The Cloudcast

Looking forward at the biggest public clouds, what are the things we are sure of, the trends we expect to evolve, and the uncertainties that will shape the next 5+ years in cloud computing?SHOW: 491SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:THINGS WE KNOW - OVERALL GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRYMore adoption of SaaS applications (which run on Big 3)More migrations of apps from data center to cloudHuge CAPEX spending (low-interest rates) for Cloud + Other Businesses (Healthcare, Driving, Gaming, AR/VR, FinSvcs, etc.)More rapid adoption of ARM in the cloud than data centers (40% lower costs)Edge still has alot of evolution to go through (footprint, mgmt/updates, security, etc.)TRENDS THAT WILL EVOLVEBeginning to see a wave of Telco’s partnering with Big 3 (edge computing)2nd/3rd-generation of being built as cloud-native firstVendors partnering with Big 3 to be “native-services”The data-centric OSS projects in the cloudUNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIESAcquisitionsChanges in Leadership Pricing WarsAre there emerging players (Alibaba, Apple, etc.)?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Dan Lines, (@linknfg182, COO @LinearB_Inc) talks about asynchronous development for remote teams, managing business-level discussions,  bringing greater transparency and accountability to projects, and identifying early signs of developer burnout.  SHOW: 490SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:BMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseDatadog Security Monitoring Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Onix - The Leading Cloud Solutions ProviderOnix - Cloud data strategy workshop offer (FREE, $2000 value)CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:LinearB HomepageAsynchronous Development for Remote TeamsAsynchronous Development ManifestoDev Interrupted podcastTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to be so focused on developer productivity and team agility? Topic 2 - We want to talk about remote teams today, but before we get started, let’s talk about how much this past year has changed the day-to-day life of application development teams.Topic 3 - You’ve spoken about Asynchronous Development (for Remote Teams) and how the pandemic sort of created the environment that has been evolving for years. Tell us about the concept and some of the things companies can do to embrace it?  Topic 4 - LinearB is a tool/platform that gives teams visibility into what’s happening with projects (status/velocity), backlogs, bottlenecks, etc. How do you think about transparency and accountability for teams, since software projects can get fairly complex? Topic 5 - How much does it help in conversations with business leaders, who might not have as much understanding of how development teams work, to have the data trends right in front of them?Topic 6 - You make a point that you can see “burnout” happening within teams or around individuals. What are some tips to reduce that, or address it in ways that it can lead to better long-term conditions within teams?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Exploring the history and challenges of OpenStack, including its evolution from a partnership between NASA and Rackspace to the adoption of the 'Big Tent' model. Analyzing the mistake of accepting VMware and the focus shifting to Telco at the OpenStack Summit in 2016. Discussing the struggle of defining OpenStack's scope and upgrading the platform amidst rapid growth and project fragmentation.

Kevin Deierling, SVP Marketing @NVIDIA, discusses the evolution of cloud and datacenter infrastructure, the new economics of computing, and how DPUs are redefining data inspection and offloading.

As Amazon transitions to a new CEO, we look back at Andy Jassy's leadership at AWS from 2006 to 2021.SHOW: 487SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Timeline of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inside the rise of AWS's Andy Jassy (Business Insider)HOW AWS SHAPED AND RESHAPED CLOUD COMPUTING (Andy's Influence)Brought on-demand computing to IT infrastructure (and beyond)Established that AWS was "the cloud"Brought the Amazon psychology of "low-cost" to ITFocused on "price reductions" and the new economics of cloud (vs. IT)Focused on highlighting big name customers early (e.g. Netflix) Refused to acknowledge competitors (in the early years)Used data to see customer-usage patterns, to inform the next services.Announced new capabilities all the time, not big releases.And many more....WHAT COMES NEXT FOR AWS?Who takes over at the leader of AWS?How does AWS manage slowing growth rates?Taking over from a legend is never easy? What personality does the next leader bring?Does Hybrid Cloud change how they go-to-market? How they partner?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Derek Knudsen (@dsknudsen, CTO at @Alteryx) talks about the differences between analytics and data science teams, critical analytics workflows, aligning culture and technologies, and best practices in presenting data. SHOW: 486SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Onix - The Leading Cloud Solutions ProviderOnix - Cloud data strategy workshop offer (FREE, $2000 value)CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering TeamsBMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Alteryx Homepage - Automated, Self-Service AnalyticsAlteryx Analytics Platform (APA)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what makes you passionate about helping analytics teams improve their businesses? Topic 2 - Can we start by talking about how you think about Analytics teams vs. Data Science teams vs. AI/ML teams? Are these different only in name, or are their functional/skill differences, or places where one group is more appropriate than others? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Analytics in the context of workflows. Are you seeing it still be mostly a business analyst “offline” function, or are more workflows and applications introducing more “real-time” analytics capabilities? Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about DevOps and Developer Productivity, in the context of more frequently changing applications. How does that apply to Analytics groups? Where do they have bottlenecks today? How do they get around those bottlenecks?Topic 5 - How do platforms like the Alteryx Analytics Platform help teams improve their analytics velocity and productivity? And how much do you find that the right tools help improve how teams organize, or do they need to be well organized to best take advantage of the right tools? Topic 6 - Can you give us some examples of the types of results that companies often achieve when they better align their analytics teams to self-service and automated environments?FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Andrew Clay Shafer (@litteidea, VP Transformation @RedHat ) & John Willis (@botchagalupe, Sr.Dir. Transformation) talk about the importance of "learning organizations",   aligning change to business value, and the evolution of self-service and automated governance.SHOW: 485SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Okta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.BMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseCLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Red Hat Global Transformation OfficeBooks by John Willis10 Must Read DevOps & Transformation BooksTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re both really well known in the DevOps communities, but give us the TL;DR of your backgrounds for anyone not familiar with your work. Topic 2 - Whether people are tired of the term “Digital Transformation” or not, change is a huge part of our industry, especially as it relates to corporate culture and organization. What’s the framing for that type of discussion in 2021? Topic 3 - I’ve heard you both say “technology is easy, people are hard”. How do you think about these conflicts of transformation, whether people’s individual motivations aren’t always aligned to a business goal? Topic 4 - One of the biggest differences between existing companies and start-ups is the level of self-service that they build around their systems. The self-service systems allow experimentation, allow automated deployments, etc. But is there a way to bring a concept of automated governance to these end-to-end models? Topic 5 - Oftentimes transformations are aligned with cloud-native technologies, cloud-native apps. The model of Ops in a cloud-native world is different. What are some of the areas you both focus on to make cloud-native Ops successful, or better aligned to the technology part of transformations? Topic 6 - What are some of the best and worst “getting started” steps that you see various groups (or companies) take in their transformation journeys? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Jeremy Burton (@jburton, CEO @Observe_Inc; board member @SnowflakeDB ) talks about the differences between traditional IT companies and Cloud-First companies, from product planning and roadmaps, to customer engagements and marketing messaging. SHOW: 484SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.BMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseDatadog Security Monitoring Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Observe HomepageSnowflake Homepage - The Data CloudTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for a while. You’ve had tremendous success in Leadership, Product and Marketing roles in the past. Tell our audience a little bit of your background and what ultimately brought you to your role at CEO of Observe. Topic 1a - For people that aren’t familiar, what does Observe bring to the market? Topic 2 - We wanted to do a little “before-and-after”, and focus on what it means to be a “Cloud-First” company. What are the most obvious differences between a company like Observe and a company like Dell or EMC?    Topic 3 - From a product perspective, how do you think about roadmaps and the ways in which you enable new features for customers? Since Observe runs only in the public cloud, how much do you need to think about integrating with the native cloud services? Topic 4 - You have deep expertise in creating marketing messaging, but so much of how customers learn about your products is no longer the company website. How do you think about reaching potential customers, or generally getting your message into the market?Topic 5 - Traditional IT was often aligned to centralized buying and architecture groups. How much does Cloud-First change the consumption models for companies - experimentation, on-demand usage, dealing with scaling issues, etc.Topic 6 - Overall, what are some of the biggest lessons you’ve learned about the Cloud-First approach as you’ve transitioned over the last 3+ years. FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart, Global Field CTO @VMware, O’Reilly Author) talks about event-driven application architectures, how it's changing real-time business models, and technology stack driven the evolution. SHOW: 483SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:BMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseDatadog Security Monitoring Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.Okta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Flow Architectures - The Future of Event Streaming & Event-Driven IntegrationThe Cloudcast Eps.43 - James UrquhartThe Cloudcast Eps.344 - Bringing AI to the Edge (Swim.ai)The Cloudcast Eps.334 - The Future of Edge Computing (Derek Collison, Synadia)Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve known you for quite a while, going back to working together on very early Cloud stuff. You’ve always enjoyed being focused on complex, distributed systems. Tell us what you’re focused on these days. Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this concept of “event-driven” and flow. Where did it come from, what does it do, why is it valuable to application designers?   Topic 2a - What is a “flow” and how is it related to event-driven?Topic 3 - Events are data. We’ve had relational databases for data, and then we had NoSQL or eventually-consistent databases for data. Are events a new type of data, or a new way to deal with data in a different context?  (channels, replays, etc.)Topic 4 - Can we talk through an example of an event-driven application, or an event-driven integration between multiple organizations? How is it new/different? What unique capabilities does it bring now?  (Kafka, IoT, API Gateways, etc.)Topic 5 - Cloud made IT self-service. Serverless made Ops become on-demand. If I’m a business leader, what does event-driven give us?  Topic 6 - Where are we in the maturity of event-driven architectures? What might be some of the next stages coming in 2021 or 2022?  FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet

Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Offer Manager @DXC + Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talks about the evolution of Hybrid Cloud, common deployment misperceptions and challenges, and major areas for improvement in 2021.SHOW: 482SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Okta - You should not be building your own AuthLearn how Okta helped Cengage improve student success rates during COVID.BMC Wants to Know if your business is on its A-GameBMC Autonomous Digital EnterpriseDatadog Security Monitoring Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:Red Hat Hybrid CloudVMware Hybrid CloudAWS Hybrid CloudAzure Multi and Hybrid CloudGoogle Hybrid and Multicloud Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell the audience a little bit about what you do in the day job, and then a little bit about Software Defined Talk. Topic 2 - 10yrs ago, the software and hardware vendors created the concept of hybrid cloud, partially as a defense against public cloud, and partially as a reality check for existing usage. Now we have the public cloud rolling out both hybrid and multi-cloud offerings. How did we get here? Topic 3 - As you talk to different companies, what’s the reality of Hybrid Cloud today? What is it, what do companies expect it to be, etc?Topic 4 - What’s the biggest misperception about Hybrid Cloud that you’ve seen over the years and that you seen now (could be different things)?Topic 5 - What parts of Hybrid Cloud do you expect to gain traction over the next couple of years? Topic 6 - What areas do you see missing from a Hybrid Cloud architecture/approach today that need to be addressed?    FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet