The Cloudcast #234 - 2015 WrapUp + 2016 Predictions

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Aaron and Brian do their annual 2015 WrapUp show. They look at the most interesting shows, trends and topics from 2015, as well as making predictions for 2016.

Show Notes:
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  • Topic 1 - Is Public Cloud making any money?
  • Topic 2 - Is Open Source Software making any money
  • Topic 3 - Everything is becoming an integrated solution.
  • Topic 4 - Bi-Modal vs. Tri-Modal IT
  • Topic 5 - The continued rise of SaaS applications (and who manages them)
  • Topic 6 - The continued rise of non-vendor companies recruiting developers
Show Stats and Interesting Facts 

  • 60 Shows
 
  • Official Podcast at Cloud Foundry Summit, MesosCon, LinuxCon, DockerCon, VelocityConf, OSCON
 
  • Went over $5B in VC + M&A Funding for Guests
 


Most Popular Show(s) of 2015:

  • Eps.200 (Future of Connected Cloud; Christian Reilly) 
 
  • Eps.199 (Docker Security; Diogo & Nathan) 
  • Eps.208 (DevOps; Nathan Harvey)
 


Aaron’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show 

  • Container ecosystem is beginning to mature
 
  • Docker needs to go through Trough of Disillusionment
 
  • Skill Sets Changing - Blogging will become a lost art
 
  • GitHub or “GetOut” - people need to learn GitHub - see 30 Days of Commitmas (GitHub learning)
 
  • Existence of Bi-Modal IT - There is no migration path between the two.
 
  • “Infrastructure as a Code” replaces “Software-Defined” terminology
 Infrastructure jobs will become the operations portion of DevOps (automate everything)
 


Brian’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

  • Containers, Containers, Containers - competition for Docker in containers (VMware, CoreOS, etc.)? Moved from Containers to Systems.

  • Containers/Docker were mentioned everywhere (AWS, Tutum, Microsoft, DigitalOcean)
 
  • VMware pushes that “containers need VMs”
 
  • AWS is finally starting to understand the Enterprise; bundling/integrating services
 
  • Nobody values Cloud Management software
 
  • How do the VCs justify all this investment in companies that drive open-source projects?
 
  • What happens to all the SaaS tools platforms on AWS, can they survive economically?
 


Our Grades on Various Topics/Companies/Themes

  • OpenStack
 
  • AWS
 
  • Azure
 
  • Google
 
  • Cisco
 
  • Other Public Clouds
 
  • Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud
 
  • VMware
 
  • Docker
 
  • Cloud Foundry
 
  • Open Source centric companies (CoreOS, Hashicorp, Mesosphere)
  
  • Cluster-Management and Schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)
 
  • SaaS Applications
 


Brian’s 2016 Prediction Notes:

  • We’ll continue to see big bets (legacy vendors) and big failures 
  • Very curious to watch the open-source VMware-replacements (Hashicorp, CoreOS, Docker, etc.) monetize their business
 
  • We’ll begin to hear about some IoT success stories
 


Aaron’s 2016 Prediction Notes: 
Industry Predictions:


  • Docker Trough of Disillusionment will happen (push from last year) in favor of Open Standards
 
  • We will consolidate down to a handful of large hardware and software vendors in one (Oracle, Cisco, Dell

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