This week, Peter and Melissa discuss the Cloudera-Hortonworks merger, the UK’s conservative party information leak, Competition strategy at the Tech Giants, Google’s search engine spend, Azure’s Linux footprint, and the chip-hack-not-chip-hack that every major company is denying happened. 

– Peter gets snubbed  03:15 – Merging to take on the cloud  07:15 – Politicians get leaked on for once  12:30 – Burning money in the evil empires  15:30 – How much is being #1 worth?  18:12 – Linux puts Windows in the corner  21:58 – Everyone is denying it

Speaking in Tech #316 - Open Box

Speaking in Tech: "Where Enterprise Tech meets Consumer Tech...". Speaking in Tech is hosted by Peter Smallbone, Josh Atwell and Melissa Gurney Greene. Topics include popular tech, data storage, cloud computing, networking, storage virtualization, server virtualization, backup, disaster recovery and anything else interesting in the tech world.

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