First up this week, Faiz Parkar (@_CloudNinja), a Product Marketing Director from Canopy, stops by to talk about cloud computing and helping enterprises map out a cloud strategy. He sees a growing concern around cloud transparency – enterprises want to know what technologies are at play in their public cloud instance that address security, performance, and compliance issues. Then frequent guest Michael Sheehan (@HighTechDad) chats about his new gig as a staff reporter for IntelFreePress. He recently attended CES and gives an update on hot technologies like wearables and smart devices.

Show Timeline:

• 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week

• 9:27 – Interview with Faiz Parkar

• 18:58 – Interview with Michael Sheehan

• 30:52 – Wrap up

In our first episode of 2014, Krish Subramanian (@krishnan), Director of OpenShift Strategy for Red Hat, stops by to talk about the company’s OpenShift platform and the rise of Platform as a Service (PaaS). Then Edd Dumbill (@edd), Founding Chair of O’Reilly Strata and VP of Strategy at Silicon Valley Data Science, chats about big data and where innovations are happening.

Show Timeline:

• 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week

• 11:20 – Interview with Krish Subramanian

• 23:52 – Interview with Edd Dumbill

• 37:50 – Wrap up

In our last episode of 2013, Duncan Johnston-Watt (@duncanjw), the founder and CEO of Cloudsoft and Chip Childers (@chipchilders), the VP of product strategy at CumuLogic stop by to talk about their respective companies and cloud computing in 2014. Cloudsoft is bringing business to the cloud – their Application Management Platform orchestrates services, platforms and infrastructures to ensure they directly meet the needs of applications, dynamically and in real time. CumuLogic allows service providers to emulate Amazon-style cloud services through abstraction that sits on top of a variety of cloud platforms.

Show Timeline:

• 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week

• 9:38 – Interview with Duncan Johnston-Watt

• 25:30 – Interview with Chip Childers

• 41:18 – Wrap up

John Blumenthal (@cloudphysics), founder and CEO of CloudPhysics, stops by to talk about using data analytics to improve the safety and efficiency of your data center. Their virtual appliance scans and collects big data for analysis, leading to insights on how to structure virtualized IT. Then Alex Williams (@alexwilliams), an enterprise writer at TechCrunch, checks in from Dreamforce. He and Allyson talk about the proliferation of hackathons before moving onto the announcement of Amazon’s Kenesis, a data analytics tool which can analyze massive amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour, how that affects API proliferation, and what that means for the industry.

0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week

6:04 – Interview with John Blumenthal

18:55 – Interview with Alex Williams

32:14 – Wrap up

We have a couple of visionaries on the show this week. First up, Shlomo Swidler (CEO, Orchestratus, @ShlomoSwidler) stops by to talk about his work in cloud computing. He’s been at the forefront of the industry since launching the first large-scale public cloud in Amazon Web Services in 1998. He and Reuven discuss cloud architecting, app migration and development maturity. Then Guy Bieber (Chief Futurist, Citrix, @gbieber2) chats about future technology and the process of predicting what people will be passionate about (exponential movers, two by two disruptions, four by four disruptions and intersections of technologies).

Show Timeline:

• 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week

• 10:25 – Interview with Shlomo Swidler

• 24:13 – Interview with Guy Bieber

• 40:34 – Wrap up

First up in this week’s show, Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz), president and CEO or Hurwitz and Associates, stops by to talk about her book line: Cloud Computing for Dummies, Hybrid Cloud for Dummies and the new Big Data for Dummies. She talks about finding the value in the data so users can make more meaningful business decisions. Then Michael Sheehan (@hightechdad), joins to talk about the latest gadgets he’s been testing and reviewing, including: Personalized health devices, ios7, and an Intel® processor-based Windows* tablet.

0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week

5:16 – Interview with Judith Hurwitz

18:29 – Interview with Michael Sheehan

32:02 – Wrap up

We’ve got a couple of interiewees talking tech start ups this week. First, Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby), co-founder and CTO of Bromium, stops by the show to talk about security on mobile devices, specifically using virtualization technology to create a micro-VM for each task a user performs on an untrusted network or document. For more information, visit www.bromium.com. Then Jason Seats (@seats), a managing director at Techstars, joins to talk about their boot camp for technology start-ups, where the tech market is headed, and how their mentoring program works.

Show Timeline:

• 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week

• 9:14: Interview with Simon Crosby

• 22:29: Interview with Jason Seats

• 38:45: Wrap up

Reuven’s hosting solo again, as Allyson is out with a cold. He breaks with tradition and brings on this week’s guests together for a wide-ranging discussion on the role of IT in the enterprise. Bart Copeland (@bart_copeland), CEO and president of ActiveState, talks about private Platform as a Service – bringing PaaS behind the firewall and offering enterprises control and management over their platform. Kevin Behr (@kevinbehr), founder and president of Assemblage Pointe and a co-author of Phoenix Project, joins to talk about his book and applying manufacturing knowledge to high tech.

Show timeline:

• 0:00 – Introduction and News of the Week

• 9:51 – One big interview with Bart Copeland and Kevin Behr

• 39:15 – Wrap up

Reuven is hosting solo this week, as Allyson is in San Francisco at the Intel® AtomTM processor C-2000 series launch. He guides listeners through a couple of fascinating interviews – first up is Rajeev Chawla, the CEO and Co-Founder of CloudVelocity, and second is Sravish Sridhar, Founder and CEO of Kinvey. Rajeev chats about viewing the public cloud as a seamless extension of your data center, taking existing workloads and running them in the cloud without having to re-architect. Sravish takes over to talk about the emerging technology of “backend as a service,” meaning developers can setup, use and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet and web apps.

0:00 – Introduction and News of the Week

7:48 – Interview with Rajeev Chawla

19:06 – Interview with Sravish Sridhar

31:13 – Wrap up

Randy Bias, the co-founder and CEO of Cloudscaling, is our guest this week. Cloud scaling is a provider of Infrastructure as a service, for enterprises who want to connect their OpenStack* deployments to Amazon Web Services * or Google Compute Engine*. He believes we’re close to broad adoption for clouds, and that we’ll start to see different flavors of clouds (HPC cloud, enterprise virtualized cloud, elastic cloud, etc.) each with specific types of hardware, network architecture, performance/security, different set of guarantees. For more information, visit www.cloudscaling.com.

• 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week, Ruv’s got a new gig!

• 11:15 – Interview with Randy Bias

• 33:25 – Wrap up