cloud2030

Recap of the 2019 GDC event in San Francisco, CA last week. Our guests are Alan Evans, Sr Director Strategy, EDGE GRAVITY and Chetan Venkatesh, CEO, Marcometa. Discussion includes thoughts on the Google Stadia announcement, Cloud Native development for gaming, and our thoughts on Genvid who we all agreed had standout technology.

Joining us this week is Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist, Turbonomic. Highlights: • Discoposse Podcast • Discussion on Luke Kaines Article • Open Source Impact on IT Ops and Purchasing • Money Drives Operational Alignment • Sales as Organizational Improvements Time Stamp • 0 min 6 sec: Introduction of Guest • 1 min 19 sec: Discoposse Podcast o History of Podcast o Canada – Brewers Retail • 6 min 07 sec: Luke Kaines Article, My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales o Like Watching a Netflix Story Heading to an Unexpected Ending o Starts with Hard Lessons Learned – how not to do things  Who are you building the product for? User or Purchaser  Still early in our industry on how to build a product that doesn’t require enterprise sales o When is sales enterprise? How to define that? o You succeed on your ability to manage relationships of warring departments at the prospect’s company; it’s not the product that you are selling • 13 min 16 sec: Examples of Politics impacting sales o RackN and Internal Champions o Open Source allows customers to bypass their sales departments: dangers of this happening o Tour de France of IT Operations o Justify the cost of the product vs. value or the product • 21 min 05 sec: People take things seriously when money is being spent o Free consulting never gets used o Open source has less perceived value since its free but it’s not really free o Personal investment vs team investment in solution  Disagreements add value to organizations  Silos vs Cross-Silo Communications • 31 min 08 sec: How sell product communicating value to multiple groups via internal champions o Having to use software purchased already to get value o Have to pay for software, even free software  Even open source software has commercial support that cost money o Always about building a team and communication • 40 min 25 sec: Wrap-Up

Joining us this week is Tricia Howard, Client Manager, Optiv for a special RANTCAST on Security. About Optiv Optiv Security is a security solutions integrator that enables clients to reduce risk by taking a strategic approach to cybersecurity. Align your security program to achieve specific business outcomes with our full suite of service capabilities, from strategy to technology—and everything in between. Highlights: • Security Rant • Data Privacy and Rights / Data Security • Companies and Storage/Security of Personal Data • Data is a Currency • Securing Systems and Data Leakage • Password Re-Use and Lack of Re-Use Impact on Vendors / SIM Hacking • Monopoly Power of Big Tech Companies & Gov’t Regulation • Dark Web – What is it? • Identity on Internet • Perimeter Security

Joining us this week is Sastry Malladi, CTO, FogHorn. About FogHorn FogHorn is a leading developer of edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications. FogHorn and Lightning are trademarks of FogHorn Systems. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Highlights: • FogHorn Data Aggregation Technology for Devices • Edge is Constrained • Containers are Standard • IoT Standard Environment • Autonomy at the Edge • Edge Architecture Tradeoffs • Machine Learning

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector discuss a recent interaction Rob had with a senior IT executive who claimed a team of perfect employees and if anyone made a mistake they would be fired. Really? It's time for a Rob rant in response to this management approach.

Joining us this week is Sriram Subramanian, Founder and Principal Analyst, CloudDon. About Cloud Don Sriram Subramanian is an independent analyst catalyzing modern enterprise IT Transformations. His primary area of coverage is how cloud computing/ container technology based services are impacting modern enterprise IT. His representative clients include vendors such as Red Hat, Microsoft, HPE, and end users in retail, fin tech and healthcare. Service Mesh Event (18 min 45 sec) Service Mesh Day : March 28 – 29, 2019 Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco Highlights: • Thoughts on late 2018 AWS ReInvent and KubeCon (Software vs SaaS) • Vendor Lock-In Hype • Service Mesh • Edge Computing Highlights • 0 min 16 sec: Introduction of Guest • 1 min 33 sec: Impressions from AWS ReInvent and KubeCon 2018 o Software vs SaaS • 9 min 00 sec: Services Spun up Inside Kubernetes vs Vendor Lock-in o Over Hype of Vendor Lock-In? • 12 min 38 sec: Service Mesh o Why do I need Service Mesh on Kubernetes? o Enable Cloud-Native Paradigms o Kubernetes is not the Answer to Everything • 20 min 35 sec: Data Center Environment and Edge Computing o Is Kubernetes assumed for Edge? o LF Edge Announcement Podcast o Federation • 30 min 21 sec: Wrap-Up

Joining us this week is Daniel Lizio-Katzen, CEO Galactic Fog. About Galactic Fog was founded in 2014 by veteran engineers with the goal of streamlining application development. As engineers, we have spent years designing, building and deploying applications for both startups and large enterprises. At Galactic Fog, one of our goals is to provide a platform for us to contribute back to the developer community by open-sourcing many of our foundational components. Galactic Fog’s core mission is to provide the systems that enable the design, development and cross-cloud operation of cloud-native apps through the use of enterprise grade function-as-a-service (FaaS) and container-as-a-service (CaaS) technologies. These apps should be resilient and declaratively integrated into any complex environment or configuration. Highlights: • Function as a Service and Events • Operational Experience • Next Generation API Gateways • DevOps and Enterprises • Kubernetes as an Enterprise Platform • Edge is part of Galactic Fog

Joining us this week is Jim Clark, Chief Architect and Founder of Atomist. About Atomist Our goal is to remove every last bit of unnecessary work that gets between you and shipping great software. We created Atomist in 2015 with the goal of transforming how software is developed and delivered. We believe that developers should have tools to take care of the individual stages of that flow, and very importantly, a way to integrate, streamline, and automate the overall flow from code to ship. We started Atomist to build that platform for developers. Highlights: • What and How of Atomist Technology • Delivery as a Workflow Issues • Automated Code Updates ~ e.g. Code Analysis • Software Delivery Machine

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector discuss two recent news articles on the failures of business models. CNBC - https://cnb.cx/2DvySUw Tim O'Reilly - https://qz.com/1540608/

Joining us this week is Jeff Kim, CEO of Kmesh.io. About Kmesh KMesh.io sells software that transforms your centralized data into distributed data, which operates over multiple clouds, countries and edges as a single global namespace. Customers configure their business rules / data orchestration policies through the Kmesh portal and easily deploy their data over any cloud (production data on prem, backup data on AWS, AI/ML data on Google, IoT data on the Edge etc.) Highlights: • Kubernetes Challenges for Stateful Data • Managing Stateful Data across Multiple Edge Devices • How Kmesh works with Luster ~ New Global Data Models • Kubernetes Limitations with Storage