Software Defined Talk: Too Old for the Buffet

With Matt securely setup in Australia, we get the low-down on the down under. We also discuss rumors of HPE and Rackspace going private and catch up on Verizon buying Yahoo.

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With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

Show notes

HPE on the block?

• Coverage: “Several private equity firms, including KRR, Apollo Global Management and the Carlyle Group, are looking to pay $40 billion or more to buy HPE outright.”
• Bill Hilf is out of HPE, another cloud re-org at HPE.
• Let’s compare: IBM, Oracle, EMC/Dell, even Verizon/Yahoo — big tech companies surviving long term.
• Meanwhile: Rumors of Rackspace going private.

Yahoo

• What’s Verizon doing over there?
• Coté’s notes on this: one and two.

ChefConf

• Unified Products as Automate.
• Certifications!
• Lots of videos.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Stranger Things.
• Matt: Utopia/Homeland. My kids love Tim Tams. Manly. Fan-o-rama.
• Coté: Field Notes Byline, reporter’s notebook.