Roll For Enterprise

Dominic Wellington, Lilac Schoenbeck, Mike Ianiro, Zack Zilakakis

Four tech thinkers and doers who came up through the trenches of enterprise IT talk about the news that's relevant in this world. Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @lilacshoenbeck, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis Theme music by Renato Podestà — http://www.renatopodesta.com

  1. 05/01/2022

    S3E17: Podcast's Gone Wild

    Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, announces new remote-first work policy: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1519831566486147073   Simpsons meme about Elon Musk criticism: https://i.imgflip.com/3mtyfq.jpg   Google parent Alphabet’s results come up short despite cloud strength https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/26/google-parent-alphabets-results-come-short-despite-cloud-strength/ Google Cloud hit $5.82B in Q1 sales, up from $4.05B YoY and above estimates of $5.75B, and an operating loss of $931M, down from $974M YoY Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html Amazon's cloud unit grew 36.5% year over year in the first quarter, a bit faster than analysts projected. Brian Olsavsky (CFO) - “We saw another strong quarter of innovation and customer engagement in the AWS segment, where net sales were $18.4 billion in Q1, up 37% year over year and now represent an annualized sales run rate of nearly $74 billion.” “I mean, we're continuing to see what the backlog is, right? It's the increase of AWS customers making long-term commitments for AWS. At the March period ended, we had $88.9 billion balance for that. So that's up about 68% year over year. And the weighted average remaining kind of life term for those is 3.8 years.” AWS Wins Out Over Microsoft For $10B NSA Cloud Contract https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-wins-out-over-microsoft-for-10b-nsa-cloud-contract Microsoft’s Cloud Growth Propels Quarterly Sales, Earnings https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/microsoft-cloud-growth-propels-higher-quarterly-sales-earnings Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 32% YoY to $23.4B in Q3, including $19.1B from Intelligent Cloud, up 26% YoY, and from Azure and other cloud services, up 46% YoY MSFT Earnings Transcript Microsoft (MSFT) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool Satya Nadella - “This quarter, we helped more customers than ever, simplifying and accelerating their cloud migrations. And it's still early days.” & “As a percentage of GDP, tech spend is, on a secular basis, by the end of the decade, going to double.” Satya continuously doubles down on “Data & AI” - “Data and AI for sure. I mean, the thing that I find really to be something that I think is a long run is going to probably be one of the bigger drivers of our growth and differentiation is our data fabric because we're the only guys who have a complete data fabric from the operational store, that's fully integrated into an analytics engine, that's fully integrated into governance.” Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

    31 min
  2. 04/03/2022

    S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc Apocalypse

    Remote meetings are big money HP Inc. to Acquire Poly Poly is the lash-up of Polycom and Plantronics. And where was Zoom when this was going down? https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-buy-poly-33-bln-deal-2022-03-28/ How much of IT should be self-serve? Cloud self-service doesn’t need to invite the orc apocalypse | CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing Shadow IT discourse is back, baby! As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/ Large-scale npm attack targets Azure developers with malicious packages https://jfrog.com/blog/large-scale-npm-attack-targets-azure-developers-with-malicious-packages/ Google Docs corner New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-calendar-now-lets-paid-users-create-a-booking-page-website/ Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/compose-with-markdown-in-google-docs-on.html Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 Macs Fan Control https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control Lilac How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life  Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

    34 min
  3. 03/27/2022

    S3E12: Oktapoppin’

    Okta popped Original tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690 Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010 Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/ FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA): https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/ Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60864283 Japan's Self-Defense Forces launch new cyberdefense unit: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/17/national/sdf-cyberdefense-unit/ Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/ Zooming into the Metaverse Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990983/zoom-virtual-avatars-animal-face-replacement Of course many of us did this with Snap Camera for a couple of weeks and then forgot all about it: https://snapcamera.snapchat.com 'I'm not a cat': Video shows lawyer can't turn off kitten filter during Zoom court appearance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-m-not-cat-video-shows-lawyer-can-t-turn-n1257168 The Thing With Zoom: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom GIF inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/24/stephen-wilhite-gif-inventor-dies Tune in for an *exciting* discussion about enterprise sales & pricing next week! Recommendations Dominic Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022 Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

    37 min
  4. 03/20/2022

    S3E11: Pigeons In The Net

    - Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprise https://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/  https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase  - Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again  BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/  - Remote events are still with us  Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully online  https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981868/google-i-o-2022-may-11th-12th-online-virtual  Performance & Security - Ask Me Anything Panel from MongoDB.local London 2021  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgVLgfTB-E  - Partnering with cloud providers  MongoDB Expands Global Collaboration with AWS  https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-expands-global-collaboration-with-aws  AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance’  https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance-  Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/snowflake-cfo-defends-strategy-attacks-google-amid-stock-rout  - Maybe you don’t want that Apple Studio Display after all  Daring Fireball Apple Studio Display — problems with the webcam  https://daringfireball.net/2022/03/the_apple_studio_display  Opal camera — DSLR quality on a webcam  https://opalcamera.com  - Customer Experience Personalisation and how it breaks  Help, I'm Being Personalised!  https://findthethread.postach.io/post/help-i-m-being-personalised  - Recommendations  Dominic  Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022  Book: The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-scalzi/the-kaiju-preservation-society/  Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

    31 min
  5. 03/12/2022

    S3E10: IT Research Analysts, what exactly are they good for? Plus more on the NVIDIA breach, Amazon’s stock split and the latest Apple event

    NVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/ Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/google-s-mandiant-acquisition-brings-cybersecurity-automation-to-forefront Amazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buyback https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811399-amazon-jumps-10-on-20-for-1-share-split-10-billion-buyback?lctg=60c1e2e9dba83e59148a0f62&mailingid=26973903&messageid=wall_street_breakfast&serial=26973903.883067&userid=50571090&utm_campaign=WSB%203_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&utm_term=wall_street_breakfast https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1501688392915898370 Everything Apple Announced Today in Just Over Seven Minutes https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/08/march-2022-apple-event-everything-announced/ S&P Global Acquires 451 Research https://www.spglobal.com/en/press/press-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc Lydia Leong, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner https://twitter.com/cloudpundit Recommendations Lilac https://www.askamanager.org/ Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!

    40 min

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Four tech thinkers and doers who came up through the trenches of enterprise IT talk about the news that's relevant in this world. Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @lilacshoenbeck, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis Theme music by Renato Podestà — http://www.renatopodesta.com