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Friday, April 3rd, 2009I 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, 2009In 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,
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Cloud Cafe #33 Cloud Computing Taxonomy & Ontology With Christofer Hoff
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009In 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, 2009In 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, 2009It 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, 2009I 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, 2008This 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, 2008I 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, 2008I 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, 2008I 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, 2008Last 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, 2008Folks, 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, 2008Patrick 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, 2008Do 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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Cloud Cafe #20 - Cloud Camp Brussels
Saturday, November 1st, 2008In this podcast I do a set of mini podcasts at the “Cloud Camp” Brussels. Here is a list of the interviews:
Q-Layer
iTricity
CohesiveFT
GravityZoo
A Freaking DNS Problem
Quest Software
IBM Blue Cloud in Dublin
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I wanted to add a special thanks to Florence Neal for the artwork and Mike Colletti for the music. […]
Cloud Cafe #19 - OpenQRM - The Little Four are Back
Monday, October 27th, 2008In this podcast I met with Matt Rechenburg the active project manager of OpenQRM. Clusters open sourced it’s code earlier this year and shut it’s doors. Matt continues to believe in the project so he has, with others, re-written it in the form of the OpenQRM project. Matt gave me a demo before the prodcast […]
Cloud Cafe #18 - The Puppet vs. The Meat Cloud
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Let’s face Luke is just a cool dude. The first time I met Luke was at an OSCON conference where he was giving a session on Puppet. I hammered him with a lot of questions and he fired back strong. I have posted many times on this blog about how impressed I […]
Cloud Cafe #17 - Ylastic
Saturday, October 4th, 2008In this podcast I have a discussion with Prabhakar Chaganti the CTO of Ylastic. Ylastic is a cloud vendor based in Atlanta. They have an interesting niche product in the cloud space. Listen and see if you agree.
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I wanted to add a special thanks to Florence Neal for the artwork […]
Cloud Cafe Podcast #16 - 3Tera - The Citrix Announcement
Friday, September 26th, 2008In this podcast I have a discussion with Peter Nickolov President, COO and CTO of 3Tera and Barry Lynn, the CEO of 3Tera. I am a huge fan of 3Tera. In fact I have even been accused of payola from 3Tera. I start out of accusing Barry of being a very funny guy […]
Cloud Cafe #14 GigaSpaces and the Cloud
Friday, September 12th, 2008In this podcast I was able to speak to Geva Perry the General Manager of Cloud Computing at GigiaSpaces. Geva provides a wealth of information on cloud computing and Amazon’s Web Services. If you are a cloud junkie this is a must listen.
GigaSpaces Overview
Economics of the Cloud
Elastic Block Storage
Playing with other Cloud Vendors
Speculation […]

