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This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private.”

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• Last week we looked at The Lone Wolf Analyst, by way of Ben Thompson.

• Why did kubernetes win? (Nerds like to tinker, Google brand? Did the rest of us just need to buy more native advertising in The New Stack?)

• Not really sure what this Cisco/Google thing is. What does Cisco bring to the table?
• “Cisco's HyperFlex platform that includes management tools to enforce security and other policies as applications and services are released with greater frequency.”
• Private cloud bundling of kubernetes, Istio, all the great cloud natives.
• "This is what we hear customers ask for," Diane Greene.
• Big picture: what’s Google’s goal here? Is it really as simple as “on-ramp?”
• Even bigger picture: how did it kubernetes win?

• So, is the “Blue Mix” brand out the mix?
• IBM page: “Overview of IBM Cloud Private.” Another announcement overview.
• “Is built on the latest versions of Kubernetes and Docker” - what that mean?
• Jeffrey Burt: “IBM Cloud Private can run on a variety of infrastructures, including the vendor’s own mainframe and Power systems, its hyperconverged infrastructure that runs Nutanix software, and IBM Storage’s Spectrum Access solution. In addition, it can run on systems from Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco Systems and NetApp, and can be deployed by such VMware, Canonical and other OpenStack distributions as well as bare-metal systems. The private cloud platform also includes such developer services for data analytics as Db2, Db2 Warehouse, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, developer tools like Netcool, UrbanCode, and Cloud Brokerage and open-source management software such as Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and ElasticSearch.”
• Chris Mellor, The Register:
  • All the great middleware now in (Docker) containers: “IBM has provided containerised versions of WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty, MQ, and DB2, plus Microservice Builder as software bundle components. For example, Cloud Private for Application Modernization provides Cloud Private capabilities plus WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, MQ Adv