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Roll For Enterprise
by Dominic Wellington, Lilac Schoenbeck, Mike Ianiro, Zack Zilakakis
Four tech thinkers and doers who came up through the trenches of enterprise IT talk about the news that's relevant in this world.Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @lilacshoenbeck, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakisTheme music by Renato Podestà — http://www.renatopodesta.com
Episodes
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S3E17: Podcast's Gone Wild
Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, announces new remote-first work policy: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1519831566486147073 Simpsons meme about Elon Musk criticism: https://i.imgflip.com/3mtyfq.jpg Google parent Alphabet’s results come up short despite cloud strength...
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S3E16: Why have searches for GitOps doubled in the past year?
GitOps https://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitops Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months. The reason for growing interest in the practice is that GitOps can lead to increased productivity, higher reliability and better stability. GitOps is part of the Infrastructure as Code (IaC)...
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S3E15: Infrastructure as Code is dead, Cloud is the new VMWare, and IT Operations is forever changed
Foundry — Cloud computing study 2022 https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/ Puppet acquired (by Perforce) https://puppet.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-the-ceo-of-puppet Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection...
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S3E14: People In Three Dimensions
Back to (in-person) work Big tech conferences aren’t coming back https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-events Microsoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emails...
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S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc Apocalypse
Remote meetings are big money HP Inc. to Acquire Poly Poly is the lash-up of Polycom and Plantronics. And where was Zoom when this was going down? https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-buy-poly-33-bln-deal-2022-03-28/ How much of IT should be self-serve? Cloud self-service doesn’t need to invite...
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S3E12: Oktapoppin’
Okta popped Original tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690 Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010 Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/ FBI warns about attacks that bypass...
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S3E11: Pigeons In The Net
- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprise https://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase - Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again BIG sabotage: Famous npm package...
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S3E10: IT Research Analysts, what exactly are they good for? Plus more on the NVIDIA breach, Amazon’s stock split and the latest Apple event
NVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/ Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront...
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S3E9: More On Infosec Consequences Of Ukraine War
Ukrainian tech companies https://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companies Grammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfits People around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check in...
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S3E8: Cyber Security in trying times, EU data regulation and multi-cloud frenemies
Ukraine Crisis Ambulance-chasing by security marketers — just don’t Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russia https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558 Disturbing Mass Text Operation...
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S3E7: Shipping Citrix and Tibco — Citco? Tibrix?
Forbes — Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-world-could-have-gone-nuclear/ Citrix To Be Acquired, Taken Private And Merged With Tibco In $16.5B Deal -...
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S3E6: The One With Jon Collins
Dominic, Lilac, and Zack chat to Jon Collins of Gigaom about whether "cloud" is still a useful category, who buys enterprise IT these days, and what that means for land & expand strategies. Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page....
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S3E5: Amazon AWS the giant of cloud compared to Microsoft Azure and the often forgotten Google GCP
Amazon Q4: AWS’ Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71B https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71b https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504 https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1488248066389983232...
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S3E4: Microsoft Windows license and cloud growth, Nvidia and Arm not happening, and Calendly drama
Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderates https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.html Nvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisition https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-preparing-abandon-acquisition-arm-bloomberg-news-2022-01-25/...
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S3E3: Games, Metaverse, and Coffee
Microsoft buys Activision for $69B (nice) https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.html Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/18/22889342/microsoft-activision-antitrust-games-streaming-gamepass 3 billion...
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S3E2: Big Data! What Is It Good For?
Lilac and Dominic talk to Doug Johnson about the problem of data and what to do with it. What’s the data problem? How do we think about it in companies? What’s the opportunity … can we dream about what we could do with better handle on enterprise data Open Source and Security...
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S3E1: Here We Go Again, Welcome to the year of the employee
2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictions Employment changes, new wave of freelancing Fractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-one https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Part-Time-CTO-Salary vs...
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S2E51: Year In Review
Themes of the year that was: - Semiconductor shortages and architecture turnover - Outages and incidents - Security in general (attacks, ransomware, etc) - No-code/Low-Code and the shifting definition of architects - Mental health and the change in employment landscapes - The Great Resignation -...
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S2E50: Exploits, outages and the not so different future
Patch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s being exploited https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/ List of software impacted by log4j...
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S2E49: Services, Dead Or Alive
AWS us-east-1 outage (again) https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-now...
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S2E48: AWS re:Invent experience and the potential end of big tech acquisitions
AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ AWS re:Invent Keynotes https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/track/?trackID=E930FDEA03498D13B5CDACA0833D5A2 F.T.C. Sues to Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Arm https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/technology/ftc-nvidia-arm-deal.html UK...
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S2E47: WebEx Is Good, Actually
Have you tried WebEx lately? Whither Skype? Did Zoom depend too much on growth-hacking dirty tricks? https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom Zoom loses Five9 while WebEx extends gap with Contact Center capabilities...
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S2E46: Return of single threaded life
MongoDB.local London https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon AWS re:Invent https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Recommendations Dominic People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life. Mike The Tim Ferriss Show - Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill...
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S2E45: In which we get meta
Facebook goes Meta https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/ Microsoft wants to beat Meta at its own game https://thehustle.co/11042021-microsoft-meta/ Tinder also goes meta, with NFTs...
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S2E43: Google Cloud reorg/culture shift and Apple being Apple
Google Next ’21 https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next Google Cloud Removes Old Guard - Will it be enough? Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly...
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S2E42: Life, the Universe, and Everything
Our top 5 technologies we wish never were: Bitnet VDI “Modern” Web front-end stack https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160 Web apps (Google Docs in primis) USB 3.0 spec 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person...
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S2E41: BGP brought down Facebook; Databricks moves into Low-Code/No-Code; What does it mean for the future of IT organizations everywhere?
Facebook outage, Twitch leak Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ Lost server https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ Twitch source code and payout data leaks...
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S2E40: The Big Four-Oh
Sorry for making some of our listeners feel old, because their “I feel old now” references are twenty years earlier than Nevermind! Here’s what we talked about this week: How IBM lost the cloud https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud Cloudflare Announces R2 Storage; Rapid and...
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S2E39: In which we feel very old
30 years since Nevermind! Listening guide: https://www.nme.com/features/nirvanas-nevermind-at-30-a-track-by-track-guide-dave-grohl-st-vincent-lorde-3048697 30th anniversary reissue: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/ The kids don’t…
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S2E38: The IT way back machine
A look back at IT and technology in the 90s and the evolution that led us to today. Timeline of Computer History 1993 https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1993/ 1995 https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1995/ The Oregon Trail (1971 video game)...
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S2E37: The uncertainty around conferences, return to work and business travel
Dominic, Zack and Mike are together again discussing how conferences which should have been in person have now fallen off again. Companies are becoming non-committal to return to work and business travel is looking to be forever changed. They also touch on Ray Ban’s new Facebook glasses, Amazon’s...
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S2E36: All Together Now
In which Mike considers paying for some software, Lilac solves all of Enterprise IT's problems, and all four hosts are re-united once again. Enterprise software financials How about that monster H round — yes, H — from Databricks?...
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S2E35: The One About “The Great Resign”
The Great Resignation: Why Employees Don't Want To Go Back To The Office A Microsoft survey of more than 30,000 global workers showed that 41% of workers were considering quitting or changing professions this year, and a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland...
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S2E34: Intel and Nvidia, how two giants in the same industry are looking to grow and execute; and Microsoft is turning on the M365 cash machine
Intel CEO flashes cash, calling company a 'willing buyer' in semiconductor industry https://www.windowscentral.com/intel-ceo-flashes-cash-calling-company-willing-buyer NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2022...
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S2E33: When the company that provides security consulting gets hacked and ransomware what do you do? Plus are we going to be doing fake job for AI to judge our value?
Accenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threats https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/accenture-confirms-hack-after-lockbit-ransomware-data-leak-threats/ Employees may need to keep up ‘the pretense of working’ as automation spreads, says A.I. expert Kai-Fu Lee...
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S2E32: Glitter, chip shortages, and Apple privacy concerns
Intro Glitter bomb vs porch pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4 Ship Your Enemies Glitter https://shipyourenemiesglitter.com Chip Shortages Continue The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter...
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S2E31: Cloud growth continues at speed for the big three
While Dominic is in the alps, doing yoga with goats, Zack, Lilac and Mike got together to talk about the recent Google, Microsoft and Amazon earning report showing that cloud is still growing rapidly. Will it ever end? The gang also gets into product death and how to communicate end of life of...
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S2E30: Apology Podcast
What happened last week? We failed to record a normal podcast episode, so we tried something different and put out a Textual Podcast instead: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/textual-podcast Management = FOMO? Some people wind up in management more due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) than...
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S2E28: AWS Infinidash, Kaseya’s security issue, Kubernetes cost problem and why hardware is just a problem the cloud hasn’t solved yet
Dominic is back! Dominic, Mike and Zack discuss the AWS Infinidash origin and how everyone needs an AWS Infinidash expert on their team. Another supply chain attack has occurred this time at Kaseya. Finally we discuss once again Zack and Dominic's favorite subject, Kubernetes, but this time in...
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S2E27: IBMs failed email migration, why startups fail and who suffers, and 5G powered by Microsoft Azure
Lilac, Zack and Mike discuss how even after planning an email migration for 18-month, IBM still failed. What is going on with all these underwhelming startup acquisitions? What really happening? and who suffers? Has anyone noticed how even companies that offer “cloud” are moving their core…
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S2E26: David Cheriton (VMware & Google angel investor) talks Cloud, AI and the changing tech landscape in the US
Zack and Mike were joined by this week by David Cheriton, VMware & Google angel investor, as he talks Cloud, AI, and the Internet while weaving in stories from Stanford University, where he was a professor, and the beginnings of Google & VMware. What he reveals may surprise you. Follow the show…
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S2E25: Microsoft Windows 11 leak, who is copying who? Plus learning code in school and mental health startup funding
The gang is back together this week discussing the Windows 11 leak and their thoughts on MacOS versus Windows. Also the value, or not, of teaching coding in school. What code? What do we really want to teach our kids? Plus HBOs recent snafu and the hilarious intern responses. And finally what is...
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S2E24: Down goes Fastly, down goes the internet
On this episode of Roll For Enterprise the gang is all together to discuss the recent Fastly outage which brought down a large part of the internet. Is this the same or different from on premise outages and just more noticeable with so many companies impacted? Fastly outage and cloud resilience...
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S22E23: Break’s Over, Back On Your Heads
Back to Work (What do they think we’ve been doing all this time?) People refusing to come back to the office Lilac: "When I’m in the office I’m not also a mother and someone who has to do a load of laundry" Dominic: Dangers of a hybrid office — people who are physically in the office get the…
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S2E22: Microsoft pushes low-code deep into the business by turning natural speech into code with GPT-3; state of cloud & a16z’s on-prem report; Rapid7 breach & AWS re:Inforce
The team passionately debates the impact of GPT-3 converting speech to code on the business and software developers. Microsoft introduces this as a low code feature at their Build Conference. @Mike points out that IT must provide the business with guard rails. “The biz knows how to read and use…
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S2E21: Aneel Lakhani on startup marketing and enterprise clients
In this episode Roll for Enterprise welcomes Aneel Lakhani as a guest. Aneel is a Marketing Exec, Startup Advisor, Growth Therapist, and Investor. After 25-plus years in technology, with stints in engineering, product, and marketing in big companies and startups--Aneel now serves as an advisor to...
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S2E20: Ransomware on the rise with real world consequence; IBMs 2nm announcement and Apple hire/fire
Dominic, Mike and Zack are together again this week to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and all that we’ve learned since. People are still the weakest link in social engineering of attacks. Could China has prevented something like this thanks to their great firewall when compared…
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Season 2 Episode 19: Misusing Excel with Priya Doty
Our guest on the podcast this week is Priya Doty. Priya is the Global VP Product Marketing for IBM’s iconic IBM Z brand and it’s all-Linux sister brand, LinuxONE. Unlike a lot of marketers, Priya has also been a developer, which means she enjoys deconstructing marketing messages by reading...
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S2E18: Basecamp: Politics and Culture at work
With the recent controversy surrounding Basecamp and David Hansson (https://twitter.com/dhh?s=20) Dominic, Lilac and Mike spent some time discussion their thoughts on the topic. Not an easy topic with a lot of different opinion and many consequences to be considered. Background:...
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Season 2 Episode 17: The Importance Of Core Skills (they’re not soft skills!)
The guest on this episode is Rachel Chalmers of Alchemist Accelerator. Rachel joined Alchemist from Autodesk, where she was Director, Transformation Growth Boards and Product Excellence. Prior to Autodesk, Rachel was a VC with Ignition Partners and Merian Ventures, leading investments in Docker,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Four tech thinkers and doers who came up through the trenches of enterprise IT talk about the news that's relevant in this world.Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @lilacshoenbeck, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakisTheme music by Renato Podestà — http://www.renatopodesta.com
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