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With Cot\\xe9 away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo!

Show Notes:

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• VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways \\u2014 with Google / VMware\\u2019s Diane Greene.
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• Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They\\u2019re Not Actually Strategies
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Bonus Links:

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• Mesosphere, a San Francisco cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate.
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• Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!)
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• Stressed about serverless lock-in? Don\'t be
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Sponsor:

This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, Sign up for a free trial of SolarWinds AppOptics by visiting www.solarwinds.com/sdt and get a free launch t-shirt,

Listener Survey & More

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• Get a SDT Laptop Sticker when your fill out the SDT audience survey
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• Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast
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• Join us all in the SDT Slack.
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Recommendations

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• Matt Ray: Laughing for Days
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• Brandon: Movie: American Made
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Sponsored By:

• SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn\\u2019t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.