Cloud Unfiltered

Emil Sayegh is the President and CEO of Ntirety, one of the world’s largest managed cloud service platforms. He is an early pioneer of Cloud Computing, recognized as one of the industry’s cloud visionaries and "fathers of OpenStack," having launched and led successful cloud computing and hosting businesses for HP, Rackspace, Hostway, and Codero. In addition to his senior leadership roles, Emil spent more than 15 years in the IT industry developing, marketing, and managing products for Dell, RLX Technologies, and Compaq. Emil also holds nine patents.

In this episode we are talking to Pini Reznik and Carla Gaggini of Container Solutions about the upcoming conference, "WTF is SRE". Additionally, we discuss the areas around SRE, SecOps and DevOps.

Honestly, it's almost impossible to talk about "cloud-native software development" without first acknowledging the most important building-block of application delivery ... Infrastructure! Join us this week as we discuss the Infrastructure-as-Code movement with Joe Duffy, CEO of Pulumi. Understanding the importance and evolution of IaC willl help IT Ops move at the speed of Dev, hopefully bringing synergy to your DevOps organization. https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pulumi-3-0/

Join us as we revist the topic of "big data" … but this time, Simon Crosby of Swim helps us understand the importance of identifiying data types and trends to more quickly find value, reducing your storage costs and allowing businesses to focus on insights and applications rather than infrastructure and integration.

Intersight is billed as the "world's simplest hybrid cloud operations platform". Come join us in this episode when we speak with Bhaskar Jayakrishnan, VP of Engineering of the Cloud and Compute organization at Cisco and the visionary behind the development of Intersight. We explore a variety of topics including Intersight's "origin story" from an infrastructure lifecycle management tool to a full-fledged, SaaS-delivered platform for managing and orchestrating assets across infrastructure, workload, and cloud services layers. Bhaskar discusses some of the engineering challenges the Intersight dev team faced in the early days while bringing Intersight from concept to execution. We also delve into the current and future use cases that will keep Intersight customers as happy and loyal users.

Come join us for an insightful conversation on the evolution of web development with Mathias Biilmann, CEO of Netlify. We explore how technologies like serverless , FaaS, and application frameworks are helping enterprises improve the way web content is delivered and hosted at the edge. Mathias helps us understand how enterprises can simplyify development, improve time to market, and up-level their web development frameworks. Twitter: @netlify @biilmann" LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/company/netlify/

Darshan is the CEO and Founder of Isima, builder of bi(OS), the world's first hyper-converged data platform. He has spent the last two decades in silicon valley, building products based on Applied AI, distributed systems, and open API principles targetting Fortune 1000 enterprises. Before Isima, he delivered telco-grade products used by 100's of millions of users at DataStax and Openwave Messaging. Earlier in his career, he deployed ML models in production to detect and improve Fraud Protection in search advertising at Yahoo. He has a Masters in Software Management from CMU. Twitter: @isimaio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/isimalabs Website: https://www.isima.io/

If technology is supposed to get easier over time … then why do containers continue to be so difficult and confusing to implement? In this episode, Neil Cresswell, CEO of Portainer, joins us on Cloud Unfiltered to help us better understand container deployment and management. With over 25 years of experience, Neil is one of the adept resources in the industry to provide a “State of the Union” for containers. Homepage: https://www.portainer.io/ Kubernetes Support: https://www.portainer.io/solutions/kubernetes-ui Reddit Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/portainer/I3 Product Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiNyx_qhUOQ

This Episode of Cloud Unfiltered is a transitional episode that introduces new hosts Michael Chenetz and Andrew Horrigan! We sadly say goodbye to host Ali Amagasu.

Ready for a juicy technical episode that doles out super-strategic advice at the same time? Excellent. Because in this half-hour Tolga explains what he meant when he said VMs are in fact becoming obsolete in a recent Forbes article. He and Pete also go deep into a discussion about whether or not "serverless first" is becoming a thing, and who serverless may not actually work for. We also talk about whether public cloud is cost effective, and what you might be doing wrong if it's not at your company; why you don't need to be worried about lock-in anymore, the right and wrong ways to move to the cloud, and the importance of embracing automation. Whew! It's a great episode. Technical goodness stacked near the front half--strategic discussion takes place in the back half. Enjoy!

Luca works for Cisco. He lives in Italy, and he wanted to help more people master the technologies and strategies that enable successful cloud implementations. So he started a local user group. In this episode he'll explain what he did right, what he would do differently, and how he's getting the group through remote meetups during the pandemic. If you're a member of a cloud user group or you're thinking about starting one, this is the episode for you! Link to the user group: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/multicloud-sw-user-group/ Luca's Twitter handle: @lucarelandini Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucarelandini

Are you on top of the non-human identities in your cloud environment? Do you know how many there are (really) and what kind of permissions they're set up with? In this episode we speak with Eric Kedrosky, CISO at Sonrai security about the rapidly escalating challenges surrounding the issue of non-human identities in the cloud. We talk about what they are, what kinds of problems they can cause, what mistakes orgs are most likely to make with them, and which best practices you can implement today in order to protect your data before a malicious actor makes your life a nightmare.

In this episode we sit down and chat with Emil Sayegh--one of the pioneers of cloud computing and a true industry visionary--about what is happening in terms of cloud computing technology right now, and what's on the horizon in the next few years. A few of the questions we cover include: Will the Big 3 public providers have a price war? Will they consolidate the industry further? Are they currently differentiated, and if so, which elements of their offerings are unique? He also takes time to explain what kind of trends they're seeing at Ntirety--the managed solutions provider that he currently leading--and explains why we may want to take a minute to make sure our data is truly secure in the new everyone-works-from-home environment.

In June the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Dan Kohn would be stepping away from his role as the leader of the organization and Priyanka Sharma--a longtime contributor, speaker, and leader in the CNCF community--would be taking his place. So who is Priyanka? What are her plans for the Foundation? And what can we expect from the upcoming (virtual) KubeCon/CloudNativeCon? Tune in to this week's episode to find out.

In this episode we talk with John Heintz, Global Systems Engineering Manager at Cisco, about what Cisco Stealthwatch is, how it has evolved over the past year, and how it secures your environment in a way that is fundamentally different from other security technologies. We also discuss some recent security breaches, the "shared responsibility" model for securing the public cloud, and where Stealthwatch fits into the recently announced Cisco SecureX. Bio – John Heintz joined Cisco Systems from Observable Networks. Prior to Observable, he spent 10 years in the telecommunications space working for major ISPs, he jumped at the opportunity to join Observable Networks, a technology start-up in his hometown of St. Louis. At Observable Networks, he was Director of Solutions Engineering, focused on helping customers improve their security with entity modeling. At Cisco, John runs the Global Sales Engineering team for Stealthwatch Cloud.