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With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia! Mid-roll Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/agenda/), day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off! Matt: Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group (https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/events/232172236/) Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk (https://events.chef.io/events/microsoft-ignite-australia/) ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84) Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog (https://cote.io/), and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of st

In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; working with marketers that have poor, nothing new material; learning how to function inside a large company in the executive suite; M&A and investment bankers, getting shit done in large companies (it’s always slow), like Project Sputnik. Mid-roll DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/welcome/), Feb 6th and 7th, 2017 - get 25% of when you register with the code SDT. Coté’s speaking at it! ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84) Show Notes See part one of this series (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/79). Coté’s published work (http://redmonk.com/cote/) at RedMonk. Coté’s analysis on disruption in the industry analyst business (https://cote.io/2015/02/19/the-new-industry-analysts-again/), going over the business as it matters to the individual analysts. A discu

After speculating on GitHub’s business we throw out our 2017 predictions. We cover AWS, containers, AI, and government IT. Since holiday family time is coming up, Brandon also suggests some simple family IT help-desk tasks - like backup - and throws out the stretch goal of discussing 2FA at the dinner table. Mid-roll Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/236191762/), 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking! Coté: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 is out. It adds in Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready; it will run 250,000 containers concurrently; you can now auto-scale on based on new metrics like HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput, so when your app seems slow to users, the platform kicks in to make it go faster (previously, CPU; Spring Boot developers will see handy diagnostics info about their apps with new Actuator (diagnostic thing) integrations; devs can use PCF to run “tasks” (one time processes); and, of course, a slew

...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie ...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?. ...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk. Mid-roll Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/236191762/), 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking! Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (https://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-conversations/features/045-cloud-native-at-home-depot-with-tony-mcculley). They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting wit

...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza. ...That sweet OpEx. ..."Easy to stay." Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas. Footware Kenneth Cole slip on shoes (http://amzn.to/2gH6OzD). Keen Austin shoes, slip-on (http://amzn.to/2h2gveX) and lace (http://amzn.to/2ggll4y). The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire (http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ). Mid-roll Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 (http://cote.io/cloud2) or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors (https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l), selecting initial projects (https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro

It's a special interloper episode from Australia! Matt Ray guests on the Arrested DevOps show live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Sydney, along with Bridget Kromhout, Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, Katie McLaughlin. Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

With all the domestic, direct flight, the gang lays out the case for Southwest. Coté salivates at the prospect but is worried about sitting next to chicken cages, but there's plenty of $500 shoe sales people on board. We also discuss Oracle buying Dyn, AWS's power, the looming cloud success of Microsoft, and, of course, containers. Octogenarian style: It’s episode 80! The Brittle Bones Anniversary. Feedback & Follow-up At least one person came correct (https://twitter.com/scrub/status/800844876908789760) and said CostCo. I think we’re now in the 2,000 to 2,500 downloads range (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk/status/803315322996555781). Good job listeners! Mid-roll Coté: stop the container madness and just use Pivotal Cloud Foundry (http://cote.io/pivotal). Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have: - or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors (https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l), selecting initial projects (http

How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt Ray is out, getting the bills paid, so Brandon interviews Coté about how he got here, professionally. We end the story around 2011; maybe we'll pick up next time it's just the two of us. Show Notes House of Commons Co-op (http://www.iccaustin.coop/hoc/), Austin, Texas. See some pictures (https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=12261156%40N00&view_all=1&text=HoC) of a simpler time there. I think this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Zachary_Newton) is that Victorian Literature professor. He's the one that taught me how to use books as tools (https://cote.io/2009/01/05/writeinbooks/), writing in them and whatnot. A typical day at BMC (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/58711356). Always lots of jokes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/63256825/), there. See more pictures (https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=122

We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers. This episode features Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). Mid-roll Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016). Coté: Nov 16th - Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha, next week (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/omaha). Coté: Various dates - Pivotal Cloud Native Roadshows (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow) - Cincinnati - Nov 10 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/cincinnati); St. Louis - Nov 14 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/stlouis); Hartford - Nov 16 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/hartford); Den

Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever. Show Notes Follow-up Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap. Check out the last episode, the show page (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/76) is- God-damned nifty! Review in iTunes France (https://twitter.com/matt_traverse/status/790600017778249728) Osprey “one bag” style backpack (https://twitter.com/scrub/status/790190603023843328). The Best Uber Driver Ever Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-rVFBC5Ps). The Sweat Hotel (http://thesweathotel.iheart.com/) Coté’s Agile shit Excerpt from a PDF in process (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/you-re-not-really-agile-airports-hitting-yourself-absurd-ai-tams-cote-memo-18-34432). IBM design people. We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely. It’s only cargo culting when the planes st

With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/4131abb5-d143-4e84-93f3-2050aeb31c05.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). Mid-roll Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney (http://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/234184228/). Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/kansas-city). Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaus

Summary Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, Oracle, and something about Google phones. It’s a regular episode on all the hot topics! See full show notes: http://cote.io/sdt75 Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. Sponsors/Mid-roll Check out cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Also: Lords of Computing is now Coté.show. Will put upcoming DrunkAndRetired.com special episode in there. And as always check out Pivotal Conversations. Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there. For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring

This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/29d80059-77a3-415b-a662-4bb0d1247f81.mp3). Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/69b48ec5-05d5-4440-a2ae-4cd30027952b.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). SPONSOR Check out cote.io/pivotal (https://cote.io/pivotal/) for free books, free cloud time, etc. Come to DellEMCWorld on Oct 18th to 20th (http://dellemcworld.com/), in Austin. I'll be speaking there. There's also the annual vBBQ event (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vbbq-2016-dellemcworld-edition-tickets-2795101824

At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.

Too old https://giphy.com/gifs/3b1JW7LxfsAKs It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee...plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/7b7bb7d7-4596-4d97-8d14-b1d09feada3d.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). Show Notes Twitter going to sell: The rumors (https://www.thestreet.com/story/13692580/1/twitter-is-finally-starting-to-wake-up-to-reality-and-consider-selling-itself.html) “I still think Alphabet makes for the most logical acquirer of Twitter” Dark Horse: Apple. Really Dark Horse: IBM. T

Eventually, you have to decide how your open source software is going to make money, and your partners probably won’t like it. That’s what the dust-up around Docker is this week, it seems to us. We also talk briefly about VMware’s big conference this week, and rumors of HPE selling off it’s Software group to private equity. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/ea25eafd-1d31-4f4f-a3a6-efad5b9cd5a5.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). SPONSOR Check out the multi-cloud webinar lead-gen free (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO2gizEI5O8)! I really like Brian’s part and then the discussion at the end between all of us. I have a discount code for Operability.IO,

This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray's first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/4101204e-ce1b-4cf8-9af1-fe0bb04aa0eb.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). SPONSOR On August 31st, come hear (https://pivotal.io/platform/webinar/platform-and-cloud-portability) about launching your cloud strategy and why multi-cloud matters with myself, an analyst, and an actual enterprise user of all this stuff. Register and watch it for free (https://pivotal.io/platform/webinar/pl

There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet. (Sorry the audio quality is so bad.) Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/fcdc5a2c-ebee-477b-9757-67bf42ddd4bd.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). SPONSOR On August 31st, come hear (https://pivotal.io/platform/webinar/platform-and-cloud-portability) about launching your cloud strategy and why multi-cloud matters with myself

SPONSOR See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4VB0cauli7-_RIvpmn651ePtddw9_Fp). It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16 (https://ti.to/highops/operability-io-2016/discount/COTEMEMOOIO16). Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivo