Aaron and Brian do their annual 2015 WrapUp show. They look at the most interesting shows, trends and topics from 2015, as well as making predictions for 2016.

Show Notes:
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Topic 1 - Is Public Cloud making any money?
Topic 2 - Is Open Source Software making any money
Topic 3 - Everything is becoming an integrated solution.
Topic 4 - Bi-Modal vs. Tri-Modal IT
Topic 5 - The continued rise of SaaS applications (and who manages them)
Topic 6 - The continued rise of non-vendor companies recruiting developers

Show Stats and Interesting Facts

60 Shows 
Official Podcast at Cloud Foundry Summit, MesosCon, LinuxCon, DockerCon, VelocityConf, OSCON 
Went over $5B in VC + M&A Funding for Guests

Most Popular Show(s) of 2015:

Eps.200 (Future of Connected Cloud; Christian Reilly)  
Eps.199 (Docker Security; Diogo & Nathan)
Eps.208 (DevOps; Nathan Harvey)

Aaron’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

Container ecosystem is beginning to mature 
Docker needs to go through Trough of Disillusionment 
Skill Sets Changing - Blogging will become a lost art 
GitHub or “GetOut” - people need to learn GitHub - see 30 Days of Commitmas (GitHub learning) 
Existence of Bi-Modal IT - There is no migration path between the two. 
“Infrastructure as a Code” replaces “Software-Defined” terminology  Infrastructure jobs will become the operations portion of DevOps (automate everything)

Brian’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

Containers, Containers, Containers - competition for Docker in containers (VMware, CoreOS, etc.)? Moved from Containers to Systems. 
Containers/Docker were mentioned everywhere (AWS, Tutum, Microsoft, DigitalOcean) 
VMware pushes that “containers need VMs” 
AWS is finally starting to understand the Enterprise; bundling/integrating services 
Nobody values Cloud Management software 
How do the VCs justify all this investment in companies that drive open-source projects? 
What happens to all the SaaS tools platforms on AWS, can they survive economically?

Our Grades on Various Topics/Companies/Themes

OpenStack 
AWS 
Azure 
Google 
Cisco 
Other Public Clouds 
Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud 
VMware 
Docker 
Cloud Foundry 
Open Source centric companies (CoreOS, Hashicorp, Mesosphere) 
Cluster-Management and Schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm) 
SaaS Applications

Brian’s 2016 Prediction Notes:

We’ll continue to see big bets (legacy vendors) and big failures
Very curious to watch the open-source VMware-replacements (Hashicorp, CoreOS, Docker, etc.) monetize their business 
We’ll begin to hear about some IoT success stories

Aaron’s 2016 Prediction Notes:
Industry Predictions: 

Docker Trough of Disillusionment will happen (push from last year) in favor of Open Standards 
We will consolidate down to a handful of large hardware and software vendors in one (Oracle, Cisco, Dell) and pr

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The Cloudcast #234 - 2015 WrapUp + 2016 Predictions

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The Cloudcast #234 - 2015 WrapUp + 2016 Predictions