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Cloud Cafe #44 Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud With Rich Wolski

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

In this podcast I get a chance to chat with Rich Wolski, the founder and CTO of Eucalyptus, about the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) 9.10. We talk about private clouds, the evolution of clouds, and some UEC architecture. Rich is clearly a visionary and he is as good as it gets in this podcast.
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Cloud Cafe #42 Infrastructure 2.0 With Greg Ness

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

I had a great time doing this podcast.  Greg Ness of Infoblox is a leader in the new Infrastructure 2.0 initiative.  We talk about the network being the new frontier for data center automation and clouds.

Infrastructure and the Cambrian Explosion
Infrastructure 2.0
The shell game of virtualization
VLAN virtualization
Infrastructure 2.0 working Group
DNS 2.0
Quick overview of what Infoblox does.

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Cloud Cafe #41 Canonical Cloud Talk With Simon Wardley

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

In this second podcast Simon, (Simon Wardley), gets even with me for last weeks football antics.  He makes me come up with a list of American characteristics.  This leads us into a lengthy discussion of why the British love to queue.  Oh yeah, we also talk about clouds a bit…

Benefits of cloud computing
Risks of cloud [...]

Cloud Cafe #40 Canonical Cloud Talk With Simon Wardley

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

This is a first in a series of podcasts Simon Wardley and I plan on doing together.  In this first episode we cut up a little about American football vs. UK Football.Oh yeah, we also talk about clouds a bit…

It’s like computers in the internet in it
UK cab drivers and the cloud
What is cloud computing
NIST [...]

Cloud Cafe #38 Haddop and Cascading With Flightcaster

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

This is a great podcast with Bradford Cross a senior architect with Flightcaster.  He has been working with Flightcast for three months and wait to you hear the really cool stuff he has done with “Big Data”. Here is a list of the topics and technologies we discuss in this podcast:

Freaking Flight Dealys
Rails on Heruko
Amazon [...]

Cloud Cafe #37 Elastra With Stu Charlton

Friday, August 14th, 2009

In this podcast I had the opportunity to talk to Stuart Charlton of Elsatra.  Stuart is the lead product architect for Elastra Corporation.  He is one of the pioneers helping to define this new area called “Cloud Brokers”.  In this podcast he was able to help define this new space for me as well as [...]

Cloud Cafe #35 – Elastic Map Reduce

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

I had an opportunity to ask Don Brown, one of the founders of Twitpay.me, a few questions about Amazon’s new “Elastic Map Reduce.”  This is a short (less than 10 minutes) podcast of our conversation.
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Cloud Cafe #34 RightScale Announces New Relic Support

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

In this podcast I was able to have a chat with Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale.  We were able to discuss some of the new offering that Rightscale has made available since we last talked in Novemeber.  Thorsten also breaks down the new New Relic annoucment,
Listen to the podcast here..
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Cloud Cafe #33 Cloud Computing Taxonomy & Ontology With Christofer Hoff

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

In this podcast I had the opportunity to talk to chat withg Christofer Hoff of Rational Survivability. We discussed the relevant topics of provate vs. public cloudsn and how now famous “Taxonomy & Ontology”.  I am prett sude you will really enjoy this podcast.
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Cloud Cafe #32 Cloud Talk With Hyperic

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

In this podcast I had the opportunity to talk to Javier Soltero the CEO of Hyperic.  Javier did a great job explaining how “Hyperic’s got Cloud.”  We talked about a number of new solutions that Hyperic has been quietly solving on the monitoring side of cloud autonomics. Here are some of the topic [...]

Cloud Cafe #30 What is a Cloud from the Beginning

Friday, January 9th, 2009

It only took 30 podcasts to figure out a way to get my favorate analyst, and IT management co host on my Cloud Cafe series.  Actually I wanted the 30th podcast to be special and I had this idea of doing a “What is a Cloud from the Beginning” a few weeks back.  At first [...]

Cloud Cafe #29 GridGain A Grid in a Cloud

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

I must say this podcast surprised me. I had never heard of GridGain until a day before this podast. Nikita Ivanovast the founder of GridGain pinged me and wanted to know if I would be interested in doing a podcast. A couple of minutes into this podcast and I was fascinated [...]

Cloud Cafe #28 – Skytap

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This is an interesting podcast with Skytap.   Skytap has found a nice niche in the cloud providing PaaS based testing and training cloud structures.  I was able to have Steve Brodie, Chief Product and Marketing Officer of Skytap, to walk me through their services.
I think you will enjoy this podcast.
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Cloud cafe #25 – Rackspace, Mosso, and JungleDisk

Friday, November 28th, 2008

I thought I had lost this podcast, but yesterday I found it on one of my many scattered USB sticks.  Excuse me for the out order numbering; however, this is a great Podcast with Lew Moorman, Chief Strategy Officer at RackSpace, and Co founders of Mosso, Jonathan Bryce and Todd Morey.  We play a little [...]

Cloud Cafe #27 – What is a Cloud?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

I guess it might seem silly to ask this question after 26 podcasts on said subject.  However, when you get a chance to ask this question to two smart guys like Geva Perry (Thinking out Cloud) and James Urquhart (Wisdom of Clouds) the the question doesn’t seem that silly.  We walk through a lot of [...]

Cloud Cafe #26 – Elastra Stu Says Stuff

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

I had a great conversation with Stu Charlton, the  Chief Software Architect for Elastra. We talked a lot about infrastructures and provisioning in today’s intra/inter cloud infrastructures and where Elastra wants to be in the upcoming years.  I’ll let you in on a secret, its all about managing the infrastructure.
I think you will enjoy this [...]

Cloud Cafe #24 – Google App Engine

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Last week we able to get Noah Gift, a local Python and GAE expert to give the Awsome group a presentation on Google App Engine.  We were able to record the session here.
I think you will enjoy this podcast.
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I wanted to add a special thanks to Florence Neal for the [...]

Cloud Cafe #23 – Rightscale a chat with Thorsten

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Folks, this been a busy week for the Cafe and I still have three more podcasts to go. This podcast is another winner. Thorsten von Eicken, the CTO of Rightscale, is a force to be heard in the Cloud-o-Sphere and I pinned him down here in this podcast. I am sure [...]

Cloud Cafe #22 – VPN Cubed, CohesiveFT

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Patrick Kerpan the CTO of CohesiveFT gave me an excellent briefing on their new offering “VPN Cubed”. VPN Cubed could be a game changer for the clouds.
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I wanted to add a special thanks to Florence Neal for the artwork and Mike Colletti for the music. They both will [...]

Cloud Cafe #21 – Eucalyptus the Open Source Cloud

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Do you miss talking to your old college professor? Are you a cloud Junkie? Then you MUST listen to Rich Wolski talk about Clouds, Grids, a little bit about educating our kids. This was one of my favorite all time podcasts.
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I wanted to add a special thanks [...]

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