Aaron and Brian do their annual 2015 WrapUp show. They look at the most interesting shows, trends and topics from 2015, as well as making predictions for 2016.

Show Notes:
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Topic 1 - Is Public Cloud making any money?
Topic 2 - Is Open Source Software making any money
Topic 3 - Everything is becoming an integrated solution.
Topic 4 - Bi-Modal vs. Tri-Modal IT
Topic 5 - The continued rise of SaaS applications (and who manages them)
Topic 6 - The continued rise of non-vendor companies recruiting developers


Show Stats and Interesting Facts 


60 Shows
 
Official Podcast at Cloud Foundry Summit, MesosCon, LinuxCon, DockerCon, VelocityConf, OSCON
 
Went over $5B in VC + M&A Funding for Guests
 



Most Popular Show(s) of 2015:


Eps.200 (Future of Connected Cloud; Christian Reilly) 
 
Eps.199 (Docker Security; Diogo & Nathan) 
Eps.208 (DevOps; Nathan Harvey)
 



Aaron’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show 


Container ecosystem is beginning to mature
 
Docker needs to go through Trough of Disillusionment
 
Skill Sets Changing - Blogging will become a lost art
 
GitHub or “GetOut” - people need to learn GitHub - see 30 Days of Commitmas (GitHub learning)
 
Existence of Bi-Modal IT - There is no migration path between the two.
 
“Infrastructure as a Code” replaces “Software-Defined” terminology
 Infrastructure jobs will become the operations portion of DevOps (automate everything)
 



Brian’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show


Containers, Containers, Containers - competition for Docker in containers (VMware, CoreOS, etc.)? Moved from Containers to Systems.

Containers/Docker were mentioned everywhere (AWS, Tutum, Microsoft, DigitalOcean)
 
VMware pushes that “containers need VMs”
 
AWS is finally starting to understand the Enterprise; bundling/integrating services
 
Nobody values Cloud Management software
 
How do the VCs justify all this investment in companies that drive open-source projects?
 
What happens to all the SaaS tools platforms on AWS, can they survive economically?
 



Our Grades on Various Topics/Companies/Themes


OpenStack
 
AWS
 
Azure
 
Google
 
Cisco
 
Other Public Clouds
 
Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud
 
VMware
 
Docker
 
Cloud Foundry
 
Open Source centric companies (CoreOS, Hashicorp, Mesosphere)
  
Cluster-Management and Schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)
 
SaaS Applications
 



Brian’s 2016 Prediction Notes:


We’ll continue to see big bets (legacy vendors) and big failures 
Very curious to watch the open-source VMware-replacements (Hashicorp, CoreOS, Docker, etc.) monetize their business
 
We’ll begin to hear about some IoT success stories
 



Aaron’s 2016 Prediction Notes: 
Industry Predictions:



Docker Trough of Disillusionment will happen (push from last year) in favor of Open Standards
 
We will consolidate down to a handful of large hardware and software vendors in one (Oracle, Cisco, Dell) and pr