Friday, July 16, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #34

Roundtable Guests:
Sam Johnston, Google, http://www.google.com
James Watters, Sr. Manager vCloud Solutions, VMware, http://www.vmware.com
Brian Bulkowski, CEO, Citrusleaf, http://www.citrusleaf.net/

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #34 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> Eucalyptus funding
http://gigaom.com/2010/06/30/eucalyptus-raises-another-20-million-in-vc-funding/

>> Dell buys Scalent
http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2010-7-1-acquire-scalent.aspx

>> IBM / BigFix
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32026.wss

>> Palantir raisies $90 million
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/palantir-the-next-billion-dollar-company-raises-90-million/

>> EMC/Greenplum
http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/warehouses/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702516

>> Hadoop Gets Commercial Cred as Cloudera and Netezza Connect http://dlvr.it/2g4V0

>> App Innovator
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/12/google_app_inventor_for_android/

>> Windows Azure Appliance
http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/warehouses/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702516

>> SaaS Funding Spree
SquareSpace $38.5 million, Atlassian $60 million, both led by Accel

>> AWS Launches Cluster Compute EC2 Instances For High Performance Applications
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/07/13/announcing-cluster-compute-instances-for-amazon-ec2/

>> VMware vSphere release


ROUNDTABLE TOPICS
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>> Big themes from Structure, Velocity, DevOpsDays, Hadoop Summit

>> Open Core. Open Source. Open Cloud.

SHOWS AND MEETUPS
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>> OSCON, July 19-23, Portland, http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010

HAT TIP TO LISTENER
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CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: Multiple Google Accounts in a Single Browser
James: Soasta, http://www.soasta.com/
Brian: StorSimple, http://www.storsimple.com/
Sam: Open Cloud http://opencloudinitiative.org/

WRAP UP
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For more info from:

Sam Johnston: http://www.twitter.com/samj or http://samj.net/

James Watters - http://www.twitter.com/wattersjames

Gary Orenstein - http://www.twitter.com/garyorenstein

Brian Bulkowski - http://www.twitter.com/bbulkow

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #33

Guest:
Damien Katz, Cofounder and CEO, Couchio, http://www.couch.io


Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> Hadoop Summit, Structure, Velocity conferences
>> Cisco Cius
>> ATMOS - no longer from EMC Online
>> Amazon outage

>> Conference Bonanza
Structure Conference
Velocity Conference
DevOps Days
Hadoop Summit

GUEST Q & A
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with Damien Katz, Cofounder and CEO, Couchio, http://www.couch.io

SHOWS:
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>> OSCON, mid-July Portland, http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010

CLOUD TIPS
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WRAP UP
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For more info from:



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Monday, June 21, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #32

Guest:
Joe Stump, CTO, SimpleGeo, http://www.simplegeo.com

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #32 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> SeaMicro launch
-web scale article from NYT: Big Web Operations Turn to Tiny Chips
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/technology/21chip.html
is a new architecture necessary?

>> OpsCode/Chef announcements

>> Cloudera/Quest Oracle/Hadoop Connector

>> Eucalyptus points toward enterprise with windows support
http://gigaom.com/2010/06/16/eucalyptus-enterprise-2

>> Verizon jumps into cloud storage with Nirvanix
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/198861/verizon_to_tie_cloud_storage_with_computing.html

>> IBM Developer Cloud
-pricing

>> ONLive launches
can gaming reside in the cloud?

GUEST Q & A
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with Joe Stump, CTO, SimpleGeo, http://www.simplegeo.com

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://www.gladinet.com - desktop access to cloud storage
Joe: http://www.sendgrid.com - service for transactional email

WRAP UP
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #31

Roundtable Guests:
James Watters, Sr. Manager vCloud Solutions, VMware, http://www.vmware.com
Adrian Cole, Founder of JClouds, http://www.jclouds.org/ and happy http://www.opscode.com employee
Brian Bulkowski, CEO, Citrusleaf, http://www.citrusleaf.net/

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #31 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> Salesforce.com strategy - VMware and Google partnerships
>> Google Storage
>> HP to cut 9,000 jobs and invest $1 billion in cloud computing
>> James Hamilton's efficiency speech on clouds, http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX01
>> Zynga's blog post on how EC2 fits into their solution - public / private transition
http://www.salon.com/technology/the_gigaom_network/tech_insider/2010/06/08/how_zynga_survived_farmville
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/2/8/how-farmville-scales-to-harvest-75-million-players-a-month.html
>> Heroku supports PHP
>> Amazon adds S3 management to the console.
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/06/10/aws-management-console-adds-support-for-amazon-s3/

ROUNDTABLE TOPICS
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Why is DevOps so contentious?

MEETUPS
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DevOps day Friday June 25, http://www.devopsdays.org/

SHOWS
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Gluecon report - Adrian gives it two thumbs up!

>> Velocity, Structure

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://www.typekit.com
James: http://www.cloudharmony.com
Brian: Mongo DB auto sharding http://www.mongodb.org/, and Riak's Basho 0.11 https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak
Adrian: IBM Developer Cloud, https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=e3ec7365-1b09-44f2-906f-19826275860f

INTERNSHIP OPENING
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The Cloud Computing Show is looking for a summer intern. Perfect for high school student. Contact us at thecloudcomputingshow at gmail dot com.

WRAP UP
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For more info from:


Brian Bulkowski - http://www.twitter.com/bbulkow

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #30

Guest:
Andy McLoughlin, co-founder, Huddle, http://www.huddle.net

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #30 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> Google I/O
Google Storage
Latitude API
Wave
VMware collaboration

>> Amazon
reduced redundancy

GUEST Q&A
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with Andy McLoughlin, co-founder, Huddle, http://www.huddle.net

SHOWS:
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>> Velocity, June 22-24, San Jose, http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2010
>> Structure, June 23-24, San Francisco, http://events.gigaom.com/structure/10/

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org
Andy: http://www.ribbit.com, http://tripit.com, http://boingo.com, http://yelp.com

WRAP UP
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For more info from:

Andy and Huddle - http://www.huddle.net, http://www.twitter.com/bandrew http://www.twitter.com/huddle

Gary Orenstein - http://www.twitter.com/garyorenstein

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #29

Guest:
Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery, http://www.mashery.com

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #29 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> Cloud Deals
IBM/Cast Iron
VMware/SpringSource/Gemstone
Salesforce.com/Jigsaw

>>Recovery.gov to Amazon EC2

>> VMForce

>> Juniper update

>> other

GUEST Q&A
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with Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery, http://www.mashery.com

SHOWS:
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>> Gluecon, Velocity, Structure

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://www.tungle.me - scheduling made easy
Oren: http://www.soasta.com/ - load and performance testing from the cloud

WRAP UP
----------
For more info from:

Oren and Mashery - http://www.twitter.com/mashery, http://www.twitter.com/orenmichels, http://blog.praxicom.com

API Conference - http://apiconference.com/

Gary Orenstein - http://www.twitter.com/garyorenstein

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #28

Roundtable Guests:
James Watters, Sr. Manager vCloud Solutions, VMware, http://www.vmware.com
Adrian Cole, Founder of JClouds, http://www.jclouds.org/
Wesley Beary, Software Engineer, Engine Yard, Founder of Fog, http://github.com/geemus/fog

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #28 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> VMware/SpringSource/RabbitMQ

>> Amazon SNS

>> Twitter getting their own data center
what happened to the cloud?

>> Launches, Datameer (Hadoop analytics), Arista (monster 10GbE switch)

ROUNDTABLE TOPICS
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>> enterprise cloud adoption scenarios

>> where should the openness lie? at the API? the technology stack? the bare metal?
blogpost by Lew Moorman, Rackspace, http://gigaom.com/2010/04/10/open-the-clouds-with-portable-stacks/
drizzle, cassanda

>> creating a common abstraction layer for on premise and cloud

Cloud References
AMQP
redis
puppet
chef
wavemaker
blank slate
design - single node java setup
delta cloud - hypervisor support for RHEV-M
libcloud - support for virtual box
eucalyptus
vcloud
http://www.abiquo.com/
open nebula
walrus
eh cache
gigaspaces
pixie boot
ovf - import export
dot cloud
cloudlets

MEETUPS:
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>> Cloudhackers @cloudhackers

SHOWS:
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Past:
O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo 2010, April 12-15, Santa Clara, CA
Under the Radar - 'Commercializing the Cloud' April 16, 2010 | Mountain View, Ca. | 8am - 6pm
Cloud Expo
Big Data Workshop is on April 23 2010 9am-5pm at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Upcoming:
Gluecon, Velocity, Structure

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://cacoo.com/ - online diagrams
James: http://bixolabs.com/ - elastic web mining
Adrian: http://www.perspecsys.com/ - data governance
Wes: http://www.couch.io/ - The NoSQL Document Database

WRAP UP
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For more info from:
James Watters - http://www.twitter.com/wattersjames
Adrian Cole - http://www.twitter.com/jclouds or http://www.jclouds.org
Gary Orenstein - http://www.twitter.com/garyorenstein
Wesley Beary - http://www.twitter.com/geemus and http://github.com/geemus/fog a compute and storage abstraction for multiple clouds implemented in Ruby

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Friday, April 2, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #27

Guest:
Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO, http://www.qualys.com

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #27 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> CA on a roll, buys Nimsoft after 3Tera
>> Joyent / DELL
>> Eucalyptus has a new CEO
>> Cloud Connect wrap-up

GUEST Q&A
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with Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO, Qualys, http://www.qualys.com

MEETUPS / SHOWS:
----------------------
>> Under the Radar, April 16, Silicon Valley, http://www.undertheradarblog.com/
>> Gluecon, May 26, Denver, http://www.gluecon.com/2010/
>> Velocity, June 22-24, San Jose, http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2010
>> Structure, June 23-24, San Francisco, http://events.gigaom.com/structure/10/

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://notify.me/
Philippe: https://www.ssllabs.com/

WRAP UP
----------
For more info from:

Philippe Courtot: http://www.qualys.com

Gary Orenstein - http://www.twitter.com/garyorenstein

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #26

Guest: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies, Inc.

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #26 (mp3)


Host: Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> RSA conference and cloud security
>> CA acquires 3Tera
>> Citrix acquires Paglo

GUEST Q&A
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with Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies, Inc.

Focus on Jeffrey's Post: 8 Key Competitive Battlefields in Cloud Computing
  • Collaboration Wars
  • Business-Oriented
  • Social Networks
  • Platforms-as-a-Service Wars
  • Cloud Governance
  • IT and Service Management
  • Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS)
  • eHealth and Energy Management
  • Millennials and Generation Z
MEETUPS / SHOWS:
----------------------
Cloud Connect March 15-18, http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/
SF Cloud Club, http://www.meetup.com/SF-Cloud-Computing-Club/

CLOUD TIPS
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Jeff: http://www.rightnow.com - Customer Experience Management
Gary: http://getsatisfaction.com/ - People-powered Customer Service

WRAP UP
----------
For more info from:

Jeff Kaplan: @thinkstrategies : http://www.thinkstrategies.com/

SaaS Showplace: http://thinksaas.com/

Gary Orenstein - http://www.twitter.com/garyorenstein

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Cloud Computing Show #25

Guest: Sam Boonin, Vice President of Marketing, Good Data

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #25 (mp3)

Host:
Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> Azure finally launches!

>> SaaS BI Will Be Big in 2010
-IDC and Forrester reports
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100201/tc_pcworld/saasbiwillbebigin2010

>> Obama Budget Spells Benefits for the Cloud
http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/obama-budget-spells-benefits-for-the-cloud/

GUEST Q&A
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with Sam Boonin, Vice President of Marketing at Good Data

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://modxcms.com/
Sam: http://www.dropbox.com/, https://www.yammer.com/, http://www.zendesk.com/

retip: webappvm has relaunched/rebranded as http://makara.com/

WRAP UP
----------
For more info from:

Sam Boonin and Good Data: http://www.gooddata.com, http://www.twitter.com/gooddata

Gary Orenstein - http://www.twitter.com/garyorenstein

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