cloud2030

Co-Hosts Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen discuss the latest news in the open source industry including the impact of AWS on open source databases and the recent news around MapR and other big data vendors.

Joining us this week is Avi Press, Software Engineer at Fraction and creator of the open source Toodles project. This podcast comes from a recent post by Avi on Medium, “A Failed Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project.” https://medium.com/swlh/a-failed-effort-to-get-paid-for-an-open-source-project-bd7fa4658a1e About Toodles Toodles scrapes your entire repository for TODO entries and organizes them so you can manage your project directly from the code. View, filter, sort, and edit your TODO's with an easy to use web application. When you make changes via toodles, the edits will be applied directly the TODO entries in your code. When you're done, commit and push your changes to share them with your team!

Simon Crosby, CTO and Co-Founder of Swim.ai provides an in-depth overview of the newly available technology with plenty of examples demonstrating the substantial gains in edge cloud application processing vs existing cloud applications.

Rob Hirschfeld and Mark Thiele give their Open Infrastructure Talk from the recent event in Denver in this podcast. Slides for the podcast are available at https://speakerdeck.com/zehicle/edge-dont-touch-that. A video of the talk is at https://youtu.be/KvqN8x1bDCw.

Chetan Vinkatesh, CEO and Co-Founder of Macrometa provides deep technical insight into their soon to be launched Global Edge Fabric development platform. For more information go to https://www.macrometa.co/product.

Joining us this week is Ben Silverman, Chief Cloud Officer, Cincinnati Bell Technology Services. Highlights • Ben Silverman Background • Experience at Denver Open Infrastructure Summit o PTG Separation • Free Software does not mean Free Support • Vendors in Attendance: Significant Downsizing of Companies • Installer Wars and Airship • Ironic Push & MaaS Alliance • Developers Portability and Languages • Cross Community Compatibility • Only Tools are OpenStack • Final Event Thoughts

Joining us this week is Olivier Avaro, Founder & CEO Blacknut. About Blacknut Blacknut aims to fundamentally change the video game industry by creating a service where users can access a vast catalog of curated games, play without limit across all devices, and no longer have the need for dedicated hardware, all for a simple subscription. Using the latest cloud computing technology, Blacknut digitizes video games, delivering them through the cloud directly to smart devices such as televisions, tablets, and phones or through devices like set-top boxes and dongles. Highlights: • Working at a Gaming Company • Game Streaming and Experience • Elimination of H/W Limitations for Modern Games • Delivery of Game from Cloud vs Edge • More than 50% of 5G traffic expected to be Gaming • Edge/Cloud Infrastructure Requirements • Virtualized Game Platform • Challenges in Building the Blacknut Platform

Discussion on the newly released "Data at the Edge" report from The State of the Edge community at https://www.stateoftheedge.com/

Joining us this week is Mark Thiele, Director Engineering Edge Computing, Ericsson and Host of IDCA Podcast. Highlights: • Monopolies in IT • Restrictions in Innovation as everyone has same Cloud tools • Monopolies are not Good for Customers • Edge Push from Public Clouds • Learning from Edge Research • Will Edge Save us from Cloud Monopolies? • Telcos at Edge

Joining us this week is Patrick Pushor, Director of Sales and Field Engineering, Clear Blockchain Technologies. Highlights: • Patrick’s Background in Cloud Computing (Public) • Why join Blockchain Startup? • Practical Blockchain Applications • Evolution Change in Commerce • Hype of Blockchain – e.g. Crypto Currency • Trusted Interactions – Prevent Fraud • Meeting Market Needs for Enterprise • SaaS Model vs Enterprise In-House Sale