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The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions
        
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        Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely
      
      
                Aaron and Brian have many, many, many thoughts on the tech that shaped 2017, and make some predictions about 2018 and beyond. 
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Show Notes
Feedback?- Mergers and Acquisitions
 - Biggest Tech M&A of 2017 and VC Funding is down
 - Big Mergers: Amazon+Whole Foods; CVS+Aetna; Intel+Mobileye; AT&T+Time Warner; Disney+21st Century Fox
 - Storage companies are becoming HCI companies (thoughts on owning a server supply chain vs. software defined vs. commodity hardware)
 - Containers are becoming more mainstream - but so many misleading “surveys”
 - Nobody has a clear advantage in “hybrid cloud” architectures
 - Public cloud is a portfolio game and data acquisition game, not a cost reduction game
 - Building new applications is still a small % of corporate applications
 - There’s such a big gap between cloud releases and non-cloud releases (timeframes, updates, informing the market, etc.)
 - What happened to DevOps? Is it now in Phase 2 as “SRE”, or is it unobtainable?
 - What’s happening in China? How will it impact the rest of the Global markets?
 - Will AI & ML become tangible to non-Data Scientists? What’s the Fantasy Football of AI & ML, for business?
 - Where and how will voice technologies (Alexa, Google Home, etc.) fit in long term?
 - How will we track the Public Cloud tipping point?
 - What is Serverless most disruptive to, or is it additive to app-dev market size?
 - Should we track “Serverless” by the ServerlessConf or AWS events?
 - Should we be following “edge computing”? What are the core focus areas?
 - Continued decline of the middleman in all industries
 - Awareness of Cloud Computing “costs” becomes more mainstream
 - Does Security even matter anymore? What bigger events can happen?
 
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