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The Cloudcast

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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . 

Episodes

Cost-Efficient Scale-Out Cloud Storage

Gleb Budman (@GlebBudman, CEO/Co-Founder of @Backblaze) talks about the evolution of cloud storage, the shift from on-prem to cloud, best practices and the rise of ransomware. SHOW: 704 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Synthetic Monitoring : Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a f...

Mar 22, 202333 min

3 Trends Shaping the Madness of March

March comes in like a lion, but goes out like a lamb. Let’s explore 3 storylines that might have long-ranging implications for cloud. SHOW: 703 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple , Google and Spotify Keep up to data with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoin...

Mar 19, 202328 min

Backstage & Internal Developer Portals

Martina Iglesias Fernández (@martina_if, CTO) & David Tuite (@dtuite, CEO of @Roadiehq) talk about the rise of Internal Developer Portals, the problems they solve, the creation of Backstage and IDP’s as a SaaS service. SHOW: 702 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platform Have an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or...

Mar 15, 202331 min

Understanding How a Bank can Fail

This past week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by banking regulators. Let’s understand the basics of how this happened and why it matters to the tech industry. SHOW: 701 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orc...

Mar 12, 202339 min

2023 Look Ahead for Developers

James Governor (@monkchips, Co-Founder @Redmonk) talks about Developer experience in 2023. Topics include trends, platforms, languages and culture. SHOW: 700 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Make Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing , hosting projects like Kubernetes and Pro...

Mar 08, 202342 min

Lessons Learned from 3yrs of COVID

It’s now been 3 years since the world was disrupted by COVID-19. How has the tech industry been impacted, changed, and altered? SHOW: 699 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Make Cloud Native Ubiquitous with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Join the foundation of doers, CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing , hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cl...

Mar 05, 202327 min

Edge, InterConnects & CoLo

Zachary Smith (@zsmithnyc, Head of Edge Infrastructure @Equinix) talks about Edge Computing, the evolution of CoLocation, Cloud Interconnects and Emerging Trends. SHOW: 698 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platform Have an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? Let us solve it for you! Visit strata...

Mar 01, 202336 min

The Ala Carte Internet is Coming

The economics of the Internet are changing as the foundational ad-driven model is being disrupted. How will this impact the cost of things we’ve long enjoyed for free on the Internet? SHOW: 697 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Did you know that 87% of container images in production include a high or critical vulnerability? No wonder prioritization is difficult. Download the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Secu...

Feb 26, 202328 min

Cloud-Native Security & Usage

Michael Isbitski (@michaelisbitski, Director Cybersecurity Strategy @sysdig) talks about about Sysdig's 2023 Cloud Native Security and Usage Report. The latest trends, interesting findings and the latest on Cloud Native Security SHOW: 696 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: How to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF) Datadog Application Monitoring : Modern Application Performance Monitoring Get...

Feb 22, 202341 min

Here Comes the anti-Cloud Crowd

Public cloud usage. Cloud-native application development. Developer relations. In a down economy, everything gets questioned. Expect a lot of naysayers and doubters. SHOW: 695 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effec...

Feb 19, 202329 min

Data Lakehouses and Apache Hudi

Kyle Weller (@KyleJWeller, Head of Product @onehousehq) talks about the latest trends in OSS Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and the evolution to “Data Lakehouses” with Apache Hudi SHOW: 694 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Synthetic Monitoring : Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a...

Feb 15, 202331 min

Takeaways from the Latest Cloud Earnings

Now that AWS, Azure, GCP earnings are slowing down across the board, let’s look at what this could mean in the near-term and long-term. SHOW: 693 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds. Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as need...

Feb 12, 202330 min

Composable Data Analytics

Josh Patterson (@datametrician, Co-Founder & CEO @VoltronData) talks about the concept of composable data analytics and how it benefits our industry. What is it, why should be using it, and how to get started. SHOW: 694 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platform Have an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expe...

Feb 08, 202337 min

Everybody Gets Fired, Eventually

The tech industry is going through an employment level downturn at the moment, so what should you do? What shouldn’t you do? SHOW: 691 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Did you know that 87% of container images in production include a high or critical vulnerability? No wonder prioritization is difficult. Download the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage report to dig into the state of cloud and co...

Feb 05, 202331 min

2023 Look Ahead with the CNCF

Chris Aniszczyk (@cra, CTO of @CloudNativeFdn) talks about the evolution of CNCF projects, major cloud-native trends, and managing the intersection of projects, users and vendors. SHOW: 690 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: How to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF) CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your to...

Feb 01, 202349 min

New Technologies are Difficult to Explain

While we all live in a world of constantly emerging and evolving technologies, sometimes new technologies are so different from the past that they are just difficult to explain the first time. SHOW: 689 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend Solve your IAM mess with...

Jan 29, 202333 min

2023 Look Ahead to FinOps

Matt Ray (@mattray, Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) talks about the evolution of FinOps, alignment between Eng and Finance, and FinOps best practices. SHOW: 688 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Security Solution : Modern Monitoring and Security Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial . Listeners of The Cloudcas...

Jan 25, 202338 min

Self Service and Org Charts

Does any technology make sense if the organization surrounding it is misaligned? Let’s look at some examples of the right and wrong ways to align the technology organization with business results. SHOW: 687 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platform Have an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? L...

Jan 22, 202335 min

2023 Look Ahead to VC Funding

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about life as a VC, upcoming trends to look out for, and what to expect with rising interest rates in 2023. SHOW: 686 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Eaton Homepage Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more! Datadog Monitoring : ...

Jan 18, 202341 min

The Decisions that VMware made

VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition. How did they get here? SHOW: 685 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds. Cloudcast listeners can experience the...

Jan 15, 202331 min

2023 Look Ahead to AI/ML

Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, host @twimlai podcast) talks about the evolution of AI & ML in 2023, and the possibilities of ChatGPT. SHOW: 684 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OTHER NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Synthetic Monitoring : Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring Ensure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datado...

Jan 11, 202345 min

How Microsoft Evolved

The evolution of Microsoft under Satya Nadella provides a blueprint for how to transition companies from one focus to another. SHOW: 683 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds. Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s...

Jan 08, 202329 min

2023 Look Ahead to Platform Engineering

Rob Hirschfeld ( @zehicle Founder & CEO @rackngo) talks about how Platform Engineering has evolved from DevOps and SRE and how it aligns to Cloud Platforms. SHOW: 682 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Eaton Homepage Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more! Datadog Application Monitoring : Modern Application Perfo...

Jan 04, 202340 min

2022 Year-End Mailbag

You asked, we answered. A year-end mailbag of the best of the questions we received from our community in 2022. SHOW: 681 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player . Cloudfix Homepage Eaton Homepage Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sani...

Dec 28, 202250 min

A Perspective on Perspectives

Last Sunday Perspective of the year, so let’s look at how we put together the perspectives, and why it can be a valuable framework for evaluation and decision-making. SHOW: 680 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Monitoring : Modern Monitoring and Analytics Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast...

Dec 25, 202217 min

2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions

Aaron and Brian discuss the 2022 Year in Review, highlighting the biggest trends, as well as making 2023 predictions. SHOW: 679 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw SHOW SPONSORS: Eaton Homepage Eaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more! FujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most s...

Dec 21, 20221 hr 2 min

Technology Booms and Busts

Let’s look at the differences between when technology is in a boom-cycle vs. a bust-cycle, and what happens as things transition between cycles. SHOW: 678 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams Datadog Security Solution : Modern Monitoring and Security Start investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog tria...

Dec 18, 202231 min

Bringing The Cloud to IT

Bryan Thompson (VP Product Management of @HPE_GreenLake Cloud Services) talks about managing private and hybrid cloud services and bringing the Cloud to data. SHOW: 677 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: FujiFilm. Your archival and backup data strategy, built on tape. Fujifilm tape is helping businesses get a handle on their vast amounts of data in the most secure, scalable and efficient way. Find out mor...

Dec 14, 202233 min

State of the OpenCloud 2022

Looking at the Battery Ventures “State of OpenCloud 2022” for trends that will impact 2023. SHOW: 676 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container Environments Start monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial . Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. Eaton Homepage Ea...

Dec 11, 202221 min

2022 AWS re:Invent Announcements

Let’s look at the NEW announcements from AWS re:Invent. Not as many as usual, but some interesting new focus areas for AppDev, AppNet, and Security. SHOW: 675 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: AWS Insiders is an edgy, entertaining podcast about the services and future of cloud computing at AWS. Listen to AWS Insiders in your favorite podcast player . Cloudfix Homepage Eaton Homepage Eaton and Tripp Lite ...

Dec 07, 202217 min