Episode Details

Cloud was supposed to make computing easier, but it’s now as complicated or more complicated than legacy data centers and apps. Is there any future in a simpler cloud?

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• DigitalOcean has an IPO

SIMPLIFYING CLOUD

APPLICATIONS - SaaS, RPA, Low-Code and PaaS v2

• Small Business as-a-Service
• Multinational Business-as-a-Service
• DemandGen-as-a-Service

PRICING - Cost Management has its own complex ecosystem

• The cloud bill is always an unknown

INTERCONNECTING SERVICES - Are the APIs easy enough to integrate

• Mulesoft, Red Hat Integration, Apigee, etc. for the older stuff
• Is cross-SaaS integration easy enough? 

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