Cloud Computing Show #11

Cloud Computing Show #11 Guest: Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing at rPath discusses application delivery

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ALSO ON THE SHOW
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Host: Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show
Co-host: Edgard Capdevielle, Cloud Strategy Group

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>>> Is there Cloud News in Oracle-Sun?
- Sun has been trying desperately to become synonymous with cloud. Does Oracle care?

>>> McKinsey Report
-Do we still need to talk about definitions? How about just talking about more products and services.

>>> VMware vSphere 4
-with a primary aim towards private clouds, is this VMware's only cloud hope?

GUEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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with Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing at rPath

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://www.doodle.com/ (schedule an event, make a choice)
Jake : rbuilder online; Good Data (collaborative analytics)
Edgard: http://www.xobni.com/ (Outlook productivity plug-in)

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Cloud Computing Show #10

Cloud Computing Show #10 Guest: Kevin Brown, Former CEO of Kidaro (acq by MSFT), senior exec at Decru (acq by NTAP) and member of founding team at Inktomi (acq by YHOO)

Here is The Cloud Computing Show # 10 (mp3)

ALSO ON THE SHOW
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Host: Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show
Co-Host: Edgard Capdevielle, Cloud Strategy Group

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>>> IBM and SAP preview cloud mobility at CeBIT
>>> (http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10186589-240.html)
Mostly based on IBM's Live Partition Mobility, which allows an AIX logical partition to be moved live from one server to another.This IBM technology is in line with VMware who announced work towards workload mobility across data centers through their vCloud initiative, and the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum is looking at similar technologies as well.
Discussion: Is this more trouble for VMware? IBM is one of their top channel partners and they are coming up with their own technology for mobility of apps.

>>> Ongoing activity in cloud mobility with AppZero appliances
>>> (http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=740)
AppZero demoed at Demo 2009 how their technology can migrate a virtualized application from an EC2 instance to a GoGrid environment.This touts that "application virtualization" is the best way to federate compute demand among clouds, simplify adoption of cloud computing, and avoid vendor lock-in from cloud providers.
Discussion: In this framework, is the O/S is left out from relevance?


>>> Google Docs sharing issue causes concern for cloud computing, March 8, 2009 - 10:50 A.M.
>>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/google_docs_sharing_error_permission_cloud
"The error amounted to wrongly sharing Google documents with someone 'whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document'."
Discussion: The reality of cloud-based apps

GUEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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With Kevin Brown. Theme: Value-added Services for the Cloud
Kevin's company mentions (Qwaq, Queplix)

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: Google Sync (BlackBerry)
Edgard: Kindle App for iPhone/iPod

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Cloud Computing Show #9

Cloud Computing #9 Guest: David Patterson, Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Director of RAD Lab

HERE IS THE CLOUD COMPUTING SHOW EPISODE #9 (mp3)

ALSO ON THE SHOW
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Host: Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show
Co-Host: Edgard Capdevielle, Cloud Strategy Group

INDUSTRY NEWS
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TechCrunch Cloud Event. Great Roster. (Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com; Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering, Google; Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate VP, Windows Azure; Lew Tucker, CTO, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems; Scott Dietzen, SVP Communications Products, Yahoo; Paul Buchheit, Co-founder, FriendFeed; creator of Gmail; Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon; Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook; Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning; John Engates, CTO, Rackspace)
http://www.techcrunch.com/whose-cloud-is-it-anyway/

A few cheap shots between panelists, but nothing brand new. Standouts: Marc Benioff still says the fight is between the old model of buying software and the cloud models. Eric Schonfeld says you can stop beating up on Siebel, but Benioff says he loses more deals to that than bickering between other cloud offerings.

Discussion: Are the relevant battles really between the old computing/software models and new models, or between different cloud providers?

VMWare Announces Cloud OS
ZDNet: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=13374
VMWare: http://vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/
Discussion: Is the OS the control point any more?

Cisco's Foray Into Servers - Project "California"
Network World: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/121208-cisco-data-center.html
Discussion: where to add value in the commoditized server market?

Juniper's Stratus Project
"Juniper's Stratus Project comprises six elements: a datacenter manager, storage, compute, layer 4-7 switching, appliances, and networking"
InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/24/Junipers_datacenter_answer_to_Cisco_Stratus_Project-Network_World_1.html
Discussion: Did they leave anything out?

Ubuntu's Cloud Computing Release - Coming October
Support for Amazon EC2; Embedding EucalyptusPC World: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/160012/ubuntu_will_target_cloud_computing_with_october_release.html
Discussion: appears like EC2 support is becoming a standard server/ desktop/ notebook/ netbook feature. HP's media server now supporting S3. Which way does traffic flow with Eucalyptus...into or out of the cloud?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH DAVID PATTERSON, RAD LAB, BERKELEY
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RAD Lab: http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/
Above the Clouds Blog: http://abovetheclouds.cs.berkeley.edu/
Paper: Above The Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: DimDim online presentations and screensharing
Edgard: WordPress
David: Scanr

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Cloud Computing Show #8

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #8.

Today on the show:
Gary Orenstein, Host, The Cloud Computing Show
Edgard Capdevielle, Co-host, The Cloud Computing Show and co-founder of Cloud Strategy Group
Guest: Robert J. Gribnau, Vice President, Sales, CDNetworks

INDUSTRY DISCUSSION
We focus this show on the networking side of cloud computing, particularly the content delivery network side.

Edgard provides an industry background and snapshot.

>> Inauguration sets streaming records
http://www.contentinople.com/

Other general cloud computing news:
>> IBM releases Lotus Live, communications and collaboration suite
>> Salesforce.com launches community management app
>> Sun buys Q-Layer (cloud management software)
>> Joyent buys "Reasonably Smart" open-source Google App Engine competitor

GUEST Q and A with Robert J. Gribnau, Vice President, Sales, CDNetworks
Robert gives a detailed overview of the company, market, and the technologies behind a new stage in CDN development.

CLOUD TIPS
Open input/favorites for consumer and business facing services, applications, companies.

Gary: File sharing on Box.net
Edgard: Questions and Answers on Linked In
Robert: Outlook Web Access

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Cloud Computing Show #7

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #7.

Today on the show:
Gary Orenstein, Host, The Cloud Computing Show
Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScale

Industry Discussion
Zoho CloudSQL
http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/02/grab-data-from-zohos-software-with-zoho-cloudsql/
From the Zoho blog, http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/02/grab-data-from-zohos-software-with-zoho-cloudsql/

There are in particular 3 things that stand out about Zoho CloudSQL:

1. It’s the first technology that allows customers to interact with their data on the cloud, from another cloud application or from an on-premises one through real SQL.
2. It supports multiple SQL dialects. We support all the major (and even some not so major) ones: ANSI, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Informix.
3. With our JDBC/ODBC drivers, developers can access data in the cloud just as easily as if it were stored in a local database.

Discussion: Is this significant enough to drive more business to the cloud?

Good OS "Cloud"
News release: http://thinkgos.com/press-release20081201.php
Boots in to a browser instantly.Also offers option to boot to windows. Initially targeting netbooks market.
PC World: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120201130.html

"Unlike Chrome, Cloud is its own operating system that runs independently of Windows and other platforms--although it cannot replace the main operating system."

Discussion: Return of the thin client? Can we go without Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux?

IBM "validates" Cloud Computing
IBM Launches New Cloud Computing Consulting and Implementation Services
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26168.wss

One of China's largest retailers with more than 10 million customers per day, Wang Fu Jing Department Store, has deployed several key cloud services from Project Yun, including a supply chain management solution for its vast network of retail stores to easily share supply chain information and visualize the execution of B2B business processes with thousands of their own SMB suppliers via the cloud.

Discussion: "supply chain management"....traditional apps in the cloud

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_11_23_ibm_gives_cloud_computing_a_seal_of_approval.html
Stacey Higgenbotham, GigaOm

"creating a kind of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for cloud computing"

Discussion: the IBM brand still moves the media

Q and A with Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScale
Sajai gives us his take on the cloud storage market, and what separates ParaScale from the rest of the pack.

Cloud Tips
Gary: Google Gears
Sajai: Small business cloud infrastructure

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Cloud Computing Show #6

Here is The Cloud Computing Show - Episode 6

Today on the show:
Gary Orenstein, Host, The Cloud Computing Show
Chuck Hollis, VP and Global Marketing CTO, EMC

Industry Discussion and News
Microsoft Windows Azure and does there entry change the market?
Saleforce, Dreamforce, and what do the Facebook and Amazon partnerships mean.

Q and A with Chuck Hollis, EMC
We recorded this episode one day before EMC announced their new Atmos platform for cloud computing and storage, but Chuck paints a compelling picture of the direction without getting in to the product details.

Chuck also explains his philosophy behind blogging. More at http://chucksblog.emc.com.

Cloud Tips
Gary: Google Docs
Chuck: EMC Mozy backup

Enjoy the show!

Cloud Computing Show #5

Here is The Cloud Computing Show - Episode 5

Today on the Show
Gary Orenstein, Host, The Cloud Computing Show
Michael Crandell, CEO, RightScale

Industry discussion|News/Headlines

Amazon Headlines
Here's what's happening today (Source: AWS blog)
* Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
* There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
* Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2.
* Microsoft SQL Server is now available in beta form on EC2.
* We plan to release an interactive AWS management console.
* We plan to release new load balancing, automatic scaling, and cloud monitoring services

Rackspace Aquisitions
Source: TechCrunch: Web hosting provider Rackspace has acquired JungleDisk, an online backup service, and Virtual Machine provider Slicehost in a deal designed to help bolster its offerings against top competitor Amazon Web Services.
Coverage of SD Forum Cloud Computing Symposium
Source: http://www.itworld.com/saas/56362/whos-getting-roi-cloud-computing-now

James Staten : "Interestingly, he pooh-poohed one trend forecast as being high-potential for clouds: internal clouds. Essentially, he believes that enterprises cannot create internal clouds that will be cost competitive with external clouds and therefore will ultimately fail. However, he forecast a bright future for virtual private clouds (akin to VPNs) which will carve out sections of a public cloud and provide cloud services overlaid with enterprise-appropriate security, namespace, and isolation."
Discussion: Are internal clouds doomed?

IDC's New Forecast
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/102008-idc-economic-crisis-to-bolster.html
Based on a survey of IT executives, CIOs and other business leaders, IDC said Monday that it expects spending on IT cloud services to reach US$42 billion by 2012, a growth of threefold that will in part be bolstered by the current economic crisis that began in the U.S. and is spreading around the world.
Discussion: is market size still a concern?

Guest Q and A with Michael Crandell, CEO, RightScale

Cloud Tips

Thoughts on consumer and business facing services, applications, companies.
Michael: RightScale :), EchoSign (E-Signatures and Signature Automation)
Gary: Basecamp (Project Management, Collaboration, and Task Software)

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Cloud Computing Show #4

Here is The Cloud Computing Show - Episode 4.

Guests:
Bert Armijo, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Management, 3tera
John Pozadzides, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Layered Technologies

Hosts:
Gary Orenstein, Vice President of Marketing, Gear6
Steve Norall, Chief Technology Officer, TechValidate

Show notes:

Opening and Introductions

Hot Topics in the Cloud

-EMC World (Mozy, Hulk and Maui)
-why do people feel a need to trash the terminology? (see Scattered Clouds)
-does cloud computing signal the end of the SMB market?

Company Introduction and Q and A - 3TERA

Company Introduction and Q and A - LAYERED TECHNOLOGIES

Overview and Q and A on Collaboration between 3tera and Layered Technologies

Cloud Computing Show #3

We caught up with Robin Harris from StorageMojo to talk a bit about Cloud Computing, what has to happen for greater adoption of cloud-based services, and what might not make it into the cloud.

As always, Robin has an insightful take on the industry, and the short podcast is definitely worth a listen. Enjoy!

Click here for The Cloud Computing Show - Episode 3

Cloud Computing Show #2

Here is the 2nd installment of The Cloud Computing Show.

We had a great lineup with guests from Zmanda and Amazon.com.

Download the podcast here and enjoy!

Hosts:
Gary Orenstein, Vice President of Marketing at Gear6
Jim Herbold, Vice President of Sales at Box.net

Guests:
Dmitri Joukovski, Vice President of Product Management, Zmanda
Ken Crandall, Technologist at Zmanda
Jeff Barr, Senior Manager, Web Services Evangelism at Amazon.com

Show highlights:

recent articles:

The War for the Web - Andy Kessler

Cloud Computing Eyes on the Skies - Steve Hamm

new companies or products
-OpenSolaris on EC2
-IBM iDataPlex
-Mosso CloudFS
-HP Extreme Data Storage System

other industry bits:

CNET "What is Cloud Computing" Video

PLUS, great interviews with Zmanda and Amazon Web Services

Enjoy the show!