April Recap

My trend of posting monthly recaps a few days late continues...  Sorry about that, hopefully the May recap will be on-time.  I was traveling most of April so the blogs this month tend to reflect that.

I'll start with the Cloudcast (.net) for the month of April.  We published a record number of episodes. A HUGE thanks to both Amy Lewis and Brian Katz for their amazing contributions!  Amy did a fantastic job as roving reporter and Brian's Mobilecast is really taking off!  As always, please send us any show feedback, we love to hear from you!

• The Cloudcast #81 - Data Gravity Meets Lean Analytics - w/ Dave McCrory & Alistair Croll
• The Cloudcast #82 - SDN, Big Data, Internet of Things and What's Next - w/ Lew Tucker & Dave McCrory
• The Cloudcast #83 - Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Options - w/ Rajeev Chawla
• The Cloudcast #84 - Red Hat OpenShift - Are We There Yet? - w/ Diane Mueller, Ryan Jarvinen, Krishna Ramen 

• The Mobilecast #3 - Identity and Access Management -  w/ Paul Madsen
• The Mobilecast #4 - Data Categorization and Security - w/ Bill Pelletier
• The Mobilecast #5 - App Development and Lessons Learned at Festo - w/ Steve Damadeo
• The Mobilecast #6 - WiFi, Small Cells and Mobile - w/ Art King

Next up is my new TechTarget Blog, you have subscribed with your latest Google Reader replacement, right??  I'm really having a good time writing over there.  This site (aarondelp.com) has always been more hands on and live blogs from events but the interest in the latest trends around Open Clouds and the operational aspects of cloud computing has been both great and humbling.  Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read the articles and provide feedback!

• Will "THE CLOUD" Always Be Just Out of Reach? - My thoughts on why there is no silver bullet in the cloud computing world and why it all comes down to one thing: workload
• Is PaaS the Gateway Tool for the Enterprise Cloud? - Will PaaS be the nudge the Enterprise needs to accelerate cloud adoption?
• Impressions From The OpenStack Summit - Couldn't make the OpenStack Summit? Here are my thoughts
• Expectations For the AWS Summit - Here is what I was looking for going into the AWS Summit
• AWS Summit Wrap Up - My Summary of the AWS Summit event in San Francisco

The only blogging I was able to do on my site this month is Live Blogs from the AWS event.  Here are all of them.

• AWS Summit Keynote Live Blog
• AWS Summit Live Blog: Introducing AWS OpsWorks Session
• AWS Summit Live Blog: Cloud Backup and DR Session
• AWS Summit Live Blog: Hybrid IT Design with RightScale

Thanks again for coming by and I'm looking forward to May!

March Recap

This post is a few days late but I wanted to put together a recap of everything that has been happening in March. To say March was a busy month was an understatement!  I'm not sure how much content I'll be able to post here in April as I have two speaking engagements to prepare for and I have decided I'm going to transition this blog away from Blogger and Feedburner to a WordPress hosted site.  Look for the new site probably sometime in late May based on my schedule right now.

March was our busiest month in recent memory at The Cloudcast (.net).  We published seven podcasts in March including the beginning of our expansion plans with our first podcast branch, the Mobilecast, as well as our first in a series of guest hosts, the always awesome Amy Lewis at Cisco.  Our goal for 2013 is to extend our reach into areas people have told us they want as well as some new faces to the podcast.  Please tell us what you think!

The Cloudcast #76 - Bringing Depth to PaaS for Real World Deployments
The Cloudcast #77 - OpenStack, PaaS APIs, Platform Tools, Automation & News
The Cloudcast #78 - Open Source Software 101
The Cloudcast #79 - DevOps Evolution and the Phoenix Project
The Cloudcast #80 - Regional Cloud Madness

The Mobilecast #1 - A Year of Going Mobile
The Mobilecast #2 - Health, Fitness and Wearable Computing

In addition to this blog I have also been asked to blog about Cloud Computing over at Tech Target.  I have a pretty extensive consulting and operations background so I have been asked to think about cloud computing from an operations standpoint.  I'm aiming for at least one blog a week over there.  Please head on over and subscribe to the blog!  I met my goal in March, here are links:

What Happens When Your Cloud Goes Away?
Cloud Applications and Vanishing Software Generations
Will Clouds Ever Be Open?
Impacts of Cloud Workload Consolidation

Last (but not least!) on this site I published two articles, one on the NYC Cloud Computing Meetup I attended and a new semi-regular news link round up I plan to do.

NYC Cloud Computing Meetup Recap
In Case You Missed It #1

As always, thanks to everyone for coming by and look for big changes coming "soon"!