AWS had an outage in a region and many people responded. What did we learn about outages, responses, and dealing with cloud services going forward? SHOW: 574 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW 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 Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T...
Dec 12, 2021•22 min
We review the new strategic directions of AWS under CEO Adam Selipsky, as well as major announcements from AWS re:Invent 2021. SHOW: 573 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: JumpCloud (homepage) At the intersection of devices, identities, and access, JumpCloud’s cloud directory platform unifies the IT resources in any company’s infrastructure – anywhere work happens. Fully evaluate JumpCloud for free today Datadog Se...
Dec 08, 2021•35 min
In 2015, Dell acquired EMC and VMware for a record-setting $67B. In 2021, Dell spun out VMware as an independent company. What lessons were learned? SHOW: 572 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Megaport - Network as a Service Platform Try Megaport - Cloud Connectivity Simplified CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account SHOW NOTES: Dell offers $67B for ...
Dec 05, 2021•22 min
Shanea Leven (@ShaneaLeven, Founder/CEO @CodeSeeio) talks about enabling development teams to better understand the complexities and interdependencies of their code throughout the lifecycle. SHOW: 571 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Megaport - Network as a Service Platform Try Megaport - Cloud Connectivity Simplified CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner...
Dec 01, 2021•37 min
You’ve been hearing about Web3 and metaverse and crypto, and everything is changing. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? Let’s yell at the metaverse and see what echoes back. SHOW: 570 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Juniper Networks – Experience-First Networking Learn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutions Datadog Monitoring : Modern Monitoring and Analytics Start monitoring your infrastructure, appli...
Nov 28, 2021•37 min
Jim Walker (@jaymce, Principal Product Evangelist at @CockroachDB) talks about how serverless has moved from compute to backing data services, and focuses on improving application developer productivity. SHOW: 569 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Megaport - Network as a Service Platform Try Megaport - Cloud Connectivity Simplified CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets...
Nov 24, 2021•33 min
Many people ask us about technical product marketing - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful technical product marketer. SHOW: 568 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 1...
Nov 21, 2021•28 min
In October and November, Microsoft hosted the GitHub Universe and Ignite 2021 conferences, focused on Developers and Cloud Computing. We review the important announcements and analyze the future directions for Azure, GitHub, etc SHOW: 567 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Megaport - Network as a Service Platfor...
Nov 17, 2021•28 min
Hashicorp has been on The Cloudcast more than any other company. As they prepare for their upcoming IPO, we look back at what makes them successful vs. other OSS-centric companies. SHOW: 566 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Juniper Networks – Experience-First Networking Learn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutions BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-Game BMC Autonomous Digital Enterprise Datadog ...
Nov 14, 2021•28 min
Mike Rockwell (Global Head of Solutions @Megaport) talks about the evolution of Cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, SASE, and how Megaport is helping companies adapt to more needs for virtual edge networking. SHOW: 565 SHOW SPONSORS: BMC Wants to Know if your business is on it's A-Game BMC Autonomous Digital Enterprise CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Datadog Synthetic Monitoring : Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring Start detect...
Nov 10, 2021•39 min
Many people ask us about technical product management - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful product manager. SHOW: 564 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Juniper Networks – Experience-First Networking Learn more about Juniper’s cloud-native solutions Megaport (homepage) - Get to the Cloud from Anywhere Megaport ...
Nov 07, 2021•30 min
Nick Davey (Sr. Product Manager, Cloud & SDN @JuniperNetworks) talks about the evolution of SDN networking for Kubernetes, cross-cluster and cross-cloud networking, and Tungsten Fabric. SHOW: 563 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Megaport - Network as a Service Platform Try Megaport - Cloud Connectivity Simplified CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner ...
Nov 03, 2021•40 min
While developers are the new kingmakers, it’s rare that any two companies will use the same systems, the same platforms, or the same models to enable developers to be successful. Let’s explore why. SHOW: 562 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: The Developer Experience Gap (Remonk, 2020) KubeConNA 2021 Key Takeaways DevX Day KubeConNA 2021 Seed, Grow, Scale Developer Relations (PostHog) CNCF Landscape (interactive map) ...
Oct 31, 2021•18 min
Ken Meyer (EVP & CIO Consumer Technology at Truist Bank) talks about the 2yr transformation of Truist Bank (SunTrust and BB&T), managing multiple tech stacks, enabling a multi-cloud strategy, and internal communications and learnings. SHOW: 561 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 Application Monitoring : Modern Application Performance Monitori...
Oct 27, 2021•40 min
Many tech workers are struggling with the repetitive effects of the COVID pandemic (work from home, constant video calls, longer hours, etc.). But there’s never been a better time to explore new ways to be a “maker”. SHOW: 560 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account phoenixNAP website phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud Plat...
Oct 24, 2021•20 min
Kevin Hoffman ( @KevinHoffman , CTO at @Cosmonic_com , wasmCloud creator) talks about WebAssembly and wasmCloud, and how this new development paradigm can simplify application development. SHOW: 559 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW 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 Clo...
Oct 20, 2021•32 min
While many computing systems mirror systems in nature, one aspect that doesn’t is technical debt. The majority of spending is maintaining the existing systems, and yet very little attention is paid to how to reduce the on-going costs. SHOW: 558 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: phoenixNAP website phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud Platform CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nugget...
Oct 17, 2021•18 min
Jonathan Seelig (@ j_seelig , Co-Founder/CEO of Ridge) talks about building the distributed cloud, remotely managing cloud resources, and the evolution of the edge. SHOW: 557 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 will also ...
Oct 13, 2021•33 min
Part 2 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts. SHOW: 556 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account phoenixNAP website phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud Platform SHOW NOTES: Innovator’s Dilemma - Part 1 How IBM Lost the Cloud MAK...
Oct 10, 2021•34 min
Huxlee Barbee (@huxley_barbee, Head Security Prod Mktg @DataDogHQ) talks about the challenging odds of preventing security attacks, managing configuration mistakes, scaling security through monitoring, and security feedback loops in production. SHOW: 555 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 Monitoring : Modern Monitoring and Analytics Start monitoring ...
Oct 06, 2021•36 min
Part 1 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts. SHOW: 554 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: phoenixNAP website phoenixNAP Bare Metal Cloud Platform CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account SHOW NOTES: The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton Christensen) AWS’s Egr...
Oct 03, 2021•23 min
Josh Stella ( @joshstella , Founder/CEO of @FugueHQ ) talks about the differences between cloud security and data center security, the value businesses place on security implementations, and enabling governance in the cloud. SHOW: 553 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 CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free L...
Sep 29, 2021•42 min
COVID has changed the world over the past two years. But how many of the technology changes we’ve made will remain, and which ones may revert back to pre-COVID standards? SHOW: 552 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Spot by NetApp More Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp) Datadog Application Monitoring : Modern App...
Sep 26, 2021•22 min
Michael Cucchi (VP of Product @PagerDuty) talks about the challenges of increased hours, more frequent incident responses and overall tech burnout as a result of the 2020-21 pandemic. SHOW: 551 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: AWS Data Backup for Dummies (Veeam) Choose Your Own Cloud Adventure with Veeam and AWS Datadog Database Monitoring : Modern Monitoring and Analytics Get started monitoring performance analy...
Sep 22, 2021•37 min
The transition of @MongoDB from an open source project to commercially successful public company to cloud provider has been an interesting transition. One that many other software companies are looking to emulate. SHOW: 550 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Synthetic Monitoring : Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring Start detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog ...
Sep 19, 2021•27 min
Ev Kontsevoy ( @kontsevoy , Cofounder/CEO @GoTeleport) talks about the state of the art in remote management, especially for Kubernetes environments, and how Teleport simplifies security for remote access. SHOW: 549 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 Spot by NetApp More Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp) Datadog Database Monitoring : Modern Monitoring and Ana...
Sep 15, 2021•39 min
There’s been quite a bit of debate recently on whether or not to stay in a role, look around for something new, or just quit tech all together. What’s the right choice? Let’s explore some options and strategies. SHOW: 548 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 CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner accoun...
Sep 12, 2021•25 min
David Hill (@davidhill_co, Product Strategy, Office CTO) and Sam Nicholls (Public Cloud Principle) @Veeam talk about the evolution of managing data in the cloud, and backup and security strategies. SHOW: 547 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Register for Cisco Magnetic Cloud CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams Datadog Security Solution : Modern Monitoring and Security Start investigating secu...
Sep 08, 2021•38 min
The next 12-18 months are going to be all about changes, chaos and a three-ring circus between the major cloud providers. The status quo is likely going to change, as plenty of new names and faces, and big money, try to steer these giant ships. SHOW: 546 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Register for Cisco Magnetic Cloud AWS Data Backup for Dummies (Veeam) Choose Your Own Cloud Adventure with Veeam and AWS CloudZe...
Sep 05, 2021•28 min
Aaron and Brian discuss how the on-going pandemic is creating a permanent habit of working remotely, and the challenges of trying to learn technology with less free time. SHOW: 545 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Register for Cisco Magnetic Cloud CBT Nuggets: Expert IT Training for individuals and teams Sign up for a CBT Nuggets Free Learner account Spot by NetApp More Cloud, Less Cost (Spot by NetApp) SHOW NOTE...
Sep 01, 2021•38 min
