Now that the big three have reported earnings, let’s compare Cloud growth. AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP - The quarterly review

Note: In the late 2000s, the top 5 public cloud companies' market capitalization was approximately 14Bil. Today those top 5 public companies have a market cap of over 600Bil, a 40x increase in the value in the past decade.

What’s bigger news Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy getting the job, or a new leader for AWS to be announced with Andy Jassy moving on?

AWS is the logical evolution of Amazon, assembling undifferentiated units (books, VMs) to build higher-value service offerings; happy to iterate fast and fail in public if necessary as long as they learn something from it

Amazon promotes Jassy after Microsoft promoted Nadella; cloud becoming more strategic

https://twitter.com/counternotions/status/1357003413356228611?s=21

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1357163267521531904?s=20

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

iOS 14.5 Apple Watch unlocks iPhone

Mike

Anker Bluetooth Speaker: https://amzn.to/3jhdi9v

Lilac

Online ticket to ride

Zack

Turn your Apple watch into a full biometric reading device https://auraband.io

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Oracle launches APEX low-code offering: https://www.techradar.com/news/oracle-wants-to-drastically-simplify-app-development-with-new-low-code-service

“SaaS has created an environment where departmental purchasing encourages people to try subscription-based point solutions when they need an edge or face a sudden shift in needs. This has led to an explosion of applications that SaaS purchasing will only accelerate. While this has sometimes encouraged the growth of silos, there is a real movement to connect products into platforms and ecosystems.”

https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/101139/ (451 clients only)

Remote work

https://remoters.net/remote-work-trends-future-insights/

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Hush https://apps.apple.com/app/hush-for-safari/id1544743900

Mike

DropBox because it works https://www.dropbox.com

Zack

Home Office Inspiration https://grovemade.com

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Intel

Intel's new CEO says troubled chip project is recovering

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/intel-intc-earnings-q4-2020.html

Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232554/intel-ceo-apple-lifestyle-company-cpus-comment

CES 2021 - Intel Mobileye

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/ces-2021-mobileye-avs-on-move/?utm_source=morning_brew#gs.qsf1o6

Cloud Platforms Compared

Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/2021-cloud-report

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Housework is a gear sport! Shark vacuum cleaner: https://amzn.to/37u7yFf

Mike

No recommendations this week — Instagram has failed Mike

Zack

Zero Ice Cooler (-4 to 68 degrees)

https://mashable.com/shopping/jan-15-gosun-chill-solar-cooler/

Lilac

Trello but with background pictures

https://trello.com/en-US

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This week we are joined by Vincent Lo, VP of Product Marketing at Klue, a Competitive Enablement company. A 20 year veteran in tech with a wealth of experiences across product, engineering, sales, and marketing, Vincent is an engineer who loves to bring innovative products to market. He’s also a, literally, certified wine geek and spends his down time poking at ways to discover and uncover interesting wines from around the world.

Klue, the highest-rated competitive intelligence platform on the market (as rated by real users on G2), helps companies collect and curate hard to find competitive intelligence, centralize the best of what the web knows about your competition with the best of what your employees know into a single repository. 

Klue’s approach to competitive enablement is attracting leading enterprise customers like Cisco, Tableau, Dell EMC, Red Hat, Shopify and Drift. To name half a dozen. It’s the top platform for supporting enterprise teams to scale, enabling revenue teams with the real-time information to position and message to win competitive deals, and helping Product Marketers deliver trusted and actionable insights across the entire org.

Hit Vincent up on LinkedIn or on Twitter if you want to talk shop or wine. Or hit up Klue’s website for resources and best practices on how to help your sales team kick the competition’s butt with actionable competitive intelligence.

JetBrains denies being involved in SolarWinds hack

JetBrains denies reports that is being under investigation and somehow related to the SolarWinds breach.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/jetbrains-denies-being-involved-in-solarwinds-hack/

M&A Market

Top fundraiser Thoma Bravo bets software’s red-hot run is far from over

https://www.pehub.com/top-fundraiser-thoma-bravo-bets-softwares-red-hot-run-is-far-from-over/

The problem of customer references for startups

https://findthethread.postach.io/post/reference-this 

Alphabet Union 

We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html 

Here’s what we know about the Google union so far

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215171/google-alphabet-union-cwa-organizers-goals-explainer

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Knog Blinder front light https://amzn.to/2KDU7cE

Knog Blinder rear light https://amzn.to/3p1Src5

Knog low-profile bell https://amzn.to/3nvDBtU

Mike

Gyroscopic Training Ball

https://powerballs.com/

Zack

Virtual Escape Rooms for Team Building in 2021

https://teambuilding.com/blog/virtual-escape-rooms

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Happy New Year!

Lilac is back for our first episode of the new year! Naturally we kick it off with our predictions for the new year. Amazon dominated prediction like everything else lately.

Mike predicts Amazon will spin out AWS before it comes under tighter DOJ scrutiny over their practices. This way they can continue to featuring everyones business and continue killing startups and competition. Everyone agreed that Amazon should take a lesson from Microsoft and lose the arrogance.

Dominic predicted a change in the nature of Open Source where Open Source moving towards SaaS might not matter to organization as much. Could Open Source diminish?

Lilac suggest a major shift coming in real estate as we never build house or expected to need space for every member of your family to have a video conferencing space.

Zack predicts the battle for industrial workloads to move front and center and a true battle for industry 4.0 to break out. Player will want to dominate as Industry 4.0 will grow like never before.

Other predictions:

AI assistance (or self help) for employees will become front and center in 2021.

More cloud outages and security breaches are to be expected and become common place with company building around them to adapt.

A Discord tie-up with Zoom? There are only two real corporate instant messenger platforms left and a third player needs to emerge after Salesforce acquisition of Salesforce.

Ethic in AI will become a more common place discussion in corporations everywhere.

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It's a festive miracle: we made it all the way to the end of 2020! 

We looked back on the major events in 2020 from an enterprise IT perspective. 

Lilac Schoenbeck joined us once again, and helped us consider the wider implications of remote work. It's not just about a spike in the sales of webcams; there have also been major career impacts that have fallen disproportionately on women.

We were all in agreement that WfH during a pandemic is way harder than during normal times, much more so than we had expected. Zoom fatigue is very real, and is also a symptom of Zoom having (so far) failed to convert its sudden cultural relevance into anything larger. Some major cloud outages during 2020 also highlighted the widespread impacts of single provider failures. Could this be a symptom of the fact that AWS especially seems to be focusing on individual services in isolation, without any wider vision — apart from TOTAL DOMINATION, of course?

Thanks for listening to us in 2020!

AWS re:Invent

AWS Expands Industrial Offerings

https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2020/12/04/aws-expands-industrial-offerings

AWS re:Invent 2020 – Top Announcements

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reinvent-announcements-2020/

Amazon Monitron

https://aws.amazon.com/monitron/

AWS Panorama Appliance

https://aws.amazon.com/panorama/appliance/

Other news

SolarWinds

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3601508/solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-explained-why-organizations-were-not-prepared.html

Salesforce rolls out low-code environment Flow Orchestrator https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2020/12/02/introducing-salesforce-einstein-automate/

Chrome is bad https://chromeisbad.com

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Velcro zip-ties https://amzn.to/3msG86Z

Mike

Oura Ring: ww.oura.com

Zack

USPS https://www.usps.com/

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Special guest: Claire Agutter

Claire Agutter is a service management trainer, consultant and author. She is the director at ITSM Zone, providing accredited eLearning in ITIL, DevOps, BRM and more, and also at Scopism, publisher of the SIAM Foundation and Professional books. In 2018, 19 and 20 she was recognised by Computer Weekly as one of the 50 most influential women in tech, and in 2017, 18 and 19 she was recognised as an HDI Top 25 Thought Leader. Claire is the host of the popular ITSM Crowd YouTube channel, and Chief Architect for VeriSM.

https://twitter.com/ClaireAgutter

https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireagutter/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1-auh6FwgROoXy--ozOMg

ITSM recap

What is the state of the art for ITSM? Where did it come from? What do we mean when we say “ITSM”?

Everything started with ITIL (and Prince), now it's more about lean IT.

“Everything we wrap around tech to make it do what we want for the organisation”

Problem: Thinking about people like software, “how do we upgrade our people”

“This will shock no one in #ITSM but having attended a lot of virtual events, my conclusion is...it's not about the #technology, it's about the people. Organisation, communication, community are what really matter”

https://twitter.com/ClaireAgutter/status/1333450454790000642

ITSM and DevOps

How relevant is ITSM if everyone is off being agile?

Tribalism, guardrails

Scope of service management — applies more to supply chain than consumers

ITSM in the cloud

How does moving to the cloud affect ITSM? Does it increase or decrease the need for process?

SIAM for integration and management of many suppliers

Geo differences: big in EMEA, APJ, but nothing in US/CA

IPaaS integration platform as next step in evolution from swivel-chair approaches, through RBA, to RPA and beyond

Should startups implement ITSM? Should large established enterprises model startups’ agility?

More from Claire

2020 has accelerated digital transformation beyond all expectations. As well as coping with a crisis, we need leaders and teams who can create the organisation of the future. ITSM Zone has been helping companies build their digital skills for more than 10 years - and all of our training is online. Visit itsm.zone and see our full catalogue including Agile, DevOps, ITIL, VeriSM and more.

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AWS re:Invent

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

Andy Jassy’s 10 Boldest Statements At AWS re:Invent 2020

https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/andy-jassy-s-10-boldest-statements-at-aws-re-invent-2020/2

AWS Marketplace Now Offers Professional Services

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-marketplace-now-offers-professional-services/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29

reQuinnvent: A reInvent Partner Keynote Rebuttal / your questions answered

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/824558423

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