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Sunday, February 28, 2021

How the Cloud is Changing OSS Licensing

Brian looks at the recent changes in open source licensing, as it relates to managed cloud offerings, and how the perception of end-users towards free software vs. cloud services is changing.

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THINGS WE KNOW

  • Open Source has become a mainstream source for innovation - with most of the Internet being built on OSS technologies (in some way or form)
  • Open Source is more widely used in the Enterprise (than in the past), beyond just Linux
  • Open Source is often the de facto choice for much of the public cloud (OS, VMs, DBs, etc.)
  • The need for a “free” experience is expected for anything new in software or cloud, whether that’s for any/all usage, or a fixed period of time. 
  • “Open core”, or other variations on free OSS + non OSS (non-free) features has been a concept for quite a while. 
  • Community driven development does bring a broad set of perspectives, and it distributes the workload across engineers, companies, etc.
  • Plenty of successful projects have been both Open Source and primarily driven by a single company (especially in the data-centric projects)

THINGS THAT WILL EVOLVE

  • Where does the value of software come from? Does it come from the features, from the distribution, from the creator(s), or from how it is run?
  • Do customers value ‘free”, or “stability” or “customizability” (features) or “operationalization”? 
  • How much of an advantage or disadvantage (or neutral) is the OSS companies offering cloud services across clouds? 

UNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIES

  • How will the VC community view the changes in competitive landscape and licensing? How does it impact their future funding models?


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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Elastic for Search & Analytics

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Steve Kearns (@skearns64, VP Product Mgmt @Elastic) about how search is being used in many ways of our day-to-day life, how search has evolved to be a core element of Analytics platforms, and how Elastic search is evolving to help the next generation of developers in area like APM, Security, Metrics, etc. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into your work at Elastic, can you tell us a little bit about your background? 

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics of search. Everyone knows about how they use Google for their day-to-day activities, but what are some of the common uses of search in a business or IT context that people might not think about or know about?  

Topic 3 - Elastic is mentioned very frequently in the “search” discussion, but then it’s also included in a number of popular “stacks” (ELK stack, EFK stack, etc.). How does Elastic think about search being a core component of many other stacks (Metrics, APM, Security, etc.), some of which you may not have any immediate visibility to?

Topic 4 - What are some of the evolutions that are happening around search (or broader stacks) that are interesting to developers? 

Topic 5 - How does Elastic think about how or when customers (or developers) are consuming Elastic technologies, across OSS, commercial software and SaaS offerings? 

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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

The Cloudcast #353 - The 2018 Mid-Year Show

Aaron and Brian talk about the first half of 2018: Acquisitions and IPOs, Rating and ranking the Public Cloud, a look at aspects of Private Cloud, Containers and Kubernetes, HCI and GDPR, as well as their perspectives on AI and IoT.

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 Topic 1 - It’s been a busy year for Cloudcast alumni in 2018  
  • Microsoft acquires GitHub - 7.5B
 
  • BonsaiAI acquired by Microsoft

  • Pivotal IPO - $555M

  • Evident.io acquired by Palo Alto - $300M

  • CoreOS acquired by Red Hat - $250M

  • Splunk acquires VictorOps - $120M

  • Elastic (formerly ElasticSearch) - announced IPO plans

  • Loggly acquired by Solarwinds
Topic 2 - How would you handicap the public cloud market (leaders, laggards, emerging trends)?
  • Gartner only has 6 companies in their IaaS Magic quadrant

  • AWS keeps growing (apparently 30-35% of public cloud spending)

  • Microsoft keeps acquiring

  • Google is still TBD, but we’re going to GoogleNEXT in July

  • Alibaba is growing and starting to hear about more US companies using AliCloud

  • IBM and Oracle still seem like large Enterprise vendors
Topic 3 - Brian’s involved with containers, Aaron’s involved with Storage and HCI and some cloud integration, what’s interesting in those areas? What are the biggest trends you’re seeing in the private cloud / data center market?
Topic 4 - We’ve been trying to incorporate more AI and IoT into the shows this year. What have you learned so far, what has surprised you, where do you still have questions?
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