Cloud Computing Show #14

Guest: Grant Leathers, Director, Enterprise Infrastructure. Kelley Blue Book, Inc.

Here is The Cloud Computing Show Episode #14 (mp3)

INTRODUCTION
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Host: Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> Conferences: Velocity and Structure 09
Velocity - combination of browser level and IT operations level. Heavy on implementers.
Structure -as the name implies, more infrastructure, mix if implementers, executives, investors
(as background Gary is guest blogger with GigaOM)
Helpful links to resources from Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge, presentations and videos
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/26/resources-from-velocity-2009-structure-09/

>> Rackspace outage
seems unfair to pick on outages but they do attract attention...particularly when celebrity websites are involved.
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/?p=355
Clear that community transparency is the only way to succeed.

>> Cisco now shipping 1U and 2U servers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/cisco_ucs_rack_servers/
Memory monsters to assist with virtualization. Is the new form factor recognition of openness?

>> Tracking data center build out
Microsoft, "...Dublin, Ireland, and Chicago. The data centers will support Microsoft services such as its new search offering, Bing, and Azure, its cloud computing platform."
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/167587/microsoft_to_open_two_new_data_centers.html

Amazon - Federal Focus in Virginia
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/23/amazon-adds-cloud-data-center-in-virginia/

GUEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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with Grant Leathers, Director, Enterprise Infrastructure. Kelley Blue Book, Inc.

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: http://www.cooliris.com/ Eye candy!
Grant: http://www.skytap.com/ Cloud based virtual labs.

WRAP UP
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Find out more about Kelly Blue Book at http://www.kbb.com

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Cloud Computing Show #13

Guest: Raju Vegesna, Zoho Corporation

Here is the Cloud Computing Show #13 (mp3)
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Host: Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show
Co-Host: Edgard Capdevielle, Cloud Strategy Group

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>> HP Unveils Scale-Out Computing Hardware For Data Centers
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/data_centers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217800645
2 servers in 1U, memory dense configurations

>> Amazon EC2 Suffers Hiccup
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/10/amazons-ec2-service-suffers-outage/
Would a single enterprise be any better?

>> Google Apps Sync
http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/09/google-apps-syncs-with-outlook-a-cure-for-cloud-computing-angst/
People want Outlook

>> M&A CA Acquires Cassatt (data center automation)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10254280-92.html

>> If the Clouds Burst
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/04/cloud-computing-nist-intelligent-technology-cloud-computing.html
Does government need to get involved to ensure providers have/disclose reserve capacity?

GUEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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with Raju Vegesna, Zoho Corporation

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: reluctant tip: mobileme; also personal communications blueprint:
http://www.slideshare.net/gmo303/personal-communications
Edgard: http://www.google.com/chrome
Raju: http://www.twitter.com/, http://www.bing.com/

WRAP UP
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Next time we have our first end-user show....expecting to talk about Microsoft Azure and VMware.

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Cloud Computing Show #12

Cloud Computing Show #12 Guests: Dave Rosenberg, RiverMuse and Software, Interrupted and Puneet Agarwal, True Ventures

Here is the Cloud Computing Show #12 (mp3)

ON THE SHOW
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Dave Rosenberg, RiverMuse http://www.rivermuse.com/ and CNET Blog Software, Interrupted http://news.cnet.com/software-interrupted/
Puneet Agarwal, True Ventures http://www.trueventures.com/
Host: Gary Orenstein, The Cloud Computing Show, http://www.thecloudcomputingshow.com/

INDUSTRY NEWS
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>>> SpringSource/Hyperic
-Thoughts on the background of these two companies and the impetus for the deal

>>> Eucalyptus gets commercial funding
http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/eucalyptus-goes-commercial-with-55m-funding-round/
-If applications are destined to migrate between cloud service providers and enterprises, in which direction do things move and when?

GUEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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with Dave Rosenberg and Puneet Agarwal

Let's cover a a few areas:
> development
> management
> infrastructure

From Dave's post "Considerations for building a storage cloud".
1) Ensure that your performance will scale
2) Build in large-scale reliability up front
3) Design for permanent operation
4) Don't try to spend your way out a problem
5) Abstract whenever possible
6) Protect critical information from unauthorized access
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10187732-62.html

More from Dave
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Blog http://news.cnet.com/software-interrupted
@daveofdoom on Twitter

CLOUD TIPS
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Gary: ecamm call recorder, http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/
Dave: LoopFuse sales and marketing automation, http://www.loopfuse.com/
Puneet: Syncplicity sync, backup and sharing, http://www.syncplicity.com/

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Cloud Computing Show #11

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

Here is the Cloud Computing Show #11 (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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>>> 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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Enjoy the show!

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

Enjoy the show!