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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Big Announcements or BIG Announcements?

At a time when many AI and Cloud announcements are happening, how can we determine which ones are important, disruptive, or just me-too? 

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REACTING AND PLANNING WHEN SO MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE HAPPENING

  • Why is the announcement happening now?
  • What are the facts of the announcement?
  • How are Enterprises thinking about these announcements?
  • How are Enterprises thinking about how this pace of change impacts their thinking?
  • What are the technology impacts of the announcement?
  • What are the direct economic impacts of the announcement? Secondary impacts?
    • OpenAI profitability?
    • NVIDIA ability to charge premium for leading-edge chips?
    • Pricing for any AI offering (Co-Pilots, etc.)
    • Write-offs of existing GPU/Training investments?


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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - October 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.


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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 

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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - July 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Aaron Delp (@aarondelp)  and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2024.

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SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues 
  • Trend 1 - What do you tend to do (at work, or outside work) when things seem overly bad in lots of areas? 
  • Trend 2 - Are people starting to feel like AI is more sizzle (hype) than steak (reality)?
  • Trend 3 - As you’re looking at 2HCY24 now, with all the things that happened in July, are you expecting anything new/different than you thought a couple months ago? 
  • Trend 4 - Are we likely to be in “wait and see” mode for the rest of the year, with all the political uncertainty?  


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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Is Everyone's AI Strategy in Chaos?

When you see the headline “<ex-employee> says <company> AI strategy is in chaos”, what does it really mean? Is any company’s AI strategy NOT in chaos at this point? 

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WE OVERESTIMATE IN 1YR, AND UNDERESTIMATE IN 10YRS


DOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE THEIR AI STRATEGY FIGURED OUT? 

  • NVIDIA
  • Google
  • OpenAI
  • Microsoft / Azure / GitHub
  • Amazon / AWS
  • Meta
  • Apple
  • IBM / Red Hat
  • Oracle
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • VCs
  • Startups


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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - March 2024

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024.

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Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024
  • Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partner
  • Trend 3 - NVIDIA held a pretty massive GTC event

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Cloud News of the Month - February 2024

Welcome to the "second monthly" Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest tech stories and five trends from February 2024.

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Segments Covered in the Show:

  • Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
  • The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
  • Trend 1 - Microsoft is branching out from just OpenAI as a partner, as they should
  • Trend 2 - Selling Customer Data for AI training is Suddenly a Revenue Stream (and a source for lawsuits if it isn’t)
  • Trend 3 - Chips are cool again - Everyone wants to go after NVIDIA, including NVIDIA
  • Trend 4 - Google has more downs than ups - Will AI eat the search business?
  • Trend 5 - Hugging Face leads OSS alternative AI but also has bad actors

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

The Industry Fallout from OpenAI 2023

Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk) talk about the November OpenAI drama and how it potentially impacts the entire AI industry in 2024.

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Topic 1 - Post-mortem - what do we know about what happened with the almost coup at OpenAI? What speculation (rumors) have been the loudest? 

Topic 2 - What are the biggest unknowns?

  • How is it possible that Sam Altman didn’t/doesn’t have a significant amount of equity in OpenAI and still remain so powerful? 
  • How is it possible that Microsoft invested this much in OpenAI without having more understanding?
  • How much of a mistake did the board make in assuming their concerns about Sam would be removed with a single firing? 
  • How much does Microsoft get diluted by the latest round of funding (if it happens)?


Topic 2a - What are going to be the biggest concerns and enticements for customers looking at different models to use? Is it ease of use? A single model? Privacy and security?

Topic 2b - Who cracks the code on simplification and personalization? OpenAI with customer GPT’s? OSS models with fine-tuning/RAG?

Topic 3 - Is it possible that the OpenAI model (e.g. GPT-4, or Q*) will continue to be considerably better than all the other existing and emerging models? Do small language models take over? Do specialized models trained on private licensed data become a differentiator?

Topic 4 - Who is driving AI at Google? Is it within GCP, or is there now a commercial side of Google Brain / Deepmind?

Topic 5 - Who is driving AI at Amazon/AWS? How did AWS get into a position where it seems to have so little control over its models?

Topic 6 - Where will the control over AI reside (in the technology stack)? 

Topic 7 - Will the AI “wars” be more chaotic that the Cloud “wars” of the last decade? Will we see w

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Follow the Cloud Money

Jordan Novet (@jordannovet, Technology Reporter @CNBC) talks about how to analyze earnings from the big clouds, Microsoft’s position as the #2 cloud, and what might disrupt the Big 3 in the future.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - We’re now into a different phase of the economy from the pandemic years of 2020-early2022. What are the trends we’re now seeing for the major cloud companies? 

Topic 3 - Beyond looking at quarter to quarter earnings, how do you think about the trends for the bigger cloud companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the challenger clouds (Cloudflare, etc.)?

Topic 4 - Are you seeing anything that tells you that we’ll see a change in the standings (AWS, Azure, GCP) anytime soon (e.g. forward CAPEX spending, etc.)? Do you see the challenges/disruptors making any dents in their growth? 

Topic 5 - We saw some slowing down in the growth rates of all the cloud providers this past quarter. Do you think that’s just the impact of post-COVID slowdown plus some supply-chain issues around getting new servers, or does this potentially signal that movement to the cloud might be slowing down? 

Topic 6 - What types of things does the financial community wish they knew about the cloud providers that either aren't broken out (e.g. different reporting across the cloud providers), or what areas are lacking transparency?

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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

We’ve All Become The Cloudcast

Aaron and Brian discuss how the on-going pandemic is creating a permanent habit of working remotely, and the challenges of trying to learn technology with less free time. 

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Topic 1 - Origin story of The Cloudcast (brief)

Topic 2 - It’s now been 529 days since the world shut down (in the US). How many Zoom calls have you attended in that time?  

Topic 3 - “It can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic.” What new, work-related habits have you formed?

Topic 4 - How do you expect people to keep up with new technologies? 

Topic 5 - We’re at a weird stage, where lots of people say that they want to work-from-home (full or part-time), for various reasons (e.g. avoid commutes, cube-mates chews too loud, etc.), but also claim to be more burned out. Do you think people will take the time to learn new stuff?

Topic 6 - Has the pandemic changed anything about how you’re effective? Do you think it’ll be permanent, or do you still have the “we’ll get back to normal” mindset?

Topic 7 - Any tips or tricks to be an effective remote worker and tech leader?

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Sunday, August 29, 2021

What does Security even mean anymore

Security has been in the news quite a bit lately, both for failures and funding. But does security even matter anymore?  Nobody knows. 

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DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT SECURITY?

“This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine.”     

WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR BEING BAD AT SECURITY?

The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report highlights several alarming facts, including:

  • 36% of companies suffered a serious cloud data leak or breach in the past 12 months
  • 8 out of 10 are worried that they’re vulnerable to a major misconfiguration breach 
  • 64% say the problem will get worse or stay the same 

Every company makes security a massive part of every purchasing decision. And yet the market doesn’t seem to do anything when a massive breach happens. How is this still the state of security? 

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Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Transformation of Microsoft

Since Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, the transformation of Microsoft has been incredible. Let’s explore how he evolved the company from many previously missed opportunities.  

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  1. Microsoft Acquisitions
  2. History of Microsoft Xbox
  3. History of Microsoft Azure
  4. 10 Charts that will change your perspective on Microsoft


AREAS OF STRUGGLE FOR MICROSOFT pre-2014

  • Social Networking
  • Search
  • Mobile
  • Streaming Video
  • Mac vs. Windows

AREAS OF TRANSFORMATION UNDER SATYA NADELLA (since 2014)

  • Windows to OS Agnostic
  • Software company to Cloud computing company
  • Embrace Open Source Software
  • Gaming
  • Refocus on modern developers (VSCode, GitHub, OSS, etc.)
  • Microsoft Xbox and Surface (hardware)
  • Cybersecurity for the Internet
  • Not competing with customers and ecosystem
  • Collaboration systems

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

AzureStack for Hybrid Cloud

Carmen Crincoli (@carmencrincoli, Sr. ProgMgr @Microsoft) + Todd Christ (@toadster, Ent. Solutions Architect, @IntelBusiness) talk about the evolution of AzureStack, how HCI is being extended as a cloud service, and how COVID is creating new use-cases for on-premises and public cloud.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Todd has been a guest before, but Carmen is new. Tell us a little bit about both of your backgrounds.

Topic 2 - Let start by talking about AzureStack, in a broader context. The “brand” has been in the market for quite a while, but it really went through an evolution about a year ago - different services add, different buying options, etc. Help understand the broader AzureStack story.

Topic 3 - When most people think of HCI, they think about Compute, Storage, and VMs - simplifying the complexity of those systems. Now the world is moving more to the cloud, but on-premises still remains. Let’s talk about the concept of HCI becoming an extended cloud service and how that’s evolving.

Topic 4 - VMs, Containers, Backup/Recovery, Auto-Updates are now all built-in to AzureStackHCI. Which group (or groups) is managing AzureStackHCI in a typical company? 

Topic 5 - How important is it to support disconnected (from the cloud) AzureStack HCI instances? Can there be scenarios that are partially-disconnected? 

Topic 6 - Are you seeing any new or unexpected use-cases because of COVID-19, or now that HCI can be viewed as an extension of the public cloud?

  

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Migrating to the Cloud

Jeremy Winter (Partner Director of Azure Management at Microsoft) talks about what trends are driving migrations, how companies plan for success, useful tools & frameworks, and leading successful transitions. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had the opportunity to work on a number of things at Microsoft. Tell us about your current role, as well as how it’s been to see the transition at Microsoft from software company to cloud company?

Topic 2 - Lets start with the concept of migration. Is there a framework that companies use to think about what to migrate to the public cloud?

Topic 3 - Transitions and Testing feel like they are critical for any migration to be successful. How do companies manage to get through an application being in one location vs. being in the cloud? 

Topic 4 - As companies think about the economics &/or ROI of migration, how do they think about all the elements involved (e.g. cost to change an application, cost savings of not owning a data center, cost to re-skill existing staff or hire new, etc..)? 

Topic 5 - COVID-19 has changed everything these past 6 months. Have you seen the profile of a migration change significantly since the pandemic started, or have well-known migration profiles already in place? (e.g. different applications to migration, different pace of migration, etc.)

Topic 6 - Do you find that migrations are being driven top-down at companies, or are they decentralized by groups? How are they being organized these days? 


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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Delegated Identity in the Cloud

Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas, PPM Identity & Security) and John Patrick Dandison (@AzureAndChill, Principal PM Identity) at Microsoft talk about Identity in today's cloud, managing borderless environments, and how to best enforce identity. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve both been at Microsoft for a little while, but give us a little bit of your background and the things you focus on today. 

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - in the world of Cloud, what is Identity?

Topic 3 - Things get more complicated as we incorporate more things associated with people or accounts (e.g. multiple devices, VPNs) or distributed applications or 3rd-parties (e.g. contractors, etc..) How does that shift the Identity conversation? 

Topic 4 - How does a business attempt to not only keep track of all of this, but enforce it in various ways? (connected, disconnected, people leave, applications change, etc.)

Topic 5 - What are some of the ways that Microsoft addresses all these complex Identity challenges? 

Topic 6 - Looking forward, what are some areas that are going to be the new frontier for Identity challenges, or some technologies that will make things easier?


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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

GitHub Actions and the DevOps Lifecycle

Chris Patterson (@chrisrpatterson, Product Manager for GitHub Actions @GitHub) talks about the evolution of GitHub from a collaboration-centric platform to a DevOps-centric platform, as well as discussing the expanding role of GitHub Actions for developers, DevOps and SREs. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, as you’ve been working on developer productivity for quite a while?

Topic 2 - We’ve been watching this trend of GitHub moving from a place where developers put code, to a place where they collaborate around code, and now it’s expanding out to a full lifecycle around both the code and running applications. Let’s talk about that evolution. 

Topic 3 - Help us understand the basics of GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages.

Topic 4 - What sort of feedback was coming in from developers that pushed GitHub to get more involved in the complete DevOps lifecycle?

Topic 5 - Can you talk about the growth of Actions/Packages since they launched in early 2019? What are some of the interesting use-cases you’ve seen? 

Topic 6 - If you’re able to give us a glimpse into the future, what are some of the other areas where GitHub can expand Actions, or you’re starting to see users push it’s capabilities?

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Reviewing Microsoft Ignite 2019

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian take a look at the Docker acquisition and review the Microsoft Ignite show and announcements

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Topic 1 - Insight and feel from the show floor and the event

Topic 2 -  Azure Arc

Topic 3 - Project Cortex

Topic 4 - Baby steps in GitHub integration

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Machine Learning with KubeFlow

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DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with David Aronchick (@aronchick, Head of Open Source Machine Learning @Azure) about the history of the KubeFlow project, how it has evolved as a community, and how KubeFlow is making it easier to get started with Machine Learning on Kubernetes. 

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, especially as you’ve come to be involved in both open source and machine learning or AI.

Topic 2 - You’ve been involved in the KubeFlow project since its creation a couple of years ago. Can you introduce us to the project and how it’s evolved over the last couple of years? 

Topic 3 - The stated goal of KubeFlow is to make machine learning workflows simple, repeatable and scalable. Can you walk us through some of the ways that KubeFlow is beginning to achieve these goals?

Topic 4 - For those people that understand Kubernetes, can you explain how KubeFlow interacts with Kubernetes, and maybe a little bit about how KubeFlow gets value from Kubernetes for these ML workloads? 

Topic 5 - What are some of the new areas in this space that you’re excited about?

Topic 6 - For people new to this area, what are some of the easier ways for them to get started?

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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

The Cloudcast #353 - The 2018 Mid-Year Show

Aaron and Brian talk about the first half of 2018: Acquisitions and IPOs, Rating and ranking the Public Cloud, a look at aspects of Private Cloud, Containers and Kubernetes, HCI and GDPR, as well as their perspectives on AI and IoT.

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 Topic 1 - It’s been a busy year for Cloudcast alumni in 2018  
  • Microsoft acquires GitHub - 7.5B
 
  • BonsaiAI acquired by Microsoft

  • Pivotal IPO - $555M

  • Evident.io acquired by Palo Alto - $300M

  • CoreOS acquired by Red Hat - $250M

  • Splunk acquires VictorOps - $120M

  • Elastic (formerly ElasticSearch) - announced IPO plans

  • Loggly acquired by Solarwinds
Topic 2 - How would you handicap the public cloud market (leaders, laggards, emerging trends)?
  • Gartner only has 6 companies in their IaaS Magic quadrant

  • AWS keeps growing (apparently 30-35% of public cloud spending)

  • Microsoft keeps acquiring

  • Google is still TBD, but we’re going to GoogleNEXT in July

  • Alibaba is growing and starting to hear about more US companies using AliCloud

  • IBM and Oracle still seem like large Enterprise vendors
Topic 3 - Brian’s involved with containers, Aaron’s involved with Storage and HCI and some cloud integration, what’s interesting in those areas? What are the biggest trends you’re seeing in the private cloud / data center market?
Topic 4 - We’ve been trying to incorporate more AI and IoT into the shows this year. What have you learned so far, what has surprised you, where do you still have questions?
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Sunday, April 30, 2017

The ServerlessCast #4 - ServerlessConf and Azure Functions

Aaron and Brian talk with Chris Anderson (@crandycodes, PM for Azure Functions) and Yochay Kiriaty (@yochayk, PM for Azure Functions) about Azure Functions and platform integrations from ServerlessConf in Austin. (Sorry for the background noise, we had to record outside)

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Friday, April 21, 2017

The Cloudcast #296 - KubeCon, DockerCon, Azure Functions and Bears, Oh My!

Aaron and Brian review KubeCon 2017 (Berlin), DockerCon 2017 (Austin) and Aaron’s trip to Seattle to learn more about Azure Functions. They also read a bunch of sponsor ads for sponsors they don't have. Use offer code CLOUDCAST to get awesome discounts and free stuff (or not).

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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about CloudNativeCon + KubeCon
  • About 1200-1500 attendees 
  • Lots of Kubernetes projects (60+) 
  • Microsoft bought Deis 
  • IBM now supports Kubernetes 
  • New focus on making the UI/UX better
Topic 2 - Let’s talk about your visit to Seattle to learn more about Azure FunctionsAzure Functions 
  • Languages they use 
  • Event Driven and Trigger Based Code 
  • Terminology is very developer friendly, specifically Enterprise Developer friendly 
  • Use cases were very real world, customer references were presented well 
  • I could see the use case and the problem it solves (compared to others it seems abstract at times) 
  • Bindings were a differentiator 
  • I was surprised by the number of external bindings. Of course there were all the MSFT internal ones, but you had JIRA, github, Trello, Asana, etc. It was impressive to see the binding ecosystemApp Insights - ability to debug/trace/monitor 
  • Logic Apps is like a visual pipeline to build step functions into a workflow 
  • Came in not knowing really anything and came away with a very clear picture of how they plan to be successful and I give them good odds for sure. Hell, they're Microsoft...
    Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what got announced at DockerCon 2017 
    • Docker to Moby (what does that mean??) 
    • LinuxKit - DIY Linux, UniKernel, Windows  
    • Enterprise Apps, Oracle, Microsoft
      Topic 4 - Let’s talk about what we expect to see/hear at ServerlessConf Austin 
      • Differences between various implementations
      • Users vs. Vendors vs. Consultants
      • Are they all cloud-specific or will we see a cloud-agnostic serverless emerge 
      • Understand the Serverless Framework  
      • Better understand use-cases and application patterns
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