The Cloudcast

Aaron & Brian talk with Jonathan Bryce, Lauren Sell, and Alan Clark about the latest news in Open Stack Summit, Training & the User Feedback Survey. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails - www.nin.com

Aaron and Brian talk with Joshua McKenty (Founder/CTO, Piston Cloud, @jmckenty) about the origins of OpenStack, the OpenStack Foundation, RefStack, Interoperability, AWS APIs and how the Piston Cloud architecture manages legacy and web-scale applications. -Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails, www.nin.com

Aaron and Brian talk with Theron Conrey (@theronconrey) and John Mark Walker (RedHat) about Converged Infrastructure, Software-Defined Storage, and the evolution of the Gluster FS Community with other communities, such as OpenStack, Hadoop and others.Music Credits: Nine Inch Nails - www.nin.com

Brian Katz chats with Nick McQuire, CEO of GEMA, about a variety of topics. They spend two thrids of the podcasts talking about Blackberry and what may happen to them and then move onto how GEMA works in enabling multnationals to move into mobile. They end with the topic of the rumored AT&T/Vodaphone tieup.

Brian chats with John Marshall, CEO of AirWatch while at the AirWatch Connect Users Conference. They talk about MDM and how it's turning into Enterprise Mobility Management. They touch on some of the general things that enterprises are asking for and looking in these all encompassing products. They hit on some of the new features announced and shown for AirWatch's new release and then talk about the future landscape of EMM.

Brian chats with Chris Hazelton (@Chris451mobile) of 451 Research and Ray Wang (@rwang0) of Constellation Research a few minutes after the Apple Announcement is over. They discuss the announcements and how they think they will effect both the consumer and the enterprise. They delve into some of the new features that are available in the 5s and whether innovation is dead in the phone slab market as well as the colors of the 5c and how the announcement of iWork going free may effect Microsoft and consumers.

Aaron and Brian celebrate Episode #100 with a roundtable of their favorite guests & co-hosts - Christian Reilly (@reillyusa), Joe Onisick (@jonisick), Peder Ulander (@ulander), Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja), and Nick Weaver (@lynxbat). They discuss why Cloud sucks, how to save OpenStack companies, how many clouds does the world really need, and is the future of all tradeshows in Portland.

Brian chats with Ben Bajarin (@benbajarin), Bob Egan (@bobegan) and Matt Rosoff (@mattrosoff) as a panel and they discuss the Microsoft buyout of Nokia Devices and Services announced early this morning. They have a wide-ranging and fun discussion that starts with whether the buyout was needed, whether it was worth how much Microsoft is offering to pay for it and goes through to what we might see next from Microsoft and in the industry.

Aaron and Brian talk with Brad Hedlund (VMware, @bradhedlund) and Chris Wahl (Wahl Network, @ChrisWahl) about the evolution of SDN and NFV, how Network Virtualization aligns to Server Virtualization, and how IT professionals are evolving their skills to leverage these new technologies. They discuss the announcement of VMware NSX. They also explore how operational concepts from Server Virtualization (cloning, snapshots, backup, etc.) can be applied to the network.

Brian Katz chats with Rich Mogull, CEO of Securosis, about topics on mobile security. They start with how Rich’s background in physical security led to his natural progression into IT Security and then move onto mobile topics. They discuss how modern mobile OS’s tackle security in this day and age which leads to biometrics and how security needs to take usability into account.