Topics of Discussion on The Cloudcast - Part I

I was playing around with Wordle.net today and plugged in The Cloudcast (.net) to see what sort of Cloud Map it would create. 

Interesting enough. I saved this for two reasons:

1. We'll revisit this every couple of months to see how much the discussions have changed.
2. The shape reminded me of a wavelength that we frequently see when editing the audio of the podcast. The shape represents the "breadth" that Brian takes right before he asks a question or starts a sentence. It's an annoying habit (we all have some speaking quirk), but luckily for our listeners they usually won't hear it on the final version.

Episode 8 - "Get off your PaaS and Build Clouds" + show notes

Episode 8 - "Get off your PaaS and Build Clouds"

Date: April 22, 2011

Guests: Ed Saipetch (@edsai), Sr. Technical Director at Joyent, “Breathing Data” Blog

Aaron & Brian welcome Ed Saipetch (@edsai). We discuss building a cloud, high availability features in the stack, characteristics of PaaS, the threat of AWS lessons to learn from the AWS outage, cloud transparency & Node.js and JoyentCloud Services

Episode 7 - "From the News Desk" + show notes

Episode 7 - "From the News Desk"

Date: April 22, 2011

Guests: Just Aaron & Brian

Aaron & Brian discuss New Scale, Cloud Foundry, Online Poker as a Service (OPaaS), vendor investment, we hate on Facebook, and how cloud is changing the traditional business model

We welcomed another sponsor this week (Cloud Concierge - http://www.thecloudbutler.com), offering Cloud consulting to CIOs.

After that, we got right to a huge docket of news:

Episode 6 - "Is Cloud Computing Fashionable for IT?" + show notes

Episode 6 - "Is Cloud Computing Fashionable for IT?"
Date: April 18, 2011
Guest: Vanessa Alvarez (@VanessaAlvarez1), Industry Analyst focused on Infrastructure & Operations

Aaron & Brian talk with Industry Analyst Vanessa Alvarez about defining cloud, plumbing and infrastructure, the changing role of IT, industry certifications & some predictions for the next year

Episode 5 - "ROI and Technology Shifts in Private Cloud" + show notes

The Cloudcast (.net) - Episode 5 - “ROI and Cloud Integrators”
Date: March 28, 2011
Guest: Steve Kaplan (@roidude) - "By the Bell" blog (http://bythebell.com)

Brian and Aaron cover some trends in the news, why Netflix owes Aaron 24 Swedish Fish, and we discuss virtual machine stall and VDI trends with @roidude, Steve Kaplan