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Episode 220: Everyone loves white papers

Everyone loves white papers

Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.

Mood board:

“A Quote from the episode…”
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
“I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.”
We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’
Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring?
Crank up the YouTube
Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway
Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now
Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch
Garbage trash proposals
Uniquely sourced
Why are we still doing this?
They’re busy running their business.
“Can you write me a business case.”
PDFs a Plenty
The White Paper Album
Speaking of BS phrases
The white paper to take down white papers
“Walking into the door feeling”
The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever.
Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon.
The Idempope.

Relevant to your interests

Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? - related, from 2006.
The secret sauce graphics, 2007. Andrew Shafer’s 2010 update.
White papers (best one ever: “Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,” Chef)

Collateral.
Sales tools.
Case studies.
Thought-leadership/definition.
Education.
Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers).
Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore.
How it effects the business.
Have opinions.

Millennials Want Credible Digital Content — So Give It To Them!
Amazon AMI thing.
Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity, also co-CEO left (what’s up with two CEOs?)
VMware, Tanzu
Signal signal - Matt’s paranoid security.
The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle
Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense
Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role
DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability
HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts
VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger
Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot
Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals
The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement
Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability
When Speakers are Ears
Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing
Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud
Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce
MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped
Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US
Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace'
Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO

Non Sense

Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs
The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
Costco’s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60