The Cloudcast #271 - VMware and the Book Store

The Cloudcast #144 - The OpenStack Rebel Alliance

The Cloudcast #141 - Cloud Portability Without Leaving the Nest

Ravello on the Cloudcast, Episode 85: http://www.thecloudcast.net/2013/05/the-cloudcast-eps85-nested-clouds-and.html

Ravello Live Demo of Ravello on Google Compute Engine:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2778183666556881922?source=pr

Topic 1 - We talked about a year ago on Episode #85. For those that aren’t familiar with nested virtualization & Ravello, give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - You call your product “nested virtualization” instead of anything related to Hybrid Cloud, although you’re able to help people leverage both public and private environments. Do you find people are averse to the “Hybrid Cloud” term, or you mostly want to focus on the aspects of your technologies?

Topic 3 - Today you are announcing GA of Ravello on GCE (Google Compute Engine). It would appear you are positioning the product to be at the intersection of the hypervisor and cloud. The hypervisor is both invisible (to the application) but is still a barrier to commodity. Do you see this changing over time? What need to happen to advance? Lastly, why GCE?

Topic 3a - Docker seems to be on everybody’s mind these days - does that play into your roadmap?

Topic 4 - What are the common use cases for nested virtualization you are seeing? Why isn’t one hypervisor enough? Is this a way to get “legacy applications” to cloud?

Topic 5 - Explain a bit about how to talk to the “outside world” with nested virtualization. How do you handle complex networking or communications with outside systems (databases, load balancers, firewalls, etc.)

The Cloudcast #133 - The Cloud Foundry Foundation

The Cloudcast #112 - The Journey From VMware to OpenStack Part 2

The Cloudcast - #94 - OpenStack Turns Three

Links

• OpenStack Foundation - http://www.openstack.org/foundation/
• RackSpace Unlocked.io RoadShow - http://unlocked.io/#home

Topic 1 – Mark, tell us a little bit about your role in the Foundation and also about the greater foundation as an entity as well.  Wayne, you don’t work for the RackSpace Hybrid Cloud Team, what is your role and how is it different?

Topic 2 - Mark, we’ve probably all heard a good bit about OpenStack as a product and it is constantly evolving as we lead up to the Havana release.  Tonight is the “official” 3rd Birthday party here at OSCON.  How has the Foundation grown over the years and how has it evolved?  How did you manage the explosive growth?

Topic 3 – Project vs. Product vs. Service vs. Service Provider confusion- (I’m talking project today)  Your take?  What would you say are the keys to the success of the project?

Topic 4 – Do Again?  Not Do Again?  Hong Kong for next Summit?

Topic 5 - Wayne, you are doing something cool, this unlocked.io roadshow program.  I took a look at the slides and this isn’t about pushing a product, this feels like more of an education on devops and cloud era application and workload development

The Cloudcast - #93 - The Journey from VMware to OpenStack

Cody’s Blogs, Books, Videos and Podcasts

• vCenter Orchestrator Book – http://www.vmware.com/go/vmwarepress
• OpenStack Security Guide - http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/07/openstack-security-guide-now-available/
• OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook v2 - http://www.packtpub.com/openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook-second-edition/book
• Blog - http://ProfessionalVMware.com
• OpenStack Blog - http://openstack.prov12n.com
• Tech Editor - Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell
• Tech Editor - VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere

Topic 1 – Let’s start with your background, how you got so involved with the VMware world and how it’s recently transitioned to being OpenStack centric.

Topic 2 - Technically (and religiously), VMware and OpenStack are very different. How did you go about making the transition? Many of our listeners are trying to figure out where the start, what to learn, etc.

Topic 3 – What is vBrownbag and how has it evolved (globally) from VMware-centric to adding the OpenStack elements? How has the transition gone and any insight into how it’s going worldwide?

Topic 4 – Talk about the OpenStack book you’ve been writing, and how that process (community-based, intense week of group writing) has been different than other books you’ve written.

The Cloudcast - Eps.77 - "OpenStack, PaaS, APIs, Platforms Tools, Automation & News"

The Cloudcast - Eps.21 - "The Network Stack of OpenStack" + Show Notes

Date: September 23, 2011
Guests:

• James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart, Cloud Programs Manager - Office of Cloud CTO @ Cisco; “Wisdom of Clouds” blog on CNET)
• Rick Clark (@dendrobates, Principle Engineer @ Cisco)

The Cloudcast - Eps.20 - "The Evolution of OpenStack" + Show Notes

Date: September 23, 2011
Guest: Jonathan Bryce (@jbryce, Mentor @ TechStars; CoFounder @ Rackspace Cloud; CTO of the OpenStack project; )