The Cloudcast #127 - Got CloudOps Skills?

The Cloudcast #126 - 2013 in Review & 2014 Predictions

Topic 1 - Looking back on 2013, what’s your biggest story or biggest take away? (AWS, OpenStack, NSA)

Topic 2 - Where do you think the industry made the most gains in cloud computing and where do you still see the biggest gaps (or opportunities)? (SDN, IaaS became plumbing)

Topic 3 - As you talk to people in the industry, around the world, how much do you see the spread of the Silicon Valley mindset and technology profile?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about OpenStack. Was 2013 a good year, a bad year or just a year in the evolution? (Open Source VMware vCloud, who’s making money?)

Topic 5 - Traditional vendors vs. public cloud (which are sometimes the same). Who do you think is better positioned and what do you think each considers “success in 2014”?

Topic 6 - Moving on to 2014, what big things do you expect to happen (if any)? (SDN with VMware & Cisco, OpenStack conslidation)

Topic 7 - We’re getting ready to move into YEAR 4 of The Cloudcast. Can you believe it? What do we have planned for our listeners in the new year?

New Whiteboard Videos - SDN, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenSource

Following the whiteboard videos we made at CloudOpen, we got inspired to make a new set of whiteboard videos that covered some topics that we hadn't discussed before or needed to be updated. We also decided to include Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) in the videos this time. All of The Cloudcast whiteboard videos can be found on our YouTube Channel. Any suggestions for new topics are always welcomed.

Aaron kicks off the first couple videos by reviewing the architecture of both Apache Cloudstack (Citrix CloudPlatform) and OpenStack "Havana" (which we covered quite a bit lately - here, here, here).

The Cloudcast - #109 - Canonical's Plan to Rule the World and Bacon

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.78 - Open Source Software 101

Guest: Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle), Sr. Director of Open Source Communities at Citrix

Topic 1 - What is the Apache Foundation and how does it compare it others? Tell us about your experience at ApacheCon

Topic 2 - How is the Apache License different from GPL?

Topic 3 - Tell us about the concept of users vs. groups and community driven projects

Topic 4 - What are the levels of users in the Apache Foundation?

Topic 5 - How is IP handled with the Apache Foundation

The Cloudcast - Eps.68 - "Disrupting Open, Unified Storage with Ceph"

The Cloudcast - Eps.58 - Build a Cloud Day Roundtable

The Cloudcast - Eps.53 - CloudStack One Year Later

The Cloudcast - Eps.47 - SDN, OpenFlow and Network Virtualization

The Cloudcast - Eps.33 - "DevOps - One Year Later" + Show Notes

Episode 17 - "Cloud Foundry - The Application PaaS" + Show notes

The Cloudcast - Eps.17 - “Cloud Foundry - The Application PaaS”
Date: August 25, 2011
Guest Co-Host: Clint Greenwood (@cloudclint, http://www.actualclouds.com/)
Guests: Dave McCrory - Senior Architect for VMware Cloud Foundry (@mccrory, http://blog.mccrory.me/)