Silverlinings' Lunch Ladies Elizabeth Coyne and Diana Goovaerts serve up an overview of this week's news from the cloud world, including insight into the latest on the Broadcom-VMware deal. Will it ever close? Plus a sneak peek at KubeCon 2023.
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Here's a handy guide to the chat:
00:08 Introduction
01:13 The Ladies skip the appetizer and jump straight into the news. Liz sets the stage, providing some background on what's been happening with VMware and Broadcom
02:09 CCS Insights' Bola Rotibi weighs in on the question "will the Broadcom-VMware deal EVER close?"
03:07 Diana tees up the second question we put out to analysts: "how is the pending transaction impacting both customers and employees...and what happens if it never actually closes?"
03:21 Dell'Oro Group's Mauricio Sanchez offers his take on the latter question
04:11 Liz and Diana discuss the analysts takes and share their own thoughts on what's going on with the deal.
05:36 Liz spotlights some other news from the week, including stories covering whether critical workloads will ever move to the cloud, AT&T’s thoughts on how AI can help with automation and a new executive appointment at Google Cloud
05:53 Liz kicks of a discussion of who she's meeting with and what she expects at Kubecon next week
07:09 The Ladies serve up dessert. Liz starts off with the tale of her encounter with a rowdy Beetlejuice look-alike on a train and Diana shares her ride to victory (almost) in her barn's horse Halloween costume contest. Catch Liz and Diana's Halloween photos below!
12:19 Liz wraps things up with announcements, including a reminder to submit your entries for the Cloud Innovation Awards TODAY
13:37 Diana takes it home with the credits
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