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Published: Aug. 5, 2016, 9 p.m.

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\n\nShow notes\n\n

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• If you like video, see this episodes\u2019 video recording.
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\n\nHPE on the block?\n\n

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• Coverage: \u201cseveral private equity firms, including KRR, Apollo Global Management and the Carlyle Group, are looking to pay $40 billion or more to buy HPE outright\u201d
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• Bill Hilf out of HPE, another cloud re-org at HPE
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• Let\u2019s compare: IBM, Oracle, EMC/Dell, even Verizon/Yahoo! - big tech companies surviving long term.
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• Meanwhile: rumors of Rackspace going private.
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\n\nYAHOO!\n\n

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• What\u2019s Verizon doing over there?
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• Coté\u2019s notes on this: one and two.
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\n\nChefConf\n\n

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• Unified products as Automate
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• Certifications!
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• Lots of videos
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: Stranger Things
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• Matt: Utopia/Homeland2. My kids love Tim Tams. Manly. http://fan-o-rama.com/
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• Coté: Field Notes Byline, reporter's notebook.
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