Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024 SHOW: 817 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES:  LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR APRIL 2024 CLOUD NEWS Segments Covered in the Show: Good Old Fashioned Cloud News The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round Trend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcements Trend 2 - We’re starting to see some (early) reality set in with AI Trend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMw ..read more

Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting.   SHOW: 816 SHOW TRANSCRIPT:  SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog) “figure out how to play nice with competition” (Twitter) The will never be another Red Hat - Economics of OSS (a16z) OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODEL T ..read more

John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more. SHOW: 815 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Inference.ai (homepage) TechCrunch post SiliconAngle post on ChatGPU Topic 1 - Our topic for today is sizing and IaaS hosting for AI/ML. We’ve covered a lot of basics lately, today we’re going to dig deeper. There is a surprising amount of depth to AI sizing, and it isn’t just speeds and feeds of GPUs. We ..read more

Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI. SHOW: 813 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: DataCebo (homepage) Synthetic Data Vault - SDV TechCrunch Article MIT News Article Topic 1 - Our topic for today is synthetic data. While the concept and need for synthetic data has been around for a long time, it isn’t a topic that typically comes to the forefront and something we haven’t talked about until today. Tod ..read more

With the AI Era upon us, the challenge of trying to learn and make sense of the technologies, the business opportunities and the pitfalls is both exciting and equally terrifying.   SHOW: 812 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #812 SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW IN TECH? Cloud was all new, but not completely The pace of cloud innovation seemed fast, but not in comparison to AI The focus was around one ..read more

Brad Winett (President/Co-founder @TrackItCloud) talks about platforms for entertainment and media. Topics include use cases, partnering with AWS, and creation and consulting services. We even dig into AR and VR a bit at the end. SHOW: 811 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: TrackIt (homepage) Topic 1 - Our topic for today is media and entertainment in the cloud. I don’t believe we have ever done a show specifically on this topic, and there are some considerations worth talking about. For today ..read more

What will be the adoption patterns for AI within the Enterprise? Will it follow the early days of Cloud Computing, or will new and different patterns emerge?  SHOW: 810 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #810  SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: WHAT WERE THE PATTERNS FOR ENTERPRISE IT AND CLOUD? Shadow IT High-scalability or Short-term Projects (and experimentation) Migration via “Cloud First” initiatives Difficult stuff came last WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT AI ..read more

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024. SHOW: 809 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/cloudcast-809-transcript CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR MARCH 2024 CLOUD NEWS  Segments Covered in the Show: Good Old Fashioned Cloud News The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024 Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partner Trend 3 - NVIDIA held a p ..read more

Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023.  SHOW: 808 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before April 30th) WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers instead SHOW NOTES: What VMware might look like under Broadcom (Eps.629, June 2022) What to do about VMware (Day Two Cloud, Feb 2024) VMware 10X Price Increase Leaves Companie ..read more

Sean Falconer (@seanfalconer, Head of Dev Relations @SkyflowAPI, Host @software_daily) talks about security and privacy of LLMs and how to prevent PII (personally identifiable information) from leaking out SHOW: 807 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: Want to win a Tesla Cybertruck or $100,000? Enter the WS02 Choreo Code Challenge (before August 30th) WSO2 Choreo - Why build a platform? Just add developers instead CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your t ..read more