Episode Details

Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves.

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Wemo IoT

• All the devices - plugs, dimmers, HomeKit bridge (HomeKit is kinda garbage).
• There’s plenty of IFTTT applets that do Wemo things, but…are they useful?

Those chip problems - what would you use them for?

• What’s this mean?
• Another Y2K? The world didn’t seem to end, so are we good?
• The Register coverage, lots of gobbly-gook.
• TPM estimates cost to IT departments to deal with it.
• Suspicious stock sale, or maybe he just needed a new winter home.
• What are people doing with exploits?

More IT spending in 2018, public cloud use growing

• 451 and IDC have some cloud forecast numbers out.
  • Ent. software growth.
  • Trad’l IT shrinking, but not too fast 451 days private cloud still the winner, but barely.

• 451 tracks by survey with plans to put workloads across the different types of infrastructure:
  

• PaaS in not included (see

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