Ali Amagasu

What’s your verdict on AI so far? Is it a good thing? A bad thing? A scary thing? I suspect that most of us—even those employed in the tech sector—are only vaguely aware of what AI is capable of at this point. And what I’m finding is that the more I learn, the more I’m actually quite excited about t…

Last year, on a date that he is uncertain of, Cisco’s own Pete Johnson saw a tweet that said: “Serverless is a solution looking for a problem.” The statement frustrated Pete because he believed it to be untrue. He was a major serverless fan at the time (still is today), and he reasoned that if peopl…

First off, there are two things you need to know about this week’s guest on the Cloud Unfiltered podcast: 1) Barack Obama follows her on Twitter, and 2) She and her husband modified a Hummer to run on vegetable oil. Those two things alone make her interesting enough (and cool enough) that I would be…

Were you aware that there are projected to be 20 Billion (with a B) edge devices in use by 2020 (next year)?! I wasn’t either. It’s just not the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. But apparently it is exactly the kind of thing that keeps some people up. They worry about how edge application…

I’m not an IT leader, but if I were, I have to say that I’d find the whole concept of hybrid cloud exhausting. Not so much because it’s inherently hard to comprehend, but because the definition of it seems slippery at best—varying greatly over time and by whom you’re talking to. At various points I’…

What if you could go for a ride-along with a Cisco Cloud Services rep for a week? Wouldn’t that be the best?! Really—think about it. You’d get to pop in to a bunch of different businesses and hear first-hand what they’re struggling with when it comes to cloud implementation, plus you’d get to hear h…

This is the finale of our entirely unintentional three-part series on cloud computing at the edge. In Episode 59 we learned about StarlingX—OpenStack’s new cloud-at-the-edge project. In Episode 60 we heard all about the mission and methods of the OpenStack Edge Computing Group. Now we wrap it up by…

Is it just me, or have we been talking about edge computing forever? OK, maybe not forever, but certainly on and off for the past ten years. Maybe longer than that. Regardless, I’d say that right now it’s safe to say we are back in the “ON” phase when it comes to edge discussions. Only now what ever…

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 hoopla around it, so we decided to hunt down someone from the project and invite them to the show so we could get to the bottom of all the exciteme…