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Roll For Enterprise S3E17: Podcast's Gone WildBrian 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 strengthhttps://siliconangle.com/2022/04/26/google-parent-alphabets-results-come-short-despite-cloud-strength/Google Cloud hit $5.82B in Q1 sales, up from $4.05B YoY and above estimates of $5.75B, and an operating loss of $931M, down from $974M YoYAmazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarterhttps://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-202...

2022-05-0130 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E16: Why have searches for GitOps doubled in the past year?GitOpshttps://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitopsSearches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months.The reason for growing interest in the practice is that GitOps can lead to increased productivity, higher reliability and better stability.GitOps is part of the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) meta trend.According to E-Topics, Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months. The mainstreaming of cloud practices and the continued increase in adoption of DevSecOps are two main drivers of accelerating IaC growth.Hyperautomationhttps://explodingtopics.com/topic/hyperaut...

2022-04-2431 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E15: Infrastructure as Code is dead, Cloud is the new VMWare, and IT Operations is forever changedFoundry — Cloud computing study 2022https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/Puppet acquired (by Perforce)https://puppet.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-the-ceo-of-puppetBackup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protectionhttps://www.theregister.com/2022/04/12/nasuni-ransomware-without-backup/Microsoft Customers Decry Cloud Contracts That Sideline Rivalshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/microsoft-customers-decry-cloud-contracts-that-sideline-rivalsAtlassian cloud outage could take days to resolvehttps://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252515706/Atlassian-cloud-outage-could-take-days-to-resolvehttps://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1513727021087543300https://twitter.com/atlassian/status/1513913041540333569Re...

2022-04-1735 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E14: People In Three DimensionsBack to (in-person) workBig tech conferences aren’t coming backhttps://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-eventsMicrosoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emailshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/microsoft-ceo-warns-of-the-impact-of-all-those-late-night-emailsUsing 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 newsMicrosoft Azure to build Arm servers with chips from Amperehttps://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampereIBM deliberately misclassified main...

2022-04-1030 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc ApocalypseRemote meetings are big moneyHP Inc. to Acquire PolyPoly 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 ComputingShadow IT discourse is back, baby!As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuationhttps://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b...

2022-04-0334 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E12: Oktapoppin’Okta poppedOriginal tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA): https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60864283Japan's Self-Defense Forces launch new cyberdefense unit: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/17/national/sdf-cyberdefense-unit/Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies https...

2022-03-2737 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E11: Pigeons In The Net- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprisehttps://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase - Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/ - Remote events are still with us Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully online https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981868/google-i-o-2022-may-11th-12th-onl...

2022-03-2030 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E10: IT Research Analysts, what exactly are they good for? Plus more on the NVIDIA breach, Amazon’s stock split and the latest Apple eventNVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malwarehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefronthttps://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/google-s-mandiant-acquisition-brings-cybersecurity-automation-to-forefrontAmazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buybackhttps://seekingalpha.com/news/3811399-amazon-jumps-10-on-20-for-1-share-split-10-billion-buyback?lctg=60c1e2e9dba83e59148a0f62&mailingid=26973903&messageid=wall_street_breakfast&serial=26973903.883067&userid=50571090&utm_campaign=WSB%203_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&utm_term=wall_street_breakfasthttps://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1501688392915898370Everything Apple Announced...

2022-03-1240 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E9: More On Infosec Consequences Of Ukraine WarUkrainian tech companieshttps://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companiesGrammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfitsPeople around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check inhttps://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-airbnb-donations-cec/index.htmlNvidia Confirms Company Data Was Stolen in Hackhttps://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-confirms-company-data-was-stolen-in-hackhttps://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/nvidia-hackers-leak-ransomware/DARVO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO$50/month to...

2022-03-0633 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E8: Cyber Security in trying times, EU data regulation and multi-cloud frenemiesUkraine CrisisAmbulance-chasing by security marketers — just don’tBiden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russiahttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move Inhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disturbing-mass-text-operation-terrorizes-ukraine-as-russian-troops-move-in/ar-AAUdejJCyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websiteshttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/cyberattack-hits-ukrainian-banks-and-government-websites.htmlhttps://twitter.com/aneel/status/1496826799162077189The Associated Press tried to sell an NFT of migrants adrift at seahttps://web3i...

2022-02-2736 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E7: Shipping Citrix and Tibco — Citco? Tibrix?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-dealWeighted ACV as more useful SaaS metric - https://whoisnnamdi.com/weighted-acv/Intel plans - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/18/intel_gelsinger_plan/Intel — Powering the Metaverse- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/powering-metaverse.htmlSalesforce Establishes Sustainability as a Core Company Value; Launches Net Zero Cloud 2.0 Globally- http...

2022-02-2029 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E6: The One With Jon CollinsDominic, 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!

2022-02-1331 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E5: Amazon AWS the giant of cloud compared to Microsoft Azure and the often forgotten Google GCPAmazon Q4: AWS’ Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71Bhttps://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71bhttps://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1488248066389983232https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1489350978642100230⬆️ 20B Jeff Bezos⬇️ 30B Mark ZuckerbergAlphabet Q4 Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Jumps 45 Percenthttps://www.crn.com/alphabet-q4-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-jumps-45-percenthttps://twitter.com/munster_gene/status/1488646948835905536https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021_Q4_Earnings_Transcript.pdf (page 15)The Apple effect. Is Facebook/Meta in trouble...

2022-02-0636 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E4: Microsoft Windows license and cloud growth, Nvidia and Arm not happening, and Calendly dramaMicrosoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderateshttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.htmlNvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisitionhttps://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 businesshttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.htmlCalendly discoursehttps://twitter.com/lessin/status/1486477359717187589https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1486747239544459265https://twitter.com/calendly/status/1486780920048672772Peloton to halt production of its Bikes, treadmills as demand...

2022-01-3036 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E3: Games, Metaverse, and CoffeeMicrosoft buys Activision for $69B (nice)https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.htmlMicrosoft 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 metaversehttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-quietly-preparing-to-enter-the-metaverse.htmlBut the video everyone has seen is old:https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/5/22868323/walmart-metaverse-shopping-video-viral-old...

2022-01-2228 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E2: Big Data! What Is It Good For?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 Securityhttps://www.protocol.com/open-source-security-white-house-2656216576https://www.theverge.com/platform/2022/1/13/22882176/google-government-action-protect-open-source-software-funding-securityhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/Doug is a 25-year veteran building teams and technology products. His experiences span startups as well over 15 years i...

2022-01-1738 min

Roll For Enterprise S3E1: Here We Go Again, Welcome to the year of the employee2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictionsEmployment changes, new wave of freelancingFractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-onehttps://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Part-Time-CTO-Salary vs https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Chief-Technology-Officer-SalaryHealthcare impactsMore Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation: https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequalityAmazon considers changing how it distributes employee stock options to stem exodus of top talent: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-stock-compensation-monthly-vesting-l7-top-employees-2022-1Season 2 Episode 3: We Get A Klue : https...

2022-01-0833 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E51: Year In ReviewThemes 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 backThe book Dominic referred to is “Feersum Endjinn” by Iain M Banks, first published in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feersum_EndjinnFo...

2021-12-2338 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E50: Exploits, outages and the not so different futurePatch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s being exploitedhttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/List of software impacted by log4jhttps://github.com/cisagov/log4j-affected-db/blob/develop/README.mdThe 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 OutageThis time it’s not us-east-1!https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/amazon-owned-twitch-down-many-users-2021-12-15/Benedict Evans’ year-end presentationhttps://www.be...

2021-12-1936 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E49: Services, Dead Or AliveAWS us-east-1 outage (again)https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.htmlhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-nowhttps://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 shutdownhttps://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/twitter-acquires-quill-a-would-be-slack-rival-team-will-work-on-dms-as-quill-shuts-down/https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-quill-acquisitionhttps://twitter.com/sdw/status/1468289633964290049Slack investor Index Ventures backs Slack competitor Quillhttps://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/slack-investor-index-ventures-backs-slack-competitor-quill/Swiss suicide pod: https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/controversial-suicide-pod-that-kills-peacefully-gets-go-ahead-in-switzerland/Quick News

2021-12-1238 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E48: AWS re:Invent experience and the potential end of big tech acquisitionsAWS re:Inventhttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/AWS re:Invent Keynoteshttps://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/track/?trackID=E930FDEA03498D13B5CDACA0833D5A2F.T.C. Sues to Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Armhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/technology/ftc-nvidia-arm-deal.htmlUK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy dealhttps://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for...

2021-12-0533 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E47: WebEx Is Good, ActuallyHave you tried WebEx lately?Whither Skype?Did Zoom depend too much on growth-hacking dirty tricks? https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoomZoom loses Five9 while WebEx extends gap with Contact Center capabilitieshttps://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/contact-center/webex-contact-center/index.htmlNvidia's on a Roll - Nvidia’s just beginningTinyMLGlobal shipments of TinyML chipsets are expected to reach 2.5 billion units by 2030, representing a 164x increase from 2020.https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/tinyml...

2021-11-2135 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E46: Return of single threaded lifeMongoDB.local Londonhttps://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondonAWS re:Inventhttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/RecommendationsDominicPeople. Just people. In three dimensions and real life.MikeThe 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 NFTshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795?i=1000540043607Follow the show on Twitter @Rol...

2021-11-1431 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E45: In which we get metaFacebook goes Metahttps://stratechery.com/2021/meta/ Microsoft wants to beat Meta at its own gamehttps://thehustle.co/11042021-microsoft-meta/ Tinder also goes meta, with NFTshttps://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 NewsLow-code/no-code: Botmock acquired by Walmarthttps://www.botmock.com/blog/walmart-to-acquire-botmock-technology

2021-11-0633 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E43: Google Cloud reorg/culture shift and Apple being AppleGoogle Next ’21https://cloud.withgoogle.com/nextGoogle Cloud Removes Old Guard - Will it be enough?Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quicklyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.htmlGoogle Cloud cuts its marketplace revenue shares from 20% to 3%https://cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2021/sep/29/google-cloud-cuts-its-marketplace-revenue-shares-from-20-to-3/Upcoming event we talked about:AWS re:Inventhttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/Microsoft Ignitehttps://myignite.microsoft.com/homeApple Ev...

2021-10-2431 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E42: Life, the Universe, and EverythingOur top 5 technologies we wish never were: Bitnet VDI “Modern” Web front-end stack https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160 Web apps (Google Docs in primis) USB 3.0 spec15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All TimeRecommendationsDominicMongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and onlinehttps://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon50% discount code: DominicWellington50Follow 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!

2021-10-1631 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E41: BGP brought down Facebook; Databricks moves into Low-Code/No-Code; What does it mean for the future of IT organizations everywhere?Facebook outage, Twitch leakUnderstanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internethttps://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/Lost serverhttps://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/Twitch source code and payout data leakshttps://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/twitch_data_leak/Also blamed on config errorBest comment: “It’s complex systems all the way down; even the turtles are complex systems.” https://twitter.com/swagitda_/status/1445376680684572678NPM outagenpm Status - Service outageVerica Open Incide...

2021-10-1030 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E40: The Big Four-OhSorry for making some of our listeners feel old, because their “I feel old now” references are twenty years earlier than Nevermind!Here’s what we talked about this week:How IBM lost the cloudhttps://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloudCloudflare Announces R2 Storage; Rapid and Reliable S3-Compatible Object Storage Designed for the Edgehttps://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/press-releases/2021/cloudflare-announces-r2-storage/EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhoneshttps://www.theverge.com/20...

2021-10-0428 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E39: In which we feel very old30 years since Nevermind!Listening guide: https://www.nme.com/features/nirvanas-nevermind-at-30-a-track-by-track-guide-dave-grohl-st-vincent-lorde-304869730th anniversary reissue: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/The kids don’t get filesystems: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-zDinosaurs evolving — including why email is better at email than Slack can ever be: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/dinosaurs-evolvingThe college mindset list: http://themindsetlist.com/2017/08/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2021/Gen-X vs Millennials: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CTS15PcDK-H/EpikfailEpikfail explainer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

2021-09-2632 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E38: The IT way back machineA look back at IT and technology in the 90s and the evolution that led us to today.Timeline of Computer History1993https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1993/1995https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1995/The Oregon Trail (1971 video game)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game)Drug Wars (video game)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)Silicon graphicshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_GraphicsFollow the show on Twitter @Roll4Ent...

2021-09-1931 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E37: The uncertainty around conferences, return to work and business travelDominic, Zack and Mike are together again discussing how conferences which should have been in person have now fallen off again. Companies are becoming non-committal to return to work and business travel is looking to be forever changed. They also touch on Ray Ban’s new Facebook glasses, Amazon’s new TV and the upcoming Apple event. Will the Apple Event shed light on the semi conductor supply chain issues?Facebook Ray-Banhttps://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1436300410810257408‘Forever Changed’: CEOs Are Dooming Business Travel — Maybe for Goodhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...

2021-09-1230 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E36: All Together NowIn which Mike considers paying for some software, Lilac solves all of Enterprise IT's problems, and all four hosts are re-united once again.Enterprise software financialsHow about that monster H round — yes, H — from Databricks?https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/Meanwhile Docker is hoping to get paid by desktop users…https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/…and we debate digital transformation, prompted by Benedict Evans.https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformationSecurity — It’s still hardIf you...

2021-09-0536 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E35: The One About “The Great Resign”The Great Resignation: Why Employees Don't Want To Go Back To The OfficeA Microsoft survey of more than 30,000 global workers showed that 41% of workers were considering quitting or changing professions this year, and a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland showed 38% of those surveyed planned to quit in the next six months to a year. In the US alone, April saw more than four million people quit their jobs, according to a summary from the Department of Labor – the biggest spike on record.https://www.forbes.com/si...

2021-08-2925 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E34: Intel and Nvidia, how two giants in the same industry are looking to grow and execute; and Microsoft is turning on the M365 cash machineIntel CEO flashes cash, calling company a 'willing buyer' in semiconductor industryhttps://www.windowscentral.com/intel-ceo-flashes-cash-calling-company-willing-buyerNVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2022https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2022Nvidia beats earnings expectations, but cryptocurrency chip sales falterhttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q2-2022.htmlNvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in fundinghttps://venturebeat.com/2021/08/02/nvidia-is-tracking-more-than-8500-ai-startups-with-60b-in-funding/Nvidia admits bid for Arm likely to stretch beyond 18-month deal timeframehttps://www.ft.com/content/3758929...

2021-08-2231 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E33: When the company that provides security consulting gets hacked and ransomware what do you do? Plus are we going to be doing fake job for AI to judge our value?Accenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threatshttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/accenture-confirms-hack-after-lockbit-ransomware-data-leak-threats/Employees may need to keep up ‘the pretense of working’ as automation spreads, says A.I. expert Kai-Fu Leehttps://fortune.com/2021/08/12/ai-automation-talent-ethics-bias-kaifu-lee/FedEx Deploys new AI-Robotics E-Commerce Fulfilment Systemhttps://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-robotics-e-commerce-fulfilment-systemFollow 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!

2021-08-1531 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E32: Glitter, chip shortages, and Apple privacy concernsIntroGlitter bomb vs porch pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4Ship Your Enemies Glitter https://shipyourenemiesglitter.comChip Shortages ContinueThe shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter https://www.theverge.com/22602104/chip-shortage-tech-quarterly-earnings-intel-apple-microsoft-amd-samsung-teslaApple CSAM Protection FeaturesApple reveals new efforts to fight child abuse imagery https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611721/apple-csam-child-abuse-scanning-hash-system-ncmechttps://twitter.com/sjmurdoch/status/1423397219491852291Apple — Expanded Protections for Children https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

2021-08-0835 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E31: Cloud growth continues at speed for the big threeWhile Dominic is in the alps, doing yoga with goats, Zack, Lilac and Mike got together to talk about the recent Google, Microsoft and Amazon earning report showing that cloud is still growing rapidly. Will it ever end? The gang also gets into product death and how to communicate end of life of products/components and how enterprises should deal with it.AWS Sees 37 Percent Quarterly Growth As Amazon Disappointshttps://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-sees-37-percent-quarterly-growth-as-amazon-disappointsAlphabet Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Climbs 54 Percent To $4.63Bhttps://www.crn.com...

2021-08-0133 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E30: Apology PodcastWhat happened last week?We failed to record a normal podcast episode, so we tried something different and put out a Textual Podcast instead: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/textual-podcastManagement = FOMO?Some people wind up in management more due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) than because they actually want to do the work — and then the rest of us get to rehabilitate the people who suffered the consequences.Management track is not the only track: Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp. ht...

2021-07-2428 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E28: AWS Infinidash, Kaseya’s security issue, Kubernetes cost problem and why hardware is just a problem the cloud hasn’t solved yetDominic is back! Dominic, Mike and Zack discuss the AWS Infinidash origin and how everyone needs an AWS Infinidash expert on their team. Another supply chain attack has occurred this time at Kaseya. Finally we discuss once again Zack and Dominic's favorite subject, Kubernetes, but this time in relation to run away cloud spend. Cloud keeps growing and the only reason on premise hardware exists is because it's used to solve a problem cloud hasn't solved for yet. AWS Infinidash“Hey, are you hiring for Infinidash experts? I hear nobody can find any!”https...

2021-07-1335 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E27: IBMs failed email migration, why startups fail and who suffers, and 5G powered by Microsoft AzureLilac, Zack and Mike discuss how even after planning an email migration for 18-month, IBM still failed. What is going on with all these underwhelming startup acquisitions? What really happening? and who suffers? Has anyone noticed how even companies that offer “cloud” are moving their core service to Microsoft Azure? Azure is now powering AT&Ts 5G network. Microsoft continues to win.IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources sayhttps://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/Arista Buys SDN Pioneer Big Switch 'For a Song' – Sourceshttps...

2021-07-0435 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E26: David Cheriton (VMware & Google angel investor) talks Cloud, AI and the changing tech landscape in the USZack and Mike were joined by this week by David Cheriton, VMware & Google angel investor, as he talks Cloud, AI, and the Internet while weaving in stories from Stanford University, where he was a professor, and the beginnings of Google & VMware. What he reveals may surprise you.Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

2021-06-3039 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E25: Microsoft Windows 11 leak, who is copying who? Plus learning code in school and mental health startup fundingThe gang is back together this week discussing the Windows 11 leak and their thoughts on MacOS versus Windows. Also the value, or not, of teaching coding in school. What code? What do we really want to teach our kids? Plus HBOs recent snafu and the hilarious intern responses. And finally what is happening that is leading to the increase in mental health startup funding?Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and morehttps://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menuLearn coding in schoolhttps://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1404197107964301320The...

2021-06-2039 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E24: Down goes Fastly, down goes the internetOn this episode of Roll For Enterprise the gang is all together to discuss the recent Fastly outage which brought down a large part of the internet. Is this the same or different from on premise outages and just more noticeable with so many companies impacted?Fastly outage and cloud resilienceInternet outage: which websites and services were hit by Fastly issueDoes the Fastly outage justify “Single Point of Failure” headlines?What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messagesGrindr Is Down So Users Are Hitt...

2021-06-1436 min

Roll For Enterprise S22E23: Break’s Over, Back On Your HeadsBack to Work(What do they think we’ve been doing all this time?)People refusing to come back to the officeLilac: "When I’m in the office I’m not also a mother and someone who has to do a load of laundry"Dominic: Dangers of a hybrid office — people who are physically in the office get the inside track“There is no return to normalcy,” says Mayer-Schönberger, whose research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. “The environment people are reentering is fundamentally c...

2021-06-0733 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E22: Microsoft pushes low-code deep into the business by turning natural speech into code with GPT-3; state of cloud & a16z’s on-prem report; Rapid7 breach & AWS re:InforceThe team passionately debates the impact of GPT-3 converting speech to code on the business and software developers. Microsoft introduces this as a low code feature at their Build Conference.@Mike points out that IT must provide the business with guard rails. “The biz knows how to read and use the data, more so than someone in a technology role. This is the democratization of software development, and data is the next step. It’s going to continue and has to continue.”@Mike reminds us that Bubble & SquareSpace are empowering users to create the next Amazon...

2021-06-0233 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E21: Aneel Lakhani on startup marketing and enterprise clientsIn this episode Roll for Enterprise welcomes Aneel Lakhani as a guest. Aneel is a Marketing Exec, Startup Advisor, Growth Therapist, and Investor. After 25-plus years in technology, with stints in engineering, product, and marketing in big companies and startups--Aneel now serves as an advisor to mostly b2b enterprise software startups and VCs.Aneel shares his insights with Dominic, Lilac and Mike on the difference in marketing between startups and more established enterprises, getting your first enterprise clients as a startup and why it’s particularly hard on both sides and failure modes of tech marketing....

2021-05-2335 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E20: Ransomware on the rise with real world consequence; IBMs 2nm announcement and Apple hire/fireDominic, Mike and Zack are together again this week to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and all that we’ve learned since. People are still the weakest link in social engineering of attacks. Could China has prevented something like this thanks to their great firewall when compared to American or European companies? They also discussed various news items including: IBM surprise 2nm chip rollout which took everyone by surprise; Elon Musk’s Crypto announcements; and Apple’s hire and fire of Antonio García Martínez. Whom coincidentally is an ad tech person and signifies Apples move into ads, or...

2021-05-1637 min

Roll For Enterprise Season 2 Episode 19: Misusing Excel with Priya DotyOur guest on the podcast this week is Priya Doty. Priya is the Global VP Product Marketing for IBM’s iconic IBM Z brand and it’s all-Linux sister brand, LinuxONE. Unlike a lot of marketers, Priya has also been a developer, which means she enjoys deconstructing marketing messages by reading technical manuals. Based in Brooklyn, she is a mom, wife, and author of an upcoming fiction novel. Aside from majoring on the topic of Confidential Computing (and Cloud Security in general), Priya is all about the IBM Z platform, Product Marketing (Top 100 Influencer in PMM 2-Years Runni...

2021-05-0936 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E18: Basecamp: Politics and Culture at workWith the recent controversy surrounding Basecamp and David Hansson (https://twitter.com/dhh?s=20) Dominic, Lilac and Mike spent some time discussion their thoughts on the topic. Not an easy topic with a lot of different opinion and many consequences to be considered.Background:https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamphttps://qz.com/work/2002100/why-basecamps-culture-memo-is-so-controversial/https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387343362013995009?s=21https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387044958377447424?s=21https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1386773744484552715?s=21https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1388237962991652865?s=21 Yes, a bunch of p...

2021-05-0237 min

Roll For Enterprise Season 2 Episode 17: The Importance Of Core Skills (they’re not soft skills!)The guest on this episode is Rachel Chalmers of Alchemist Accelerator. Rachel joined Alchemist from Autodesk, where she was Director, Transformation Growth Boards and Product Excellence. Prior to Autodesk, Rachel was a VC with Ignition Partners and Merian Ventures, leading investments in Docker, Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook), Unikernel (acquired by Docker) and Honeycomb.io. She began her career as employee number 10 with 451 Research (acquired by Standard & Poor), where she was the first analyst to cover VMware, Cloudera and Splunk.Find Rachel on Twitter and on LinkedIn. Alchemist Accelerator is at https://www.alchemistaccelerator.com...

2021-04-2541 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E16: Microsoft targets healthcare (again), Rocket Software expands reach, and Dell spins out VMware, plus the new must attend conferences, and Nvidia sets aggressive strategy in motionThe entire team was back together this week and there was a lot to discuss. There have been a slew of acquisitions in technology lately including Rocket Software acquisition of ASG, Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance and then Dell decided to finally spinoff VMWare. IBM also renamed its services spinout Kyndryl. Nvidia’s ARM announcement, among what felt as 100 others from Nvidia, was also discussed as Nvidia seems to be getting better and better with every announcement and product they release. Finally the team is dreaming of conferences, but gone are the days of Cisco Live and VMWorld being the...

2021-04-1836 min

Roll For Enterprise Season 2 Episode 15: Apple rumours, why creepy adtech doesn't work, and some Gmail tipsZack, Mike, and Dominic discuss Tim Cook's interview in which he talks about AR, some news about the long-expected AirTags, and Dominic's delayed plans to spend more money on Apple's products. We also talked about the massive Facebook contact data leak — check if your details were included here. Dominic may have gone off on a bit of a rant about the ills of adtech and surveillance capitalism, but then again, he does have form here.RecommendationsDominic: when you register for some site, append the name to your Gmail address, like so: youraddress+somesite@gmail.co...

2021-04-1030 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E14: Fortinet making a home office play, AWS has a new leader, Intel proclaims it is back with a vengeance!?Fortinet invest in Linksys to focus on securing home office network in a clear play to take advantage of the long term changes due to COVID. Meanwhile at AWS they announced that Tableau CEO, Adam Selipsky, an ex-AWS employee is replacing Andy Jassy. Could this be a sign that AWS is getting ready to spinout or is everyone too busy wondering why someone from the AWS ranks didn’t get the job? In silicon wars Intel announced a 20 billion dollar investment into new foundries in the US and proclaimed it is back with a vengeance. Surprising to us but de...

2021-04-0232 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E13: Talking About Struggle With Grace MarshallThis week's guest is Grace Marshall. Author of the award-winning How to be Really Productive, Grace is known for her ‘refreshingly human’ approach to productivity. Featured in The Guardian, Forbes and Huffpost, her work as a Productivity Ninja with global productivity training company Think Productive has helped thousands of people to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction. We mainly discussed her new book Struggle: the surprising truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s sh*ttier moments:In a world that’s obsessed with fast hacks, quick wins, and Instagram-perfection, struggle has become...

2021-03-2828 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E12: MS Ignite Zeroes In On Industrial IoT & Manufacturing, No Code/Low Code Is the Gateway to Coding, Apple Escapes the Chip Shortage, And Are Analysts Being Surpassed by Business ConsultantsMS Ignitehttps://myignite.microsoft.com/homeIndustrial IoT was a trend at re:invent and continued at MS Ignite with the cloud reaching into the network edge and deep into manufacturing.Manufacturing is going through an evolution, and that's why the cloud is focused there. Companies are taking more of a nationalistic approach toward manufacturing. There's a real push for the first time in a long time for all countries, not only the US, to build more factories at home. This push will result in a revolution, so it's a market that...

2021-03-2138 min

Roll For Enterprise Season 2 Episode 11: From Product Management to Product Marketing and Back, with Jason GarbisWith special guest Jason Garbis from Appgate.Jason has worked in the software industry for over 30 years, in roles that include software engineer, technical consultant, marketing, product marketing, and product management. This makes him extremely old! Despite his advanced age, he manages to remain productive in his role as SVP of Products at Appgate, a security vendor. He is also co-chair of the SDP Zero Trust Working Group at the Cloud Security Alliance, and just published a book - “Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide”.You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn

2021-03-1232 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E10: SLOs and SREs a conversation with Brian Singer from Nobl9In this episode of Roll For Enterprise the team sits down with Brian Singer of Nobl9 to discuss SLOs and SREs.Brian Singer is a product-focused entrepreneur with a passion for enterprise software, cloud computing, and reliability engineering. He is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Nobl9, a Battery-backed company building a platform to optimize software reliability. His previous company, Orbitera, was acquired by Google where he adapted the SaaS product to follow Google’s best practices for production and reliability. Prior to Orbitera, Brian worked for BMC and Novell. Brian holds a BS in Computer Engineering fr...

2021-03-0736 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E9: IT Career Advice, How to Pace Yourself & Avoid BurnoutSpoon theory‘Nano transitions’ are the secret to staying productive and avoiding burnoutHow to avoid being controlled by your digital toolsMicrosoft giving employees extra paid days off to ease pandemic stresshttps://twitter.com/beeonaposy/status/1365022176684965896Airbnb predicts 'significant' travel rebound Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Calls For Workers To Return To The Office — yes, Dominic misspoke and said BlackRock, but it was actually Goldman SachsJason Fried Notes Face-to-face real-time should be the last resort, not the first resort. Many people can't work full time right now, and leadership must recognize that from a leadership perspective. Leadership needs to set the stage a...

2021-02-2832 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E8: Rule 34 of Enterprise IT: There’s An Acronym Of It, No ExceptionsWhat would it mean for IT Ops to be an actually mature discipline, rather than one that is still maturing? One indication would be that there would be no need to follow the developing trends as new ideas (slowly) percolate through to the mainstream.Top 8 DevOps Trends for 2021Rise of serverless: Is serverless hitting the mainstream?2021 DevOps Predictions The blog post by Mike Gualtieri at Forrester that started the NoOps conversation: I Don’t Want DevOps. I Want NoOps.Dominic's reaction: Not...

2021-02-2036 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E7: IT Career Advice, Thoughts on Education and the Career PivotRecently there has been a lot of talk of getting into technology with a degree and the value of degrees compared to online training and certifications, etc..Dominic, Zack, Mike and Lilac discuss the IT Career Roller Coster. They go through everything from career progression, generalist versus specialist and then dive into education. The differences in education in different countries, specifically US versus other countries. They also touch on the value of a degree and specifically an MBA. Is the value of an MBA the degree or the connections and social connection it creates? Listen to find...

2021-02-1433 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E6: Cloud Wars and The future AmazonNow that the big three have reported earnings, let’s compare Cloud growth. AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP - The quarterly reviewNote: In the late 2000s, the top 5 public cloud companies' market capitalization was approximately 14Bil. Today those top 5 public companies have a market cap of over 600Bil, a 40x increase in the value in the past decade.What’s bigger news Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy getting the job, or a new leader for AWS to be announced with Andy Jassy moving on?AWS is the logical evol...

2021-02-0834 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E5: Integration to the rescue! No-code / Low-code vs Kubernetes vs SaaSOracle launches APEX low-code offering: https://www.techradar.com/news/oracle-wants-to-drastically-simplify-app-development-with-new-low-code-service“SaaS has created an environment where departmental purchasing encourages people to try subscription-based point solutions when they need an edge or face a sudden shift in needs. This has led to an explosion of applications that SaaS purchasing will only accelerate. While this has sometimes encouraged the growth of silos, there is a real movement to connect products into platforms and ecosystems.”https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/101139/ (451 clients only)Remote workhttps://remoters.net/remote-work-trends-future-insights/Recommendations/RantsDo...

2021-01-3133 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E4: Intel’s comedy of errors and cloud platforms comparedIntelIntel's new CEO says troubled chip project is recoveringhttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/intel-intc-earnings-q4-2020.htmlIntel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEOhttps://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232554/intel-ceo-apple-lifestyle-company-cpus-commentCES 2021 - Intel Mobileyehttps://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/ces-2021-mobileye-avs-on-move/?utm_source=morning_brew#gs.qsf1o6 Intel and Mobileye are developing a lidar system-on-chip. Slated for 2025 production, the hardware could slash costs of self-driving tech stacks. Mobileye controls ~80% of the market for advanced driver-assist vision systems used by a...

2021-01-2436 min

Roll For Enterprise Season 2 Episode 3: We Get A KlueThis week we are joined by Vincent Lo, VP of Product Marketing at Klue, a Competitive Enablement company. A 20 year veteran in tech with a wealth of experiences across product, engineering, sales, and marketing, Vincent is an engineer who loves to bring innovative products to market. He’s also a, literally, certified wine geek and spends his down time poking at ways to discover and uncover interesting wines from around the world.Klue, the highest-rated competitive intelligence platform on the market (as rated by real users on G2), helps companies collect and curate hard to find competitive in...

2021-01-1730 min

Roll For Enterprise Season 2 Episode 2: Security awareness driving patterns in SaaS M&AJetBrains denies being involved in SolarWinds hackJetBrains denies reports that is being under investigation and somehow related to the SolarWinds breach.https://www.zdnet.com/article/jetbrains-denies-being-involved-in-solarwinds-hack/M&A MarketTop fundraiser Thoma Bravo bets software’s red-hot run is far from overhttps://www.pehub.com/top-fundraiser-thoma-bravo-bets-softwares-red-hot-run-is-far-from-over/The problem of customer references for startupshttps://findthethread.postach.io/post/reference-this Alphabet Union We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We W...

2021-01-1034 min

Roll For Enterprise S2E1: 2021 PredictionsHappy New Year!Lilac is back for our first episode of the new year! Naturally we kick it off with our predictions for the new year. Amazon dominated prediction like everything else lately.Mike predicts Amazon will spin out AWS before it comes under tighter DOJ scrutiny over their practices. This way they can continue to featuring everyones business and continue killing startups and competition. Everyone agreed that Amazon should take a lesson from Microsoft and lose the arrogance.Dominic predicted a change in the nature of Open Source where Open Source moving...

2021-01-0141 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 34: 2020 HindsightIt's a festive miracle: we made it all the way to the end of 2020! We looked back on the major events in 2020 from an enterprise IT perspective. Lilac Schoenbeck joined us once again, and helped us consider the wider implications of remote work. It's not just about a spike in the sales of webcams; there have also been major career impacts that have fallen disproportionately on women.We were all in agreement that WfH during a pandemic is way harder than during normal times, much more so than we had expected. Zoom fatigue is...

2020-12-2434 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 33: AWS re:Invent recap and why AWS is like Brookstone plus the SolarWinds HackAWS re:InventAWS Expands Industrial Offeringshttps://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2020/12/04/aws-expands-industrial-offeringsAWS re:Invent 2020 – Top Announcementshttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reinvent-announcements-2020/Amazon Monitronhttps://aws.amazon.com/monitron/AWS Panorama Appliancehttps://aws.amazon.com/panorama/appliance/Other newsSolarWindshttps://www.csoonline.com/article/3601508/solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-explained-why-organizations-were-not-prepared.htmlSalesforce rolls out low-code environment Flow Orchestrator https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2020/12/02/introducing-salesforce-einstein-automate/Chrome is bad https://chromeisbad.com...

2020-12-2037 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 32: The One About ITSMSpecial guest: Claire AgutterClaire Agutter is a service management trainer, consultant and author. She is the director at ITSM Zone, providing accredited eLearning in ITIL, DevOps, BRM and more, and also at Scopism, publisher of the SIAM Foundation and Professional books. In 2018, 19 and 20 she was recognised by Computer Weekly as one of the 50 most influential women in tech, and in 2017, 18 and 19 she was recognised as an HDI Top 25 Thought Leader. Claire is the host of the popular ITSM Crowd YouTube channel, and Chief Architect for VeriSM.https://twitter.com/ClaireAgutterhttps://www...

2020-12-1330 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 31: Thoughts on AWS Re:Invent the Channel and MicrosoftAWS re:Inventhttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/Andy Jassy’s 10 Boldest Statements At AWS re:Invent 2020https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/andy-jassy-s-10-boldest-statements-at-aws-re-invent-2020/2AWS Marketplace Now Offers Professional Serviceshttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-marketplace-now-offers-professional-services/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29reQuinnvent: A reInvent Partner Keynote Rebuttal / your questions answeredhttps://www.twitch.tv/videos/824558423Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Please send us suggestions for topic...

2020-12-0635 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 30: IBM buys Instana, Salesforce may be buying Slack, AWS takes down a big chunk of the web (again) — and we are all thankful for Slack and ZoomIBM buys Instana — what does this mean for the monitoring markethttps://venturebeat.com/2020/11/18/ibm-acquires-instana-for-its-ai-powered-app-performance-monitoring/Is this a sign of more monitoring deals to come?451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase has recorded more than 50 'monitoring' purchases, on average, for each year since 2015, which is two-thirds higher than the number of deals in the first half of the decade.Salesforce may be buying Slackhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/tech/slack-stock-salesforce-acquisition-rumors/index.htmlWhat does this mean for adoption? Did Teams steal Slack’s growth, or did they...

2020-11-2831 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 29: How do you use the cloud? Spoiler Alert: Not with Oracle!How do people actually use the cloud?Is it still raw infrastructure components, lifted & shifted from on-premises data centers, or are people architecting apps differently in a cloud-native world?Servers > VMs > Containers > FunctionsThe Big Three providers and what differentiates themWho’s the customer: developers or business usersOpenshift At The Center Of The Hybrid Cloud Storm https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/17/openshift-at-the-center-of-the-hybrid-cloud-storm/John Chambers: Why tech companies need to reinvent themselves every three to four years https://www.vox.com/2018/10/10/17957886/john-chambers-cisco-connecting-dots-book-leadership-management-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcastHow Many AWS Se...

2020-11-2236 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 28: TriskaidekaphobiaHow technical should you be, as a manager or a marketer?At what point is it okay to accept that you’re no longer hands-on? Vice versa, how do you keep up to speed enough to make intelligent decisions?William Gibson quote, from “Johnny Mnemonic” (published as part of “Burning Chrome”): “These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.”Skill stacking (although Dominic didn’t yet know the term when he wrote this post): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/intersectionsThe value of ref...

2020-11-1533 min

Roll For Enterprise Episode 27: What's a CIO to do, balancing recurring costs, IT fragmentation, and the promised benefits of cloud computing?Cloud computing is always in the news — but the reason we are talking about it on the podcast is that this feels like a tipping point. Famously, Snowflake had a cloud-only strategy from day one, and that seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Now, others are moving in the same direction, with Atlassian planning to end sale and support of their on-premise server product and go cloud-only:https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-to-end-sale-and-support-of-on-premise-server-products-by-2024/There is a recurring revenue trap. There is no way back. Cloud delivery does save time, but if you ar...

2020-11-0730 min

Roll For Enterprise Lilac Schoenbeck returns for a discussion on RPA and the acceleration of SaaSThis week we welcome back friend of the show, Lilac Schoenbeck, VP of Go-To-Market Strategy at Rocket Software. This was very timely, since it gave us a chance to discuss Rocket’s new acquisitions: https://www.rocketsoftware.com/news/rocket-software-acquires-connectiq-and-webconnect-activeops-delivering-rpa-mainframe We were especially interested to talk about the RPA side of things, including what increased automation means for the job market. RPA can be thought of as APIs for humans… Also, it turns out mainframes are still everywhere, mainly because they work, and unless and until the business process that they automate changes, it’s not worth the effort and ri...

2020-11-0236 min

Roll For Enterprise How remote working is eroding culture and why we are starting to write obituaries for hardware companies; looking at you CiscoDominic, Zack and Mike discuss the long term impact working remote is having on the workforce including: Hiring while retaining culture Pay decreases if you move 3 day work week nonsenseRumors at Cisco and why hardware companies are in trouble. Why Mike thinks even if you aren’t a software companies you need to give the illusion you are like Nvidia.Also why channel partner are shifting to managed services as a result of hardware company troubles.Also the shift in MAC to PC. Is BYOD now benefitting PCs more than MACs? Who ar...

2020-10-2432 min

Roll For Enterprise Accelerating enterprise IT transformation with PresidioZack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by John Hanlon and Steven Palmese, respectively the CRO and CIO for Presidio.As the pandemic accelerated companies' journey to the cloud, challenges have emerged, whether migrating existing applications, building new cloud-native applications, or managing both the cloud and on-premise environments. In parallel with these infrastructure questions, digital business transformations have challenged the IT workforce and created demand for new roles and skills – both in IT and across every functional area. All of these evolutions are taking place against a backdrop of falling budgets and ever-greater expectations from the bu...

2020-10-1633 min

Roll For Enterprise Nylas and the API EconomyZack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by Matt Harper. Matt is Vice President of Marketing for Nylas, where he leads global marketing efforts for the API-first developer platform that serves customers like Dialpad, Ceridian, Hubspot and Move.com. Nylas most recently closed a Series B round for $25M this past June. Matt joined Nylas from Moogsoft, where he helped lead the company from Series B through Series D rounds, raising nearly $100M and scaling the company’s revenues by over 6x. Previously, Matt led marketing departments at Glassdoor and Sony PlayStation, where he led digital marketing efforts fo...

2020-10-0937 min

Roll For Enterprise Back To The CloudYou’re doing cloud wrongLift & shift leads to high costs, missed benefits https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/03/cloud_control_costs/Cloud economists: Corey Quinn, Owen RogersEmbracing cloud requires org changes — decentralisation, delegation; Shadow IT comes out into the openBUT! All of this is not free, will coexist for some time with existing models — which leads to the dreaded bimodal ITSee also https://cloudpundit.com/2020/09/18/the-multicloud-gelatinous-cubeStupid Sh*t Vendors Do — repriseMike wishes that sales people would please stop selling through LinkedIn.... ...

2020-10-0233 min

Roll For Enterprise DevOps, NoOps, GitOps, oh my!You always need operationsIs DevOps an oxymoron with the no code movement? Is it time to move on? What about GitOps?Snowflake can also be considered as shadow IT, or conversely, business empowerment through NoOpsDominic’s NoOps blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/not-noops-but-smartops“Said no CEO ever: Things that don't matter in the cloud”: https://speakerdeck.com/caseywest/said-no-ceo-ever-things-that-dont-matter-in-the-cloudForrester NoOps article: https://go.forrester.com/blogs/11-02-07-i_dont_want_devops_i_want_noops/Lehman Brothers spreadsheet error: https://www.computerworld.com/ar...

2020-09-2735 min

Roll For Enterprise The Arm(s) race that Nvidia is winning; Airtable raising money confirming the LowCode movement; 6 months in the challenges of WFHArm & NvidiaThe deal discussed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/09/13/its-officialnvidia-acquires-arm-for-40b-to-create-what-could-be-a-computing-juggernaut/But UK jobs at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/uk-tech-giant-arm-holdings-to-be-sold-to-us-company-nvidia-in-40bn-dealFollow upLow-code / no-codeAirtable raises $185Mhttps://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/airtable-raises-185m-and-launches-new-low-code-and-automation-features/amp/#click=https://t.co/1ssv9830f3WFHFree IDC whitepaper, featuring Dominic’s thoughts https://www.uk.idc.com/research-uk/what-organizations-need-to-do-now-to-accelerateRecommendationsDominicSoulver 3 https://apps.apple.com/app/soulver-3/id1508732804 for when a calculator isn’t enough, but...

2020-09-2031 min

Roll For Enterprise Automation making IT Infrastructure invisible and the market adapting to citizen developers; including AIReference Episode 3 Stupid Sh*t Vendors do: https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Stupid-Sht-Vendors-Do-eedp3sTopic 1: Moving from monitoring to automation. Chef acquired by Progress (https://devops.com/progress-announces-acquisition-of-chef/) Chef to be acquired for $220M by Progress in ‘next chapter’ for Seattle automation tech company (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/chef-acquired-220m-progress-next-chapter-seattle-automation-tech-company/) Progress Q3 Preliminary Results and Chef Acquisition (https://investors.progress.com/static-files/ff4a1323-3cd6-4fc0-9b83-e9de625ad986) Autonomous operations, self-healing infrastructure Tanzu? https://mailchi.mp/thenewstack/aws-bottlerocket-blasts-off?e=cafeea848e Anthos? https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/google_anthos_onair/Topic 2: Citi...

2020-09-1238 min

Roll For Enterprise Veego: using AI to make your Internet betterVeego (https://www.veego.io) is an Israeli startup aiming to perfect the internet experience of any connected home. They use AI techniques to detect and resolve any possible connectivity issue, from the home router. This week, we were joined by Denis Sirov, one of the founders.We had a good discussion on using technical monitoring data as a training set for AI/ML models, and how this use of AI can actually be privacy-preserving. Recurring topics: 5G, work from home, privacy.Links: Veego homepage: https://www.veego.io A16Z article on improving...

2020-09-0436 min

Roll For Enterprise Can't Get Out Of The CloudDominic's back from the beach, where luckily there were no clouds. The question of the week is, can enterprises also avoid the cloud — and should they? We talked about cloud repatriation, and mentioned Lydia Leong's piece on the topic (https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/). Dominic also shamelessly plugged a piece of his own on multi-cloud in 2020 (https://diginomica.com/three-reasons-why-multi-cloud-back-and-here-stay), as well as Charity Major's piece on the future of Ops jobs (https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-future-of-ops-jobs). We didn't get around to mentioning Steve Yegge's piece on Google Cloud and how its deprecation policy makes it hard to...

2020-08-2830 min

Roll For Enterprise The impact of FOMO on IT Strategy and OperationsWhile Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/.This week they discuss the "fear of missing out" occurring in IT departments everywhere. The pressure imposed by the analysts & marketing to keep up with all other "cool" companies. Casting doubt on this catch up/keep up culture, and the need to differentiate and strive.Are we doing it all wrong?Does IT really need always to follow the latest trend? Do we need to look further...

2020-08-2342 min

Roll For Enterprise Pressure Cooker: The constant unrelenting pressure on Enterprise IT to keep up and stay aheadWhile Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/) VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/ Together they discuss what exactly does it mean when cloud is moving on premise and the challenges it poses to IT. Why does it matter? And isn't infrastructure just infrastructure?Followed by a discussion on the mounting pressure on IT to keep up, innovate and change at break neck speeds. The discuss turns to the challenges around budgets, tech talent and from the b...

2020-08-1639 min

Roll For Enterprise iPadOS breaks through on productivity, while The Great Wall between China and the US can lead to multiple internetsThe “Wall” is expanding, no not that wall, The Great Firewall between the US and China! Five reasons why the government’s Clean Network plan will be difficult to enforce. Plus, what are you waiting for, iOS 14 is here and there’s a reason to download!iPadOS 14 introduces new features designed specifically for iPadhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/ipados-14-introduces-new-features-designed-specifically-for-ipad/Note takinghttps://findthethread.postach.io/post/note-takingmmhmmhttps://www.mmhmm.app/A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspacehttps://www.eff.org/c...

2020-08-0938 min

Roll For Enterprise If the cloud is on-prem is it still cloud?In this week's episode: Dominic, Zack and Mike tackle the antitrust hearing from big tech (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple) and the monster earnings announcement the next day.Virtual Conference and the continuing pain. Conferences need to change! Google Next has moved to 9 weeks long — and what is Gartner doing?Cloud, and specifically on premises cloud. When did cloud move on prem, and can it still be cloud if it is on prem? What exactly is the benefit here?https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/We close it off with a discussion of GPT-3 an...

2020-08-0337 min

Roll For Enterprise The Future's CloudyIn this week's episode: Slack vs Microsoft, ARM updates, and what it's like to sell and buy enterprise software that lives in the cloud. Links: Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html; Nvidia Eyes Biggest-Ever Chip Deal in Pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/softbank-s-chip-company-arm-is-said-to-attract-nvidia-interest; Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7nm-processors-now-one-year-behind-expectations; Zawinski's Law http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

2020-07-2436 min

Roll For Enterprise Open WideNews: Zoom and Microsoft announce all-in-one devices designed for home-office conference callsZoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/zoom-introduces-all-in-one-home-communications-appliance-for-599/Microsoft Teams smart displays make it easier to work from home https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-teams-smart-displays-make-it-easier-to-work-from-home-09628391/We compared these to Cisco's existing all-in-one devices: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/dx80/index.htmlNews: UK to purge Huawei from 5G by end of 2027 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei/uk-to-purge-huawei-from-5g-by-2027-angering-china-and-pleasing-u-s-idUSKCN24E30PSome context: The Nortel Job https...

2020-07-2031 min

Roll For Enterprise Building A LegacyA Double-Digit Episode Spectacular!For Episode 10 (or should that be Episode X?), we invited a very special guest: Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/).We discussed remote events briefly, riffing off Dominic's recent blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/remote-eventsAfter that, we had a wide-ranging discussion about legacy technology, how come "legacy" is a bad word in the technology industry — but not in the outside world, how technologies become legacy, and what value users find in these technologies.Some topics that came up: Pace Layering https://fi...

2020-07-1333 min

Roll For Enterprise Culture Eats Covid For BreakfastFollow-up from last week:Apple Silicon Benchmarks: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/developers-leak-benchmarks-from-the-apple-silicon-mac-transition-kit/Low-code / no-code platform wars:Amazon Honeycode: https://youtu.be/vMR2KOJUEr8https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-honeycode-build-web-mobile-apps-without-writing-code/The Corey Quinn quote I mentioned was from issue #168 of his newsletter, which is not yet online but will be linked from here when it is: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/Microsoft announces STOCKHISTORY: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-stockhistory/ba-p/1404338Google’s G Suite finalizes Connected Sheets and introduces AI-driven da...

2020-07-0433 min

Roll For Enterprise StrongARMed Into The CloudZack, Mike, and Dominic talk about ethics in AI, Macs moving to ARM CPUs, and what this might mean in the cloud.Links: Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm ARM Mac Impact On Intel Coal-free first for electricity in Great Britain An Unexpected Holiday

2020-06-2734 min

Roll For Enterprise Welcome To The Network Of TomorrowZack, Mike, and Dominic talk about Hey.com versus Apple, the latest Zoom news, and then get into the meat of 5G, SD-WAN, and the future of networking.

2020-06-1937 min

Roll For Enterprise What happened to the developers?What happened to the developers? Wait, you’re a developer? Everyone’s a developer!Zack, Mike, and Dominic discuss citizen developers, low-code/no-code, shadow IT, and more.Links: That Lehman Brothers spreadsheet story My newsletter story in full

2020-06-1232 min

Roll For Enterprise The Robots Are Coming!Mike, Zack, and Dominic talk robots — both the physical kind and software bots — and more importantly, what they mean for the IT industry and for society in general.

2020-06-0528 min

Roll For Enterprise How The Magic HappensZack and Dominic pull back the curtain and show Mike some of the sales-side perspective on closing deals. It turns out, reputation matters — a lot, and the best way to build and keep a good reputation is to focus on your customer's business. That blog post about the economics of booth babes: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/babe-got-talent

2020-05-3142 min

Roll For Enterprise Stupid Sh*t Vendors DoDominic and Zack interview Mike about what it's like to be on the receiving end of all those sales calls. The talk gets spicy, names are named, dirty tricks are shared… Tune in to hear the whole story!

2020-05-2237 min

Roll For Enterprise Working From HomeIn Episode Two, Dominic, Mike, and Zack talk about what it's like to work from home, and some of the longer-term implications of that switch. Does this mean SD-WAN and VDI are going to have the day? Does the corporate network edge now reach into employee's homes, and does that mean surveillance is okay? What about onboarding, especially for interns or people starting their first job in this climate? And how come we aren't hearing more about VR?   Dominic's post about remote internships: https://diginomica.com/how-tech-internships-and-mentoring-should-work-lockdownCatch us on Twitter: @dwel...

2020-05-1536 min

Roll For Enterprise Zooming Right InDominic, Mike, and Zack kick off the podcast by getting into the news about Zoom, what it means in the enterprise, and what the longer-term prospects are for Zoom.   Dominic's blog about Zoom: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom  Zoom's announcement of the Keybase acquisition: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/  Keybase's version of that announcement: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom  Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis

2020-05-0833 min