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This weeks it's Marc, Lauren and Nigel rounding up the infrastructure tech news from the week.

@start Good luck to Greg Knieriemen ahead of his pending bionic upgrades, and happy 50th birthday to Chris Evans

@11:00 News roundup

EMC World News Roundup

@15:00 EMC VNX gets another facelift

@25:00 EMC Virtustream Storage Cloud

@32:00 EMC ViPR 3.0@32:40 Windows Server 2016 catch-up

@39:00 Are PernixData on the lookout for more investment

@45:00 XIO and Pivot3..... a zombie group-hug?

@48:00 Hot or not: Quantum Computing

This week Rick and Lauren provide your weekly hit of tech news, covering:

vCloud Air leadership changeSamsung's black box for the carIs ad-blocking ethical?Apple quarterly results aren't awesomeMicrsoft has a support program with free services if you are committed to Azure

On the agenda this week:

Is the whole IoT thing a unicorn?

Microsoft Azure Container Service goes GA

Is Intel in decline?

IBM's storage business in the mire

VMware are looking for a Director of Open Source

VMware stock buyback

Marc, Rick and Nigel discuss what going on in the enterprise tech world from the last week.

Intros, Marc hates Windows 10, and some vendor feedback...

@13:45 News roundup

@16:00 Native OpenStack backup to the Google Cloud

@20:50 VW chooses Mirantis over RedHat for large OpenStack deployment

@25:40 Zadara and cloud replication and mobility

@30:10 Is the Nutanix IPO on again?

@34:00 Dell EMC stuff

@ 41:30 Hot or Not - The new Tesla Model 3

This weeks it's just Lauren and Nigel.

Topics include:

HPE apparently the leading supplier of hybrid cloud to the enterpriseHPE and Microsoft see Mesosphere DCOS as the potential futureRed Hat has it's first $2BN year and the forecast is rosyDoom and gloom continue to hang over the Valley as Fidelity mark a bunch of startups downHot or not: Podcasts

This weeks it's a full house of hosts talking all things from:

* 10 years of AWS

* Yet more Google Cloud customers

* EMC taking Pure to court again.....

* Hot or not....

@00:00 Intros and the shocking state of Skype recording solutions

@09:00 To cloud or not to cloud - Dropbox exits AWS while Spotify jumps aboard the Google Cloud

@16:40 Dropbox struggling under their 10BN valuation as they sell stock for cheap on the secondary market

@22:40 Pure Storage expands with FlashBlade

@33:30 Data Gravity pivots to a SW only model

@37:00 Pivot3 nets $54M in 14th round of funding

@41:25 Hot or Not: Virtual Reality

This week Marc, Lauren and Nigel are joined by Joe Onisick as they discuss, Microsoft, Cisco, Nutanix, FlashGrid, and Docker.

@Start: intros

@02:50 News round-up

@06:30 Microsoft cozies up with Linux.... is the writing on the wall for Windows as a cloud operating system...

@17:25 Cisco announces new switching software and hardware

@20:30 Did Cisco try to buy Nutanix, and if so....was the price not high enough

@28:50 New startup FlashGrid looks to bring open storage software to the Oracle space - good luck with that!

@36:50 Docker acquires Conductant for orchestration at scale

@41:40 Hot or not - wearables in general!

This week sees a full house of all 5 hosts to discuss the top infrastructure news from the last week.

@00:00 Intros

@05:05 news roundup

@05:40 Cisco to acquire CliQr as they make more cloudy moves

@15:30 Cisco partnering with Springpath as it looks to get into the HCI market

@25:40 Dell announces their list of middle-aged white dudes that will run the new mega Dell

@31:05 Is the VMware old guard is bailing

@37:00 32Gbps FC FTW

@41:40 Hot or not: The Samsung Welt (Smart belt)

This weeks it's Marc, Lauren and Nigel bringing you the best from the last week of enterprise tech.

@StartSurface Book Initial thoughts and DevOps haircuts

@09:25 Google Project Fi

@12:10 News roundup

@12:40 Oracle buys Ravello

@16:20 Oracle licensing - will this be their ultimate downfall

@21:40 IBM enhances its cloud with deals with Apple, VMware, GitHub and more

@30:45 Docker releases commercial Data Centre project

@33:20 Apple talking up an uncrackable phone