When you see the headline “<ex-employee> says <company> AI strategy is in chaos”, what does it really mean? Is any company’s AI strategy NOT in chaos at this point? SHOW: 824 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: Ex-Google says Google's AI strategy is in chaos (Decoder) The Transformer Paper from Google (foundation of GenAI) NVIDIA coverage on St...
May 26, 2024•35 min
Jonas Rosland (@jonasrosland, Head of Open Source Community @CIQ) talks about using AI tools to accelerate building and communications in Open Source Software (OSS) communities. We also discuss the differences between Community Roles and Dev Rel. SHOW: 823 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #823 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR: Neo4j explores knowledge graphs and vector search (graphstuff.fm ...
May 22, 2024•35 min
After just three years, AWS is making another change at the top of the leadership org-chart. What lessons can we learn from leadership transitions and what might come next? SHOW: 822 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #822 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: Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement “There’s no AI without the cloud”, says AWS CEO (Decoder podcas...
May 19, 2024•33 min
Mark Collier (@sparkycollier, COO @openInfradev) talks about the advantages of open source AI and the intersection of OSS and AI transparency, safety, and potential regulations. SHOW: 821 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #821 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSOR: See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developer SHOW NOTES: Mark’s Talk at ATO EU AI Act Passes How Tech Giants Cut Corners Harvest D...
May 15, 2024•31 min
Happy Mothers Day! And let’s explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI. SHOW: 820 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #820 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: InstructLab Project (github homepage) LAB: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots (research paper) Granite LLMs (IBM research - Hugging Face) 7b-base model 7b-lab model InstructLab: Wha...
May 11, 2024•26 min
Malte Ubl (@cramforce, CTO @Vercel) talks about Front-End web development and clouds, how AI impacts front-end infrastructure, and impacts to the business. SHOW: 819 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Vercel (homepage) Elevate your frontend with AI V0.dev Topic 1 - Our topic for today is front-end development and front-end clouds, and we’ll also explore AI-generated front ends. Our guest is M...
May 08, 2024•27 min
What are the key characteristics and red flags with today’s leaders in the tech industry? How to identify the leadership skills, the team building skills, and the execution skills. SHOW: 818 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #818 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 ARE THE LEADERS IN THEIR CAREERS? Are they a 1st time manager? Have they managed distributed t...
May 05, 2024•24 min
Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024 SHOW: 817 TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024 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 ARTICLES FOR APRIL 2024 CLOUD NEWS Segments Covered in the Show: Good Old Fashioned Cloud News The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round Trend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of b...
May 01, 2024•43 min
Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting. SHOW: 816 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #816 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: Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog) “figure out how to play nice with competition” (Twitter) Th...
Apr 28, 2024•32 min
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 dee...
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 Broadco...
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 is...
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...
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 d...
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) Mig...
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 ...
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, Ju...
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? Jus...
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 Expectati...
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 Cho...
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...
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 you...
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 ...
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: ...
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 an...
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...
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 ca...
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...
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 “...
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 (homepag...
Feb 14, 2024•33 min
