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The Enterprise AI Show explores the AI journey for Enterprise companies around the world. [formerly The Cloudcast]

As the AI revolution moves from experimentation to execution, The Enterprise AI Show provides the clarity needed to lead. Join Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely as they explore the intersection of generative AI, enterprise systems, and global business strategy. Each episode features clear-headed conversations with the people making actual decisions—founders, investors, and practitioners—focusing on the technical architectures and business models that drive real-world ROI.

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2018 Year in Review

December 31, 2018 • Aaron Delp & Brian Gracely

0:00 | 51:25

Show: 378

Description: Aaron and Brian review the biggest news, trends and topics of 2018.

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Cloudcast Housekeeping:

Thank you to our sponsors, both A Cloud Guru and DataDog
64% of Krispy Kreme Funding - http://bit.ly/Cloudcast-Donuts2019
51 Shows, Avg Listens (show): 18-20k (+19%), Avg Rank iTunes Technology: 63
Over $50B in M&A and VC Funding for guests (all-time)
Acquired: Red Hat, Rightscale, CoreOS, GitHub, Evident.io, Loggly, CloudHealth, VictorOps, Bonsai
IPO: Pivotal
Funding: SWIM.AI, Stryth Leviathan, Atomist, Kasten, Lightstep, Rubrik, Hashicorp, A Cloud Guru

Show Notes:

Previous Year Cloudcast Predictions: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014,
Top Tech Trends (expected) in 2019 (via CBInsights)
Commercial Open Source Software Companies ($100B)
Cloudability - State of the Cloud (2018)

Big Trends:

Gartner IaaS MQ is down to 6 companies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, IBM, Oracle)
AWS growing +40% ($25B revenues) and Azure revenues ~ $28-30B (but not explicitly broken out) - AWS claimed at re:Invent to have 51% market-share.
Big acquisitions around Open Source (Red Hat, GitHub, Hortonworks)
A new push by Open Source companies (Redis, Confluent) to change their licensing model to help protect them from public cloud providers taking their software and not giving back - http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/
Big funding and investments around HCI and Backup HCI
Kubernetes continues to dominate containers and cloud-native (see: @PodCTL podcast)
New CEO at Google Cloud (Thomas Kurian)
Blockchain seems to need a new PR agency
Interest rates are rising (2 more raises are projected in 2019), which changes all the VC models

Tech Stocks (2018):

S and P 500: (-12.2%), DJIA: (-12%), NASDAQ: (-8%)
AAPL: (-12%), AMZN: (+14%), CSCO: (+5%), FB: (-29%), GOOG: (-7.5%), IBM: (-30%)
MSFT: (+11%), NFLX: (+25%), NTAP: (-1%), NTNX: (+1%), ORCL: (-11%), RHT: +43% (acquired by IBM)
PVTL (0%), SAP: (-8.5%), SFDC: (+18%), VMW: (+13%)
How are SaaS priced after 2018 correction? - https://tomtunguz.com/just-where-are-saas-companies-priced-after-the-2018-correction/

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