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Cloud Rules Everything Around Me - Red Hat, Moby, Docker CEO, and Halo Effect’ing The First Cloud Wars
Episode 93
Published 9 years, 5 months ago
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There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wars. And, as always, recommendations from the three of us.
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- 5 different airlines in a month.
- Emirates is the best.
- This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay.
- Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more.
- Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum.
- As summarized by Derrick (via CNBC:
- AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter.
- Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year.
- Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion.
- What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008.
- Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM.
- LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers.
- “Moby is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system”
- Moby = open source development
- Docker CE = free product release based on Moby
- Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE
- Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are