The Cloud Pod is a Sucker and Shifts Left

Welcome to episode 218 of The Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Ryan, and Matt discuss all things cloud - including migration services, AppFabric, state machines, and security updates, as well as the idea of shifting left versus (or in addition to) shifting down.  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Prefers to be Bought by Anyone but IBM What Does the F(in)O(ps)X say?  The Cloud Pod Leverage appFabric for your SaaS Security A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring?  Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. 📰News this Week:📰 01:21 IBM acquires hybrid cloud software company Apptio for $4.6B IBM is acquiring software company Apptio Inc for 4.6B in cash.  THe move comes five years after Vista Equity bought the firm for 1.94B Apptio was created in 2007, and was notable as the first company Andreeson Horowitz invested in. Apptio owns Cloudability, among other features.  Apptio offers cloud-based technology and hybrid business management software for managing business in the IT field.   IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said in a statement “Technology is changing business at a rate and pace we’ve never seen before. To capitalize on these changes, it is essential to optimize investments which drive better business value, and Apptio does just that. Apptio’s offerings combined with IBM’s IT automation software and watsonx AI platform, gives clients the most comprehensive approach to optimize and manage all of their technology investments.” 2:30📢Ryan - “The last time I played with Apptio was very early in my cloud experience and Apptio was struggling to understand how to sort of port their methodologies into cloud. It worked really well in the data center and for IT shops, for tracking assets and managing visibility into cost and financials there, but it really struggled with stuff like dynamically changing instance groups and that sort of thing. It made sense when they bought Cloudability, and I haven’t played with it since.” 04:39 Justin goes to FinopsX!   06:10📢Justin -  “I did have an opportunity to talk to some startups. they're on the floor and they're thinking about kind of the next generation and what that looks like and you're really talking about bringing AI and LLM technology into FinOps and how do you get beyond the basics of it. I think we're at this kind of cusp of the end of the Gen 1 era… I suspect that we're in for a bunch of FinOps and capabilities coming out of these vendors as they try to figure out what their v2 is, and potentially new startups that are going to come in and be disruptive to the Gen 1 players, because I think it's a commodity, which was my big takeaway from the conference in general. It was good. It was a nice time. I definitely recommend going if you're in the FinOps space.” 08:07 📢Ryan - “I’m waiting for the first one of these players to really get the data enrichments, like AI generated data enrichment of your resources. The first person who cracks that in a reliable, useful fashion. I think it's going to change the way we do business. Cause I think there's a lot of business decisions we make on incomplete