloud Push (https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-to-make-2-000-hires-in-cloud-push-11570539658) Will Salesforce Dump Oracle and Pick AWS? An Insider’s Perspective (https://cloudwars.co/salesforce-dump-oracle-pick-aws-dreamforce/) Larry vs Jeff: An Epic Battle who controls Salesforce, coming at Dreamforce (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biggest-salesforce-dreamforce-2019-secret-you-dont-know-jiri-kram/?trackingId) Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/google-cloud-worth-double-ibm-s-market-cap-deutsche-bank-says) TechCrunch Disrupt: A tale of two markets separates tech from non-tech IPOs (https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-tale-of-two-markets-separates-tech-from-non-tech-ipos) Austin-based AI Startup SparkCognition Raises $100M Series C (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/austin-based-ai-startup-sparkcognition-raises-100m-series-c/) Is Microsoft Out to Destroy Linux? Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/linus-torvalds-doesnt-think-microsoft-is-out-to-hijack-linux) Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open Source Software (https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/open-core-summit-intro/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) New browser security debate heats up (https://www.axios.com/dns-https-new-browser-security-debate-22d936c6-3597-41eb-927a-d2de87c7ed6c.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Microsoft Unveils Battery-Powered Version of Azure That Fits in a Backpack (https://www.petri.com/microsoft-unveils-battery-powered-version-of-azure-that-fits-in-a-backpack) - Simpsons already did it (https://siliconangle.com/2013/11/19/eucalyptus-demos-aws-private-cloud-in-a-backpack-reinvent/). Microsoft using Android is bigger than its Surface Duo phone (https://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-surface-duo-phone-is-powered-by-googles-android-and-thats-a-big-deal/) - looks cool, sure. Nonsense Animals on Airbnb Experiences (http://Ryan MacLean 7:58 PM https://twitter.com/airbnb/status/1179048268501667841?s=21) Drink up! Missouri bar charges by the hour, not by the glass (https://wsbt.com/news/offbeat/drink-up-missouri-bar-charges-by-the-hour-not-by-the-glass) Sponsors HMA: To try HMA VPN risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee visit: https://www.hidemyass.com/offer-sdt SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. Conferences, et. al. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). Listener Suggested Jobs Openings DevOps Engineer Viasat in San Diego (https://careers.viasat.com/careers/FolderDetail/DevOps-Engineer/4065) from Justin Hallas Full-Stack Software Engineer (https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/207145/full-stack-software-engineer-ns8?so_medium=Internal&so_source=JobListing) at NS8 remote options from Joshua Hover. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Synology (https://www.synology.com/en-us), Plex (https://www.plex.tv/) and HDHomeRun (https://www.silicondust.com/). Coté: cookies with bourbon raisons.
Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally revved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Go to buttondown.email/cote (https://buttondown.email/cote) or cote.io/newsletter (https://cote.io/newsletter/) and do it! Mood board: It’s probably more of a figurative figurative phrase, not a literal figurative phrase. I should probably start the recording again. Don’t be so precise. Kids these days. There’s lots of issues with the Salt Lick. Here’s a napkin. You’re better off getting a Porche from Germany. Let me translate that from Dutch to American. 15 meters of cereal. Tradeless Commissions Some basis points. Well, I don’t know that, but I’m gonna look it up later. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote): Relevant to your interests The webinar (https://content.pivotal.io/webinars/oct-03-confronting-the-business-bottleneck-digital-strategy-beyond-it-part-1-webinar-emea) Coté mentioned, “The Business Bottleneck, part 01” with Rick Clark. Matt Levine on free stock trading stuff (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-02/the-trades-will-be-free-now). AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement (https://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/252471650/AWS-faces-Elasticsearch-lawsuit-for-trademark-infringement) Docker, once worth over $1 billion, tells employees it's trying to raise cash amid 'significant challenges' (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/docker-is-trying-to-raise-money-following-arrival-of-ceo-rob-bearden.html) Google will not donate Knative framework 'to any foundation for the foreseeable future' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/google_knative_will_not_be_donated_to_any_foundation/) The announcement is presumed to apply also to Istio (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/11/googles_istio_kubernetes/), the service mesh on which Knative depends. Both Knative and Istio use the Apache License 2.0 (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) and Google's announcement does confirm that Knative will remain open source and with multi-vendor participation. Jessie Frazelle does not like the CNCF (https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1179251190321819656) and this tweet too (https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1175911408627642369). Honeycomb Begins Another Chapter with a New Funding Round (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb-begins-another-chapter-with-a-new-funding-round/). BMC Software taps CA Technologies exec for permanent CEO position (https://www.zdnet.com/article/bmc-software-taps-ca-technologies-exec-for-permanent-ceo-position/#ftag=RSSbaffb68). KeyBanc Capital Markets (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/274dd0f8-294d-4ae1-a74f-7161709a1646.pdf) - with some VMware coverage. Read the full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s leaked internal Facebook meetings (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings). Nonsense Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million to Zunleash growth. Then things got messy (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/27/tech/wag-dog-walking-softbank/index.html) Hercules cargo plane flew between skyscrapers (https://twitter.com/evankirstel/status/1179380161692733443?s=21) Sponsors HMA To try HMA VPN risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee visit: www.hidemyass.com/offer-sdt. SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. Conferences, et. al. Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. Call for Papers ends on Oct. 7th. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). † Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Leon in Germany. Ed from Seattle wrote in so we sent him a sticker. Sent stickers to Chris from Bartlesville and so he got stickers. Sent sticker to Joe in Colorado. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Apple Watch List View (https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/20/how-to-switch-to-list-view-or-grid-view-on-apple-watch/); Operation Socialist from Darknet Diaries (https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/48/). Coté: HEMA bullet journal A5 (https://www.hema.nl/vrije-tijd-kantoor/school-kantoor/papierwaren/bullet-journals/bullet-journal-a5-14135716.html), just €5!; HEMA 4-pack markers (https://www.hema.nl/vrije-tijd-kantoor/school-kantoor/schrijfwaren/stiften/4-pak-markers-14465146.html), esp. the “0,5mm” one. Outro: “That's Right, You're Not From Texas, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoXnz3h_FE&utm_source=cote&utm_medium=email)” Lyle Lovett and His Large Band.
Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Relevant to your interests GitLab opens: Jenkins: One year later (https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/20/jenkins-one-year-later/) CloudBees responds: GitLab's Confusion (https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/gitlabs-confusion) What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos? (https://bravenewgeek.com/whats-going-on-with-gke-and-anthos/) Apple’s new Mac Pro to be made in Texas (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to-be-made-in-texas/) Briefing: Facebook Buys Mind-Reading Startup For Close to $1 Billion (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/89ce70) Containership sinks after being blown off course by Kubernetes • DEVCLASS (https://devclass.com/2019/09/23/containership-sinks-blown-off-course-kubernetes/) Announcing Stack Overflow’s New CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar! - Stack Overflow Blog (https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/24/announcing-stack-overflows-new-ceo-prashanth-chandrasekar/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Mysterious Mac Pro Shutdowns Likely Caused by Chrome Upda (https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/mac-pro-avid-shutdowns-chrome-update-keystone-1203348549/)te (https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/mac-pro-avid-shutdowns-chrome-update-keystone-1203348549/) Amazon announces new large Echo with better sound (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/amazon-is-about-to-unveil-a-bunch-of-new-alexa-products.html) ****- What the hell is a vCPU-based on-demand service limit? - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/what-the-hell-is-a-vcpu-based-on-demand-service-limit/) Nonsense WeWork is selling the company's $60 luxurious million private jet that Adam Neumann and his family personalized and used to fly all over the world (https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-is-putting-neumanns-60-million-jet-up-for-sale-2019-9) Sponsors SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. HMA: To try HMA VPN risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee visit: www.hidemyass.com/offer-sdt. Conferences, et. al. Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit. Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Between Two Ferns: The Movie (https://www.netflix.com/title/80243600) Matt: World’s Worst Video Card (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs) Coté: English Breakfast in a cup Photo by Product School on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/nOvIa_x_tfo)
The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: The Christmas Greenwich Meantime. The Salary Vortex. Podcast Google Alert. Overnight he is growing 7 inches. Throwing fish at a growing seal. I want to be 63. We’re way too top heavy. Hot in the sun, cold in the shade. Is this because of the Federal Reserve? The chaos monkey of IPOs. What happened to SVNLab? College phrases from random places. War Birds and Red Tides. Relevant to your interests VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-ceo-ibm-paid-too-much-for-red-hat/2019/09/) Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux (https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-announces-oracle-autonomous-linux/) CentOS release (https://twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432) A developer goes to a DevOps conference (https://www.darkcoding.net/software/a-developer-goes-to-a-devops-conference/) GitLab Announcing $268 million in Series E funding (https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/17/gitlab-series-e-funding/) GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/gitlab-hauls-in-268m-series-e-on-2-768b-valuation/) GitLab Strategy (https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/) GitHub GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot code exploits (https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/github-acquires-semmle-to-help-developers-spot-code-exploits/) Welcome Semmle to the GitHub family (https://github.blog/2019-09-18-github-welcomes-semmle/) Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation (https://onezero.medium.com/leak-of-microsoft-salaries-shows-fight-for-higher-compensation-3010c589b41e) Google Warns LastPass Users Were Exposed To ‘Last Password’ Credential Leak (https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/09/16/google-warns-lastpass-users-were-exposed-to-last-password-credential-leak/#752ad2546000) Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist-richard-stallman-resigns-from-mit-over-epstein-comments) Hold My Beer – Let's Watch SoftBank Venture Capital Plunge (https://capitalistexploits.at/hold-my-beer/) Apple reschedules iOS 13.1 and iPadOS releases for September 24th (https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/19/apple-ipados-and-ios-13-1-september-24/) What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/18/google_anthos_new_features_announced/) Nonsense The Question of Whether or Not WeWork Is a Tech Company Has Been Answered (https://gizmodo.com/the-question-of-whether-or-not-wework-is-a-tech-company-1837461024) Sponsors SolarWinds To try it FREE for 14 days just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly HMA To try HMA VPN risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee visit: www.hidemyass.com/offer-sdt. Conferences, et. al. Sep 25th - Something in London. Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit. Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Use Audible Credits in iPhone App (https://www.audible.com/ep/audible-credits-ios?pf_rd_p=90bb67d2-2606-4dd9-9885-ac5d14c54b68&pf_rd_r=1B2X4V83Q5SMWH21AHK7&ref=a_hp_c0_banner_img); Radiolab’s episode Tit for Tat (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-another). Matt: Aphex Twin (https://aphextwin.warp.net/)’s website for b-sides and other miscellany Coté: second bike. Traveling Salesmen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem) - how does it work? Outro: SDT Theme (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong), charleswhollien (https://github.com/charleswhollien).
A break from regular programming has Gavin bashing Apple, Lindsey justifying his Uber habits and Vodacom emerging as the best value operator right now. There's also some feedback from the Gartner Symposium. Follow Gavin at https://facebook.com/TechMagazineZA/ Find Lindsey at http://thatopinionguy.co.za or @SharpSchutters on twitter. Email us at overclocked@gmail.com Produced by Lindsey Schutters Music by Lindsey Schutters Mixed on Samsung Galaxy S10 Recorded on iPhone SE + Samson Go Mic
Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: Buying something different to try something new. Australian bagels. “Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.” “Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.” More fools giving their software away for free I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap. Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure. Matt’s little bit of glue. How much simpler can you get than straight code? General Container’s army of yamlites. Developer tools = vomit on the floor Write in if you disagree. Relevant to your interests Pivotal interviews from CF Summit EU: the multi-tenant problem in kubernetes (https://data-economy.com/the-superpower-to-change-one-thing-about-kubernetes/). “In the future K8s will exist as an infrastructure API almost universally.” (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/12/pivotal_application_service_vmware/) “Daimler takes (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/11/kubernetes_cloud_foundry_director/) a hybrid cloud approach, using Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud and Alibaba, as well as its own data centre in Stuttgart and a new one being built in Frankfurt.” Cornelia Davis on PaaS, kubernetes, and cloud native programming (https://content.pivotal.io/intersect-podcasts/paas-and-caas-in-15-minutes). IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/12/together-at-last-ibm-brings-cloud-foundry-to-red-hat-openshift/) “our understanding is that IBM plans to turn this into a fully supported project that will give Cloud Foundry users the option to deploy their application right to OpenShift, while OpenShift customers will be able to offer their developers the Cloud Foundry experience.” COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all (https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-turns-60-why-it-will-outlive-us-all/) Why Red Hat sees Knative as the answer to Kubernetes orchestration (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-red-hat-sees-knative-as-the-answer-to-kubernetes-orchestration/) BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/05/bigid-announces-50m-series-c-investment-as-privacy-takes-center-stage/) Data Protection Services Firm Carbonite Considers a Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-06/data-protection-services-provider-carbonite-is-said-to-mull-sale) Recap of the (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/) “funding (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/)” experiment (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/) “you have to admit, the fact that businesses will pay thousands of dollars for some SaaS software while ignoring the maintainers who write the actual open source code itself seems a bit unfair.” Coté’s hot-take: I mean. Yeah. People will pay $0 for what they want if you give them the chance. Should open source software advertise? (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3435114/should-open-source-software-advertise.html) Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken (https://onezero.medium.com/almost-everything-about-goodreads-is-broken-662e424244d5) Google Could Acquire Nutanix For $9 Billion To Further Its Cloud Ambitions (https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/09/10/google-could-acquire-nutanix-for-9-billion-to-further-its-cloud-ambitions/#1257dd4634a9) This is a good example of I-banker think, namely, it doesn’t actually talk about what Nutanix does or what kind of new opportunities Google and them would have together. Lots of fun charts though! Everything Apple announced today, including the new iPhone 11, Apple TV+, Apple Watch, and more (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/everything-apple-announced-today-including-new-iphone-11-apple-tv-apple-watch/) It's Not Just You: Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive (https://capiche.com/p/software-inflation-rate) - check out their spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-3kyC2SYDvJwULt9FWL3A6Cy3jq0I5ox-DhQr64qydc/edit#gid=0), with sparkle lines! Uber stock price drops after missed Q2 expectations (https://www.axios.com/uber-stock-price-drops-after-missed-q2-expectations-b0da2ddc-27db-4e58-91ca-ae57a496a24a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube (https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/11/procella/) Announcing Terraform Cloud (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-cloud) Mark Hurd, the co-CEO of Oracle, is taking a leave of absence, citing health reasons (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/11/mark-hurd-the-co-ceo-of-oracle-is-taking-a-leave-of-absence-citing-health-reasons/) IPO’s The Datadog IPO: One Of The Best IPOs In Years (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4290637-datadog-ipo-one-best-ipos-years) WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10 billion... (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo-valuation/exclusive-wework-considers-ipo-valuation-of-as-low-as-10-billion-sources-idUSKCN1VY1PB) Cloudflare Raises $525 Million in Above-Range IPO (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/cloudflare-is-said-to-raise-525-million-in-above-range-ipo) New Rita McGrath book out, Seeing Around Corners (https://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2019/09/09/seeing-around-corners-book-review/). Nonsense Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain, just moved to eliminate 500 million small bottles (https://www.fastcompany.com/90396549/marriott-just-moved-to-eliminate-500-million-small-bottles). Jack Ma's performance (https://twitter.com/alibabagroup/status/1171643205571530753?s=12). “;; I'm using use-package and el-get and evil” (https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack/blob/master/README.md) Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . To try it FREE for 14 days just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. Sep 25th - Something in London. Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit. Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Blair from London David from Waikanae, NZ sent us a note and say he really enjoys the podcast. Also, tells us “fanny pack in NZ, its a whole different meaning!!!!!” Does Matt Ray know what these mean: jandals, togs, pavlova, pineapple lumps, lollies SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Land of Giants (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/land-of-the-giants) and Pivot (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot). Related: Robert Scoble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble). Matt: Wu-Tang: An American Saga (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9113406/) and Mics and Men (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9376934/). Jim Plamondon: Microsoft Evangelist (https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Jim_Plamondon.html). Coté: Trick Mirror (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43126457-trick-mirror). Outro: "Spottieottiedopalicious (Instrumental)." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pY0MhdM8Ls)
In this episode, we talk with BRIAN FANZO, the founder & CEO of iSocialFanz…a huge social influencer, change agent, technology evangelist, prolific podcaster, conference emcee and Millennial keynote speaker. THOUGHT #1 Raise your hand faster than anyone else. THOUGHT #2 If the goal is survival, you've already lost. CONNECT: Website: www.iSocialFanz.com Speaker Website: www.BrianFanzo.com Twitter: @iSocialFanz Instagram: iSocialFanz Podcasts: FOMOFans Just Try This (w/ Amy Landino) S.M.A.C. Talk BRAND & RESOURCE MENTIONS: Alan Schaefer - http://www.bandingpeopletogether.com/team_member/alan-schaefer CHART (Council of Hotel & Restaurant Trainers) – www.chart.org The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – www.franklincovey.com Cannonball Kids' cancer – www.CannonballKidscancer.org Keppler Speakers - www.KepplerSpeakers.com Kyser CAPOS – www.kysermusical.com Certified Rock Star - www.CertifiedRockStar.com Spectacle Photography (Show/Website Photos) – www.spectaclephoto.com Jeffrey Todd “JT” Keel (Show Music) - https://www.facebook.com/jtkeel BRIAN FANZO'S BIO Brian is a proud dad of three girls under the age of 10, a Pittsburgh loving sports fan, a self-proclaimed change evangelist which makes sense as the one constant in this pager wearing millennials career has been changing. Brian is a proud geek that majored in computer science that found his niche of “translating geekspeak” with a unique background that includes working 9 years for the DoD in Cybersecurity, 2 years at a booming cloud computing startup and the last 5 years an entrepreneur and CEO of iSocialFanz. Brian’s DoD career includes leading a team of 30+ developers & trainers with a mission of training, implementing and developing solutions that empowered the different branches of the military to share and collaborate leveraging social business tools their cybersecurity policies and procedures. If that doesn’t sound tough enough Brian’s role included 2 trips to Afghanistan & 3 to Iraq while also briefing the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon. Brian discovered his love for workshops, training and speaking while at the DoD for which he leveraged in his next job as the Technology Evangelist of a booming datacenter startup based out of Phoenix Arizona was known as IOdatacenters. Brian became the face of that company over his two years at IO, developing and implementing the social business and training strategies with the focus of transparent collaboration between new hires, management, executives as well as partners and customers. In those two years, the company grew from 256 employees when Brian started to 612 when Brian left. The role of technology evangelist was one that Brian designed at pitched the CEO himself, as it was a role that two of his idols Guy Kawasaki at Apple and Robert Scoble of Microsoft, later Rackspace mastered creating cult-like followings while connecting internal and external community for the company. Brian had the luxury of reporting to the CEO with a dotted line to both the CIO & CMO where he was able to be the face of the brand speaking and evangelizing the IO data center and cloud solutions at the largest technology events in the world including Amazon ReInvent, VMworld, Gartner Symposium, CES and many more. In 2014 while still at IO Brian received his first of many social business awards as he was named Top 25 Social Business Leader of the future by the Economist and IBM. Brian leveraged the visibility and opportunities afforded to him with this award to travel to Ted Talks and the world’s largest technology events as an influencer, speaker and the personal brand of iSocialFanz.
Brian Fanzo - How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the World Siri… begin podcast Alexa… where my Amazonians at? Cortana? You still around? Tay… why do you hate people? Friday? Jarvis? Ultron? SKYNET?!?!?! “AI will accelerate the end of ownership.” Today, we don’t own movies or music anymore—we subscribe to Netflix or Spotify. Tomorrow, we won’t own products anymore—we’ll subscribe to them. Tien Tzuo, CEO & Founder, Zuora We will see the focus shift from AI to 'AI-driven' results as companies look for real business impact from AI tools. The technology will be less important than the business insights it delivers” Sean Byrnes, CEO and co-founder, Outlier I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey What the hell does any of that even mean? In this episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson has a chat with Brian Fanzo about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the larger world. That means large corporate enterprises, brands you recognized and everyday regular folks like you and me. What kind of impact is AI going to have on you? Stick around and find out. About Brian Fanzo Brian Fanzo (@iSocialFanz) is a proud dad of three girls under the age of 10, a Pittsburgh loving sports fan, a self-proclaimed change evangelist which makes sense as the one constant in this pager wearing millennial’s career has been change. He is a proud geek that majored in computer science who then found his niche of “translating geekspeak” with a unique background that includes working 9 years for the DoD in Cybersecurity, 2 years at a booming cloud computing startup and the last 5 years an entrepreneur and CEO of iSocialFanz. Brian’s DoD career includes leading a team of 30+ developers & trainers with a mission of training, implementing and developing solutions that empowered the different branches of the military to share and collaborate leveraging social business tools their cybersecurity policies and procedures. If that doesn’t sound tough enough his role included 2 trips to Afghanistan & 3 to Iraq while also briefing the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon. Brian discovered his love for workshops, training and speaking while at the DoD for which he leveraged in his next job as the Technology Evangelist of a booming datacenter startup based out of Phoenix Arizona was known as IOdatacenters. Brian has a diverse background beyond the Department of Defense bit… he is currently the founder of iSocialFanz which has helped launch digital and influencer strategies with the world’s most iconic brands like Dell EMC, Adobe, IBM, UFC, Applebees and SAP. The role of technology evangelist was one that Brian designed at pitched the CEO himself, as it was a role that two of his idols Guy Kawasaki at Apple and Robert Scoble of Microsoft, later Rackspace mastered creating cult-like followings while connecting internal and external community for the company. Brian had the luxury of reporting to the CEO with a dotted line to both the CIO & CMO where he was able to be the face of the brand speaking and evangelizing the IO data center and cloud solutions at the largest technology events in the world including Amazon ReInvent, VMworld, Gartner Symposium, CES and many more. In 2014 while still at IO Brian received his first of many social business awards as he was named Top 25 Social Business Leader of the future by the Economist and IBM. Brian leveraged the visibility and opportunities afforded to him with this award to travel to Ted Talks and the world’s largest technology events as an influencer, speaker and the personal brand of iSocialFanz. Brian hosts two podcasts (FOMOFanz& SMACtalk), has traveled to over 70 countries and has spoken at many of the world’s largest events including SXSW, Social Media Marketing World, CES, Mobile World Congress. Oh… and… Brian is a semi-professional poker player who isn’t afraid to leverage his fast talking skills to read your body language and spot when you’re bluffing. There’s not much we can do about that snapback hat… we’ve suggested all kinds of different fitted solutions but we still keep seeing that damn snapback. About Matt Stephenson Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Security Technology team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and host of CylanceTV Twenty years of work with the world’s largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Matt to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization’s security posture and bottom line. Can’t get enough of Insecurity? You can find us at ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts, iTunes/Apple Podcastsand GooglePlayas well as Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, I Heart Radioand wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you Subscribe, Rate and Review!
I november 2018 åkte Ludvig Millfors och Jonas Ekman till Gartner Symposium i Barcelona. Med sig hade de ett nyfiket team från Centigo. Väl på plats ägnade de några dagar åt att se in i spåkulan kring vad som händer framåt rörande ny teknik och nya digitala innovationer. I månadens avsnitt av Centigopodden berättar de om både trender och innovationer som de tror blir aktuella under 2019.
Gartner analysts Tina Nunno and Mark Raskino discussed presenting to the board of directors and why leading CIOs should be appointed to boards with CIO UK Editor Edward Qualtrough during episode 12 of the CIO UK podcast. City University CIO Claire Priestley also joined Nunno and Qualtrough to share her thoughts and reflections from the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, and HMRC Chief Digital and Information Officer Jacky Wright discussed the changing nature of the CIO role and her 2019 priority of making the public sector body the most digitally advanced tax authority in the world.
CIO UK Editor Edward Qualtrough caught up with some 10 CIOs at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo in Barcelona to reflect and debrief on the the sessions, trends and themes which struck a chord at the research and analyst firm’s annual European gathering. Chief Digital Officer for Scottish Local Government Martyn Wallace, British Red Cross CIO Rosie Slater-Carr, Brussels Airline CIO Simon Lamkin, DVSA Director of Services and Technology James Munson, Arsenal FC IT Director Christelle Heikkila, Belron Chief Information and Digital Officer Nick Burton, ECB Head of IT Damian Smith, Pladis Chief Digital Officer Anthoula Madden, ArrowXL CIO James Robbins, and British Transport Police Sarah Winmill all discussed the cultural side of digital transformation, emerging technologies, from AI to augmented intelligence, board liaisons and their priorities for the next year. Recorded in conference rooms, exhibition halls, beach bars and corridors - hear some of the reflections from leading CIOs, CTOs, Chief Digital Officers, IT Directors and Heads of IT. Martyn Wallace, Chief Digital Officer for Scottish Local Government [2min 41sec] Rosie Slater-Carr, CIO of British Red Cross [9min 32sec] Simon Lamkin, CIO of Brussels Airlines [14min 56sec] James Munson, Director of Services and Technology at the DVSA [20min 03sec] Christelle Heikkila, IT Director at Arsenal FC [33min 01sec] Nick Burton, Chief Digital Officer at Belron [37min 34sec] Damian Smith, Head of IT for the ECB [45min 22sec] Anthoula Madden, Chief Digital Officer of Pladis [55min 36sec] James Robbins, CIO of ArrowXL [1hr 8min 45sec] Sarah Winmill, CIO of the British Transport Police [1hr 15min 29sec]
Rob Hirschfeld reviews last week's Gartner Symposium event and his thoughts on IT disruption based on several presentations at the event.
CliffCentral.com — B1 is in Cape Town at the Gartner Symposium and B2 holds down the studio. They look at the usual cool stuff and a summary of the show.
CliffCentral.com — Vice President of Research and Chair of the Gartner African Symposium, Jeffrey Mann, talks about the upcoming Symposium taking place in Cape Town in September 2016 with a specific focus on the Aspiring Innovators Program.
CliffCentral.com — Brett Levy chats with Jeffrey Mann from Gartner about the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, which is the world’s most important gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives. Then Jon Hoehler joins the show to reveal exactly what went down at the Mobile World Congress (MWC).
Digitalization is moving from an innovative trend to a core competence for every enterprise. Digital is different for every enterprise, and throws up unique challenges for each, in terms of talent, structure, innovation, and the role the CIO plays in all of these. How should CIOs understand, engage with their enterprise’s digital journey? Is bimodal essential? What talent gaps must be filled? How is risk morphing? And how is the CIO role evolving in response? To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25
Welcome Address from Gene Hall at Gartner Symposium IT/xpo, Orlando 2015. To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25
Digital business separates the leaders from those who struggle to catch up, and you are poised to make a difference in the competitive strategy. In the opening keynote, global head of Research Peter Sondergaard and a team of leading analysts give you the roadmap to create your digital business reality. Digital business is a team sport, involving all business disciplines. And your role as the CIO? To create a digital ecosystem in which you trust and can be trusted.To view additional videos from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, visit http://eod.gartner.com/sym25
In this week's episode, host Tiffany Early caught up with Jonathan, Kate and Steve, our mobile experts, before they headed off to Gartner Symposium in Orlando this week. Tune in to hear what the buzz is about at the world's most important gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives.
Mobile Cloud Computing is taking the world by storm as desktop computers fade into oblivion. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, speaking at the Gartner Symposium last October 2010, “hinted,” as EWeek wrote, those Windows smartphones were just like desktops and laptops. In other words, these powerful new mobile devices are only miniatures of bigger gadgets, like […]
Chris Gesell, director of product marketing for IT solutions, discusses a recent Verizon Business announcement that it’s extending IT services down to the desktop. PodTech.net talked with Chris at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2006 in Orlando, Florida.
Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action taken. This is the second of a two-part podcast from the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo […]
Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action taken. This is the first in a two-part podcast from the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo […]