Cloud Unfiltered

This week Cisco’s CTO of Cloud Native Platforms, Ken Owens, weighs in on the benefits of containerization, security in the cloud native space, the divide between infrastructure and apps teams, and more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

In Episode 10 of Cloud Unfiltered, Carmen and Casie talk about paid volunteer days, donation matching, and everything else the company is doing in its quest to hire the best hackers, makers, and coders out there. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltered.substack.com

He's a security pro disguised as a cloud operations engineer. Worked for NASA, the TSA, and the Navy before he came to Cisco. So he's got interesting insights on the challenges around protecting data. He also provides a great summary of the competing interests in the net neutrality debate, and he talks about how and why companies are using orchestration tools like Ansible to make the cloud workabl...

Joe Weinman's cloud expertise is pervasive and it's in demand. A former telecom and IT executive, he delivers keynote speeches around the world about cloud strategy, and he's the author of several books, including: "Digital Disciplines: Attaining Market Leadership via the Cloud, Big Data, Social, Mobile, and the Internet of Things" and "Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing" (Wiley,...

Jeff Dickey is the Chief Innovation officer at Redapt, and he's got some serious opinions about OpenStack, open source, vendor lock-in, and containers. Want the low-down on the cloud space from someone who is close to the action and doesn't pull a punch? This is the episode for you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...

Reuven is recognized as an early innovator and thought leader in cloud computing & infrastructure as the founder one of the earliest cloud companies. An active mentor, advisor, angel and instigator, he is intimately involved in the startup scene around the globe. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cloudunfiltere...

Heidi Joy Tretheway is the Senior Marketing Manager at the OpenStack Foundation. That means she’s in charge of the annual OpenStack User Survey, and she’s got the scoop on the latest trends when it comes to OpenStack adoption. She knows which countries and industries are adopting the platform fastest, what type of workloads are being run on it most often, and what percentage of their cloud apps ar...

As the director of a product management team in Cisco’s cloud group, Dave Lively is up to his neck in cloud technology. And he has been for a while. So he’s got fantastic insights into the value cloud provides, the impact it can have on organizations, and the role of the network in making it all work. Tune in to this episode of Cloud Unfiltered to hear Dave’s thoughts on the impact of technical de...

In this interview, Cisco's VP of Cloud and Platform Services, Kip Compton, describes the changes in what customers are asking for when it comes to cloud, lists the benefits of consistent management across hybrid IT environments, and explains why it's important to keep learning no matter where you are in your career. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers...

Tim Crawford has 20+ years of experience in IT and he's one of the industry's most respected thought leaders when it comes to Cloud Computing and IT Optimization. Tune in to this episode of Cloud Unfiltered to hear Tim talk about the difference between Traditional and Transformational CIOs; the things that do and don't concern him about internet privacy; what he thinks about the current cloud ecos...

She loves sysadmins, she's not a big fan of threaded tweets, and she's hustling to learn Python by the end of the month. Those are just a few of the things Rikki Endsley, Community Manager and Editor for Opensource.com shares with us in her interview with Cloud Unfiltered this week. She also explains what opensource.com is all about, how to get involved as a contributor, why she created the Open S...