Episode 14 - "The State of the Podcast" + Show notes
The Cloudcast (.net) #14 - State of the Podcast Address (34:42)
Date: August 2, 2011
By: Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely
Description: Aaron & Brian celebrate their six month anniversary and discuss the news
Then we dive into news highlights from the last couple weeks, including product announcements, start-ups and acquisitions:
- Cloud.com acquired by Citrix
- Citrix promotes our buddy Christian Reilly to Cloud CTO. Christian has
been on the show several times (Eps.3
and Eps.12) - Simon Crosby left Citrix to start a company called “Bromium” - seems to
be security focused, but vague about timelines or products - VMware had their big “vSphere 5 + all things Cloud” announcement which got overshadowed by their
vTax on vRAM pricing changes. Aaron talks about his early analysis of scale-up vs. scale-out and rumors that the new pricing might change before GA. - Dell formally announces their distribution of OpenStack and open-sourced “Crowbar”, which isn’t their deployment tool
- Dell acquires Force10
- HP announced that they are getting into the OpenStack game - no details
- Former NASA CTO starts Nebula - sort of an interesting mix of HW
(appliance) + OpenStack + proprietary extensions (plus a tie-in to Dell
and Arista). We talk about how OpenStack may get very fragmented before
it consolidates and how the appliance approach is different from other
vendors that are only shipping a distribution. (Register
coverage) - Intel acquired Fulcrum Technologies
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