Jon Duren, Sr. Practice Manager, AI & Data @wwt_inc & Druce MacFarlane, Product @Infoblox talks about the intersection of AI, Startups, and Enterprise Trends. SHOW: 905 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #905 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK : http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud SHOW...
Mar 12, 2025•26 min
Does your management chain know what you’re doing to bring value to your company, your group or just your role? How do you communicate value for accountability, visibility, and promotability? SHOW: 904 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #904 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cl...
Mar 09, 2025•31 min
Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from February 2025 including NVIDIA’s earnings, Hashicorp, Intel’s CEO trio, Developer Co-Pilots, and RIP Skype. SHOW: 903 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #903 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50...
Mar 05, 2025•37 min
Right now the news around GenAI seems scattered, all of the place, and confusing. Let’s dig into what’s working, what’s not, and where some future trends are heading. SHOW: 902 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #902 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud SHOW NOTES: Most AI I...
Mar 02, 2025•31 min
Andrew Filev (@andrewsthoughts, Founder @zencoderai) talks about the state and future of developer coding co-pilots. SHOW: 901 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #901 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud SHOW NOTES: ZenCoder website Topic 1 - Welcome to the s...
Feb 26, 2025•31 min
We reached show #900!! We explore what happens when your industry experiences it’s DeepSeek moment, and how prepared you are across technology, organizational and economic changes. SHOW: 900 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #900 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Cloud News of the Month - January 2025 - DeepSeek Best 100 Technology Podcasts Top Cloud Computing Po...
Feb 23, 2025•21 min
Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Chief Product Officer at @Platform9Sys) talks about the current state of the VMware virtualization market, thoughts on migrations, and factors to consider to speed migrations. SHOW: 899 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #899 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSORS: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code CLOU...
Feb 19, 2025•23 min
As AI begins to make its way into the Enterprise, how will the experimentation, adoption and operations of AI impact 2025 and beyond IT budgets? SHOW: 898 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #898 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: WHERE WILL IT BUDGETS MOST LIKELY BE IMPACTED BY AI IN 2025-2026? Is your focus on human-augmented capabilities or human-replacement capa...
Feb 16, 2025•21 min
Drew Saur (Founder, Drew Saur Coaching) talks about the state of the job market in 2025, how delivery and measurements have changed, how to stand out, and what to think about when interviewing for a new role, especially at the executive level SHOW: 897 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #897 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Drew Saur Executive Coa...
Feb 12, 2025•26 min
After a decade of Bi-Modal IT discussion, we’ve now reached the era of Bi-Modal Cloud. Balancing traditional CPU-based cloud resources is now clashing with the demands of GPU-based AI cloud needs. Let’s explore! SHOW: 896 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #896 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Public cloud providers are missing the market with AI (David Linthicum...
Feb 09, 2025•27 min
Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2025 including the new DeepSeek model that is shaking up the industry. SHOW: 895 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #895 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Link to January 2025 news and articles SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW: Good Old Fashioned Cloud ...
Feb 05, 2025•31 min
It feels like we’ve gone the last 15+ years of tech without really having to directly involve politics in the discussion. But that seems to be coming to an end, in a big way. Let discuss if we can discuss tech without discussing politics. SHOW: 894 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #894 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: United States vs. IBM United States vs. Mic...
Feb 02, 2025•19 min
Tim Huckaby (@TimHuckaby, CTO at Lucihub) talks about building modern AI applications to generate business video, the human vs AI interactions, and the importance of domain expertise. SHOW: 893 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #893 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Lucihub (homepage) Lucihub - AI powered video creation platform (YouTube) Topic 1 ...
Jan 29, 2025•38 min
At a time when many AI and Cloud announcements are happening, how can we determine which ones are important, disruptive, or just me-too? SHOW: 892 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #892 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Brian Gracely on Software Defined Interviews (podcast) The Stargate Project (Jan 2025) Deepseek models attempts to rival OpenAI (Jan 2025) Will D...
Jan 26, 2025•27 min
James D. Wilton (@jamesdwilton, Managing Director, @Monevat ) talks about pricing strategies for SaaS products and organizations as well as his new book, Capturing Value: The Definitive Guide to Transforming SaaS Pricing and Unshackling Growth SHOW: 891 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #891 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Monevate (homepage) ...
Jan 22, 2025•34 min
In the 2010s, many CIOs adopted a Cloud-First strategy for building their digital services and skills. So how would a CIO build an AI-First strategy in today’s world? SHOW: 890 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #890 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Capture low-hanging AI fruit with Agents How to make your product idea go viral in your company WHAT CONSIDERATIONS...
Jan 19, 2025•31 min
Brian and Michael Cote (@cote, Co-Host @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about the ethics of using AI at for internal and external facing work. SHOW : 889 SHOW TRANSCRIPT : The Cloudcast #889 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Software Defined Talk (Eps.500) How do teachers know if students use AI for projects? Cote’s Newsletter (go subscribe!) How to ...
Jan 15, 2025•37 min
Does your boss’ boss know what your group does? How far up the org chart is it before your group is unknown? Let’s look at ways that your group can make sure it has visibility up the ranks of your management team. SHOW: 888 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #888 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: WordPress CEO doesn’t know what his Sustainability team does Salesfo...
Jan 12, 2025•23 min
As we start in 2025, we wanted to offer advice on job searching and evaluating roles. The market and the interviewing process have shifted; what do you need to know in 2025 if you seek a new opportunity? SHOW: 887 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #887 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Considerations when evaluating a startup vs. a more traditiona...
Jan 08, 2025•40 min
As a new year is upon us, let's make a checklist of the most important areas to focus upon to make Q1 successful and set up the rest of 2025 for success. SHOW: 886 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #886 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: SOME TIPS, TRICKS, SUGGESTIONS AND REFLECTIONS AS WE BEGIN YET ANOTHER YEAR General Stuff - Get rid of clutter, set goals, Healt...
Jan 05, 2025•32 min
Jake Moshenko (@jacobmoshenko, CEO of @AuthZed) talks about the challenges of securing AI interactions, as well as authentication best-practices for AI Agents and RAG patterns. SHOW: 885 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #885 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Authzed (homepage) SpiceDB - Authorization that scales (GitHub) Google’s Zanzibar (resear...
Jan 01, 2025•37 min
It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025. SHOW: 884 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #884 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Cloud + AI News of the Year 2024 (shows, summaries, links) LINK TO TOPIC DETAILS Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus? Aaron 2025 will be the year of AI...
Dec 25, 2024•47 min
If AI is going to be the next big trend in tech and impact every aspect of society, how do you go about trying to evaluate where it is today and where it might be in a few years or a decade? SHOW: 883 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #883 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: HOW MIGHT YOU CONSIDER THE BEGINNING OF A TECHNOLOGY MARKET SHIFT? What’s the landscape of ...
Dec 22, 2024•27 min
It’s that time of the year… Aaron and Brian answer emails and questions for the second half of the year. SHOW: 882 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #882 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Question 1 - There was a lot of talk about Broadcom’s changes to VMware at the beginning of the year, but not as much since then. What’s going on in the world of...
Dec 18, 2024•48 min
In the late 70s and early 80s, a music revolution started because a bunch of talented musicians played on 100s of albums, behind the scenes. Would the AI startup community benefit from a similar infrastructure of experts? SHOW: 881 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #881 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Yacht Rock Documentary (HBO Max - Trailer) WHY DON’T WE HAVE...
Dec 15, 2024•18 min
The 2024 AWS re:Invent happened, with a new CEO, and an appearance by a previous CEO. What were the big announcements, trends and stories coming out of the keynote? SHOW: 880 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #880 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR: While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversation Follow Dat...
Dec 11, 2024•44 min
How are the largest VCs viewing the early stages of the AI Era, from the perspective of investment, technology moats, economics, early adoption and future use-cases. SHOW: 879 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #879 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: AI Eats the World (Presentation - Benedict Evans ) IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION? Companies ...
Dec 08, 2024•41 min
Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2024 including the breaking news of Pat Gelsinger's Thanksquitting departure from Intel. SHOW: 878 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #878 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR: Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructur...
Dec 04, 2024•40 min
As the AI era emerges, the debate about the best place to live to take advantage of it for your career has started up again. Is Silicon Valley still the best place to live when a new trend starts? SHOW: 877 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #877 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR: Love the insights from this episode? Make sure you never miss a beat with Chatpods ...
Dec 01, 2024•26 min
Andrew Manoske (@a2d2, VP Products @Kindo) talks about the intersection of GenAI and DevSecOps, the WhiteRabbitNeo model, and learning adversary behavior. SHOW: 876 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #876 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR: While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversation Follow Data Citizens...
Nov 27, 2024•24 min