2019 in Review & 2020 Predictions

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of 2019, and make bold cloud computing predictions for 2020. 

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Cloudcast in 2019:

• Over 1.6M+ listens, up 40% YoY
• Guest Acquisitions: (total: 9) Cloudability (Apptio), Bromium (HPE), Docker (Mirantis), Shippable (JFrog), SignalFX (Splunk), Pivotal (VMware), NGINX (F5), ParkMyCloud (Turbonomics), Twistlock (Palo Alto) - also had 9 in 2018
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TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2019:

• Public Cloud CAPEX comparisons (through 2018)
• Data of AWS trends in Revenues, Growth Rates, Operating Margins, Operating Income
• AWS continues to lead in revenues, but their revenue growth has been slowing (as a YoY and QoQ%) for the last 5-6 months. Increased competition from Azure.
• Azure won the US DoD JEDI contract. 
• Google continues to be 3rd or 4th cloud, with Alibaba Cloud often ranked 3rd.
• IBM closed the $34B acquisition of Red Hat
• VMware made 8 acquisitions in 2019 - Bitnami, Pivotal. AVI Networks, Carbon Black
• Lots of discussion about large public cloud spending by web scale companies (Salesforce, Apple, Spotify, etc.)
• Several of the Gig-Economy companies continued to struggle in finding a profitable business model - Uber, Lyft, WeWork, DoorDash, etc.

2020 PREDICTIONS

Brian:

• We’ll start talking about GitHub as one of the major cloud platforms, in the same way we do AWS, Azure and Google. 
• We’re going to start seeing more and more vertical-centric AI/ML companies emerge, that curate data and provide insights-as-a-service. 
• We’re going to start seeing companies that offer distributed versions of the large “monolithic” systems of today (Core Banking, ERP, etc.) that lets new companies and business models emerge.

Aaron:

• The “trough of disillusionment” will hit Kubernetes, and it will be fine…
• Serverless will get a new name and will hit stride
• GitLab and HashiCorp will have breakout years

STARS WARS DISCUSSION:
For the 1st time ever, we indulge Aaron and talk a little bit of sci-fi on the