Allyson and Reuven are finally reunited this week for a new episode with a couple of great guests. First up, Michael Crandell (@michaelcrandell), the CEO of RightScale stops by to talk about cloud management in the cloud environment and bridging services (servers/network/storage) to run applications. He also weighs in on the PaaS vs. IaaS debate. Then Dave McCrory (@mccrory), the CTO of Basho, discusses distributed database technology and also the concept of Data Gravity – thinking about data...

With Allyson on sabbatical and Ruv on the road, we’re pulling a couple of our “best of” episodes from the archive. This week we’re re-posting an episode with two former guests of the show. First up, Ben Kepes (@benkepes), a cloud thought leader, stops by to cover the growth of enterprise cloud, the Cloud 2020 Summit he’s currently organizing, and what “The Internet of Things” means for the future. Then Deborah Salons (@dsalons), an attorney specializing in regulation and privacy, weighs in on...

With Allyson on sabbatical and Ruv on the road, we’re pulling a couple of our “best of” episodes from the archive. This week we’re re-posting an episode with Amber Case: Have you ever thought about your tablet as a cave painting? Facebook as a virtual reality? The distribution of parchment writing as the very first Internet? This week’s Digital Nibbles is a wide-ranging discussion with cyborg anthropologist Amber Case (@caseorganic) touching on technology trends and how they relate to...

With Allyson on sabbatical and Ruv on the road, we’re pulling a couple of our “best of” episodes from the archive. This week we’re re-posting Harper Reed (@harper), the CTO of Obama for America, who stopped by the show in March 2013 to talk about big data and utilizing technology (smartphones, Websites, social media) to engage voters. He and his team received tremendous credit for helping win the election through use of scalable cloud infrastructure (Amazon Web Services*) combined with a...

Rather than our normal two guests, we’ve got a little bit of a longer (and fascinating) interview with Martin Duursma (@MartinDuursma), the VP of Citrix Labs and CTO Office Chair. He joins us to talk about innovation at Citrix and how listeners can apply Design Thinking to their ideas (be it a product iteration or a brand new idea). He also discusses upcoming trends – more seamless use of technology/technology that adapts to user needs – and give an update on Citrix’s upcoming Synergy...

In this week’s episode Daniel Burrus (@DanielBurrus), author and CEO of Burrus Research, stops b to talk about predicting technology trends and the drivers accelerating them, including Moore’s Law as it applies to processing power, bandwidth and storage. He also touches on a new model of “everything as a service.” Then Peter Coffee (@PeterCoffee), VP for strategic research at Salesforce.com, chats about creating customer value and a few responsibilities for enterprises in the future. Show...

This week’s first Guest is Chris Kemp (@kemp), the founder of Nebula and NASA’s first CTO. He’s here to talk about OpenStack, which he co-developed, and his company’s piece of hardware that can turn servers into their own private cloud, helping enterprises efficiently run their infrastructure. Then JP Morgenthal (@jpmorgenthal), the director of the Cloud Computing Practice at Perficient, chats about the blurring of IaaS and PaaS and where Perficient fits in. Show Timeline: 0:00 –...

A couple of excellent conversations this week on cloud performance metrics and software-defined storage. First up, returning guest Paul Miller (@paulmiller), an analyst with Cloud of Data, chats about transparency and conflict of interest in the consulting market, as well as cloud benchmarks and what they mean for enterprise workloads. Then Bernard Harguindeguy (@atlantisilio), the CEO of Atlantis Computing, discusses optimizing virtual machines (VMs) and how they interact with storage,...

Ruv is in India this week, so Allyson is hosting solo. Unfortunately for listener ear drums, we had audio issues with Ben Kepes (@benkepes), a cloud computing thought leader and our first guest. He chats about the WhatsApp acquisition, Box and Dropbox moving toward IPO, what cloud computing companies will be interesting in 2014, and where software-defined networking is moving in the future. Then Shashi Jain (@skjain2), Corporate Innovation Lead at UP Global, joins the program to talk about...

First up this week, we have CEO Johann Gevers (@johanngevers) and CTO Chris Odom of Monetas. Based on the Open-Transactions project, Monetas is aiming to be the world’s first decentralized system for financial and legal transactions – a digital contracting platform. They’ve seen interest for a variety of different uses/industries including: money remittance, cell phone providers, banks, consumer applications, and virtual worlds. Then returning guest Gordon Haff (@ghaff), a cloud evangelist at...

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...

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.

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...

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 infrastructure. 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...

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...

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®...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

After a short hiatus, DNP is back on the air with an episode all about rapidly-growing start ups in the private and public cloud space. First up, Joshua McKenty (@jmckenty), co-founder and CTO of Piston Cloud Computing (and one of the co-founders of OpenStack) stops by to talk about innovating on top of the OpenStack APIs for customers including major banks and governments. Then Mat Ellis (@MatEllis), founder and CEO of Cloudability, discusses how to give control and insight into cloud costs....

First up in this week’s Digital Nibbles is Jason Hoffman (@jasonh), the CTO and Founder of Joyent, who talks about Joyent’s new product offering, Joyent Manta, which combines compute and storage (i.e. natively running compute instances directly on the object store where the objects lie).  More info is available at www.joynet.com. Then Mohit Lad (@mohitlad), the CEO and co-founder of Thousand Eyes, stops by to talk about the company, which just came out of stealth phase. Thousand Eye provides...

Allyson and Reuven are live from the patio of GigaOM’s Structure event with a great lineup: Sameer Dholakia (@spdholakia), Group VP & GM - Cloud Platforms, Citrix; Jim Blair (@OpenStack), Principal Infrastructure Software Developer, OpenStack and Lauren Sell (@laurensell) Director of Marketing, OpenStack; Jonathan Murray (@Adamalthus), EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Warner Music Group and Jared Wray (@jaredwray ), Founder and CTO, Tier 3; and Raejeanne Skillern (@RaejeanneS ),...

Allyson and Reuven chat with Das Kamhout (Intel, @dkamhout), Paul Miller (Cloud of Data, @PaulMiller), and Ben Kepes (Diversity Ltd., @benkepes). The group was live on stage at the Open Data Center Alliance’s Forecast 2013 event, and discussed the conference as well as the industry’s most pressing cloud computing topics like VM interop, software-defined data centers, and Infrastructure as a Service. Show Timeline: 0:00: Introduction and discussing Forecast highlights 4:10: Das Kamhout...

Joe Weinman (@joeweinman), SVP of Cloud Services and Strategy at Telx, stops by to talk about how companies can achieve competitive differentiation through cloud computing in terms of operational excellence, product leadership, and customer intimacy. Our second guest, Ben Kepes (@benkepes), had challenges getting connected, so Allyson and Reuven wrap up the episode chatting about privacy and scrutiny in the world of cloud and big data, as well as a couple of upcoming cloud conferences. ...