Silverlinings' Lunch Ladies Elizabeth Coyne and Diana Goovaerts dish out a recap of this week's biggest headlines, covering the latest on the Broadcom-VMware merger, Texas A&M's transition to the cloud, the GenAI bubble and more. Plus, Diana willingly embarrasses herself with a fun spelling bee story. Don't miss it!
Here's a handy guide to the chat:
00:05 Introduction
00:45 Liz serves up an appetizer of Private 5G news about a proof-of-concept trial between Telit Cinterion and Nestlé Brazil
1:25 Liz chats about Dan Jones' story on Broadcom and VMware's merger deal, which got approval from U.K. regulators.
2:29 Diana talks up a story she wrote about how Cisco, DriveNets and others are looking at enhanced Ethernet as a replacement for Infiniband in the data center.
3:28 Liz and Diana discuss the latter's interview with Texas A&M about the university's transition from mainframe infrastructure to the cloud...and why the process took so long.
4:42 Liz highlights another story from Dan Jones, this one about a Generative AI bubble and the ladies chat about whether the technology can really live up to the hype.
5:40 Liz and Diana chat about what's coming on Silverlinings next week, including live coverage from Google Cloud Next.
6:31: Liz hands off to Diana for this week's dessert anecdote, which covers a funny spelling bee mishap.
8:41 Liz runs down the Silverlinings announcements list.
9:34 Closing credits
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