December 31, 2015

The Cloudcast #234 - 2015 WrapUp + 2016 Predictions

1 hour 9 minutes

Aaron and Brian do their annual 2015 WrapUp show. They look at the most interesting shows, trends and topics from 2015, as well as making predictions for 2016.

Show Notes:

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Topic 1 - Is Public Cloud making any money?

Topic 2 - Is Open Source Software making any money

Topic 3 - Everything is becoming an integrated solution.

Topic 4 - Bi-Modal vs. Tri-Modal IT

Topic 5 - The continued rise of SaaS applications (and who manages them)

Topic 6 - The continued rise of non-vendor companies recruiting developers

Show Stats and Interesting Facts

60 Shows 

Official Podcast at Cloud Foundry Summit, MesosCon, LinuxCon, DockerCon, VelocityConf, OSCON 

Went over $5B in VC + M&A Funding for Guests 

Most Popular Show(s) of 2015:

Eps.200 (Future of Connected Cloud; Christian Reilly)  

Eps.199 (Docker Security; Diogo & Nathan)

Eps.208 (DevOps; Nathan Harvey) 

Aaron’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

Container ecosystem is beginning to mature 

Docker needs to go through Trough of Disillusionment 

Skill Sets Changing - Blogging will become a lost art 

GitHub or “GetOut” - people need to learn GitHub - see 30 Days of Commitmas (GitHub learning) 

Existence of Bi-Modal IT - There is no migration path between the two. 

“Infrastructure as a Code” replaces “Software-Defined” terminology  Infrastructure jobs will become the operations portion of DevOps (automate everything) 

Brian’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

Containers, Containers, Containers - competition for Docker in containers (VMware, CoreOS, etc.)? Moved from Containers to Systems. 

Containers/Docker were mentioned everywhere (AWS, Tutum, Microsoft, DigitalOcean) 

VMware pushes that “containers need VMs” 

AWS is finally starting to understand the Enterprise; bundling/integrating services 

Nobody values Cloud Management software 

How do the VCs justify all this investment in companies that drive open-source projects? 

What happens to all the SaaS tools platforms on AWS, can they survive economically? 

Our Grades on Various Topics/Companies/Themes

OpenStack 

AWS 

Azure 

Google 

Cisco 

Other Public Clouds 

Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud 

VMware 

Docker 

Cloud Foundry 

Open Source centric companies (CoreOS, Hashicorp, Mesosphere) 

Cluster-Management and Schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm) 

SaaS Applications 

Brian’s 2016 Prediction Notes:

We’ll continue to see big bets (legacy vendors) and big failures

Very curious to watch the open-source VMware-replacements (Hashicorp, CoreOS, Docker, etc.) monetize their business 

We’ll begin to hear about some IoT success stories 

Aaron’s 2016 Prediction Notes:

Industry Predictions: 

Docker Trough of Disillusionment will happen (push from last year) in favor of Open Standards 

We will consolidate down to a handful of large hardware and software vendors in one (Oracle, Cisco, Dell) and pr

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