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Show notes

• If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.

HPE on the block?

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

YAHOO!

• What’s Verizon doing over there?
• Coté’s notes on this: one and two.

ChefConf

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

Recommendations

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