The Cloudcast

2019 in Review & 2020 Predictions

Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of 2019, and make bold cloud computing predictions for 2020. 

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PODCAST BUSINESS: 

  • Why are Aaron and Brian both on the show recently?
  • Krispy Kreme Challenge (“The Donut Run”) fundraising
  • Announcing “The Cloudcast Basics” - coming in early 2020!! 

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Cloudcast in 2019:

  • Over 1.6M+ listens, up 40% YoY
  • Guest Acquisitions: (total: 9) Cloudability (Apptio), Bromium (HPE), Docker (Mirantis), Shippable (JFrog), SignalFX (Splunk), Pivotal (VMware), NGINX (F5), ParkMyCloud (Turbonomics), Twistlock (Palo Alto) - also had 9 in 2018
  • IPO: Datadog

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2019:

2020 PREDICTIONS

Brian:

  • We’ll start talking about GitHub as one of the major cloud platforms, in the same way we do AWS, Azure and Google. 
  • We’re going to start seeing more and more vertical-centric AI/ML companies emerge, that curate data and provide insights-as-a-service. 
  • We’re going to start seeing companies that offer distributed versions of the large “monolithic” systems of today (Core Banking, ERP, etc.) that lets new companies and business models emerge.

Aaron:

  • The “trough of disillusionment” will hit Kubernetes, and it will be fine…
  • Serverless will get a new name and will hit stride
  • GitLab and HashiCorp will have breakout years

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