It’s part two of our new year look ahead last week we looked at areas such as tech company consolidation, more acceptance of the move to cloud and maybe even the death of blockchain. In this second part, I catch up with two more respected industry figures Rick Vanover and John Nicholson. Rick and John are highly experienced technologists and provide some fascinating thoughts on what the next 12 months may bring.

We cover topics from 5G networks, accepting that hybrid cloud is OK and Kubernetes moving from hype to adoption.

Background on our guests.

Rick Vanover @RickVanover

Rick is Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeam and a well-known figure across the technology community. He’s now entering his 10th year at Veeam and has spent much of his career in the data management and protection field.

John Nicholson @lost_signal

John is part of the technical marketing team at VMware, focussing on their HCI and VSAN technologies, also a well know tech community figure, John co-hosts the excellent Virtually Speaking podcast (find it here you can also contact the show [email protected]) which covers all things VMware as well as a broader look at the technology industry.

Next week we look at the part VMware plays in building cloud solutions, public, private and hybrid with my guest Kelly Goolsby. To get that you can subscribe to the show in all good homes of podcasts, now including Spotify.

If you would like to be a guest or have an idea for the show, then email [email protected]

Thanks for listening.

Full show notes here: https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1Js