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Itâs that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.
Cloud + AI News of the Year 2024 (shows, summaries, links)
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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #884 Transcript
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Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?Aaron
2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worseThere will be at least one âSkyNet scareâ of Agentic AI2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)Brian:
Govât vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?
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If AI is going to be the next big trend in tech and impact every aspect of society, how do you go about trying to evaluate where it is today and where it might be in a few years or a decade?
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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #883 Transcript
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HOW MIGHT YOU CONSIDER THE BEGINNING OF A TECHNOLOGY MARKET SHIFT?
Whatâs the landscape of players in the game?What are the potential moats? (technology, economics, people, political policies, geographic)What are the economics of the technology shift? Where will big changes happen? What are the usage patterns? Are they well defined? How long behind the consumer shifts will the enterprise shifts happen? What behaviors will need to change (significantly) for this to have wide adoption?How might this impact my work, my family, my company, etc.?FEEDBACK?
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Itâs that time of the year⊠Aaron and Brian answer emails and questions for the second half of the year.
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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #882 Transcript
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SHOW NOTES:Question 1 - There was a lot of talk about Broadcomâs changes to VMware at the beginning of the year, but not as much since then. Whatâs going on in the world of virtualization?
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Question 2 - Both of you have talked about working remotely for quite a while. Whatâs your take on RTO mandates? Any suggestions for remote workers?
Question 3 - Have either of you found any valuable uses of AI in your day-to-day job?
Question 4 - Now that the US elections are over, how do you expect the US Govât to be involved with the tech industry (anti-trust, CHIPS ACT, AI regulation, etc..)
Question 5 - AI models and GPUs seem to get all the attention in the news. Are there other areas of AI that you think are really important but arenât getting much attention right now?
Question 6 - Are cloud skills still considered valuable? Do certifications matter anymore?
Question 7 - Whatâs going on in the open source communities like the CNCF?
Question 8 - What surprised you the most this year?
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In the late 70s and early 80s, a music revolution started because a bunch of talented musicians played on 100s of albums, behind the scenes. Would the AI startup community benefit from a similar infrastructure of experts?
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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #881 Transcript
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Yacht Rock Documentary (HBO Max - Trailer)WHY DONâT WE HAVE EXPERTS BEHIND THE SCENES OF EVERY STARTUP?
History of the interactions between bands like Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, Toto, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, etc..Why do VCs allow startups to hire their own back-office people? Why arenât there services that offer startup backend services, not just one off SaaS services?AI could be used to scale those services.FEEDBACK?
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The 2024 AWS re:Invent happened, with a new CEO, and an appearance by a previous CEO. What were the big announcements, trends and stories coming out of the keynote?
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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #880 Transcript
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AWS re:Invent 2024 - CEO Keynote with Matt GarmanTop Announcements of 2024 AWS re:InventWhat hath AWS wrought? (Forrest Brazzeal newsletter)Prince guitar solo during George Harrison tributeOverall Takeaways:
The new CEOThe overall themesAndy Jassyâs appearanceBrianâs Top 5 Takeaways:
The focus is now all ARM and GPUs/AI Accelerators (goodbye Intel)AWS is getting back to basics on Cloud - a focus on primitivesAWS is trying to get ahead of startup and enterprise usage of GenAI with a focus on Inferencing costs (trying to make it a game of compute costs vs. model capabilities)What are the 1000 GenAI apps that Amazon has built? (Rufus, Robot package loading? NFL Blitz predictor?Brandonâs Top 5 Takeaways:
Amazon is the âEverything Store,â AWS is the âEvery Service StoreâGarmon is the legacy AWS CEO, Jassy is the AWS AI CEOAWS wants everyone to build a chatbot and/or call center app using AWS Bedrock The NOVA foundation models are the AWS answer to OpenAI and Anthroptic. AWS is attempting to build both the models and the AI Chips to run them. Tenuous partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic. Neither was on stage. AWS will never stop telling us about âWorking BackwardsâAWS marketing still wants talk about the how rather than the benefit. A long lecture on Nitro and Amazon Aurora DSQL with a lot of discussion about synchronizing clocks.FEEDBACK?
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How are the largest VCs viewing the early stages of the AI Era, from the perspective of investment, technology moats, economics, early adoption and future use-cases.
SHOW: 879
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #879 Transcript
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AI Eats the World (Presentation - Benedict Evans)IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?
Companies are investing tons of moneyBreakthrough results havenât emerged yet (business models, profits)Itâs not clear that there is a technology moat; but maybe a capital moatModel training costs are expected to rise 5x to 10x - worse economics??Lots of VC investment and vendor 2nd-order investmentsLLM costs are creating marginal cost of software (been since the mainframe)Model quality vs. price is improving, but price of the services (e.g. ChatGPT-Pro) is increasing - how much extra value is being delivered?How will open source impact AI? âIf anything in life is certain, semiconductors are cyclical, commodity tech goes to marginal cost, and every new tech produces a bubble.âTodayâs GenAI question - is it accurate and useful? How can we tell, and how can it improve (or does it need to)?Start with a simple concept - AI gives us unlimited interns - how can you extrapolate that? How would this have been extrapolated for the original internet (create content, translate language, write code, etc.)Use cases are still not easy to see beyond Chatbots (and variants), Coding AssistantsConsulting revenue from GenAI is bigger than technology - and still most/many projects still in trials. Technology can take a long time to adopt - Cloud still only has 30% of workloads (15yrs old)66% of CEOâs donât expect their first GenAI app in production until sometime in 2025, 50% at least 2H of 2025.[Shadow AI] SaaS AI will accelerate adoption, if it follows Cloud pattern - external forces are more motivated to attack business âchangeâ than internal teams[Build vs. Ecosystem] Do the LLM vendors become the application vendors? Where does the LLM start and stop (infra, platform, API, apps, etc.)[Learning from the customers] Do the LLM vendors use their knowledge advantage to build the apps? GenAI Apps Categories - Make something better, Replace something, Just do the thingâAI is just whatever is wrong/broken nowâ - How well does AI understand âbrokenâWill people be the biggest problem in AI progress? [Decoupling] Looks at global markets for Internet today - ecommerce/retail, food delivery, advertising, media, autonomous driving, [Elevator Example] Automation gets rid of peopleNo real conclusionFEEDBACK?
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Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2024 including the breaking news of Pat Gelsinger's Thanksquitting departure from Intel.
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Link to November 2024 news and articlesSEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:
Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation ContinuesFEEDBACK?
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As the AI era emerges, the debate about the best place to live to take advantage of it for your career has started up again. Is Silicon Valley still the best place to live when a new trend starts?
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The case against living in the Bay area (Forrest Brazeal) Cost of living calculatorBest quality of life cities (US) Best quality of life cities (Europe)Best quality of life cities (Asia)Top 15 Wealth Creating Stocks of last 10 years (Vanguard)
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SHOW NOTES:IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?
Amazon, Microsoft, Space X , BYD, TSMC, are not in Silicon ValleyTHE PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN SILICON VALLEY DURING A BOOM?
Density of ideasDensity of people that obsess over technologyWork from Office vs. Work from AnywhereLocation of customers - and physical vs. digitalAbility to make money vs. life changing moneyNon-work considerations (family, non-work activities, etc.)FEEDBACK?
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Andrew Manoske (@a2d2, VP Products @Kindo) talks about the intersection of GenAI and DevSecOps, the WhiteRabbitNeo model, and learning adversary behavior.
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Kindo (homepage)WhiteRabbitNeo (open source project)Open Source GenAI models advances support for CyberSecurity and DecSecOps teamsTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your current areas of focus.
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Topic 2 - You come from a security background. Every conversation we have with security teams is âattackers have more tools, more money and more timeâ. Is security an almost unwinnable game without a new way of thinking about the equation?
Topic 3 - It seems like AI has the potential to give Security teams (or anyone in IT) more of a chance, if used properly. How are you thinking about giving teams the right security AI powers?
Topic 4 - Letâs talk about WhiteRabbitNeo. âWhiteRabbitNeo is uncensored and trained to act like a modern adversary.â What does this mean in practical terms?
Topic 5 - Where is the potential for the right set of AI models + Agents to make a significant impact towards better on-going security?
Topic 6 - There will be lots of things aimed at being AI for Security. How would you tell someone how to sort through what is useful vs. AI-washed or not likely to be useful?
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In the Cloud Era, Netflix was held up as the lighthouse for what was possible with cloud. So who is the Netflix of the AI era, and are we learning enough about AI yet?
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New research shows widespread adoption of GenAINetflixOSS (homepage)
SHOW NOTES:WHAT DID NETFLIX DO FOR THE CLOUD ERA?
Provided a face for a new style of doing workProvided validation that a new model could workEncouraged people to explore older, âbad practicesâBegan to define metrics of what the new world could look likeWHY DO WE NEED A NETFLIX OF THE AI ERA?
Because AI can apparently do everything, but what are some specific things?What are the new ways of thinking about old problems?Has it been proven to improve teams, or mostly individuals? Do we need a Couch to 5k set of use-cases? Starting use-casesOr is AI going to be a big-bang approach?
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Sunil Mallya (@sunilmallya, Co-Founder & CTO @_FlipAI) talks about building AI models to help IT Operations teams simplify troubleshooting, incident response and pattern detection.
Flip AI (homepage)Enterprise AI Agents: Bringing LLMs to Enterprise Data
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.
Topic 2 - Letâs begin by talking about your broader view of where IT Operations is today for large companies. What are their biggest challenges, and where are their opportunities for big improvements?
Topic 3 - One of the biggest challenges for IT Operations is so many systems, so many tools, so many data sources and the difficulty of coordinating (troubleshooting, incident response, pattern detection, etc.) across them. Is there a modern approach thatâs emerging about how to make this better?
Topic 4 - Where does the potential of AI models come into play here? It is more focused on being able to ask the system for diagnosis, or can it start getting closer to taking independent actions?
Topic 5 - How do you train an AI model with so many different pieces of customer data?
Topic 6 - Letâs talk about AI Agents and what they can begin to accomplish within an Enterprise.
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Itâs not a reach to say that weâre currently in a time of uncertainty, across technology, economic and political spectrums. But historically, times of uncertainty have often led to unexpected creativity.
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STUFF THAT FEELS UNCERTAIN OR FRAGMENTED RIGHT NOW
Transition of US political parties (regulation, leadership, reaction to the unknown, friend or foe of Silicon Valley)Stock market is somewhat bullish, but credit markets arenât alignedSocial media seems more fragmented (good & bad), so what does this do to information flows, learning, discussions, etc.Speculation is that AI LLM models are starting to plateauCloud providers arenât really talking about anything but AIVCs seem to be excited about the potential of acquisitions again, but who?Netflix canât seem to figure out streaming live TV, at least at scale - but Amazon can?FEEDBACK?
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Rosalind Whitley (Dir. Product @Kentikinc) and Ethan Smith (Staff SRE @ An Enterprise Security Company) talk about network observability, the evolution of SRE for networking, flow analysis, and the complexity and tradeoffs or network design and operations at scale.
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Kentik - The Network Observability Platform (homepage)
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and the areas you focus on today.
Topic 2 - I want to begin with the complexity of networking, and not just in the sense of routing, etc. Can you walk us through some of the things you have to consider, and potentially tradeoff, as youâre thinking about network design and operations (e.g. performance, security, costs, logging, troubleshooting, etc.)
Topic 3 - Usually there are many teams involved in making a large organization work. How do you collaborate across teams, and what types of technical hurdles get in the way of delivering the service? (maybe discuss logging challenges)
Topic 3a - How has the role of SRE and Network Engineer evolved as weâre now dealing with this new complexity? You have all the normal performance, high availability, observability stuff, but also things like egress costs, etc.
Topic 4 - We talked earlier about the challenge of cost management when running a large SaaS service. What are some of the ways that you explore or model costing behaviors and look to improve them?
Topic 5 - As youâre working in a single cloud (e.g. AWS), thereâs often a belief that working only in that ecosystem is the best approach, as everything is integrated or billing is simpler. How did you go about exploring alternatives that worked in your cloud, but gave you more flexibility for your services?
Topic 6 - How do you tend to think about lines of demarcation between your team, the SaaS tooling provider and the cloud provider?
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While there will be plenty of evaluation of how the 2024 US elections played out, we take a look at 13 tips that we can learn from the campaigns that can be used for tech communications.
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Dithering - Trump Tech PolicyStratechery - Big Tech, Little Tech, Chips and HardwarePivot - How Trump will Impact Tech, EconomyCube Podcast - https://www.thecube.net/cube-podcastSHOW SPONSOR:
Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud. Oracle Cloud InfrastructureCAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?
Itâs very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known nameItâs more difficult to prove âwhat ifâ (future) vs. something that already happenedFigure out messaging velocity and variability (change the story vs. stick to the story)Plans tend to defeat a lack of plans (or vagueness)Fear is as powerful a motivator as hope/joy/possibilitiesComplex topics (eg. democracy, DevOps) are difficult for people to understand, if they arenât well defined.People tend to make decision with their wallet, based on their current situationAre you speaking to a niche audience, or a large audience? If your competition defines you, you need to reframe it quicklyIf your competition finds a liability, you need to address it quicklySometimes small things can be the center of the discussionKnow where your audience is getting their information from (traditional vs. modern channels)Are you trying to get people to align on an issue, or a set of virtues (align to a group)?FEEDBACK?
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Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.
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Link to October 2024 news and articles
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Good Old Fashioned Cloud NewsThe AI Innovation ContinuesFEEDBACK?
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Keri Olson (@ksolson20, VP AI for Code at @IBM) talks about coding assistants across the software development lifecycle, the future of agents, and domain-specific assistants.
SHOW: 869
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #869 Transcript
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IBM Watsonx Code Assistant (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed (homepage)IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z (homepage)
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on where you focus your time at IBM these days?
Topic 2 - Developer code assistants have become one of the most popular areas of GenAI usage. At a high level, how mature are the technologies that augment developers today?
Topic 3 - Software development has an entire lifecycle (Generate, Complete, Explain, Test, Transform, Document). Itâs easy for developers to just plug in a service, but is that often the most effective way to start using GenAI in the software development lifecycle?
Topic 4 - Software developers are notoriously picky about what tools they use and how they use them. GenAI doesnât âguaranteeâ outputs. Are there concerns that if different developers or groups use different coding assistants, that it could create more challenges than it helps?
Topic 5 - What is a holistic way to think about code assistants? How much should be actively engaged with developers, how much should be behind the scenes, how much will be automated or agentic in the future?
Topic 6 - In the past, we essentially had âreal developersâ (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for âcitizen developersâ on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadnât identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)FEEDBACK?
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When youâre asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So letâs just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 years. Seems simple enough.
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âMachines of Loving Graceâ (Dario Amodei - Anthropic)Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism (Decoder from The Verge)âThe Intelligence Ageâ (Sam Altman - OpenAI)THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)
Biology and HealthNeuroscience and MindEconomic Development and PovertyPeace and GovernanceWork and meaningFEEDBACK?
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Edward Hieatt (@edwardhieatt, Chief Customer Officer @mech_orchard) talks about the challenges of app modernization, leveraging AI, and the process to succeed from legacy to modern.
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Mechanical Orchard (homepage)Startup led by ex-Pivotal CEO lands $50M to modernize apps (TechCrunch)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on Mechanical Orchard.
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Topic 2 - Many of the MO team come from Pivotal (especially Pivotal Labs), as well as being involved with the Agile Manifesto, Extreme Programming, etc. How did the mission of the company get focus on modernizing existing applications?
Topic 3 - Modernization projects have traditionally been really costly, with a low success rate. Why is now the right time to focus on this area?
Topic 4 - Iâm really interested in how MO technology works. It seems like a variation of a digital twin, mixed with some AI capabilities. Give us the big picture of how this is a different approach to modernization.
Topic 5 - How much culture/process change is needed with MO to be successful?
Topic 6 - What do the stages of success look like with your approach to application modernization?
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After several months of travel and giving keynote at multiple events, Brian gives some new tips for building keynotes, capturing audience attention, managing regional differences and avoiding mistakes.
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Building a Keynote Presentation (Cloudcast Eps. 798)THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
Different types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, MixedDifferent types of keynote context - New, Updates, Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/PanelsOther considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions.FEEDBACK?
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Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.
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Dremio (homepage)Hands-on with Apache Iceberg TutorialApache Iceberg Crash CourseData Lakehouses and Apache Hudi (Cloudcast Eps. 694)Apache Iceberg, the Definitive Guide (eBook)Apache Iceberg (homepage)Iceberg + Nessie Catalog (homepage)Iceberg + Polaris Catalog (homepage)AlexMerced.comDataLakehouseHub.comTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.
Topic 2 - Itâs been a little while since we talked about Data Lakehouses, can you give us a little bit of background on this space, and what the most recent dynamics are around these technologies.
Topic 3 - What are the typical integrations with a Data Lakehouse? How are users/developers typically interacting with Data Lakehouse technologies? [The marketplace for Iceberg catalogs like Nessie and Polaris]
Topic 4 - How does an open data format like Apache Iceberg fit into the bigger picture of data lakehouses, or large scale stores of data?
Topic 5 - How does Dremio enable Iceberg? How does Dremio sit in the intersection of Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh and Data Virtualization trends all of which come from the same fundamental problem, the growing scale of data use cases.
Topic 6 - Weâve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applicationsFEEDBACK?
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