Structure News: What we've learned preparing for Structure 2016 next week

Your weekly tech news roundup, with a little bit of Structure. Where The Show Will Go On, Even If The World Ends November 4th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk the amazing lineup of speakers and topics we have planned for Structure 2016 next week, why container orchestration products might be more compelling than container products, and the arrival of a turning point in modern computing. BIG PICTURE It's not an understatement to declare that nothing has changed computing as much as the cloud. Sure, I always chuckle at the reductive definition of cloud as "using somebody else's server instead of your own," but this insight has dramatically changed the cost structure of running a technology organization, and allowed millions of mobile apps and consumer-oriented web businesses to flourish that would have never gotten off the ground 15 years ago. As we get ready for Structure 2016 next week, it's clear the discussion has evolved. IT executives at Fortune 500 companies know they need to articulate a cloud strategy for their bosses, and the surge in hybrid cloud deployments is a telling result. The cloud is evolving into the fog, which sounds like the marketing claptrap that it is but describes a real movement of processing power further away from the datacenter toward the end user through intelligent networking products. And if containers are going mainstream, container orchestration products will follow. We have such a great lineup of speakers ready to address these issues next Tuesday and Wednesday in San Francisco. Leaders from the Big Three -- Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google -- will be interviewed about their progress (or lack thereof) in the cloud over the last year. Bernd Verst of 18F, the federal organization tasked with modernizing the government, will address how it is encouraging developers to serve the public. We'll also tackle an extremely important question -- do we need to re-architect the internet? -- in a discussion with Lance Crosby of StackPath and Artur Bergman of Fastly. You won't find a better gathering of cloud innovators at any other non-vendor produced conference, which makes us quite proud. Make sure you join us Tuesday and Wednesday at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, and if you haven't registered yet, here's the place to sign up. STRUCTURE NEWS CONTAINER ADOPTION AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ENTERPRISE DEVELOPERS Our new media partners, the good folks over at The New Stack, wrote a nice post this week outlining the discussion that Kyle MacDonald (pictured) will be moderating next week on container orchestration products. In the post, MacDonald lays out his thinking going into the session, which will address what enterprises adopting containers into their software development process need to know about this space. INDUSTRY NEWS MICROSOFT TEAMS LAUNCHES TO TAKE ON SLACK IN THE WORKPLACE This wasn't a surprise (for some reason, Slack even took out an ad in the New York Times addressing the launch) but Microsoft is back with another attempt at traction in the market for collaboration tools. The Verge reports that Microsoft Teams looks a lot like Slack, but adds a Microsoft touch with deep integration of Microsoft Office products. MOBILE AND TABLET INTERNET USAGE EXCEEDS DESKTOP FOR THE FIRST TIME WORLDWIDE As we've explored this year, fog computing is evolving to handle the needs of mobile users and the internet of things, and there's a reason why this is taking hold this year: mobile internet usage worldwide now exceeds desktop usage, according to StatCounter. Mobile first is no longer a good idea when it comes to your tech strategy, it's a necessity. CHIPMAKER BROADCOM TO BUY NETWORK GEAR MAKER BROCADE FOR $5.5 BILLION As datacenter components become more intelligent, so grows a market for chips designed for those applications. Broadcom decided this week it wants a part of this market, acquiring Brocade for $5.5 billion and making for an interesting relationship with one of its best customers, Cisco, although Broadcom told Reuters it would sell part of the networking business. STUDY: AWS HAS 45 PERCENT SHARE OF PUBLIC CLOUD MARKET -- MORE THAN MICROSOFT, GOOGLE, IBM COMBINED Amazon Web Services remains the dominant public cloud company, enjoying 45 percent market share among infrastructure-as-a-service customers, according to GeekWire. AWS doesn't have quite as commanding a lead in the platform-as-a-service market, but as last week's earnings continued to demonstrate, it's the leading cloud computing company. LEVEL3 DEAL PROBABLY WON'T MAKE CENTURYLINK A BIGGER CLOUD CONTENDER In other massive merger news this week, Centurylink bought Level3 -- last seen on stage at Structure Security -- for $19 billion, although the deal isn't expected to close until next year. Fortune explains why this combination is unlikely to have a big effect on the market share numbers above, although it could cause some pain for content-delivery networks like Akamai. QUOTE OF THE WEEK You can see the impact of AI through this lens of augmenting human capability, human enjoyment, human creativity. That's the lens through which we'll look at it." -- Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, as told to The Wall Street Journal Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Copyright (C) 2016 StructureSeries All rights reserved.