The Cloudcast - Eps.70 - YearEnd Best & Worst FAILtacular

The Cloudcast - Eps.69 - Cloud Garage Labs

The Cloudcast - Eps.68 - "Disrupting Open, Unified Storage with Ceph"

The Cloudcast - Eps.67 - NetApp/AWS - Cloud ONTap

The Cloudcast - Eps.66 - "Developing Apps for the Public Cloud"

The Cloudcast - Eps.65 - "Cloud Cost Concerns"

New Cloud Computing Videos

It's been a while since we updated The Cloudcast (.net) channel on YouTube, but we recently created some new videos. We hope you enjoy them, and we welcome any suggestions for new topics to cover on future whiteboard videos.

• Software-Defined Data Center
• Technical Drivers for Software Defined Networking (Part I) - coming soon
• Business Drivers for Software Defined Networking (Part II)
• OpenStack "Folsom" Update
• Cloud Computing - Open Source Tools
• Evolution of Hybrid Cloud
• New Cloud Computing Marketplaces

The Cloudcast - Eps.64 1/2 - "The Cloudcast Gives Back - Charity Challenge"

This year we're taking our ability to give back and have fun at the Krispy Kreme Challenge to a new level. We're asking our listeners to (jointly) help us make a donation to the sponsor of the event, North Carolina Children's Hospital. They do amazing work for kids in need, and we'd like to help them make a few more lives better. We're setting a goal of $1000 in listener donations, and Aaron and Brian will match $1000.

Every little bit helps, and donations are tax deductible (US laws apply).

We'll do the training, run the miles and suffer the consequences of sugery gluttony. You listen to the show, give a few $$ and maybe tell a friend. We all help make the kids lives a little better.

It's a win-win for everyone involved. If anyone wants to join us on the run, you're welcome to join the Cloudcast pack (12 donuts is optional). If anyone has creative ideas for costumes that Aaron and Brian should wear, we're open to suggestions. If anyone can get matching corporate sponsorship for the donations, all the better.

The Cloudcast - Eps.64 - "Intel Inside the Data Center"

The Cloudcast - Eps.63 - "The Cloud Foundry PaaS Ecosystem"

The Cloudcast - Eps.62 - Nebula, OpenStack, and the OpenStack Foundation

Looking Ahead and Giving Back in 2013 - Krispy Kreme Challenge

Ever since we started the podcast in 2011, we've tried to have fun and give back. With the weekly show, we feel like we give a little bit back to the technology community that is interested in cloud computing.

And for some strange reason, we've also incorporated Krispy Kreme donuts into many of our activities. It started in 2010 when Aaron and Brian participated in the Krispy Kreme Challenge and continues to this day. Here's video from last year's event:

 

This year we're taking our ability to give back and have fun to a new level. We're asking our listeners to (jointly) help us make a donation to the sponsor of the event, North Carolina Children's Hospital. They do amazing work for kids in need, and we'd like to help them make a few more lives better. We're setting a goal of $1000 in listener donations, and Aaron and Brian will match $1000. Every little bit helps, and donations are tax deductible (US laws apply).

We'll do the training, run the miles and suffer the consequences of sugery gluttony. You listen to the show, give a few $$ and maybe tell a friend. We all help make the kids lives a little better. It's a win-win for everyone involved.

If anyone wants to join us on the run, you're welcome to join the Cloudcast pack (12 donuts is optional). If anyone has creative ideas for costumes that Aaron and Brian should wear, we're open to suggestions. If anyone can get matching corporate sponsorship for the donations, all the better.

The Cloudcast - Eps.61 - Why New Applications are Moving to NoSQL

The Cloudcast - Eps.59 - Who's Your Puppet Master

Profile of Luke Kanies

Topic 1 - Highlights from the PuppetConf Opening Keynote:

• Community, Community, Community
• Buzz around the company reminds me of VMware in the early days
• fail fast, move quickly, make mistakes, learn - Most big companies don’t do that
• Puppet Certification

Topic 2 - Puppet is one of the tools that is often mentioned as being central to the DevOps movement. We are we with DevOps in the industry at this point? How well understood is it, where is it most widely used, and what are the next big hurdles to overcome? 

Topic 3 - Often times you’ll hear people say “Chef or Puppet” when talking about aspects of automation. Like most toolsets, people tend to have their favorites and various reasons why they prefer one vs. another.
(a) Why do you hear that people choose Puppet vs. other toolsets?

Questions from Twitter:

1. “@mfdii: (Michael Ducy) did he really cuss out Mark Zuckerberg for going with @opscode chef?”

The Cloudcast - Eps.58 - Build a Cloud Day Roundtable

The Cloudcast - Eps.57 - Futures Markets for Public Cloud Services

The Cloudcast - Eps.56 - Securely Access Enterprise Files in the Cloud

The Cloudcast - Eps.52 - Bromium's vSentry Unveiled

We found the long lost tapes of Episode 52 just in time for the launch of Bromium's vSentry product today at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit!  Want to know more about vSentry? We've got it!

The Cloudcast - Eps.55 - 1st Annual Fantasy Cloud Draft

VOTE for The Cloudcast (.net) Fantasy Cloud Winner and Loser!!

The Cloudcast - Eps.54 - Cloud Providers Evolving into the Enterprise

The Cloudcast - Eps.53 - CloudStack One Year Later

The Cloudcast - Eps.51 - Technology Warfare and the Evolution of Cloud Economics

The Cloudcast - Eps.50 - Managing Security & Compliance in Public Cloud

The Cloudcast - Eps.49 - Application Automation and Enterprise PaaS

The Cloudcast - Eps.48 - Putting the Security Cart before the App Horse

The Cloudcast - Eps.47 - SDN, OpenFlow and Network Virtualization

The Cloudcast - Eps.46 - The Big and Small World of Cloud Computing

The Cloudcast - Eps.45 - Evolving Security-as-a-Service

The Cloudcast - Eps.44 - Bringing Freedom to Developers thru PaaS

The Cloudcast - Eps.43 - Cloud - The Need for Transparency in a Complex World

The Cloudcast - Eps.42 - Bromium: MicroVirtualization for Enabling MacroSecuritization

The Cloudcast - Eps.41 - Fifty Shades of RidiCuLUS Cloud

The Cloudcast - Eps.40 - Mobility - Craplications to AppStores to APIs

The Cloudcast - Eps.39 - Enterprise Class Cloud Services

The Cloudcast - Eps.38 - Project Razor - Google Ops for Enterprise Clouds

The Cloudcast - Eps.37 - PaaS meets Data Gravity

The Cloudcast - Eps.36 - New, Open, Simplified Cloud Architectures

The Cloudcast - Eps.35 - Cover your *aaS, Cover your Costs

The Cloudcast - Eps.34 - "New Networks for the Cloud" + Show Notes

The Cloudcast - Eps.33 - "DevOps - One Year Later" + Show Notes

Top Blog / Podcast Video Results - Thank You For Voting!

The results of the vsphere-land 2012 poll on the most popular Blogs, Podcasts, Videos came out today and we'd like to thank everyone that took the time to cast a vote for The Cloudcast (.NET) or any of the other excellent sites. Considering that this was our first year, we're extremely happy with the results:

• Favorite Cloud Computing Blog - The Cloudcast (.NET) was #4
• Favorite Podcast - The Cloudcast (.NET) was #4
• Best Videos used in a Blog - The Cloudcast (.NET) was #5
• Favorite New Blog - The Cloudcast (.NET) was #4

Cloud Computing for Business Managers - Whiteboard Videos

As a follow-up to the previous series of Cloud Computing whiteboard videos, primarily focused on the technology aspects, we decided to create some videos that speak to business managers. The topics include:

The Cloudcast - Eps.32 - "APIs - The New Language of the Cloud" + Show Notes

The Cloudcast - Eps.31 - "Securing Virtual Desktops" + Show Notes + Whiteboard

Date: Feb.9, 2012

Guest: Mike Foley (@mikefoley, http://www.yelof.com/) Product Architect @ RSA

Mike Foley was previously on the podcast talking about security in a vCloud Director environment at VMworld 2011. This week we decided to add something new to the podcast, so Mike and Brian did a whiteboard video of their discuss (see below).

The Cloudcast - Eps.30.5 - "Cloud meets Big Donuts" (video)

On the morning of February 4th, 2012, Aaron and Brian competed in the Krispy Kreme Challenge. This is an important milestone for the podcast because it marked the One Year Anniversary of the show. They decided to capture their results in the show video below. The guys had a great time during the race, and they hope you enjoy this short video.

The Cloudcast - Eps.30 - "Laws in the Cloud" + Show Notes

Date: Feb.3, 2012 - 12noon

Guests: Adrienne Mead (@CloudAtty) and Deborah Salons (@dsalons)

The Cloudcast - Eps.29 - "Building PaaS Clouds for .NET Apps" + Show Notes

Date: January 27, 2012

Co-Host: Clint Greenwood (@cloudclint)
Guest: Sinclair Schuller (@sschuller, CEO/Founder of Apprenda)

The Cloudcast - Eps.28 - "The Evolution of VARs in Cloud Computing" + Show Notes

Date: January 12, 2012 - 1pm ET

Guests: Bob Olwig (@bobolwig, VP Business Strategy & Marketing @ World Wide Technology (WWT), Bob’s Blog)

Cloud Computing Whiteboard Videos

During our year-end show for The Cloudcast (.net), my co-host Aaron Delp suggested that we should enhance the podcast by adding more whiteboard videos. I completely agree with him. Far too often, our discussions get overly technical and it can be difficult to convey certain concepts without a visual element. So over the holiday break, I did a brain dump of a bunch of Cloud Computing whiteboard discussions. They are posted on our The Cloudcast (.net) - YouTube Channel.

These will be the first of many videos that we'll post on this channel throughout the year. Just as we do on the podcast, I tried to keep these discussions as vendor neutral as possible; instead focusing on the key technology or business aspects of each session. [Feel free to distribute these videos if you find them useful.]

The first batch of videos includes:

• Cloud Computing Basics
• Cloud Computing Technologies
• Cloud Computing Infrastructure
• Cloud Computing Economics (Part I and Part II)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Cloud Management and Operations (Part I and Part II)
• Cloud IT Skills and Organization (Part I, Part II, Part III)
• Cloud Computing Security
• Cloud Computing High Availability

One of the things we'll encourage our guests on The Cloudcast to do this year is make a short whiteboard video on a topic that we highlight on that week's show.