Showing posts with label Hybrid Cloud. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Bringing The Cloud to IT

Bryan Thompson (VP  Product Management of @HPE_GreenLake Cloud Services) talks about managing private and hybrid cloud services and bringing the Cloud to data.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at HPE.

Topic 2 - HPE is one of the most iconic brands in all of computing history. A lot has evolved over the years. Where does Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fit into the picture with HP, and what is the HPE focus these days?

Topic 3 - For the last 10 years, we’ve seen a huge growth in the usage of public cloud, but we also heard many industry leaders claim that we’re still only around 10% in public cloud. That means we have behavioral expectations changing (on-demand, scalable, etc.) but not necessarily actions changing. How does HPE view their role in the evolution and intersection of IT and the Cloud?  

Topic 4 - Give us an overview of HPE GreenLake, both in terms of technology and delivery/operations. 

Topic 5 - HPE GreenLake has a “bring the Cloud to IT” approach. What does that mean in terms of evolving that 90% that hasn’t moved to the cloud yet? And will they ever move to the cloud?  

Topic 6 - What surprises people the most when they start to understand what’s possible with HPE GreenLake that wasn’t there a few years ago? 

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Networking the Hybrid Cloud

Nick Davey (Sr. Product Manager, Cloud & SDN @JuniperNetworks) talks about the evolution of SDN networking for Kubernetes, cross-cluster and cross-cloud networking, and Tungsten Fabric.  

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus at Juniper?

Topic 2 - There’s lots of talk about Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud, but it’s often in the context of Kubernetes or an application running in multiple places. Let’s talk about how we interconnect clouds.

Topic 3 - How should we think about the networking interconnections between end-users, the service providers, and the public cloud providers? 

Topic 4 - Help us understand the similarities and differences between the orchestration of workloads (e.g. containers and Kubernetes) and orchestration of networks (e.g. SDN, Contrail, etc.). Who needs to know about each system?

Topic 5 - How does this all evolve as things like Kubernetes, KubeVirt (VMs) extend out to the edge? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the newer use-cases or application-types that are starting to push the need for new cloud networking technologies? 


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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Real-life Digital Transformation in Banking

Ken Meyer (EVP & CIO Consumer Technology at Truist Bank) talks about the 2yr transformation of Truist Bank (SunTrust and BB&T), managing multiple tech stacks, enabling a multi-cloud strategy, and internal communications and learnings. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking about your background, and the scope of the transformation you’ve been driving at Truist Bank. 

Topic 2 - Beyond the merger of two large banks, how did you think about the business challenges that you were trying to solve? 

Topic 3 - Walk us through how you tried to rationalize two technology stacks, and how you’ve been planning for a more cloud-centric future? 

Topic 4 - Every transformation has to balance existing (“old”) and new. How did you work through priorities, leveraging new technologies, maintaining existing systems, learning curves, etc? 

Topic 5 - Have you been able to create any unique ways to manage through the transition of so many technology stacks?

Topic 6 - How are you measuring progress, success, alignment to business goals, etc? 

Topic 7 - How are you communicating the evolution to the teams, as well as management and stakeholders? Any lessons learned?


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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

A Hybrid Cloud Look Ahead for 2021

Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Offer Manager @DXC + Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talks about the evolution of Hybrid Cloud, common deployment misperceptions and challenges, and major areas for improvement in 2021.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell the audience a little bit about what you do in the day job, and then a little bit about Software Defined Talk. 

Topic 2 - 10yrs ago, the software and hardware vendors created the concept of hybrid cloud, partially as a defense against public cloud, and partially as a reality check for existing usage. Now we have the public cloud rolling out both hybrid and multi-cloud offerings. How did we get here? 

Topic 3 - As you talk to different companies, what’s the reality of Hybrid Cloud today? What is it, what do companies expect it to be, etc?

Topic 4 - What’s the biggest misperception about Hybrid Cloud that you’ve seen over the years and that you seen now (could be different things)?

Topic 5 - What parts of Hybrid Cloud do you expect to gain traction over the next couple of years? 

Topic 6 - What areas do you see missing from a Hybrid Cloud architecture/approach today that need to be addressed?  

  

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

2020 in Review, 2021 Predictions

Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends from 2020, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2021

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PODCAST BUSINESS:

  • Over 1.5M listens in 2020
  • Thank you to all our 2020 sponsors: Datadog, MongoDB, UpCloud, DivvyCloud, strongDM, Logz.io, Taos, Studio3T, CloudAcademy, BMC, Fauna, Okta
  • 2020 Cloudcast Alum Acquisitions: 8 - Thousand Eyes (Cisco), Cumulus (NVIDIA), SwiftStack (NVIDIA), SaltStack (VMware), DivvyCloud (Rapid7), Big Switch (Arista), Rancher (SUSE), Kasten (Veeam)
  • The (live) Krispy Kreme Challenge is postponed in 2021 due to COVID-19. Need to figure out a fundraising initiative.

FORMAT CHANGES in 2021

  • “Look Ahead in 2021” shows in January
  • Still doing the normal, weekly technical shows, starting in February
  • Will be doing a shorter (15mins) technical show on Sundays, preview the Wed show
  • Will be launching the Cloudcast Basics podcast series in 2021 (@cloudcastbasics). 

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2020:

  • COVID sent everybody home. 2020 was the year of VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service.
  • Conferences went all virtual. Did anybody miss them? Did anybody do them well? 
  • More companies adopted the public cloud, since they couldn’t get into their data centers.
  • But we also found out the public cloud isn’t infinite resources (e.g. Azure had to prioritize existing customers, healthcare customers). Long-term investments matter. 
  • Did you have a favorite video conference service in 2020?
  • AWS: $46B, Azure: $30B-ish , GCP: $12-13B, Alibaba: $6-8B - Azure still doesn’t break out their revenues.
  • OSS-companies are growing their Cloud/Managed business (MongoDB, Confluent, RedisLabs, Red Hat, etc. - as well as others like VMware, Nutanix)
  • More companies are going cloud-only in their offerings (Snowflake, Tecton, Observ, etc.). Atlassian is moving away from the on-prem offerings (over next couple years)
  • ARM chips made their name in mobile phones, and now they are poised to take over desktops and public cloud (cheaper, faster) - NVIDIA bought ARM
  • AWS had an outage just before Thanksgiving - nobody is actually sure how AWS works behind the scenes. 
  • Hybrid Cloud is now officially a thing - AWS, Azure and GCP all have offerings, as well as every traditional vendor. 

2021 PREDICTIONS: Our 2020 Predictions from last year

Aaron’s Predictions

  • GitLab gets gobbled up
  • Event Driven Architecture (FaaS/Serverless) hits early majority status
  • (agreeing with Brian) 2021 will be the
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2020

Brian provides some commentary on the state of AWS in 2020, and then reviews the highlights and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2020.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Multi Cloud with Google Anthos

Todd Christ (Sr. Solutions Architect @Intel) talks about Google Anthos, core elements, design considerations, mulitcloud, application modernization, and the latest services available.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had a broad set of experiences in your career, how did you come into being focused on Cloud and Multi Cloud technologies and solutions? 

Topic 2 - Today we’re talking about the Anthos offering from Google Cloud. A few years ago, the cloud providers were all-in on just public cloud. What have you seen shift in the market that has now created their hybrid or multi-cloud offerings that have broader reach? 

Topic 3 - Lets talk about Google Anthos. What are the core elements, what types of services does it deliver, and what is the overall customer experience? 

Topic 4 - What are some of the newer Anthos capabilities that have been announced and how do they help with hybrid or multi-cloud? (Anthos Migrate, Anthos on AWS/Azure, is there an Anthos “appliance” available for on-premises)?

Topic 5 - Running applications in cloud vs. on-premises is always going to be somewhat different. What are some of the things that Intel does with Google to help improve the overall experience? 

Topic 6 - What are some of the use-cases that you’ve found are early successes for Anthos, or some of the early lessons that companies are finding when using Anthos? 


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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

An ITOps & Infrastructure Look Ahead for 2019

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Description: Brian talks with Ethan Banks (@ecbanks, co-founder of @PacketPushers) about the state of ITOps and Infrastructure heading into 2019.

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Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Welcome to the show. For anyone that isn’t already a listener to one of the many Packet Pushers podcasts, give us a little bit on your background.

Topic 2 - From an ITOps perspective, it seems like the last few years have been focused on “Software-defined” or “Hyper-Converged”, “Hybrid Cloud” and various forms of Automation. How much of those are real concerns of ITOps, and how much of that is vendor hype?

Topic 3 - As the usage of the public cloud grows, how much do you see ITOps professionals feeling like they can influence architecture and design, or feel like they are having to shift their focus to other tasks?

Topic 4 - You’ve been around the industry for a while, both as a practitioner (hands-on engineer) and now with a broader industry perspective. What are the biggest changes you’ve seen over the last couple years, and what are the areas that just never seem to change/evolve?

Topic 5 - We know that application teams are becoming more ingrained in business decisions (lines-of-business, etc.), but is that same thing happening with the ITOps teams as well?

Topic 6 - What are some of the ITOps and Infrastructure trends that you expect to be following/exploring more in 2019?


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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions

Aaron and Brian have many, many, many thoughts on the tech that shaped 2017, and make some predictions about 2018 and beyond.

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    Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Biggest Tech M&A of 2017 and VC Funding is down
  • Big Mergers: Amazon+Whole Foods; CVS+Aetna; Intel+Mobileye; AT&T+Time Warner; Disney+21st Century Fox

    2017 Trends
  • Storage companies are becoming HCI companies (thoughts on owning a server supply chain vs. software defined vs. commodity hardware)
  • Containers are becoming more mainstream - but so many misleading “surveys”
  • Nobody has a clear advantage in “hybrid cloud” architectures
  • Public cloud is a portfolio game and data acquisition game, not a cost reduction game
  • Building new applications is still a small % of corporate applications
  • There’s such a big gap between cloud releases and non-cloud releases (timeframes, updates, informing the market, etc.)

    2018 Cloudcast Areas of Interest
  • What happened to DevOps? Is it now in Phase 2 as “SRE”, or is it unobtainable?
  • What’s happening in China? How will it impact the rest of the Global markets?
  • Will AI & ML become tangible to non-Data Scientists? What’s the Fantasy Football of AI & ML, for business?
  • Where and how will voice technologies (Alexa, Google Home, etc.) fit in long term?
  • How will we track the Public Cloud tipping point?
  • What is Serverless most disruptive to, or is it additive to app-dev market size?
  • Should we track “Serverless” by the ServerlessConf or AWS events?
  • Should we be following “edge computing”? What are the core focus areas?

    2018 Predictions
  • Continued decline of the middleman in all industries
  • Awareness of Cloud Computing “costs” becomes more mainstream
  • Does Security even matter anymore? What bigger events can happen?
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    Tuesday, December 20, 2016

    The Cloudcast #282 - Managing Multi-Cloud Services

    Brian talks with Joe Kinsella (@joekinsella, Founder and CTO of @CloudHealthTech) about his background at startups, the growth of the AWS ecosystem, how the buying patterns for cloud have shifted at customers, and how the rest of the industry compares to AWS.

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    • Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. CloudHealth is winning awards and growing, but for people that don’t know about you, give us some background on yourself and the company?
    • Topic 2 - The AWS re:Invent show was a couple weeks ago. What’s the vibe of that marketplace? Compare it to the vibe you’re seeing from other cloud marketplaces?
    • Topic 3 - CloudHealth does a lot of interesting things in term of managing cloud resources - performance, cost management, multi-cloud. What are some of the biggest cloud-usage drivers you’re seeing today - who is the buyer, what are the types of applications, etc.?
    • Topic 4 - We’re many years into “cloud”, but it’s still not a completely mainstream thing for many companies. What lessons are people still learning and are those lessons now starting to get embedded into software/services?
    • Topic 5 - How has spending on the cloud evolved over the last couple of years?
    • Topic 6 - How do companies view IT vs. Shadow IT these days? Is it still a problem, or is Shadow IT being embraced more by the business because things are getting done faster?
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    Friday, October 14, 2016

    The Cloudcast #271 - VMware and the Book Store

    Aaron and Brian talk with Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen, @SpeakingInTech podcast) and Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor, CTOAdvisor podcast) about today’s announcement of VMware vCloud on AWS.

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    • VMware Cloud on AWS
    Show Notes:
    • Topic 1 - What happened today? What are the basics that we know about this announcement?
    • Topic 1a - Why didn’t this happen 2, 3 or 4 years ago?
    • Topic 2 - Why do you think each of these companies agreed to this deal/arrangement?
    • Topic 3 - What does this say about VMware? About the Dell/EMC relationship with VMware? About the vCloud Network of SPs? About Dell and Azure?
    • Topic 4 - What does this say about AWS?
    • Topic 5 - Who are the potential winners and potential losers, and where do the ripples in the industry go from here (or do they)?
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    Friday, November 20, 2015

    The Cloudcast #222 - Microsoft Operations Management Suite

    Brian talks with Jeremy Winter (Principle Group Program Manager @Microsoft) about the changing culture at Microsoft, the evolution of Hybrid Cloud management, OMS technology support and how Microsoft is listening to customers differently.*



    Topic 1 - Jeremy, you’ve been at Microsoft for a while and the company culture has been through a bunch of changes recently. Tell us about your background and what’s happening at Microsoft.

    Topic 2 - Many people know Microsoft Systems Center, so where does OMS fit into the broader Microsoft management framework? How does this tie into recent announcements from Microsoft + Red Hat?

    Topic 3 - Lots of new capabilities in OMS (Security, Automation, Logging, etc.), let's walk through what a customer's experience is like, especially across both private and public cloud environment

    Topic 4 - Many technologists are struggling with the pace of technology change, especially with some of the advanced stuff that's trying to replicate the web-scale clouds (AWS, Azure, etc.). How does OMS help reduce some of that learning curve, and what are some of the individual tools that someone could remove/reduce by using OMS instead?

    Topic 5 - In the OMS announcement, you talk about working closely with customers to build the experience. Tell us about how that process works and some of the feedback you got that wasn't expected?
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    Monday, June 29, 2015

    The Cloudcast #201 - DockerCon - Secure Hybrid Cloud OS with Apcera

    Aaron and Brian talk to Josh Ellithorpe (@zquestz), Software Architect for Apcera's Hybrid Cloud Operating System and what it was like to blaze a trail prior to Docker and we dig deep into security and granularity policies in cloud native apps.

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    Wednesday, July 2, 2014

    The Cloudcast #152 - How Large does Mirantis Loom Over OpenStack?

    Brian talks with Adrian Ionel (@adrianionel, CEO of @MirantisIT) about how Mirantis has evolved in the OpenStack community, demand for OpenStack Hybrid Cloud, challenges companies have in deployment and management, and how the European market for OpenStack might be larger and more dynamic than US and Asia market. They also talk about how carriers are embracing OpenStack + NFV for next-generation services and revenues. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

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    Monday, November 25, 2013

    The Cloudcast #122 - The Clash of the Cloudcasts

    Aaron sits down with Richard Morrell (@EMEACloudGuy) and Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle) at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Amsterdam. This was actually Richard interviewing Aaron and Mark. Check out Richard's podcast in iTunes or at cloudevangelist.org. Music credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)
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    Tuesday, November 5, 2013

    The Cloudcast - #116 - Managed OpenStack and Cloud Foundry

    Aaron and Kenneth Hui (@hui_kenneth) speak with Blue Box Founder/CEO Jesse Proudman (@blueboxjesse) about OpenStack deployment issues, managed OpenStack offerings, and Cloud Foundry on top of OpenStack
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    Monday, October 7, 2013

    New Whiteboard Videos - SDN, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenSource

    Following the whiteboard videos we made at CloudOpen, we got inspired to make a new set of whiteboard videos that covered some topics that we hadn't discussed before or needed to be updated. We also decided to include Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) in the videos this time. All of The Cloudcast whiteboard videos can be found on our YouTube Channel. Any suggestions for new topics are always welcomed.

    Aaron kicks off the first couple videos by reviewing the architecture of both Apache Cloudstack (Citrix CloudPlatform) and OpenStack "Havana" (which we covered quite a bit lately - here, here, here).



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    Thursday, September 5, 2013

    The Cloudcast – #100 – Constipated Unicorns and Cloud Bollocks

    Aaron and Brian celebrate Episode #100 with a roundtable of their favorite guests & co-hosts - Christian Reilly (@reillyusa), Joe Onisick (@jonisick), Peder Ulander (@ulander), Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja), and Nick Weaver (@lynxbat). They discuss why Cloud sucks, how to save OpenStack companies, how many clouds does the world really need, and is the future of all tradeshows in Portland.
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    Friday, April 19, 2013

    The Cloudcast - Eps.83 - Accelerating the Hybrid Cloud Options

    Brian talks with Rajeev Chawla (CEO @ CloudVelocity) about the evolution and challenges of Hybrid Cloud, working across multiple clouds, and how start-ups are innovating in a highly competitive cloud market.
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    Friday, December 7, 2012

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

    Aaron speaks with Vaughn Stewart, Mark Beaupre, and Luis Benavides about impressions from the AWS re:Invent conference & details of the NetApp Private Storage on AWS Announcement
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