Silverlinings' Lunch Ladies Elizabeth Coyne and Diana Goovaerts serve up an overview of this week's news from the cloud world, including more on the Cisco/Splunk deal, Ericsson's Open RAN plans, Mobile World Congress Las Vegas news and Unilever. We also debate about mayonnaise and reminisce about our love of Grease, the musical.
Here's a handy guide to the chat:
00:04 Introduction
00:29 Liz delves into the week's appetizer news, which covers Unilever's cloud transformation. Ben and Jerry's anyone?!
01:28 The ladies jump in to the main attractions, highlighting Dan Jones' story from Mobile World Congress about Ericsson's Open RAN plans as well as his review of the show as a "one hall wonder."
03:23 Diana spotlights two of her stories from the week: one on how cable landing stations are changing thanks to cloud hyperscalers and the other on enterprise DevOps.
04:59 Liz highlights an op-ed from Silverlinings' founder Steve Saunders which ran this week and focused on whether Cisco's deal to buy Splunk is actually a good idea or not.
06:10 Liz hands off to Diana for a dessert story. Diana shares the time she split her pants onstage - all for the sake of Grease. Oh, oh, OHHhhhh!
08:15 Liz recaps what's on tap for the week ahead on Silverlinings.
08:45 Liz runs down the school announcements. Read more about the Cloud Executive Summit she mentioned here.
10:08 Closing credits and a surprise serenade from Liz and Diana.
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