Ali Amagasu

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 fabulous. By automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized apps, it has eliminated a lot of the repetitive…

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 know him because he’s on stage at a whole lot of open source conferences, explaining how technologies work, why they’re valuable, and where they’re most lik…

If you tune in to Cloud Unfiltered on a regular basis, you know that we touch on the subject of serverless technologies fairly frequently. But the key word there is “touch.” We mention it, I reliably tease Pete about his enthusiasm for it, then we spend two or three minutes (max) discussing an eleme…

Have you noticed that when cloud people talk about cloud they (we) stick to a fairly narrow range of topics? Containers (for sure), Kubernetes, OpenStack, DevOps, culture change, big data, cloud native, serverless…and maybe a little AI/ML now and then to keep things spicy? Sure, we cover different a…

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 much to think about, and it seems like more technologies and more variations of those technologies pile on every day until the…

Have you been to the OpenStack Summit lately? If you haven’t, I’ll let you in on a not-at-all-closely-guarded secret: It’s not just about OpenStack anymore. Shoot, you can probably argue that it’s not even primarily about OpenStack anymore. It’s about containers and aut…

I suspect that most of us take our local tech meetups for granted. I mean, I don’t know what it’s like where you live, but I’m in Southern California, and I could attend them seven days a week if I wanted without even breaking a sweat. They’re everywhere, covering most every topic in our industry, a…

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 research on Patrick Crowley. It wasn’t just that he is the Stealthwatch Cloud CTO. I mean, I suppose that alone is intimidating on its face, but we…

Kata, Kata, Kata! I swear that was all I heard during the week of the very recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. I was not in attendance this time (nor the previous time), but I’m an OpenStack enthusiast, I make an effort to stay current on what’s happening with it, and I had never even…