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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

The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits

Big 3 cloud providers investing in AI with cloud credits. $7 trillion dollar big plans. VCs concerned about AI valuations. It feels like a new set of rules are being created. SHOW: 794 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azur...

Feb 11, 202424 min

Cloud News of the Month

Welcome to the inaugural Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest tech stories from January 2024. SHOW: 793 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER 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 SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Let’s begin with the state of work - employees vs. management....

Feb 07, 202448 min

Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification

Some say the Internet has gone to sh*t. Between bundling and unbundling, how does “ensh*tification” happen, and are there ways to prevent or reduce it? SHOW: 792 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: ​​ Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate! Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to inno...

Feb 04, 202430 min

VCs and Open Source and Funding

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about the challenges of VC funding and building profitable companies based on open-source software. SHOW: 791 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Mode...

Jan 31, 202433 min

Harnessing AI for Enterprise Adoption

Every company is trying to figure out how to harness the power of AI. Let’s look at some frameworks to accelerate innovation, allow for experimentation, and manage long-term success. SHOW: 790 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 Datadog Application Monitoring : Moder...

Jan 28, 202432 min

Wiring the Winning Organization

Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim, Author, Organizational Operations Researcher) talks about the challenges of organizing a team, group, or company to be successful in simple and complex tasks. SHOW: 789 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate! Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resourc...

Jan 24, 202437 min

Technology Shifts vs. Drifts

Lots of trends happen in technology, but which ones of them are significant changes vs. just adjacencies to previous trends. Let’s explore technology shifts vs. drifts. SHOW: 788 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 wil...

Jan 21, 202424 min

AWS vs. Azure

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about comparing AWS vs Azure, evaluating alternatives and what changes over the next 3-5 years. SHOW: 787 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azur...

Jan 17, 202436 min

Is 2024 the Year of Accountability?

Return to Office, Layoffs, Acquisitions,and Shareholder Accountability are dominating the worker-level discussions in early 2024. Let’s dig into what’s really happening. SHOW: 786 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 . Listener...

Jan 14, 202425 min

2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about surviving the annual planning process and Q1 goals, KPIs, politics, priorities, etc SHOW: 785 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate! Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to inno...

Jan 10, 202444 min

Is Cloud just a feature now?

More than a decade into cloud, is cloud just a feature of the systems we build these days? What else might become features in the near future? SHOW: 784 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 Datadog Synthetic Monitoring : Frontend and Backend Modern Monitoring Ensure f...

Jan 07, 202436 min

2024 Look Ahead - Using AI to Enable Personal Productivity

Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle, Founder @peripety_labs) about enabling AI to drive personal productivity, AI experimentation and AIOps soft skills. SHOW: 783 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect th...

Jan 03, 202435 min

2023 Year in Review and 2024 Predictions

@AaronDelp and @BGracely talk about the biggest stories, trends and events of cloud in 2023, and some predictions for 2024. SHOW: 782 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Application Monitoring : Modern Application Performance Monitoring Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial . Listeners of The ...

Dec 24, 20231 hr 1 min

The Industry Fallout from OpenAI 2023

Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk) talk about the November OpenAI drama and how it potentially impacts the entire AI industry in 2024. SHOW: 781 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "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 SHOW NOTES: Benedict Evans - AI, and Everything Else ...

Dec 20, 20231 hr 1 min

2023 End of Year Mailbag

Aaron and Brian answer mailbag questions from the community about the future of open source, future of VMware, the Big 3 Clouds and how AI will impact the next era of cloud. SHOW: 780 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Application Monitoring : Modern Application Performance Monitoring Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience wi...

Dec 17, 202344 min

SaaS Analytics and Dashboards

Karel Callens (@KarelCallens, CEO/Founder @luzmo_official) talks about the importance of SaaS Analytics and how to build dashboards into SaaS services while maintaining security and compliance SHOW: 779 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "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. Li...

Dec 13, 202325 min

How AWS has evolved on Day 2

What were the major announcements at 2023 AWS re:Invent? What did we learn about their AI strategy? What did we learn about how they continue to evolve the business? SHOW: 778 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 Reduce the complexities of protecting your workload...

Dec 10, 202334 min

LLMOps & Conversational Intelligence for AI

GUEST: Alex Kvamme (@KwameKvamme, CEO @GetPathlight) talks about using AI to unlock market insights from discussions with customers and partners. SHOW: 777 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "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 SHOW NOTES: Pathlight (homepage) VentureBeat article on Pathlight & AI Ag...

Dec 06, 202330 min

From Cloud to Cloud-native to COVID

How did the modern cloud evolve from the earliest days of AWS to today’s AI boom? What roles did open source, mobile apps, microservices and the sharing economy play? SHOW: 776 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Reduce the complexities of protecting your workloads and applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive cloud workload protection integrated with API security to prote...

Dec 03, 202349 min

Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps

Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success. SHOW: 775 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Datadog Application Monitoring : Modern Application Performance Monitoring Get started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experienc...

Nov 29, 202337 min

Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud

How did the 2001 dotCom bubble burst lead to the 2008 housing crisis and how did it impact the technology markets? And the OpenAI Coup-oops! SHOW: 774 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate! Azure Free Cloud Resource Kit : Step-by-step guidance, resources and expert advice, from migration to innovation. Code C...

Nov 26, 202339 min

Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering

Can you still call them the FAANG companies considering Facebook is now Meta and Google is now Alphabet? Maybe it’s MAANA now?! Elliott Clark (CEO/Founder, Batteries Included) talks about creating a Platform Engineering org and building an IDP before it was cool. SHOW: 773 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate!...

Nov 22, 202326 min

2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey

What happened in the lead-up to the Internet Bubble burst of 2001? What went right, what went wrong, and what lessons did we learn? (Part 1 of 3) SHOW: 772 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 Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2) Adjusting to ne...

Nov 19, 202354 min

Intro to Vector Databases

Jeff Huber (@jeffreyhuber, Founder/CEO @trychroma) talks vector databases, data integration, RAG, Embedded models, and AI integration. SHOW: 771 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "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 ...

Nov 15, 202326 min

Is AI the new Oppenheimer event?

AI is reaching the point where there is wild speculation, potential regulations, and opinions on if it will destroy humanity. So how does anyone make sense of all of it? SHOW: 770 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Code Comments - An original podcast from Red Hat (Season 2) Adjusting to new technology, from teams that have been through it Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Ap...

Nov 12, 202323 min

Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration

Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers. SHOW: 769 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings ​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spend Datadog Security Solution : Modern Monitoring and Security Star...

Nov 08, 202330 min

The Challenges of Pre-Announcements

Your favorite product just announced something new and you’re upset. Why didn’t they tell you about it ahead of time? Why didn’t they ask for your feedback? How does a launch work? SHOW: 768 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 Code Comments - An original podcast from...

Nov 05, 202334 min

Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis

Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud. SHOW: 767 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "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 Visib...

Nov 01, 202337 min

A New Perspective on The Cloudcast

Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules. SHOW: 766 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 Datadog Security Solution : Modern Monitoring and Security Start ...

Oct 29, 202323 min

Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success

Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS. SHOW: 765 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Find "Breaking Analysis Podcast with Dave Vellante" on Apple , Google and Spotify Keep up to data with Enterpri...

Oct 25, 202338 min