The Cloudcast

Guest host Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja) held a roundtable discuss at Varrow Madness in Durham, NC with Jason Nash (@TheJasonNash), Elijah Stukenborg and Rusty Buzhardt to talk about regional Cloud trends, the evolution of IT business models, the impact of social media and reaction to the VMware vCloud Hybrid Services announcement.

Aaron and Brian sit down with Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle) to learn all about Open Source Software. We discuss foundations, licenses, communities, and what happens when Open Source meets the commercial world

Benjamin Robbins, co-founder of Palador Consulting, shares insights from his year-long 'mobile only' journey. He discusses his motivation to streamline device usage and the shift to a mobile-centric work style. Highlights include his choice of the Galaxy Note for better usability, tips on organizing a simplified workspace with Bluetooth devices, and strategies for app management. Robbins also dives into the challenges of maintaining connectivity and his plans to explore new mobile technologies while sharing humorous anecdotes about his experiences.

Aaron and Brian talk about a very busy couple weeks in the Cloud Computing industry, including news about OpenStack, PaaS platforms, APIs, new tools for AWS, new start-ups and a strange name change.

Brian talks with Sinclair Schuller (@sschuller), CEO/Founder at Apprenda, about the challenges and realities of migrating applications to a PaaS for Windows and Java environments. They get in-depth about PaaS operations at the application and infrastructure layers. They also talk about Hybrid Clouds and real-world deployment models at JP Morgan Chase.

Aaron and Brian Katz (@bmkatz) talk with Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby, Founder/CTO at Bromium) about the landscape of security threats on the Internet, recent high-profile hackings, and an update on how Bromium vSentry is setting the new benchmark for security lab results and protection.

Brian talks with Ofer Bengal (Co-Founder/CEO @Garantiadata) about the challenges and realities of NoSQL databases in the cloud and the value of cloud-enabling services such as Memcached and Redis. We also talked about backing up NoSQL databases and the challenges of transitioning to DevOps models.

Aaron and Brian talk with Brian Katz (@bmkatz) about the evolution of mobile apps for the Enterprise, including UI design, alignment between business and IT, security models and what to expect in 2013.

Brian talks with Doug Hairfield (@knucklesandwich, Manager of Systems Engineering and Continuous Integration @Bronto) about how he’s transformed the way they do continuous deployment and “manage hardware as code”. They talk about how they transformed their environment from two deployments a year to 10-20 deployments a day, to deliver advance marketing tools and analytics.

Aaron and Brian give a brief “State of the Podcast” for 2013, and then discuss Enterprise Cloud Computing and some of the debates about how it is evolving.