Episode Details

While it's unknown how much time you should let your kids play Minecraft, it's equally unclear at the moment who'll win the second cloud wars. Between Google, Azure, AWS, and all the others, how companies differentiate themselves and what customers will buy on isn't sorted just yet. We discuss Google Next, Pivotal's momentum announcement, and serious theories for Okta IPO'ing.

Pardon the shoddily formatted show notes below, Coté was in a hurry to get to Spring Break.

• Competing on features? Or just pricing and brand? The "complete solution."
• Richard summarizes announcements
• More from Google...
  • Cheaper, faster, more data centers
  • Google Cloud Dataprep for cleaning up data for ingestion
• Cloud Opinion's Keynote Day 1
  • "Differentiation from other cloud providers — "we are Google, damn it" isn't working too well"
• Hangouts to take on Slack? This space is getting crowded
• Customers: Snapchat, Evernote, Disney, Coca Cola, Home Depot, Whirlpool.
• Hosted container builder service
• Pivotal was the Google partner of the year!

• Coté at a Meetup next Tuesday, March 21st, in DFW. "Digital transformation in the streets." Hopefully some new material from my ImpossibleDevOps writing.
• Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017.
  • 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
• Matt:
  • DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code
  • DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th
  • Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th
  • ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st

• "over $270 million in bookings in one year"
• Previous years:
  • 2015: In 2015Q3 "Pivotal Cloud Foundry has crossed $100 million in annual bookings run-rate"
  • 2014: "In less than a year, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has booked ~$40 milli