Cloud & AI News of the Month - January 2025

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2025 including the new DeepSeek model that is shaking up the industry.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Link to January 2025 news and articles

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• Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
• The AI Innovation Continues 

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Cloud News of the Month - November 2024

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2024 including the breaking news of Pat Gelsinger's Thanksquitting departure from Intel.

SHOW: 878

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #878 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

• Link to November 2024 news and articles

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

• Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
• The AI Innovation Continues 

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Why Silicon Matters in the Cloud

Garry Binder (@garrybinder, Chief Security Architect @Intel) talks about the challenges of public cloud scale, performance and security.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Intel CEO announced IDM 2.0 Strategy
• 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) and Intel SGX

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into today’s discussion, give us a little bit on your background and some of the areas you focus on.  

Topic 2 - We’ve done quite a few shows with Intel over the years. This is where we were first introduced to how much work Intel does directly for the largest public cloud providers. Can you give us a sense of how much Intel has evolved to help the cloud providers deliver the scale and performance they do today? 

Topic 3 - A few months ago we spoke about Confidential Computing. We all know that security is a challenge best solved with defense-in-depth. Can we talk a little bit about the intersection of embedded security in silicon, and being able to keep up with new performance challenges with the new Ice Lake architecture? 

Topic 4 - How do we raise awareness that these native capabilities are available across all the cloud providers - AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, etc., when software features tend to dominate the headlines? 

Topic 5 - What do you see as some of the next-generation security challenges that the cloud is well-positioned to (maybe) better handle that we could in data centers?

Topic 6 - Sometimes people see Intel as being one-step removed from the technology companies they directly engage with. What are some of the ways that people can more directly engage in all the programs (developer tools, reference architectures, etc.) that Intel creates?

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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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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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Episode 9 - "The Greatest Chad's World Ever Sold" + show notes

Episode 9 - "The Greatest Chad's World ever Sold"
Date: May 5, 2011
Guests: Chad Sakac (@sakacc; Virtual Geek blog) & Nick Weaver (@lynxbat; Nikapedia blog)

Aaron & Brian welcome Chad Sakac & Nick Weaver from EMC. We discuss the EMC vLabs in the Cloud, ways to improve the live Chad’s World and what to expect at EMC World. We also introduce the Chad’s World Drinking Game & discuss a VMworld v0dgeball rematch