cloud2030

Joining us this week is Jeff Kim, CEO of Kmesh.io.

About Kmesh

KMesh.io sells software that transforms your centralized data into distributed data, which operates over multiple clouds, countries and edges as a single global namespace. Customers configure their business rules / data orchestration policies through the Kmesh portal and easily deploy their data over any cloud (production data on prem, backup data on AWS, AI/ML data on Google, IoT data on the Edge etc.)

Highlights:

• Kubernetes Challenges for Stateful Data

• Managing Stateful Data across Multiple Edge Devices

• How Kmesh works with Luster ~ New Global Data Models

• Kubernetes Limitations with Storage

Joining us this week is Arpit Joshipura, general manager, The Linux Foundation.

About LF Edge

LF Edge is a new umbrella organization that aims to establish open, interoperable frameworks for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. Launched in January 2019, LF Edge is comprised of existing Linux Foundation projects Akraino Edge Stack, EdgeX Foundry, and Open Glossary of Edge Computing, as well as the new Project EVE from ZEDEA and Home Edge Project from Samsung Electronics.

Highlights:

• LF Edge Introduction

• Collaboration b/w LF Edge and other Open Source Communities

• Specific Projects in LF Edge at Launch

• Difference b/w LF Foundation and OpenStack Foundation

• Engaging with the LF Foundation

• Telco Involvement

Joining us this week is Eric Fouarge, CTO at Root Level Technology.

About Root Level

Root Level Technology is a cloud strategy partner. We are the seamless extension of your development and programming teams. We provide a concierge-style support experience for every client, no matter the size. We are an agile shop at the core, with a focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. We are the hold your hand, wake us up at midnight, 5-star, real deal support clients have always wanted.

Highlights:

• Discussion on Tools for Cloud Native

• Business Needs and Microservices

• Issues with New, Rapidly Developing Tools

• Impact of Cloud Native on Operations/Development

• Severless Alternatives to Lamda, etc

Joining us this week is Lee Atchison, Sr. Director of Strategic Architecture, New Relic. Author of Architecting for Scale on O’Reilly (link is not a tracked URL) and recent speaker at AWS ReInvent ’19 – Cloud Computing in an Edge World.

About New Relic

New Relic gives you deep performance analytics for every part of your software environment. You can easily view and analyze massive amounts of data, and gain actionable insights in real-time. For your apps. For your users. For your business.

Highlights:

• Impact of Edge on DevOps (People / Process / Tools)

• No DevOps Shortcuts for Edge

• Scaling Issues b/w Cloud and Edge

• Application Updates at the Edge

• Environment Awareness

Joining us this week is Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer, OpenStack Foundation.

About OpenStack Foundation

The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally, across a community of 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of practice, including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container infrastructure.

Highlights:

• Status of OpenStack from OpenStack Summit Berlin

• State of Open Source from Licensing and Sustainability Perspective

• History of Big Tent and Learnings for New Direction Moving Forward

• Running OpenStack Foundation and Open Source Challenges

• Multiple Open Source Projects working Together

• Open Infrastructure Projects

The Open Infrastructure Summit that Mark mentioned will be held in Denver, Colorado from April 29-May 1. Registration is currently open.

Joining us this week is Sarbjeet Johal, Principal Advisor, The Batchery.

About The Batchery

Founded in 2015, The Batchery is an Berkeley-based global incubator for seed stage entrepreneurs ready to take their startup to the next level.

We are a community of veteran investors and advisers ready to provide you with ideas, insights, and networks. Our partnerships with law firms, technology providers, and other startup services means that you start building your company the minute you join us.

Highlights:

• Latest in Data Centers and Hybrid Clouds

• Amazon Announcement on Outpost and ReInvent Thoughts

• Design Approaches of Cloud and Future Technology

Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector, your L8istSh9y Podcast Team, wrap up 2018 with some overall thoughts of the past year of Podcasts and a quick preview of 2019 content and planning.

Joining us this week is Pavan Gupta, Software Architect and Kiran Divekar, Software Architect from Calsoft.

About Calsoft

Founded in 1998, Calsoft provides end-to-end product development, quality assurance, product sustenance, and solution engineering services to assist customers in achieving their product development and business goals. Our deep domain knowledge across various verticals helps customers create exceptional products and get them to market on time and within budget.

Calsoft’s deep technical expertise has led to the creation of several proprietary accelerators which are a huge hit among customers. Our niche skillset and intuitive engagement models are geared to meet the ever-evolving business needs of our customers.

Highlights:

• NFV Overview and Importance in Telecom

• NFV Usage and Use Cases

• Edge Service Delivery

Joining us this week is Daniel Bartholomew, CTO and Founder of Section.

About Section

Section offers a developer-centric, multi-purpose Edge PaaS solution that empowers web application engineers to run any workload, anywhere. Built to give developers the flexibility and control that they need, Section’s edge platform is infrastructure agnostic (cloud, on-premise, self-hosted), edge workload agnostic (caching, HTTP optimization, IoT, big data), and has changed the dynamics of traditional CDN and cloud.

Highlights:

• Background of Section from CDN to Edge

• How Section works

• Developer Issues in Building for Edge Scale

Joining us this week is Chris Steffen, Cloud and Edge Security Guru. Follow him at @CloudSecChris and on his blog, The Security Beard.

Highlights:

• Latest Update on Cloud Security

• Core Challenges to Edge Security

• Shared Data at the Edge Issues