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Cloud Cafe #17 - Ylastic

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

In 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, 2008

In 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, 2008

In 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 […]

Cloud Cafe #12 rPath and the Cloud

Friday, September 12th, 2008

I In this podcast I was able to speck to Marty Wesley, the Director of Product Marketing at rPath.  Marty was able to bring me up to speed on what rPath has done with the clouds and specifically with Amazon’s EC2.

Topics include
JeOS - Just Enough Operating System
Hypervisor partnerships
rPath and RightScale
Success Stories
Virtualization in the enterprise
The […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #11

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

This podcast is with Jon Travis of Hyperic.  Our main focus is on cloudstatus.com.  The podcast was a little bit rough around the edges but in the end we got her done.  I think on some questions Jon and I were not connecting however in the end I learned a few things I didn’t know […]

Cloud Cafe - Sweet 10

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Cloud Cafe is a series of podcasts with people deeply interested in cloud and utility computing.
Cloud Cafe Podcast #1- Cassatt

In this podcast. James Urquhart of Cassatt and I discuss the differences between some of the cloudy terminology of “utility computing” vs “cloud computing”. Also James gives a great overview of Hadoop and CouchDB. […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #9 - Enomaly

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

This is another great podcast. I had the opportunity to have a discussion with Reuven Cohen the founder Enomaly. Reuven is one of the rock stars of the “cloud” discussion.  We really beat the bushes on all topics cloud on this podcast.  If you are a junkie of the “cloud” this is a must.
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Cloud Cafe Podcast #10 - Flexiscale

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

This is a great podcast. I had the opportunity to have a discussion with Tony Lucus the founder Flexiscale. Some people refer to Flexiscale as the Amazon AWS of EMEA. We were able to discuss a vast array of cloud topics as follows:

The history of Flexiscale
Flexiscale differentiators
Flexiscale vs. other IaaS’s
SLA’s in a […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #8 Animoto

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

In this podcast I was able to speak to another customer of the “cloud”. Brad Jefferson the CEO of Animoto shares some of his experiences and thoughts about the cloud. Animoto uses Rightscale as their cloud infrastructure partner. Brad discusses their infamous week where Animoto went from 25k […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #7

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

In this podcast I was able to speak to a customer of the “cloud”.  Tony McCune of Digital Chalk shares some of his experiences and thoughts about the cloud.  Digital Chalk has been an Amazon EC2/S3/SQS customer for over two years.  We also talk about using a service buss architecture (ESB) for scaling in the […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #6

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I was able to catch up with Michael Crandell the CEO of Rightscale on this podcast. This is the “first” second timer on “Cloud Cafe”.  Michael walks me through their two recent announcements that they made at Structur08 for MySQL and GigaSpaces.   Michael also throws out some great numbers on the status of Rightscale:

125k […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #5

Friday, June 20th, 2008

In this fifth podcast I have a discussion with Stu Charlton the Lead Architect at Elastra. This podcast completes my interviews with the First Triumvirate of cloud vendors, Rightscale, 3Tera, and Elastra. These are vendors who are leading the way as true infrastructure providers on top of the cloud. Stu does a […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #2

Friday, April 11th, 2008

This was a fun podcast with two of the founders of CohesiveFT, Alexis Richardson and Patrick Kerpan. They gave me a great overview of their product ESOD. We also talked a little bit about the Google App Engine announcement. I think you will enjoy this podcast.
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I wanted […]

Cloud Cafe Podcast #1

Friday, April 4th, 2008

This is the inaugural Cloud Cafe podcast. James Urquhart of Cassatt and I have been butting heads a little bit over cloud terminology for the past few months, and I figured it would be a great start-off podcast to get Jame’s thoughts on the clouds. James did not disappoint. He is extremely knowledgeable, and […]