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With the AI Era upon us, the challenge of trying to learn and make sense of the technologies, the business opportunities and the pitfalls is both exciting and equally terrifying.
SHOW: 812
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #812
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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW IN TECH?
- Cloud was all new, but not completely
- The pace of cloud innovation seemed fast, but not in comparison to AI
- The focus was around one cloud vs. a new source every week
PICK A TOPIC, READ, BE CONFUSED, LOOK FOR CONFIRMATION, RINSE, REPEAT
- Where to start the learning process?
- Where to pick a source of learning?(Coursera, MIT online, blogs/videos/search, etc.)
- How to determine legitimacy of the sources?
- How far to learn before stopping to make sense?
- Trying to relate it to something you already know?
- How and when to ask questions?
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Brad Winett (President/Co-founder @TrackItCloud) talks about platforms for entertainment and media. Topics include use cases, partnering with AWS, and creation and consulting services. We even dig into AR and VR a bit at the end.
SHOW: 811
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Topic 1 - Our topic for today is media and entertainment in the cloud. I don’t believe we have ever done a show specifically on this topic, and there are some considerations worth talking about. For today, we have Brad Winett, President and Co-founder at TrackIt. Brad, welcome to the show. Let’s jump right in. The media industry as a whole has undergone major change, just like many others. Most of us see it from the consumer end as a cord-cutter. What made you jump into this market and this industry specifically?
Topic 2 - Platforms and content distribution in the early days of cloud was a differentiator. I think back to Netflix, they initially had a market advantage because they were able to scale better and to more devices than anyone and even open sourced a number of internally developed items and were the AWS poster child. Over time, these user experiences have become the norm. How should people out there think about media platforms? Are we past the days of build your own?
Topic 3 - What about use cases? Media streaming is pretty broad. What does a normal customer look like? Is this big streaming services, smaller companies, etc?
Topic 4 - How much of the tech stack is AWS products and how much of the stack is custom typically? Walk us through what a media streaming stack looks like. How is this different from a SaaS provider providing a turnkey service?
Topic 5 - I know TrackIt is a big AWS partner. Give everyone an overview of the landscape of AWS Partnership these days. Do you provide mainly professional services and consulting?
Topic 6 - Where does open-source software fit into this?
Topic 7 - I feel the standard last question these days is how AI will potentially enhance or impact this is some way.
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What will be the adoption patterns for AI within the Enterprise? Will it follow the early days of Cloud Computing, or will new and different patterns emerge?
SHOW: 810
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #810
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WHAT WERE THE PATTERNS FOR ENTERPRISE IT AND CLOUD?
- Shadow IT
- High-scalability or Short-term Projects (and experimentation)
- Migration via “Cloud First” initiatives
- Difficult stuff came last
WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT AI vs. CLOUD?
- CPU to CPU was easier to calculate vs. CPU + GPU
- Have we learned any lessons about how to value people's productivity?
- Does Enterprise AI need a Crawl, Walk, Run scenario? Do they need to be sequential and linked?
- Are Enterprise AI use-cases well defined?
- How long is the Enterprise willing to fail at experiments?
- What’s the Enterprise tolerance for GenAI “flaws” (e.g. hallucinations, lack of citations, etc.)
- Will GenAI rejuvenate Predictive AI projects in the Enterprise?
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Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024.
SHOW: 809
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Segments Covered in the Show:
- Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
- The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
- Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024
- Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partner
- Trend 3 - NVIDIA held a pretty massive GTC event
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Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023.
SHOW: 808
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SHOW NOTES:
- What VMware might look like under Broadcom (Eps.629, June 2022)
- What to do about VMware (Day Two Cloud, Feb 2024)
- VMware 10X Price Increase Leaves Companies Looking for Alternatives
- VMware pricing in the Broadcom Era
BROADCOM IS FITTING VMWARE INTO THEIR BUSINESS MODEL
- At least with acquisitions, Broadcom has a well-defined set of business metrics they expect from their companies
- Broadcom acts somewhere like private equity in terms of investment, innovation, revenue generation
IT'S A BOLD STRATEGY BROADCOM, LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR THEM
- In essence, the bet is that there is no replacement for VMware in the Enterprise
- The timing is interesting with the shifting of budgets for AI projects
- It puts customers in a position to pay more for limited upside, but having to distinctly cut other areas of their technology budget (risk the business)
- Customers have some options, but again they risk the business (e.g. hold off on security patches)
- Once a company accepts the new pricing, what guarantees are there about no additional big increases in the future?
- How much will this impact the longer-term vendor-customer relationship?
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