Cloud State Of Play LIVE ¦ What's HAPPENING in Cloud Native?

Cloud State Of Play goes L!VE for this FIRST EVER Livestream! I am, again, joined by my friend and great senior analyst, Paul Bevan (Retired/Not Retired), for another session of great topics to discuss and munch through! Get some insights on DevOps, Cloud Network Security and Management, Data Centre stakes when it comes to AI/ML workloads, a brief review of KubeCon Amsterdam conference and lots, lots more! I am happy to say that we are joined by Saim Safdar (‪@cloudnativefm‬) who will be helping me by sitting in the Director chair for this livestream, because........we have Special Guests joining us!! Yes! Hopefully, we will have Cheryl Hung (Cloud Native London Meetup, ex-Senior Software Engineer at ARM and Google) and Steve Fenton (Director of DevRel at Octopus Deploy) joining during the livestream, for chats, reviews, topic commentary and lots more! Get ready for the FIRST EVER Cloud State Of Play Livestream - come join us and have some fun in the comments section - drop your opinions, comments and questions - we will gladly read them out and try to answer them. === Topics for discussion 00:07:35 Topics for the livestream 00:12:55 World's Data Centres Total by Country Chart 00:30:10 Aviatrix - Anthropic Mythos Finds Unpatched Zero-Days: 4 Ways to Respond 00:47:30 AI Agent Governance Gap - What CISOs Need To Know 00:57:45 France Says Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux! 01:17:25 Why is the CNCF Shaping AI To Fit Its Purpose? 01:30:50 HPE’s Innovation Black Hole: Are They Even Trying Anymore? 01:50:30 Top 35 Leading Thought Leaders [No, really - that is the article title!] === Topic 1 - World's Data Centres Total by Country (Garry Veale LiN post) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/garryv... === Topic 2: Aviatrix - Anthropic Mythos Finds Unpatched Zero-Days: 4 Ways to Respond https://aviatrix.ai/blog/anthropic-my... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anthro... === Topic 3 - AI Agent Governance Gap - What CISOs Need To Know https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ai... === Topic 4 - France Says Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/victor... Equally naïve LiN post (Paulus Lindqvist): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulus... Starting with the document format won't help, either! (ODF for Germany - OpenTechHub.io): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kai-ha... === Topic 5 - Why is the CNCF Shaping AI To Fit Its Purpose? https://thenewstack.io/the-next-stage... === Topic 6 - HPE’s Innovation Black Hole: Are They Even Trying Anymore? (David Linthicum post):   / hpes-innovation-black-hole-even-trying-any...   === Topic 7 - Top 35 Leading Thought Leaders: https://www.consultclarity.org/post/t... === Thanks to all my guests on this first-ever Cloud State Of Play L!VEstream: Paul Bevan Cheryl Hung (oicheryl.com) Steve Fenton (octopus.com) Saim Safdar (‪@cloudnativefm‬ ) === All opinions expressed in this video are solely of the person who gave them and do not reflect opinions/stance/policy of any other person(s)/employer(s)/organisations/entities/vendors, etc. All copyrights are of their respective owners and are used here (in various formats) purely for reference purposes and under fair use policy. === Music Track: "Seeking Success" (Videvo.com) #livestream #cloudstateofplay #platformengineering #publiccloud #cloudnative #opensourcesoftware #kubernetes #aviatrix #cloudnetworking #anthropic #mythos #openai #chatgpt #claudecode #kubecon2026 #kubeconeurope #kubeconamsterdam #kubeconlondon2025 #aicodegeneration #vibecoding #aws #gcp #azure