The Cloudcast (.net) - Eps.11 - "News, Stacks, Rants and More"
Date: June 5, 2011
Guest: Aaron & Brian rant with Joe Onisick (@jonisick), Define the Cloud (blog), blogger at Network Computing and Technical Solutions Architect at WWT
Show Notes:
Date: June 5, 2011
Guest: Aaron & Brian rant with Joe Onisick (@jonisick), Define the Cloud (blog), blogger at Network Computing and Technical Solutions Architect at WWT
Show Notes:
- Joe tells us about his sweet new ride, http://twitpic.com/53cyd1, and we talk about the over/under on his 2011 speeding tickets.
- Joe tells us about his recent webinar where he discuss Innovation vs. Integrated Stacks in the Data Center. Joe also expanded upon those concepts here.
- We set the tone earlier by paying homage to "My Drunk Kitchen" by doing our first "My Drunk Podcast".
- VCE announced some new Vblock configurations (Vblock 300; UIM 2.1) - http://vce.com/pdf/media/vce-pr-2011-05-10-vblock-300.pdf
- Avnet offering pre-built FlexPod bundles - http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/229500740/avnet-offers-flexpod-services-around-netapp-cisco-data-center-architecture.htm;jsessionid=PKWRFHvFuSJOAZ6o9td8Tg**.e
- At Redhat Summit, they announced Redhat OpenShift - Open PaaS platform (Java, PHP, Python) - not open-source yet, but planned. Competes with VMware Cloud Foundry.
- VMware and SlideRocket - Want to talk about their move away from IaaS - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/27/vmware_sliderocket/
- VMware acquires Socialcast - http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-socialcast-053111.html
- Big InterOp buzz was around OpenFlow. We talk briefly about this, but the guys at PacketPushers did a full show on it not too log ago - http://packetpushers.net/show-40-upending-networking/
- Cloud “standards” discussions dominate InterOp http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229500611/cloud-standards-dominate-interop-discussion.htm?cid=rssFeed
