Are companies starting to get concerned that AI isn’t meeting expectations? Concern is a part of any new technology adoption curve, but let’s explore some areas where expectations might not be meeting results. SHOW: 914 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #914 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 Suppor...
Apr 13, 2025•29 min
Dan Lee, (@_dan_lee_, CEO Nooks.ai, @JoinNooks) talks about agentic AI vs. AI assistants, their differences, and we explore ROI in this space vs. GenAI and common paths to adoption. SHOW: 913 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #913 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: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50%...
Apr 09, 2025•25 min
How is it possible for the 900lb gorilla of an industry to stumble or fall from it's heights? Let's explore how emerging trends can knock industry leaders off the top of the mountain. SHOW: 912 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #912 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: Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US Cloud Book a Call Today w...
Apr 06, 2025•25 min
Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from March 2025 including recent M&A activity. SHOW: 911 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #911 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: Link to Marc...
Apr 02, 2025•51 min
What happens when you consider moving from a technical role to a lesser technical role? What are the trade-offs? What new skills do you need to evolve? SHOW: 910 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #910 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: Software Defin...
Mar 30, 2025•22 min
With Kubecon coming up next week, we speak to Lukas Gentele (@LukasGentele, Co-Founder/ CEO at Loft Labs (@loft_sh)), about virtualizing Kubernetes SHOW: 909 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #909 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: Lo...
Mar 26, 2025•33 min
We’re starting to see some hints that M&A activities might start heating up in the tech sector again. So what should you expect if a company gets acquired? What are some common scenarios and activities to be aware of? SHOW: 908 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #908 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 Enterpri...
Mar 23, 2025•33 min
Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, CEO/Founder @thesysteminit) talks about the evolution and intersection of DevOps 2.0, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and what’s next SHOW: 907 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #907 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 NOT...
Mar 19, 2025•33 min
How well does your company handle internal and external corporate communications? Are company town halls a nightmare? How should you engage with them and how can the company manage them better? SHOW: 906 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #906 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...
Mar 16, 2025•36 min
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 ...
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% ...
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 Cost...
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 SPONSOR: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today postman.com/podcast/cloudcast/ SHOW NOTES: Most AI Investments Will ...
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" SPONSOR: Try Postman AI Agent Builder Today postman.com/podcast/cloudcast/ SHOW NOTES: ZenCoder website Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about yo...
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 Co...
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...
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-replac...
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 Exe...
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...
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 Fashio...
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 Stat...
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...
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 20...
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 (...
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 CONS...
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...
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 do...
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 ...
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, s...
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 Zanzib...
Jan 01, 2025•37 min
