The Cloudcast

Aaron talks with Chip Childers (@chipchilders) and David Nalley (@ke4qqq) about why the CloudStack Collab Conference is different from most conferences, the state of Apache CloudStack, user driven communities & what it is like to work in an Apache project

Aaron talks with Kirk Jantzer about creating a cloud in six weeks and why he doesn’t have time to order physical servers anymore. We talk about matching his operations to the speed of the business and learning to “get the hell out of the way” vs. “scripting yourself out of a job” and how he created a Win-Win-Win situation in his environment.

Brian talks with JR Rivers (@JRCumulus, CEO - Cumulus Networks) about the launch of the company and Cumulus Linux. They explore hardware-acceleration of Linux, integration with Chef/Puppet/Ansible, and the evolution of network operatiing systems and hardware supply chains.

Brian talks with Ivan Pepelnjak (@ioshints) about the state of networking - SDN, Overlay Networks, Network Virtualization, NFV, VXLAN, OpenFlow, OVS, Quantum, OpenStack - and how to cut through the confusion.

Brian Katz talks with Ben Bajarin (@benbajarin) and John Kirk (@johnkirk) hours after all three attended Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote. The three of them have an open discussion on what they saw in the keynote. They talk about what the highlights for each of them were, what they thought Apple didn't talk about it and how it may position Apple in the future. The discussion ranges from new Macs and Mac OS X to iOS 7 and many of the new features present in the new mobile OS.

Brian Katz talks with Eric Cowperthwaite (@e_cowperthwaite), the CISO of Providence Health & Systems about how they approach mobility and some of the lessons he learnt as mobility was brought into the company.

Aaron and returning co-host Amy Lewis (@commsninja) talk with Matt Conover (CTO) and Raj (CEO) at Cloud Volumes (@cloudvolumes) about workload and application management in the cloud. Why do we manage physical and virtual machines anymore?

Brian spends time talking with Bzur Haun and Mani Zarrehparvar from Visage Mobile and even pronounces Mani’s name correctly. They spend time talking about mobile etiquette both personally and when doing work. This leads them to talking about codifying some of these rules in mobile policy and then how you need to manage that policy. This leads to talking about some of the legal things businesses need to look out for.

Aaron talks with Bart Copeland (@Bart_Copeland, CEO - ActiveState) and John Wetherall (@bcferrycoder, Developer Evangelist - ActiveState) about how developers are adopting DevOps models and how polyglot PaaS technologies are getting deployed in the Enterprise

Aaron and Brian talk with Navin Thadani (@navinthadani), SVP Products at start-up Ravello Systems, about past start-up success, Hybrid Clouds, Application Portability, and how to leverage Public Cloud for infinitie IT resources.