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This week we're recording live from Cisco Live. With Rick, Lauren and Gabriel.

@Start: Intros and travel stories@11:10 News roundup @11:38 More downsizing and more on the current startup funding issues@18:00 Is VSAN 6.2 the real deal now@27:20 Is Kubernetes the future of container orchestration@31:00 Some insight into AWS vs Azure adoption@39:30 AWS sets isights on the game development industry  @45:40 Hot or Not: e-gaming

A good mix of topics this week as Marc leads the show with Lauren, Rick and Gabe.

Marc is at the helm on this weeks episode, with Rick and Lauren keeping him real.On the agenda:@ Intros and medical technology@04:00 VMware's woes - cutting jobs and products@11:40 Rick will take $100 bucks on the Dell + EMC deal falling through @14:00 VSAN and NSX are still positive for VMware@16:55 RIP dotCloud... but thanks for giving us Docker @19:15 It's not looking good for Coho Data@23:05 Tech Preview of Azure Stack hits the streets. Is this bad news for OpenStack@28:20 Microsoft raises the floor for Enterprise Agreements (EAs)@35:00 Is Walmat Labs the new Bell Labs@41:10 Book review: The Idea Factory:Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation. Thanks and props to Claude Shannon

This week it's all doom and gloom over the tech industry and the economy....@00:00 Intros@01:30 News roundup@06:15 Hortonworks goes back for more money only a year after IPO....is it just them, or is the big data space struggling as a whole?@16:00 Puppet Labs takes on a bank loan rather than a 7th round of funding. And is only 15% of stuff being automated?@21:40 Hats off to Atlassian after their great IPO and superbly run business@23:50 USA Today suggests VMware tracking stock is worthless, and could Dell be in trouble if the market tanks?@30:34 Surely the la suit against Nimble is bogus@37:45 Hitachi Flash Storage A series - a purpose-built AFA from Hitachi@41:25 Dell Network OS 10@44:00 Hot or not: DIY blog sites and rebranding companies

This weeks sees a full house plus a special guest.... Melissa Gurney.On the agenda this week: @00:00 Intros@04:00 News roundup@05:25 The recent 8GB Windows 10 upgrade@12:45 Is Microsoft the king of the hybrid cloud@25:35 What does a female tech ninja look like@31:10 Diablo gets another round of funding with a new CEO thrown in for free@35:45 Inside view of EMC during the Elliott pressure@38:50 Will Citrix still be around in a year from now@44:50 Is IBM in trouble@50:00 Will IBM ever be great again@51:00 Hot or not@54:30 Movie recommendationsLink to Marvel site for creating your own character

Just Gabriel and Marc this week...@00:00 Cool music and intros@09:00 Marcs big announcement - devops, jobs for the future....@27:50 A few book recommendations@32:20 Congrats to Chad on his new role.... will he end up running Dell?@35:00 EMC revenue off - HP etc up everyone else down - market share up - revenue down - inverse for hp.@37:00 - AWS, Azure and Google race to the bottom of cloud storage pricing plus predictions for the coming year@41:40 - Google paying over the odds for Bebop - nothing to do with her being on the board Link to Robins article cited in the show

This week the conversation is all about NetApp acquiring SolidFire, Nutanix intending to IPO, and Star Wars The Force Awakens.@00:00 Intros@04:20 Is NetApp's acquisition of SolidFire a good thing and can it change their fortunes. Plus a perspective from within SolidFire from Gabriel@26:40 Why is Nutanix intending to IPO without any forecast of being profitable? Will this IPO impact the future of tech startups?@48:40 Hot or Not: Star Wars The Force Awakens

Bare metal in the cloud, NetApp bidding for SolidFire and more....@02:00 We revisit the question over whether or not bare metal in the public cloud is hot or not@08:00 News Roundup@10:10 Rumour has it that NetApp are attempting to acquire all-flash startup SoldFire (no comment from Gabriel)@14:50 According to some AWS has the potential to go from an $8BN business to $38BN in just 4-5 years@18:30 VMware pull out of VirtuStream joint venture with EMC@24:20 HP sinks $10M into Scality.... and what's the impact

This week sees the full stack of hosts on the show, talking about everything from clouds and bare metal... through to Obama Fried Chicken.@06:50 Tech News Roundup@09:15 Will Google Cloud Platform become the default big data and data analytics platform. Also.... is IBM ahead of Google as the number 3 player in the public cloud space@18:30 Is now the time for cloud apps to be spread across multiple cloud platforms for better availability@27:50 EMC Isilon is heading towards a software defined future@32:40 Cisco ACI beefs up its bare metal game@35:45 Hot or not@42:20 Biz News Roundup @43:55 Hyperconverged stuff - Are Springpath about to be acquired, and is the Lenovo+Nutanix deal a big dealFinally....here's the link to the Quartz article Marc mentioned in the show.