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Arm & Nvidia

The deal discussed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/09/13/its-officialnvidia-acquires-arm-for-40b-to-create-what-could-be-a-computing-juggernaut/

But UK jobs at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/uk-tech-giant-arm-holdings-to-be-sold-to-us-company-nvidia-in-40bn-deal

Follow up

Low-code / no-code

Airtable raises $185M

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/airtable-raises-185m-and-launches-new-low-code-and-automation-features/amp/#click=https://t.co/1ssv9830f3

WFH

Free IDC whitepaper, featuring Dominic’s thoughts https://www.uk.idc.com/research-uk/what-organizations-need-to-do-now-to-accelerate

Recommendations

Dominic

Soulver 3 https://apps.apple.com/app/soulver-3/id1508732804 for when a calculator isn’t enough, but a spreadsheet is too much

Zack

Facebook’s new VR headset Oculus Quest 2, priced at $299 (has an infinite office feature) https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/16/facebook-debuts-infinite-office-a-virtual-reality-office-space/

Mike

No Filter https://www.amazon.com/No-Filter-Inside-Story-Instagram/dp/B07Y3TJ163/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=No+filter&qid=1600433523&sr=8-1

Reference Episode 3 Stupid Sh*t Vendors do: https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Stupid-Sht-Vendors-Do-eedp3s

Topic 1: Moving from monitoring to automation.

Topic 2: Citizen developers

Lightning round

Jobs

Recommendations:

Veego (https://www.veego.io) is an Israeli startup aiming to perfect the internet experience of any connected home. They use AI techniques to detect and resolve any possible connectivity issue, from the home router. This week, we were joined by Denis Sirov, one of the founders.

We had a good discussion on using technical monitoring data as a training set for AI/ML models, and how this use of AI can actually be privacy-preserving. Recurring topics: 5G, work from home, privacy.

Links:

Recommendations:

Dominic's back from the beach, where luckily there were no clouds. The question of the week is, can enterprises also avoid the cloud — and should they? 

We talked about cloud repatriation, and mentioned Lydia Leong's piece on the topic (https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/). Dominic also shamelessly plugged a piece of his own on multi-cloud in 2020 (https://diginomica.com/three-reasons-why-multi-cloud-back-and-here-stay), as well as Charity Major's piece on the future of Ops jobs (https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-future-of-ops-jobs). We didn't get around to mentioning Steve Yegge's piece on Google Cloud and how its deprecation policy makes it hard to love (https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc).

Recommendations:

Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Roll4Enterprise) and on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/roll-for-enterprise/)!

While Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/.

This week they discuss the "fear of missing out" occurring in IT departments everywhere. The pressure imposed by the analysts & marketing to keep up with all other "cool" companies. Casting doubt on this catch up/keep up culture, and the need to differentiate and strive.

Are we doing it all wrong?

Does IT really need always to follow the latest trend? Do we need to look further than optimizing and efficiencies? Are we tackling optimization and efficiencies in IT rather than in the care business?

In case you hadn't realized it, IT is part of the business, so if you're trying to align or bring closer, IT strategy and business strategy, we fear you are doing it all wrong and are already off base.

While Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/) VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/ 

Together they discuss what exactly does it mean when cloud is moving on premise and the challenges it poses to IT. Why does it matter? And isn't infrastructure just infrastructure?

Followed by a discussion on the mounting pressure on IT to keep up, innovate and change at break neck speeds. The discuss turns to the challenges around budgets, tech talent and from the business itself. Where are the true decisions makers?

Be prepared to count how many times you hear the term Mainframe, AS/400, iSeries and Power. Not to mention Zack’s favorite terms containers and kubernetes.

The “Wall” is expanding, no not that wall, The Great Firewall between the US and China! Five reasons why the government’s Clean Network plan will be difficult to enforce.  Plus, what are you waiting for, iOS 14 is here and there’s a reason to download!

iPadOS 14 introduces new features designed specifically for iPad

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/ipados-14-introduces-new-features-designed-specifically-for-ipad/

Note taking

https://findthethread.postach.io/post/note-taking

mmhmm

https://www.mmhmm.app/

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Announcing the Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets

https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/

The real reason Microsoft wants to buy TikTok.

Microsoft could use video data from its potential acquisition of TikTok to train AI systems and learn more about its consumers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/05/microsoft-tiktok-ai/

In this week's episode: Dominic, Zack and Mike tackle the antitrust hearing from big tech (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple) and the monster earnings announcement the next day.

Virtual Conference and the continuing pain. Conferences need to change! Google Next has moved to 9 weeks long — and what is Gartner doing?

Cloud, and specifically on premises cloud. When did cloud move on prem, and can it still be cloud if it is on prem? What exactly is the benefit here?

https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/

We close it off with a discussion of GPT-3 and the benefits versus worries for some of us. https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/07/23/openais-new-gpt-3-language-explained-in-under-3-minutes-syndication/

In this week's episode: Slack vs Microsoft, ARM updates, and what it's like to sell and buy enterprise software that lives in the cloud. Links: 

Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html; 

Nvidia Eyes Biggest-Ever Chip Deal in Pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/softbank-s-chip-company-arm-is-said-to-attract-nvidia-interest; 

Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7nm-processors-now-one-year-behind-expectations; 

Zawinski's Law http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

News: Zoom and Microsoft announce all-in-one devices designed for home-office conference calls

Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/zoom-introduces-all-in-one-home-communications-appliance-for-599/

Microsoft Teams smart displays make it easier to work from home https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-teams-smart-displays-make-it-easier-to-work-from-home-09628391/

We compared these to Cisco's existing all-in-one devices: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/dx80/index.html

News: UK to purge Huawei from 5G by end of 2027 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei/uk-to-purge-huawei-from-5g-by-2027-angering-china-and-pleasing-u-s-idUSKCN24E30P

Some context: The Nortel Job https://www.magzter.com/article/Business/Bloomberg-Businessweek/The-Nortel-Job

Main topic: Open source in the enterprise — how much do buyers care about OSS specifically?

Google Istio trademark announcement: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-googles-new-kind-of-open-source-organization-is-not-vendor-neutral/

Rancher acquisition: https://rancher.com/press/suse-to-acquire-rancher/