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Aaron and Brian review the first half of 2020, which feels like it’s lasted 6 years.
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**Topic 1 **- Back on March 18th, Aaron and Ken Hui did a show about “Working from Home Tips and Tricks”. Can you even remember your mindset back in March?
- Zoom becomes a verb
Topic 1a - Is 2020 the Year of Virtual Desktops? Have you seen any last shifts happening about people being remote? [are companies going to allow people to work remote?]
**Topic 2 **- We’re starting to see the major clouds start to carve out some unique personalities:
- AWS - Goes over $10B for the quarter, not a lot of big announcements
- Azure - Lots of interesting growth around GitHub; pushing Teams hard with COVID; but had some scaling issues with COVID - also has made several acquisitions
- Google - Getting very sales focused (CEO Kurian); pushing Anthos into other clouds (AWS now, Azure soon)
- Oracle - Are they becoming the low-cost bandwidth cloud?
**Topic 3 **- Should anybody be running their own software anymore?
- MongoDB, Confluent, Datastax, Hashicorp, Red Hat, VMware (and many more) now have managed cloud-based versions of their core software.
**Topic 4 **- 2001 Internet Crash drove a ton of new innovation. 2008 Financial Crash led to the public cloud, but also lots of “cost savings” innovation. What does 2020 potentially bring?
**Topic 5 **- We have to talk about conferences and tradeshows. Do they return in 2021? What have we learned from the virtual ones in 2020?
**Topic 6 **- Any insights / predictions about the rest of 2020?
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