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Josh Patterson (@datametrician, Co-Founder & CEO @VoltronData) talks about the concept of composable data analytics and how it benefits our industry. What is it, why should be using it, and how to get started.SHOW: 694CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? Let us solve it for you! Visit strata.io/cloudcast to share your toughest IAM challenge and receive a set of AirPods ProHow to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF)Datadog Kubernetes Solution: Maximum Visibility into Container EnvironmentsStart monitoring the health and performance of your container environment with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtSHOW NOTES:Voltron Data (homepage)Apache Arrow (homepage)CRN 10 Hottest Big Data Startups of 2022 (CRN)Voltron grabs 110M Series A (TechCrunch)Topic 1 - Hello Josh and welcome to the show. You have a very diverse and interesting background. Can you give everyone a quick introduction? As a follow up, tell everyone a little bit about your experience as Presidential Innovation Fellow.Topic 2 - Before we dig into Voltron Data, we need to tell everyone about Apache Arrow. Business and organizations tend to be overwhelmed by big data. Everything from the volume, to the tools, to the lack of data scientists and practitioners. Can you give everyone an overview of Arrow, how it came to be, what problem does it solve? Topic 3 - Arrow has companies like Snowflake, NetFlix, Meta, Databricks, Google and Microsoft all adopting it. Our listeners will be more familiar with Snowflake & Databricks and their business models, what makes Voltron Data different? How are you building a company on top of OSS?Topic 4 - Let’s talk about communities and standards. I’ve seen various numbers on Arrow and monthly downloads, always in the tens of millions per month. Your focus appears to be providing services for Arrow and other Apache projects to simplify open source for those that don’t have the skills or time, while also working towards the goal of community standards. Is that correct?Topic 5 - How will open source standards for data help the data analytics industry move faster? Is this a process problem? A data set problem? A tools problem?Topic 6 - Data Analytics has a reputation for a high barrier to entry. If our listeners are interested, how can they get started?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

The tech industry is going through an employment level downturn at the moment, so what should you do? What shouldn’t you do? SHOW: 691CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Did you know that 87% of container images in production include a high or critical vulnerability? No wonder prioritization is difficult. Download the Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage report to dig into the state of cloud and container usage.Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? Let us solve it for you! Visit strata.io/cloudcast to share your toughest IAM challenge and receive a set of AirPods Pro.Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!SHOW NOTES:An Analysis of Recent Layoffs2023 Tech Layoff TrackerFrom diversity and inclusion to adversity and expulsionThe five stages of griefLAYOFFS ARE NEVER FUN, AND THEY HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTSHiring tends to happen in waves, and layoffs happen in blastsSometimes layoffs happen for solid reasons, and sometimes for emotional reasonsHOW TO NAVIGATE A LAYOFF, OR BEING AROUND AFTER A LAYOFFEventually, everybody gets fired - whether they should or notTry not to make it too emotional, which is initially difficultCompanies never really take ownership, but they can be compassionateAllow yourself to go through the grieving processDecide if you still want to stay in the tech industryStay active in life - get up, find a routine, stay healthy, make a plan each dayBegin looking while you have financial buffersFind something creative - build thingsStay active with your skills - volunteer, side projects, etc.Stay active with your networksAt some point, be realistic - family needs, sunk costs, titles, etc.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Chris Aniszczyk (@cra, CTO of @CloudNativeFdn) talks about the evolution of CNCF projects, major cloud-native trends, and managing the intersection of projects, users and vendors.SHOW: 690CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:How to Fix the Internet (A new podcast from the EFF)CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendDatadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:CNCF HomepageCNCF End-User Technology RadarCNCF Annual Report 2022CNCF LandscapeCNCF Project Velocity for 2022Predictions for 2023 (LinkedIn)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and what does a CTO of a foundation like the CNCF do? Topic 2 - What does the CNCF do these days, and what should various stakeholders, partners and consumers of CNCF “things” (projects, events, training, etc.) expect from the CNCF? Topic 3 - The CNCF has a number of ways to represent technologies under its governance - Landscape, Technology Radar, etc. As the CTO, how do you think about all the different ways there are to solve problems using CNCF technologies? Topic 4 - How much do you worry about the economy slowing down, in the sense of it impacting VC funding for companies that might be at the core of projects (especially new projects). Does the CNCF need a certain amount of volume of projects to provide value, or are you mostly focused on doing good governance to the projects in front of you?Topic 5 - As the CTO of the CNCF, do you feel like there are “core” projects that need more of your attention because of how many other projects have dependencies? Or are there key concepts that you try to infuse into projects, knowing how interconnected they become?Topic 6 - Every technologist has their areas of interest.  You recently did a post on your predictions for 2023 that everyone should check out. What are some of yours as you look out at 2023?  Topic 7 - What are some of the new things that the CNCF is working on this year? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

While we all live in a world of constantly emerging and evolving technologies, sometimes new technologies are so different from the past that they are just difficult to explain the first time. SHOW: 689CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK 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 spendSolve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? Let us solve it for you! Visit strata.io/cloudcast to share your toughest IAM challenge and receive a set of AirPods Pro.Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!SHOW NOTES:Presenting Service Mesh and Cloud-native to Cloud Field DayDad’s trying to understand a Tesla without reading the manualSteve Jobs introduces the iPhone in 2007LETS CONNECT THE DOTS BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIESIntroducing Cloud-native technologies to non Cloud-native peopleTrying to figure out a Tesla Model 3 from the rental agency without the manualHOW TO EXPLAIN NEW THINGS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT EXPERIENCEWhat experiences do people have about the previous generation of technology?Do you need to explain why the new technologies exist?Do you need to explain why the new choices were made with the new technologies?Do you frustrate people because the things they expect are different or missing?Should you use analogies or comparisons to explain things? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Matt Ray (@mattray, Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) talks about the evolution of FinOps, alignment between Eng and Finance, and FinOps best practices. SHOW: 688CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Eaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!SHOW NOTES:FinOps FoundationOpenCost (open source project)5 Strategies to Control Cloud CostsTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus on Cloud Cost Management today.Topic 2 - The cloud has been around for more than a decade. Why does it seem like Cloud Cost Management has suddenly become such a big topic of discussion over the last couple years - is it mostly the pandemic and economy (interest rates), or more driven by end-user behaviors….or both? Topic 3 - What do best practices for Cost Management look like today? It is mostly about having the right monitoring tools, or is it how groups are organized, or something else?Topic 4 - How in the world can any finance person understand the nuances of all the services that are available in the cloud, and how they might impact both architecture and ultimately the bill? Who needs to be educating them? Topic 5 - How do most companies engage around cost management? Does it start with cost management tools and then bring in consultants (e.g. Corey Quinn) if they can’t figure things out? Or is it the CFO getting heavy-handed and setting strict policies? Topic 6 - Let’s talk about OpenCost. Topic 7 - Given all the variables involved, can you be useful in the cloud cost management space if they don’t have a strong background in building applications or architecture? Topic 8 - What are some of the areas of cloud cost management that are most interesting to you today? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Does any technology make sense if the organization surrounding it is misaligned? Let’s look at some examples of the right and wrong ways to align the technology organization with business results. SHOW: 687CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Solve your IAM mess with Strata's Identity Orchestration platformHave an identity challenge you thought was too big, too complicated, or too expensive to fix? Let us solve it for you! Visit strata.io/cloudcast to share your toughest IAM challenge and receive a set of AirPods Pro.Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience (Redmonk) GREAT SLIDES AND DEMOS DON’T ALWAYS WORK IN THE REAL WORLDPlatforms vs. Services. Centers of Excellence vs. Centralized Services vs. Distributed ServicesWho makes the initial investment? Incremental investments? Who owns maintenance? Business Goals? Technical Goals? THINGS THAT WORK AND THINGS THAT OFTEN BREAKWhat problem is trying to be solved? Does the consumer understand how to measure value received? How are things funded? How does expansion happen? How do changes happen?How are things measured? How well are measurements aligned?Self-Service vs. APIs vs SLA’d Services (fixed services vs. reusable services)Are platforms centralized vs. group-by-group? Short-term goals vs. long-term goals?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about life as a VC, upcoming trends to look out for, and what to expect with rising interest rates in 2023.SHOW: 686CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Eaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsStart monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:Crane VC homepageAneel’s 2022 Look Ahead ShowHow Interest Rates Impact Cloud ValuationsGoogle Issues a “Code Red” on OpenAI threats"Sea Change"Topic 1 - Welcome back. You’re almost in the 5 timers club at this point and a returning guest from our look ahead shows in 2022. For our new listeners, tell everyone a little bit about yourselfTopic 2 - We covered a lot of VC basics in last year's show, link above for those that missed it. We still get a lot of questions around VC funding and VC’s in general. What’s the elevator pitch version of what you do day to day as a VC? Also, how is Crane different from say some of the traditional Sand Hill Road VC’sTopic 3 - Since we spoke last year, what’s changed? What market patterns have you noticed? Have investment and “exit” strategies changed?Topic 4 - Investment advisors always tell clients to take a long view of markets, because their horizon for things like retirement or college savings, are long term. Do VCs tend to take round–to-round viewpoints of customers, or longer-term (like 5-7yrs) of their investments?Topic 5 -  Last year we talked about the cost of investments (expectations of valuations) being high (cheap money, lots of competition). Given the changes in the economy, do you expect that we’ll see big changes in investments, valuations, etc..? Topic 6 - At a macro level, what is interesting to you in 2023? What are you researching these days?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition. How did they get here?SHOW: 685CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsSection is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!SHOW NOTES:EMC acquires VMware for $625M (2004)VMware’s 1st IPO (2007)History of VMware acquisitionsDiane Greene replaced by Paul Maritz as CEO (2008)VMware revenue history (2005-2022)VMware acquires Nicira (2012)Pat Gelsinger named CEO (2012)VMware launches VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (2013)VMware launches vSAN hyper converged (2013)VMware acquires Airwatch (2014)VMware on AWS cloud service announced at AWS re:Invent (2016) HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWNVMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, and operated as an “independent” entity, but how independent was it really?What might VMware have become if they weren’t owned by an infrastructure company?HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONSWhat happens if VMware is allowed to be spun out from EMC? How much did it impact growth? How much did it impact innovation?What happens if Paul Maritz doesn’t acquire all the companies that tried to become Microsoft? What happens if VMware didn’t spinout Pivotal, and instead delivered a more vertical software stack?What happens if Pat Gelsinger doesn’t buy Nicira, and instead focuses on the public cloud offerings 4 years earlier? (AWS revenues by year)Why didn’t VMware define the integrated computing model (e.g. Cisco UCS)? What happens if VMware (or Pivotal) had adopted Kubernetes in 2015 instead of 2019? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, host @twimlai podcast) talks about the evolution of AI & ML in 2023, and the possibilities of ChatGPT.SHOW: 684CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OTHER NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. Eaton HomepageEaton and Tripp Lite have joined forces to bring more sanity to IT pros days, every day. Visit www.eaton.com/audio to learn more!SHOW NOTES:This Week in AI & ML (podcast, homepage)Sam talks to ChatGPT to create a podcast(2017) - Sam on Eps.321(2019) - Sam on Eps.382(2020) - Sam on Eps.437Topic 1 - Hi Sam. Welcome back to the show. Before we get into today’s discussions, tell us a little bit about the breadth of things you’re doing over at TWIMLAI and how people can get involved?Topic 2 - Let’s start with the recent headlines - Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. For those of us that aren’t around this everyday, it feels like some big leaps in useability. Did we see a big jump in AI at the end of 2022, or was this just good UI design, or something else?Topic 3 - ChatGPT - Give us the basics, and then what are some of the more interesting things you’re hearing people start to talk about with technology like this.Topic 4 - The last time you were on, we talked about how “the goal posts tend to shift” about what we think of as powerful AI. Do you see any areas of AI getting close to becoming a big shift in terms of ease-of-use, or being hidden/embedded in other technologies?Topic 5 - There are various reports about GPUs being harder to get these days. There is also speculation that the cost of AI processing has been going up. What are you seeing in terms of cost of processing vs. useful outcomes lately? Topic 6 - What’s the “getting started” curve look like for companies that want/need to add or integrate AI & ML into their applications? What’s the barrier to entry and has it changed in the last few years? What are some numbers you hear about cost of engineers, sizes of datasets, number of experiments and models needed to run, etc.? Topic 7 - What are some of the things you’re really looking forward to in 2023, whether it’s technology or trends or something else?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

The evolution of Microsoft under Satya Nadella provides a blueprint for how to transition companies from one focus to another.  SHOW: 683CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and SavingsSHOW NOTES:Bill Gates write about “Internet Tidal Wave” (1995)Microsoft Revenues (since 2000)How Microsoft Shifted from Software to the Cloud (2014)Microsoft Revenue Breakdown by Products (2022)CAPEX spending by the leading cloud vendors (2001-2021)Microsoft acquisitions History of Microsoft Azure How the Windows team transitioned to cross-platform HOW MICROSOFT EVOLVED FROM A CLOSED SW COMPANY TO CLOUD COMPANY2001: $31B, 2007: $62B, 2014: $88B, 2019: $153B, 2022: $198B90+ acquisitions since 2014Office 365, Gaming (XBox), GitHub, LinkedInHOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS2001: XBox, Office 3652008: Azure2017: Microsoft Teams2018: GitHubBe patient: Many of Microsoft’s investments required 10+ years to growBuy new capabilities: AcquisitionsBreak the limitations to expand markets: Move to cross-platform support (Office on MacOS, SQL on Linux, Linux in Aure, Bing with Google) - see Red Hat with RHEL, IBM with IBM Cloud or Mainframe, Cisco with SW+HardwareEmbrace new business models: SaaS services, pay-as-you-go Cloud servicesInvest for the Future: Microsoft has caught up to Google in CAPEX spendingFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet