Dominic, 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-Ban

https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1436300410810257408

‘Forever Changed’: CEOs Are Dooming Business Travel — Maybe for Good

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-31/will-business-travel-come-back-data-show-air-hotel-travel-forever-changed

Satya Nadella: Companies are 'short-sighted' if they force employees back to office now

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/microsoft-ceo-says-companies-should-use-data-to-determine-when-employees-return-to-work.html

Zoom and Teams

https://twitter.com/juanmicrosoft/status/1436071323030151170

Remote work

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/workers-moonlighting-two-jobs-work-from-home

Apple Event Announced: 'California Streaming' on September 14 With iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 Expected

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/07/apple-september-14-event/

Amazon TV

Amazon starts building its own televisions with the Fire TV Omni Series

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/amazon-fire-tv-omni-series-announced/

Opal C1: The first professional webcam

https://opalcamera.com

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In 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 financials

How 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-transformation

Security — It’s still hard

If you're a user of Microsoft's Cosmos DB, you definitely want to check up on this Chaos DB vulnerability.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/

And what does this mean for cloud delivery models more generally?

Recommendations

Dominic

Generalising Wildly | Find the thread

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The Great Resignation: Why Employees Don't Want To Go Back To The Office

A 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/sites/hollycorbett/2021/07/28/the-great-resignation-why-employees-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-office/?sh=1f2702b02000

https://www.gallup.com/workplace/351545/great-resignation-really-great-discontent.aspx

https://www.forbes.com/sites/randyillig/2021/08/24/the-great-resignation-in-sales-is-real-heres-what-leaders-can-do-to-stem-it/?sh=44342e651558

The Great Resignation In Sales Is Real: Here’s What Leaders Can Do To Stem It (forbes.com)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210629-the-great-resignation-how-employers-drove-workers-to-quit.

$14.7 Billion Five9 Acquisition Aims To Revive Zoom’s Growth

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2021/07/19/147-billion-five9-acquisition-aims-to-revive-zooms-growth/?sh=29da22d32e8b

Mike also calls out, “The war for the living room.” “The living room is becoming the office, and the office is becoming the living room. It’s all merging into our home space.” Netflix joined the foray with a gaming announcement. 

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Intel CEO flashes cash, calling company a 'willing buyer' in semiconductor industry

https://www.windowscentral.com/intel-ceo-flashes-cash-calling-company-willing-buyer

NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2022

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2022

Nvidia beats earnings expectations, but cryptocurrency chip sales falter

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q2-2022.html

Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding

https://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 timeframe

https://www.ft.com/content/3758929d-66f0-4095-94f3-ea62b92f9480

Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/microsoft-will-raise-office-365-business-subscription-prices-in-2022.html

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Accenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threats

https://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 Lee

https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/ai-automation-talent-ethics-bias-kaifu-lee/

FedEx Deploys new AI-Robotics E-Commerce Fulfilment System

https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-robotics-e-commerce-fulfilment-system

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Intro

Glitter bomb vs porch pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4

Ship Your Enemies Glitter https://shipyourenemiesglitter.com

Chip Shortages Continue

The 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-tesla

Apple CSAM Protection Features

Apple reveals new efforts to fight child abuse imagery https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611721/apple-csam-child-abuse-scanning-hash-system-ncmec

https://twitter.com/sjmurdoch/status/1423397219491852291

Apple — Expanded Protections for Children https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life

Platformer — Apple joins the child safety fight https://www.platformer.news/p/apple-joins-the-child-safety-fight

“Dylan Loewe, Biden’s former speechwriter, will be Apple’s director of public relations and CEO Tim Cook’s speechwriter.” (via Politico)

Privacy on iPhone commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y

XKCD on security https://xkcd.com/538/

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While 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 Disappoints

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-sees-37-percent-quarterly-growth-as-amazon-disappoints

Alphabet Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Climbs 54 Percent To $4.63B

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/alphabet-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-climbs-54-percent-to-4-63b

Microsoft CEO Nadella Touts ‘New Franchises’ In Security, Gaming, LinkedIn As Cloud Growth Surges

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-ceo-nadella-touts-new-franchises-in-security-gaming-linkedin-as-cloud-growth-surges

Cloud earnings: AWS "reaccelerates," Azure up 51%, Google Cloud up 54%

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloud-earnings-aws-reaccelerates-azure-up-51-google-cloud-up-54/

The 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services

https://www.bmc.com/blogs/gartner-magic-quadrant-cips-cloud-infrastructure-platform-services/

https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-1ZDZDMTF&ct=200703&st=sb

Product Death

How to handle products or component that reach end of life and what to do as an enterprise.

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What 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-podcast

Management = 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. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp

Quick News

Zoom Bets on AI with $14.7 Billion Deal to Acquire Five9 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/zoom-to-buy-cloud-service-firm-five9-for-14-7-billion

Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/akamai_edge_dns_outage/ (it’s always DNS)

A different kind of supply-chain attack: A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xz3/a-defunct-video-hosting-site-is-flooding-normal-websites-with-hardcore-porn

Recommendations

Dominic

Clean install your OS. That’s it, that’s the recommendation.

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Dominic 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://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/

Kaseya supply chain attack impacts more than 1,000 companies

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/kaseya-supply-chain-attack-impacts-more-than-1000-companies/

https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/

Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/kubernetes_spend_report/

https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/kubernetes-is-a-platform-for-building-platforms

Recommendations

Dominic

Thermacell anti-mosquito device

Zack

Genetically modified mosquitoes released in Florida Keys, first in US (usatoday.com)

Mike

Ooni Koda 16 https://ooni.com/products/ooni-koda-16

Thermacell E55 Rechargeable Mosquito Repeller; Highly Effective Rechargeable Mosquito Repellent https://amzn.to/3ecQV3J

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Lilac, 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 say

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/

Arista Buys SDN Pioneer Big Switch 'For a Song' – Sources

https://www.lightreading.com/carrier-sdn/arista-buys-sdn-pioneer-big-switch-for-a-song---sources/d/d-id/757076

HPE to acquire cloud disaster recovery startup Zerto

https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/01/hpe-acquiring-dr-startup-zerto/

EMC Sues Zerto - Patent Litigation (2016)

https://www.zerto.com/blog/company-announcements/emc-v-zerto-update/

AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud

https://about.att.com/story/2021/att_microsoft_azure.html

MSFT acquires Affirmed Networks

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/microsoft-acquires-5g-specialist-affirmed-networks/

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