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Show notes

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

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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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YAHOO!

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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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ChefConf

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• Unified products as Automate
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• Certifications!
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• Lots of videos
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Recommendations

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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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