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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:

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