Joanne Chu
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Joanne Chu shared thisQuantitative data is great - but sometimes it's the qualitative data that brings it home. These verbatims from our recent Kubernetes research report show what the numbers point to but fail to capture fully: practitioners' emotional drivers, underlying fears and anxieties, and psychological constitution as it relates to Kubernetes automation. Reading through it's evident they have plenty of reasons NOT to trust Kubernetes automation...Joanne Chu shared thisWe pulled these verbatims from our new Kubernetes research because they explain the delegation gap better than any chart. Teams are comfortable automating delivery. Right sizing is where production reality takes over. Drift, blast radius, and accountability show up fast, so delegation only happens when the operating model is solid. Survey is 321 enterprise Kubernetes practitioners. Full report link in the comments.
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Joanne Chu shared thisOur latest CII report reveals an interesting dichotomy among Kubernetes practitioners: 89% say automation is mission-critical or very important, but only 27% actually let automation touch CPU and memory in production. You can't really blame them—nobody wants to get the 3am call when something breaks. As one respondent says, "In production, I'm not optimizing for average utilization. I'm optimizing for resilience during the worst five minutes of the quarter. If a tool cannot prove it understands business criticality, SLO impact, and blast radius, I'm not handing it the keys — no matter how good the savings look." But the question remains: At what point does this distrust grow into unreasonable fear? And what do they need to experience to begin building trust and letting go? This report tells all.Joanne Chu shared thisSelective distrust is real. We just published new research from 321 enterprise Kubernetes practitioners. The findings show teams have gotten comfortable letting automation ship code to production, but they still slow down when automation touches CPU and memory in production. In Kubernetes, the failure modes are messy, the blast radius can be nonlinear, and risk shows up at the worst possible time. So right sizing stays human controlled. The report puts numbers behind where delegation stalls and what teams say they need before they will let right-sizing run with guardrails. Link in the comments.
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Joanne Chu reposted thisJoanne Chu reposted thisThe "Mass Exodus" from VMware isn't a stampede. It's a slow burn. 🔥 Two years post-acquisition, the industry predicted a chaotic flee from VMware. New data reveals the reality is more calculated—but just as critical. According to the latest findings: 🚨 86% of users are actively reducing their VMware footprint. 📉 88% still classify the Broadcom changes as "disruptive." ☁️ 72% of migrating workloads are heading straight to public cloud. The "shock" of the acquisition has faded, replaced by a strategic, slow-motion migration. IT leaders aren't panicking; they are methodically diversifying. Are you part of the 86% actively moving workloads, or have you decided to stay put? #VMware #Broadcom #CloudStrategy #ITInfrastructure #TechNews #CloudMigrationMost VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey findsMost VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey finds
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Joanne Chu shared thisIT leaders are fed up, and the data shows. This new research report is a follow-up of our initial report two years ago, when the Broadcom VMware acquisition put the market in a chokehold. We surveyed 300+ IT decision-makers on how it's been wrestling with a giant and what they're doing to fight back.Joanne Chu shared thisToday we released new research on how enterprise IT leaders are responding two years after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. Based on a January 2026 survey of 302 enterprise IT decision-makers (and a follow-up to our 2024 baseline study), the findings reveal that the predicted immediate mass exodus didn’t materialize—but the unwind is fully underway, shaped by pricing concerns, operational complexity, and growing executive scrutiny. One number captures the shift: 86% say they’re actively reducing their VMware footprint. Press release: https://lnkd.in/gsMXhAPy
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Joanne Chu shared thisLudwig Müller shared a powerful story at #Converge2025 and we knew more people needed to hear it—so we turned on the camera. 📹Joanne Chu shared this4–6 hours of manual provisioning. Hundreds of VPN tunnels. Endless checklists and tribal knowledge. The cloud team at Lobster Data, led by Ludwig Müller, turned that complexity into simplicity with CloudBolt. Today, they deploy customer environments in under 45 minutes, cut manual work by 90%, and run 30,000 automated jobs every month—all without losing flexibility. What began as a push to deploy software faster became a company-wide transformation—and, as Ludwig says, “unlocked way more than we ever expected.” 🎥 Watch their 3-minute story below.Lobster Data | How CloudBolt Helped Cut Manual Work by 90% and Scale 5xLobster Data | How CloudBolt Helped Cut Manual Work by 90% and Scale 5x
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Joanne Chu shared thisIf you feel like the cloud is owning you rather than the other way around...this webinar is for you! Hear from market, field, and platform leaders on how to regain control because, let's face it, repatriation ain't happening.Joanne Chu shared thisThere’s a lot of noise about #cloudrepatriation right now. But the real story isn’t about going back. It’s about taking back control and building hybrid operating models that actually work. On Nov 19, we’re bringing together GigaOm Field CTO Whit Walters, Technology Writer and Industry Analyst Will Kelly, and CloudBolt Chief Customer Officer Shawn Petty for a live conversation that cuts through the hype and gets real about: ⚡ Why most orgs can’t (and shouldn’t) “go back” ⚡ What’s really driving the repatriation conversation ⚡ Why CMP is back at the center of hybrid strategy heading into 2026 Save your spot here: https://lnkd.in/gxmBpBJs #CloudComputing #HybridCloud #CMP #FinOps #CloudStrategy
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Joanne Chu shared this#KubeConNA here we come!!Joanne Chu shared thisWe’re officially heading to #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America 2025! 🍑 Stop by booth #1050 to meet the CloudBolt + StormForge team, see what’s new, and grab some exclusive swag. We’ll be previewing upcoming features like container-level cost allocation, hosting a special author book signing, and throwing an invite-only event you won’t want to miss. 📍 November 10–13 | Atlanta, GA 👉 Learn more and book a meeting: https://lnkd.in/gr6g5vEW #KubeConNA #CloudNativeCon #Kubernetes #CloudComputing #FinOps #CloudOptimization
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Joanne Chu shared thisOut of 15 CMPs evaluated by GigaOm, only a few are recognized as Leaders in the Innovation/Platform quadrant—and CloudBolt was one of them! Very proud of the work our team is doing to push this space forward. 🚀Joanne Chu shared this🏆 Just released: GigaOm named CloudBolt a Leader and Fast Mover in its 2025 Radar for Cloud Management Platforms. Positioned in the Innovation/Platform quadrant, CloudBolt was recognized for: ⚡ Automation management ⚡ Integration extensibility ⚡ Security policy as code (SPaC) Download the full report to see how CloudBolt was assessed and how today’s leading platforms compare: https://bit.ly/41sdgD3 Link to the the full announcement in the comments. #CloudBolt #GigaOmRadar #CloudManagement #CMP #HybridCloud #FinOps #CloudAutomation
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Joanne Chu shared thisWe surveyed 350 senior IT leaders and discovered a striking pattern: leaders say their FinOps practices are mature, automated, and business-aligned...even though the data tells a different story. The graphic below is just one of many contradictions uncovered in our 2025 CloudBolt Industry Insights Report that reveal an overall disconnect between FinOps perception and performance. Get the full report and our recommendations: https://lnkd.in/ghTU9hpBJoanne Chu shared thisEveryone claims FinOps automation. But when it’s time to take action? 🔻 65% say 20% or more of optimization recommendations never get implemented. This isn’t maturity. It’s motion without progress.
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Joanne Chu liked thisJoanne Chu liked thisWhenever I talk to a platform engineer about rightsizing, no one says "I don't want to save money", instead I hear stories of getting paged at 2am because a workload OOMed and a critical service went down. There's often this assumption from the finance side of the house that not optimizing is laziness or bad decision making.. the reality is that lack of trust is what gets perceived as "doing nothing". In comparison, the teams that are moving fastest aren't the ones making risky decisions. They've built that trust and they're reaping the benefits. Thanks Adrian Bridgwater for the feature https://lnkd.in/eAafkAgDCloudBolt COO defines Kubernetes automation at the speed of trustCloudBolt COO defines Kubernetes automation at the speed of trust
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Joanne Chu liked thisJoanne Chu liked thisThis month, Frank and Stephen interview Yasmin Rajabi. A few weeks ago, we picked a topic. Then, just five minutes before recording, we all changed our minds. In the end, we didn’t discuss any of the planned subjects and went with the flow. And what an amazing flow it was! This is one of the best interviews we've ever done. It was engaging, sparked memories, and created new content for all FinOps practitioners listening. Yasmin will need to return soon so we can try to discuss a set topic... or not. Available now on https://lnkd.in/em3aTTu5 or on your preferred podcast platform.WNiCF - Interview with Yasmin Rajabi - many very interesting things - What's new in Cloud FinOps?WNiCF - Interview with Yasmin Rajabi - many very interesting things - What's new in Cloud FinOps?
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Joanne Chu liked thisJoanne Chu liked this30 days since I stepped away from CloudBolt. Here’s what I’ve learned. First, a reset matters more than I gave it credit for. For the first time in 18 years of continuous leadership work, I took real time off. Not “checking email from the beach” time - actual time. I celebrated my daughter's third birthday without a laptop nearby. I closed on the sale of our house. I reconnected with family in a way that the VP calendar never really allowed. Burnout is highly rewarded in our economy, don't let any one fool you otherwise. The second lesson is about where the market is heading. I’ve had dozens of conversations with former colleagues from Microsoft, 10th Magnitude (Now Cognizant Microsoft Business Group), and former CloudBolt Software colleagues over the last month, and the signal is unmistakable. Teams are rebuilding their GTM motions around AI. Product orgs are rethinking what “ready to ship” even means when agentic systems are in the stack. The companies moving fastest aren’t the ones with the biggest budgets. They’re the ones with leaders who can translate between the technical reality and the business outcome. That translation layer is where I’ve been spending my own learning time. VSCode open, hands on with LangChain, Claude Code, Lovable, rebuilding projects in my Azure tenant, getting my hands dirty in the agentic stack rather than just talking about it from a slide. The work that used to live in the margins of nights and weekends is now where I’m grounded. Excited to publicly share some of these projects soon. On the consulting side, I’ve been engaged with a handful of companies on their GTM refreshes, messaging, and positioning. The common thread across all of them is the same challenge I keep seeing: technical capability moving faster than the narrative that sells it. If that’s the gap on your team, whether fractional or project-based, I’d like to talk. Here’s the ask. I’m ready for what’s next. I’m having exploratory conversations about senior roles across product marketing, product management, GTMfunctions, or delivery leadership. If you’re building a team that needs someone who can sit at the intersection of product, market, and customer outcome, or if you know a founder or operator who’s circling that hire without a formal req yet, please connect us. The best roles I’ve ever had started as a conversation. Grateful for the reset. Ready for the build.
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Joanne Chu liked thisJoanne Chu liked thisThe most neurodivergent-coded, on-brand swag gift I've ever received. I am OBSESSED with this spoon from Granola. Two things: 1️⃣ I am a brand nerd, and I LOVE a good brand campaign. The spoon <> Granola link is perfect and so on brand. It's high quality, sleek, and still screams "Granola." Nothing to do with note-taking, yet, oh so memorable. 2️⃣ If you're not neurodivergent, you might not know the plight of finding the perfect spoon. The weight has to be right. The bowl can't be too deep or too wide. It can't feel cheap or flimsy in your hand. (It's a whole thing—and most spoons fail miserably.) I did not expect a swag spoon to pass the ADHD test. I was wrong. The weight is soooo good. This one's perfect for ice cream or peanut butter straight off the spoon. IYKYK. Thanks, Granola. Your loyal fangirl continues to swoon. 😍
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Joanne Chu liked thisJoanne Chu liked thisI'll be the first to admit I have a mild allergy to unsolicited posts like the one I'm about to do...and full disclosure, I'm a big fan of tech-advancements like "AI"... A thought I keep coming back to though... AI may not reduce the need for Customer Success leadership. It may actually raise the bar for it. Because once more of the obvious work gets automated or facilitated...what’s left is the harder stuff: judgment, prioritization, change management, commercial tension, and knowing when not to overreact to a data point. Anyone can say they’re “AI-enabled” now. That’s becoming table stakes fast. The more interesting question is whether leaders can redesign the operating model around it — who does what, what gets automated, what gets escalated, and what has to remain human. Because business has to remain personal in some meaningful way. This feels less like a tooling question and more like a strategic, human one.
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Joanne Chu liked thisJoanne Chu liked thisLearn Kubernetes Weekly 178 just landed. In this edition you will find: 🔥 Kubernetes Remote Code Execution via nodes/proxy Get Permission 🦅 Aetòs: From Chaos to Engineering Excellence — A 3-Year Transformation ☸️ Kubernetes v1.35: Extended Toleration Operators to Support Numeric Comparisons 🔄 Reducing Complexity By Migrating from K8S to ECS Fargate for NetworkLessons 🗄️ Database State Management in Kubernetes: Running SQL Server on AKS with GitOps Read it now: https://lnkd.in/guRAyvTM ⭐️ This newsletter is brought to you by StormForge by CloudBolt. Stop setting Kubernetes requests. Let ML handle rightsizing https://ku.bz/2wYKp0Q2Y⎈ RCE via Nodes/Proxy, Aetòs: From Chaos to Engineering, Extended Toleration Operators, Migrating to ECS Fargate, SQL Server On AKS With GitOps⎈ RCE via Nodes/Proxy, Aetòs: From Chaos to Engineering, Extended Toleration Operators, Migrating to ECS Fargate, SQL Server On AKS With GitOps
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Benny Bridger
Following yesterday's thoughts on engagement data, I'm now looking at the next layer: collaboration. A chaotic buying process helps no one. This is where the idea of a Mutual Action Plan (MAP) comes in. Having a shared, living document that outlines steps, responsibilities, and timelines for both the buyer and seller seems like a game-changer. It turns a messy sales cycle into a clear, collaborative project. It's about moving from selling to someone to solving with someone. #MutualActionPlan #SalesCollaboration #CustomerExperience #B2Bselling
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David Moulton
Most B2B companies are creating content nobody wants to read, watch, or listen to. Your content marketing playbook from 2015 is dead. Stop cranking out blogs because "that's what you do for early stage." Stop writing white papers because "that's consideration content." Stop forcing case studies because "that's what closes deals." Here's what works. Start with the question your buyer is asking but has a hell of a time finding. Then answer it with everything you've got. Figure out the format later. This isn't just theory. When we flipped to this approach at Palo Alto Networks, our content engagement soared and we could see the impact of what we published (with or without gates) in our Closed/Won deals. Buyers don't care about your content calendar or your tidy project management dashboard. They care about one thing. Solving THEIR problems. So stop making content and start answering questions. Your buyers will thank you. Your revenue will too. Here is a sneak peak into our process. https://lnkd.in/gTEVRs9U
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