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Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 59: Introducing StarlingX, with Glenn Seiler
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Do you know what StarlingX is? Yeah we didn’t either. But it was just announced at the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, and there seemed to be quite a bit of...
What is Network Service Mesh and Why Do We Need It?
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You love Kubernetes, right? I don’t use it personally because that’s not my job, but when I talk to someone who does, the experience they describe sounds nothing less than...
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 57: Navigating the Waves of Innovation, with Lew Tucker
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Do you know who Lew Tucker is? Of course you do. He’s the VP and CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco, but that’s probably not why you know him. You...
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 56: Trekking the Serverless Landscape with Krishnan Subramanian
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In this episode I think it’s fair to say that we get down and dirty on the subject of serverless. We muck around in the different technologies, the different terminologies, adoption patterns, and potential impact on the industry.
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 55: Cloud from a Data Center Guy’s Point of View, with Carlos Campos Torres
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This week, we talk to a DC switching guy. His insight and opinions about cloud may challenge our standard cloud beliefs, or help us appreciate a different point of view.
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 53: Tackling IT Modernization, with Robert Starmer
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Of course you don’t feel like dealing with modernizing your IT organization. Who would? It sounds like a hideous task—especially if you’ve let it go for a while. There’s so...
It’s Time to Vote for OpenStack Summit Speakers!
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Open Source Community Simplify Your Releases, Work Fast, and Support Many Versions of OpenStack, Sam Betts, Brad Jones Extending the Reach of OpenStack Through Standards, Charles Eckel Combining Open Source with Open...
Building a User Group Everyone Wants to Join
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I’m fairly in awe of Lisa-Marie Namphy. She runs the world’s largest OpenStack user group and has had a hand in starting and/or running at least a dozen other tech meetups—all while holding down a very real full-time job...
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 49: Sustainable Security Technology, with Patrick Crowley
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I am not typically nervous when I go into podcast interviews, but I have to admit that I was more than a little intimidated by the time I’d finished my...
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 38: Kata, Kata, Kata!
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Hey Kata! Where did you come from, and why are you suddenly such a hot topic? I swear I had never heard of you prior to this past OpenStack Summit,...
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 46: Succeeding with Cloud, DevOps, and Big Data Initiatives
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Do you ever wish you could just bring someone in that would tell you how to do this whole cloud thing right? A person with the expertise to explain where...
Cloud Unfiltered: The Automation Episode, feat. Alex Peay and Mike Place
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Are you automating the right things and using the right tools in your company? This week on Cloud Unfiltered, Alex Peay and Mike Place of SaltStack talk about automation.
Cloud Unfiltered Episode 44: Adventures in Application Integration with the Italian Data Center Dream Team
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Are you clear on the difference between Cisco’s Tetration and AppDynamics offerings? Yes, they are both extraordinarily powerful monitoring tools. But do you know what they actually monitor? And would...
The Southern California Linux Expo is Not Just About Linux
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SoCal Linux Expo (“SCaLE”) founder Ilan Rabinovitch joins this week’s Cloud Unfiltered podcast to discuss how Linux is still evolving like crazy, from containers and automation to security and monitoring.
What Have We Done With Our Personal Data?
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Have you deleted your Facebook account in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica news? I’m not saying you should—really, I’m not—I’m just wondering. Because if you’ve tried, you may have figured out that it’s not that easy.
If You’re Not Taking Advantage of Cisco DevNet You’re Out of Your Mind
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A newfound understanding of just what it is that Cisco offers through DevNet, where they offer it, and how you can get your hands on it.
Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 39: OpenStack Update from VMware’s Mark Voelker
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OK, I’ll cop to this right up front: I called my most recent guest “Vekler.” On tape. The problem with that is that his name is not Vekler. It’s Voelker....
Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 38: Dan Kohn Explains What CNCF is Up To
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What do you know about CNCF? You probably hear people in the industry mention the acronym fairly often—generally in connection with Kubernetes—but do you know what it is, when it...