Episode Details

There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet.

(Sorry the audio quality is so bad.)

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With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

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• If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.

Gartner IaaS MQ is Out.

• Check out the free re-print, from Amazon I believe.
• I collected these notes in it's own blog post, check it out.

Layoffs at Cisco

• Several thousand get pink slips, more
• "I do not think that th