John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more. SHOW: 815 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Inference.ai (homepage) TechCrunch post SiliconAngle post on ChatGPU Topic 1 - Our topic for today is sizing and IaaS hosting for AI/ML. We’ve covered a lot of basics lately, today we’re going to dig deeper. There...
Apr 24, 2024•34 min
For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated? SHOW: 814 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #814 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: AWS increased the price of longer-running EKS clusters by 6x Broadcom changes VMware licensing from perpetual to subscription Broadcom offers s...
Apr 21, 2024•22 min
Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI. SHOW: 813 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: DataCebo (homepage) Synthetic Data Vault - SDV TechCrunch Article MIT News Article Topic 1 - Our topic for today is synthetic data. While the concept and need for synthetic data has been around for a long time, it isn’t a topi...
Apr 17, 2024•26 min
With the AI Era upon us, the challenge of trying to learn and make sense of the technologies, the business opportunities and the pitfalls is both exciting and equally terrifying. SHOW: 812 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #812 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: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW IN TECH? Cloud was all new, but not completely The pace ...
Apr 14, 2024•32 min
Brad Winett (President/Co-founder @TrackItCloud) talks about platforms for entertainment and media. Topics include use cases, partnering with AWS, and creation and consulting services. We even dig into AR and VR a bit at the end. SHOW: 811 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: TrackIt (homepage) Topic 1 - Our topic for today is media and entertainment in the cloud. I don’t believe we have ever done a show...
Apr 10, 2024•32 min
What will be the adoption patterns for AI within the Enterprise? Will it follow the early days of Cloud Computing, or will new and different patterns emerge? SHOW: 810 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #810 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: WHAT WERE THE PATTERNS FOR ENTERPRISE IT AND CLOUD? Shadow IT High-scalability or Short-term Projects (and experimentation) Migration via...
Apr 07, 2024•28 min
Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024. SHOW: 809 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/cloudcast-809-transcript CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR MARCH 2024 CLOUD NEWS Segments Covered in the Show: Good Old Fashioned Cloud News The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024 Trend...
Apr 03, 2024•33 min
Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023. SHOW: 808 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th) WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers instead SHOW NOTES: What VMware might look like under Broadcom (Eps.629, June 2022) W...
Mar 31, 2024•28 min
Sean Falconer (@seanfalconer, Head of Dev Relations @SkyflowAPI, Host @software_daily) talks about security and privacy of LLMs and how to prevent PII (personally identifiable information) from leaking out SHOW: 807 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before August 30th) WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add deve...
Mar 27, 2024•26 min
If you’re planning to deploy AI for your business, here’s 5 important capabilities your business needs from the cloud era in order to be successful. SHOW: 806 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th) WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers instead SHOW NOTES: The Year Ahead in Cloud and Expectations for AI...
Mar 24, 2024•22 min
Krish Ramineni (@krishramineni, CEO/Founder of @Firefliesai) talks about what it is like to build an AI product company in both the pre-LLM era as well as post-LLMs. We also discuss privacy and security concerns and AI behind the scenes. SHOW: 805 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th) WSO2 Choreo - Why ...
Mar 20, 2024•26 min
For years, the CNCF has been the central governance body for cloud-native projects. But are there too many projects now? What if the CNCF was less governance and more like private equity? SHOW: 804 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th) WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers instead SHOW NOTES: CNCF Lan...
Mar 17, 2024•23 min
Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643, CEO/Founder of @lunardevapi) talks about integrating, controlling, and observability into 3rd party APIs and services. We discuss the trade-offs of integrating a 3rd party API and how it impacts simplicity and potential loss of insight. SHOW: 803 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 cl...
Mar 13, 2024•29 min
2024 is the year of business accountability across all aspects of the software industry. This means that all variations of the free tier are going away in one way or another. SHOW: 802 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 SHOW NOTES: Linkerd changes publishing model of images PlanetScale discontinues Free Tier (“Hobby”) ...
Mar 10, 2024•25 min
Welcome to the "second monthly" Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest tech stories and five trends from February 2024. SHOW: 801 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 SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR FEB 2024 CLOUD NEWS HERE Segments Covered in the Show: Good Old Fashioned C...
Mar 06, 2024•49 min
Lots of people want to turn their hobby or passion into a money-making activity, or as the kids call it “a side hustle”. Let’s explore how to do it, and some mistakes to avoid. SHOW: 800 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 SHOW NOTES: SO YOU WANT TO MAKE MORE MONEY? When do you decide to make more money? Is anyone willi...
Mar 03, 2024•31 min
Ronald McCollum (@RonaldMcCollam, Solutions Engineering @GrafanaLabs) talks about updates in the observability space and learning more about Grafana and data visualization. SHOW: 799 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 date with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE Learn More About Azure Offerings : Learn more about ...
Feb 28, 2024•28 min
If you have to build a keynote presentation, or any presentation for a large audience, what are the key areas to focus on? Here’s some tips on story-telling and audience engagement. SHOW: 798 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 SHOW NOTES: BUILDING THE OVERALL STORY Think of your presentation as a story. It can be hero/...
Feb 25, 2024•31 min
Shreya Rajpal (@ShreyaR, CEO @guardrails_ai ) talks about the need to provide guardrails and validation of LLM’s, along with common use cases and Guardrail AI’s new Hub. SHOW: 797 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, resources and expert advice, f...
Feb 21, 2024•27 min
Stu Miniman (@stu, Senior Director of Market Insights @RedHat) talks about the experience of The Sphere (@SphereVegas) in Las Vegas SHOW: 796 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 SHOW NOTES: The Sphere (Las Vegas) What’s inside of The Sphere (video overview) Postcard from Earth (trailer) Stu’s “In the Clo...
Feb 18, 2024•31 min
Marco Palladino (@subnetmarco, CTO/Co-Founder @thekonginc) talks about the evolution of APIs, the need for consolidation and integration of AI APIs, and introduces the AI Gateway. SHOW: 795 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 date with Enterprise Tech with theCUBE SHOW NOTES: Kong (homepage) What is an AI Gat...
Feb 14, 2024•33 min
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 & Azure Innovate...
Feb 11, 2024•24 min
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. Topic 2 - Lots of c...
Feb 07, 2024•48 min
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 innovation.Clo...
Feb 04, 2024•30 min
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 Modernize &...
Jan 31, 2024•33 min
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 : Modern Application Perfor...
Jan 28, 2024•32 min
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, resources and exp...
Jan 24, 2024•37 min
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 will also rec...
Jan 21, 2024•24 min
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 Azure Migrate ...
Jan 17, 2024•36 min
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 . Listeners of The C...
Jan 14, 2024•25 min
