The Cloudcast #283 - The Public Cloud

Aaron and Brian talk about the state of the public cloud, where each of the big 3 fit in the global IT picture, the big trends happening (mostly) in public cloud and what people should be tracking as we move into 2017.

Show Links:





• Predicting the End of the Cloud Era







Show Notes:









• Topic 1 - At the end of 2016, what is the general state of the Public Cloud, in all areas? (SaaS application, pricing?, Apple?, Facebook?





• Topic 2 - Where does AWS sit in the global IT landscape?





• Topic 3 - Where does Azure sit in the global IT landscape?





• Topic 4 - Where does GCP sit in the global IT landscape?





• Topic 4a - Does any other cloud matter except those Big 3? (e.g. Baidu, Alibaba, etc.)





• Topic 5 - What trends, technology, problems, are emerging and should on people’s radar in 2017? (Open Source, SaaS, Serverless, IoT, Machine Learning, AI, Bots, GitHub





• Topic 6 - What did we lose in 2016 from a Public Cloud perspective? (VMware, Cisco, HPE Helion, Oracle? ,Security, etc.)?


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