Cloud Unfiltered

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…

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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 you should focus your energy, which technologies you should adopt, and how to change your company culture? Someone who already knows where the pot…