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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

- 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...