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Hey, so data matters. Where are you supposed to stick it and does anything about that change when you’re acting all cloudy? Coté and Richard talked to Ben Laplanche who leads up Pivotal’s data services effort. We chat about what Pivotal offers, how the role of the DBA is changing, what to consider when crafting “high availability”, and more.
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Show Notes
Upcoming Events
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Cloud Native Roadshow, various dates and cities: Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore.
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News & Links
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Google has impressive cloud earnings this quarter. 3x the number of big cloud deals, but cloud revenue still not broken out from “other” bucket.
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Microsoft ships a new, basic container service. Bring your own scheduler, but easy to get going. What exactly is a "container service"?
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Survey says that y’all are still freaked out about lock-in, cloud security. Slowing the migration to public cloud: "[m]ore than 65% of respondents reported that less than 20% of their workloads have been migrated to a public cloud, and that number jumps to 70% for enterprises with 10,000 or more workers."
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From a 451/Uptime Institute survey of 1,000 data center people: "A majority of the IT assets (65%) remain in enterprise-owned datacenters, with 22% at colocation providers and 13% deployed in the cloud. This compares with the 2016 Uptime survey breakdown of 71%, 20% and 9%, respectively."
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Provençal Tian - too many canned tomatoes.
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Piccolo coffee - "Traditionally, a Piccolo Latte is a ristretto shot (15 – 20 ml) topped with warm, silky milk served in a 100 ml glass demitasse"
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