Software Defined Talk

Episode 94: The Donnie Berkholz Episode, "Freedom in health-care: a regular 'heck of a job, Comey' situation," DevOps & security, & Canonical's IPO ambitions

May 16th, 2017  |  59 mins 35 secs

cloud, conjur, cyberark, donnie berkholz, execs, health-insurance, hsa, m&a, openstack, pam, security

In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion.

Episode 87: Snap's cloud billions, Google's social, Monitoring Startups considered hard, DHS wants your passwords

February 11th, 2017  |  59 mins 11 secs

cloud, dhs, fundings, google, passwords, privacy, security, sensu, snap, spending

Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategies; meanwhile, the America Fuck Yeah crew wants to start gathering passwords at the boarder. Also, Brandon lays out the case that an open-core monitoring startup is a hard row to hoe.

Also, Baltimore is not in Maine. (But Coté is pretty sure it actually is.)