Behind the Mic: The Cloudcast on Geek Whisperers

This past week we sat down with The Geek Whispers podcast team (Amy Lewis (@commsninja), John Troyer (@jtroyer), Matthew Brender (@mjbrender)) to talk about how we created The Cloudcast (.net) and the behind-the-scenes details on how the sausage factory actually works. It was somewhat of an Inception moment to be talking about the making of podcasts on a podcast, while podcasting with podcasting people.

Geek Whisperers Eps.13 - How to Create a Successful Podcast

Their podcast focuses on the intersection of Enterprise Technology and Social Media and they do an excellent job highlighting how the technical community can better leverage the various aspects of social media to enhance careers, build networks and improve their companies. We highly recommend adding the show to your regular podcast listening lists.

The Cloudcast - #92 - Captain Morgan and the Real-Time Web

Aaron and Brian talk with Chris Matthieu (@chrismatthieu) about the real-time web, Node.js, UC-enabling Twitter with Twelephone, the evolution of Anything-as-a-Service, mobile apps and how we’re addicted to instant responsiveness on the Internet.

The Cloudcast - #91 - CloudStack Collab - Users Helping Users

Aaron talks with Chip Childers (@chipchilders) and David Nalley (@ke4qqq) about why the CloudStack Collab Conference is different from most conferences, the state of Apache CloudStack, user driven communities & what it is like to work in an Apache project

Apache CloudStack: http://cloudstack.apache.org/

CloudStack Collab Conference: http://www.cloudstackcollab.org/

Topic 1 – Talk about the conference

Topic 2 - State of Project

Topic 3 – That is it like “working” on and leading an open source project?  How is an ASF project different from other organizations and foundations?

Topic 4 – What was in 4.1? What is coming in 4.2?  Date and Features?

Topic 5 - Customers, Companies

Topic 6 – Where do you see both the market and project going?

The Cloudcast - #90 - Six Weeks to a Cloud

Aaron talks with Kirk Jantzer about creating a cloud in six weeks and why he doesn’t have time to order physical servers anymore. We talk about matching his operations to the speed of the business and learning to “get the hell out of the way” vs. “scripting yourself out of a job” and how he created a Win-Win-Win situation in his environment.

Topic 1 – We can’t name your site but it is a very large web company everyone has heard of, but give us your background...

Topic 2 - You are seeing what is in Silicon Valley (Hadoop, Cassandra)

Topic 3 – templates, automation - What were users looking for?  What were the demands?

Topic 4 – How did your cloud start?  (Hack Days - In january) - $10,000 and 6 weeks to work on your project (His project was that the cloud was needed and ready for production in just 6 weeks)

Topic 5 - Where was your head at and what products did you look at?  What use cases?   How hard does your large environment push products?  What were the barriers to entry?

Topic 6 – How do you keep up with cloud computing and still do your day job?  Why did you chose CloudStack for your cloud?

The Cloudcast - Eps.89 - Is Linux the Future of Cloud Networking

Brian talks with JR Rivers (@JRCumulus, CEO - Cumulus Networks) about the launch of the company and Cumulus Linux. They explore hardware-acceleration of Linux, integration with Chef/Puppet/Ansible, and the evolution of network operatiing systems and hardware supply chains.

The Cloudcast (.net) - Eps.88 - SDN, Overlays, NFV, VXLAN, ODF and ...WTF??

Brian talks with Ivan Pepelnjak (@ioshints) about the state of networking - SDN, Overlay Networks, Network Virtualization, NFV, VXLAN, OpenFlow, OVS, Quantum, OpenStack - and how to cut through the confusion.

The Mobilecast - Eps.9 - Apple WWDC Keynote Observations

Brian Katz talks with Ben Bajarin (@benbajarin) and John Kirk (@johnkirk) hours after all three attended Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote. The three of them have an open discussion on what they saw in the keynote. They talk about what the highlights for each of them were, what they thought Apple didn't talk about it and how it may position Apple in the future. The discussion ranges from new Macs and Mac OS X to iOS 7 and many of the new features present in the new mobile OS.