Catching Up - What Have I Been Up Too

What happened to the last 3 months?!  To say it has been a busy summer has been an understatement.  Hopefully more blogs coming in September for some cools things I'm working on but here is a recap of the last few months.

• Engineer's Uplugged S3E1 talking about cloud computing workloads and environments
• Speaking in Tech Podcast talking OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.
• Huffington Post Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter
• Follow up post from the Cloudcast on how many we've had on the show
• I'll also be presenting a vBrownBag Session on Apache CloudStack at VMworld
• I also hosted a series of podcasts with Enterprise Management 360 for Citrix:
• Citrix in the Cloud
• Managed Services in the Cloud Part 1
• Managed Services in the Cloud Part 2
• Managed Services in the Cloud Part 3

I've also been generating a lot of content over the summer, too much to list here.  Go check out my blog on Tech Target as well as the latest episodes of the Cloudcast and Mobilecast.  Thanks again for coming by!

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!

Help the Cloudcast Give Back!

In case you haven't already heard on our podcast, the Cloudcast (.net) is raising money for the North Carolina Children's Home.  We're doing it in a slightly unusual way, by running the Krispy Kreme Challenge.  We'll be taking video, maybe wearing costumes, eating lots of doughnuts, and hopefully keeping them all down.  If you would like to support us head on over to our page and we will match any donation!!  Check out the video below from last year's race to check out the craziness.  Thank you!!!

This Month on the Cloudcast (.NET)

Another month has come and gone at the Cloudcast (.NET).  November was a great month for content.  We managed to get in a number of podcasts, produced some new You Tube videos, attended the AWS re:Invent conference, and we announced we will once again be running the Krispy Kreme Challenge to raise money for the North Carolina Children's Home.  If you like the show, please consider sending a donation here (we will match donations!)  Thank you!

• Episode #62 - Jesse Andrews stopped by and he was awesome to talk to about the current state of OpenStack and some great info on both the Folsom and Grizzly releases.  As a side note Jesse and I finally got to meet face to face last week at the AWS conference, awesome dude!
• Episode #63 - James Watters from VMware gave us the low down on VMware's Cloud Foundry PaaS and updates since we last spoke to Dave McCrory awhile back.
• Episode #64 - Cloudcast alum Raejeanne Skillern gave us an update on Intel and the recent Intel Developer Forum.
• Episode #64.5 - Brian and Aaron take a break to talk about what we're thankful for (hint: our listeners) as well as announce our pledge to not only raise money for the Krispy Kreme Challenge, we will match all donations for the first $1000!
• Episode #65 - Aaron catches up with Mat Ellis from Cloudability at the AWS re:Invent conference and Matt breaks out the number one reason why you could be a "cloud noob".
• Episode #66 - Another AWS re:Invent episode, this one with Solomon from dotCloud. Solomon was great to talk too and I really feel his company is brining some unique features into the PaaS space.

This Month on the Cloudcast (.NET)

Another great month for the Cloudcast (.NET) podcast.  Here is a summary:

• Episode #58 - The Cloudcast's first ever live round table discussion at Build a Cloud Day. I thought it went very well and you can hardly tell where I edited us getting kicked out of the room (saved for the bloopers show)
• Episode #59 - Luke from PuppetLabs. Personally I think one of the best interviews we've ever done.  Luke was great to talk to and really knows his stuff.  The conversation went some places I didn't expect but overall awesome quality and always good to have Nick riding shotgun.
• Episode #61 - Justin from Basho. The concept of NoSQL scale out databases is new to me and I learned a TON on this show. Justin did a great job explaining some of the nuts and bolts of databases and cloud storage.

First one to spot our mistake this month gets a prize...

Listen to The Cloudcast

If you're interested in Cloud Computing I'd encourage you to listen to "The Cloudcast (.net)" podcast here, or go over to The Cloudcast website and get connected to the feeds via iTunes, Facebook, YouTube or RSS.

New Cloudcast (.NET) - PaaS Meets Data Gravity

Brian recently had a chance to sit down with Dave McCrory from VMware Cloud Foundry and Adron Hall from Tier 3 to discuss the state of the PaaS industry as well as dig into Dave's concept of Data Gravity.  Head on over and check it out!

New Cloudcast (.NET) with Randy Bias - OpenStack & OpenClouds

Last night Brian and I had the great pleasure of talking to Randy Bias (CTO & Founder of Cloudscaling) about OpenStack and OpenClouds.  We had a great time and Randy had some very insightful views that are worth a listen.  Head over and check it out!

Cloudcast (.NET) #35 - Cover Your *aaS - Cover Your Costs

I'm a little late posting this as I was on vacation when this was recorded and released.  Brian was able to sit down with Mat Ellis,  CEO of Cloudability, to discuss aspects of billing and costs in cloud computing.  It was great to hear Mat discuss the business aspects of cloud and find out how to get a FREE Cloudability account!

Link to Cloudcast (.NET) #35

Cloudcast (.NET) - Episode 34 - New Networks for the Cloud

Brian and I had the awesome privilege of speaking with Ivan Pepelnjak on Friday about how we see networks in Cloud Computing evolving in the next few years.  We rolled up our sleeves and talked about OpenFlow and SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and many other great topics.  It was great fun and I learned a lot from Ivan.  If you go to the show notes page you will see a BUNCH of helpful links so rather than recreate them all here, go over there and take a look!

Also, here are some other links I used to prepare for the show.  As always, feedback welcome!

• What is OpenFlow and why is it needed?
• On data center scale, OpenFlow, and SDN
• Will SDN/OpenFlow be used in the Enterprise?

Vote for The Cloudcast (.NET) - Best Computing Blog/Podcast

We're excited to have been nominated in several categories of the VSPHERE-LAND annual "best of" survey:

• Best Virtualization Blog
• Best Cloud Computing Blog
• Best New Blog in 2011
• Best Podcast

We love being able to do the podcast each week - meeting new people, learning from the experts and being able to share that knowledge with the virtualization and cloud computing communities. We hope you find it valuable. If you like what we do and have a few minutes, we'd appreciate your support.

Please Fill Out the Cloudcast (.net) Survey!

2011 was an AWESOME year for the Cloudcast (.net). We can't thank everyone enough for this last year.  In an effort to make 2012 better, we'd love it if you would take a couple of minutes to fill out a survey on how we can improve the Cloudcast (.net) experience in 2012.

If you can find a few minutes, please head on over to the site.  Thank you!!

Cloudcast (.net) Year in Review and Predictions

Happy Holidays Everyone!  Just a quick post to let you know that Brian and I released a new Cloudcast (.net) recently.  We talk about what was good (and bad) in Cloud Computing for 2011 and we make some predictions 2012.

Head on over to the site to have a listen and thank you for coming by!

Lots of New Cloudcast (.NET) Content!

Quick post to tell everyone that we have released a number of new podcasts over the last month over at The Cloudcast (.NET).  Great topics from great guests!  Links to each episode:

• Episode 23 - Going Mobile: Awesome discussion and debate on the state of mobile devices in our industry
• Episode 24 - CloudPassage & Security in the Cloud: Brian spends some time with Rand Wacker, VP of Products at CloudPassage
• Episode 25 - The Intersection of IPv6 and the Cloud: Ever wanted to know about IPv6 and how it affects the cloud, here's your answers
• Episode 26 - IT Women of the Cloud: Brian and I spend some time with some awesome and influential women in the cloud space

New Cloudcast: Live from CA World with Andi Mann

This morning we posted a new The Cloudcast (.net) podcast with Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies.  Andi sat down with us last night at CA World and we had a great discussion around the state of public and private cloud in the enterprise and how that relates to virtualization trends in the market today.  Fascinating conversation (if I do say so myself) and worth a listen.

The Cloudcast (.NET) LIVE from VMworld!

This was SOOOOO  cool!  VMware asked us to do a Cloudcast (.NET) podcast live form VMworld!  This is what we're like without editing!  Our guests were Chris Colotti from VMware and Mike Foley from RSA.  Check out this link for the show notes and more information.  I also embedded the video here.

My only comment, it's much harder to do this when you don't have a beer in your hand, there's lights in your face, and your laptop with all the questions is sitting over in the corner!  All in all, it turned out really well and Mike and Chris were GREAT!

Watch live streaming video from vmwarecommunitytv at livestream.com

The Cloudcast (.NET) LIVE at VMworld Talking vCloud & Security

This is so cool.  We've been asked to bring the Cloudcast (.NET) to VMworld!

On Monday 8/29 @ 2:00 we'll be broadcasting the Clouldcast LIVE as part of VMware's Community TV. This will be our first time live as well as our first time on video.  The chances of this being a train wreck are pretty good!

We've decided on guests and a topic.  Mike Foley from RSA and Chris Colotti from Vmware have agreed to join us to discuss vCloud Director Updates & Security.  If you're around, stop by!

New Cloudcast (.NET) with Dell "Cloudy Folks!"

Brain and I were fortunate enough to get some time with some great folks from Dell's cloud organization this weekend on The Cloudcast (.NET).  We sat down with Joseph George, Rob Hirschfield & Aurelian Dumitru.  They are flying under the radar and getting it done.  Very impressive!  Here's a link to the Podcast for more information.  Enjoy!

As a side note, Aurelian didn't get the time he deserves and in hindsight, we really should have done this as two separate podcasts.  To make it up to "A.D." we're going to do exactly that.  Look for more Hadoop goodness in September!

Thanks for listening!

New Cloudcast (.net) - Isaac Roth with Red Hat's OpenShift

Just posted a very cool new Cloudcast today.  This week we spent time learning about Red Hat's new PaaS offering, OpenShift.  The interview turned out great and Brian and I learned a lot.  Details and Show Notes are on the Cloudcast website.

A little bit of inside baseball: Editing Podcasts are a complete bitch.  I'm serious, it just sucks.  That has probably been a major hold up to us getting things out the door.  In this episode we did less editing to see how it would sound.  Let us know what you think.  We're trying to turn them around quicker so we can spend more time recording and less time editing.

Have a good weekend everybody!

Three! That's right, Three New Cloudcast Episodes!

Sorry All - I've been slack about my updating duty over here.  Over the last month we've released not one, not two, but three new episodes of the Cloudcast, all for the low price of free!!  Call now, operators are standing by...

Head on over to the www.thecloudcast.net for details and show notes or to listen to the show directly from the site.  Also available in iTunes and Stitcher.

The Cloudcast (.net) #10 - Clouds on the Storefront Horizon
Aaron & Brian welcome Rodrigo Flores, formerly CTO/Founder of newScale, now at Cisco. We discuss the current status of newScale, the world of actual Cloud deployments and the challenges of shifting internal IT thinking to leverage Cloud

The Cloudcast (.net) #11 - News, Stacks, Rants and More
Aaron & Brian rant with Joe Onisick, Technical Solutions Architect at WWT. We discuss Joe’s new legal race car, Integrated Stacks vs. Private Clouds, the future of VMware, & we determine we need to learn more about PaaS and OpenFlow

The Cloudcast (.net) #12 - There’s a Pony in there... (Managing the Cloud)
Aaron & Brian bring back Cloudcast alumni Christian Reilly, President of the Platform Cloud. We dig into Cloud management from every angle possible, trying to make sense of all the companies, projects and products