With February underway, we've finally moved past the dark and dreary month of January - and with it any obligations we might’ve had to uphold those 2024 resolutions. While we're sure many of you have been working hard on your Keto diets, gym memberships, and piano lessons, we at Silverlinings understand that our readers always make time for the Cloud.
January may have been dreary, but that didn’t stop Silverliners from enjoying our stories on the industry's push to adopt AI, the fallout from Broadcom's VMware acquisition, and analysts and executives speculating about the future of the cloud landscape. So, just in case you missed anything, we’ve put together a list of last month’s most popular articles.
10. Shoe drops at VMware as Broadcom takes over 2k customers
Silverlinings senior reporter Dan Jones chats with Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow and lead analyst Zeus Kerravalla from ZK Research about the impact of Broadcom's changes to VMware's partner program.
9. Ex-Okta exec to lead new AI go-to-market group at Google Cloud
Diana Goovaerts, executive editor of Silverlinings, discusses Google's initiatives to capitalize on artificial intelligence technology, including the appointment of former Okta executive Olivia Parker to lead a newly formed team aimed at assisting enterprise customers in expanding their use of Google Cloud's AI offerings.
8. VMware’s competitors are snapping at their heels
Jones talks to Michael Leonard, a former VMware senior product marketing manager, to explore how VMware competitors are capitalizing on the effects of the Broadcom acquisition.
7. Jio completes its 5G SA roll out
in this article, Jones examines Ericsson's January mobility report, which describes how Indian cellular network provider Reliance Jio has finished the fastest and most extensive 5G standalone rollout outside of China.
6. Equinix flexes multi-cloud muscle
Goovaerts, discusses the debut of Equinix's new Fabric Cloud Router, a private multi-cloud network solution, with Enterprise Strategy Group's principal analyst Bob Laliberte.
5. Exclusive: Oracle exec says action is AI’s next horizon
Goovaerts provides an exclusive profile of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's SVP of AI and Data Management, Greg Pavlik, which includes insights into artificial intelligence and a lesson in iterative reasoning.
4. Exclusive: Red Hat’s CTO sees thousands of AI models in the cloud’s future
In another exclusive, Goovaerts interviews Red Hat's CTO, Chris Wright for insights on the future of artificial intelligence and the role that flexibility plays in the tech landscape and in everyday life.
3. The top 5 cloud roles that are the most in demand right now
In this article, Goovaerts delves into the cloud jobs market, revealing the top five occupations in highest demand for cloud firms using data from Indeed.com and LinkedIn's January Workforce Data Report.
2. Cloud data complexity could cause big AI headaches
Here Goovaerts, chats with Jeff Baxter, NetApp's VP of product marketing, about the threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI), including traceability, trust and what neXt Curve analyst Leonard Lee refers to as "AI dementia."
1. Source: Broadcom is milking existing VMware customers dry
And the No. 1 article in January is Jones’ interview with one of the 3,000 former VMware employees who were laid off as a result of the Broadcom takeover.