The New Stack Analysts

The strategic partnership between Cloudsoft and InContinuum that was announced recently at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas provides the context for this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast. The New Stack’s Alex Williams and co-host Joab Jackson explored multi-platform environments, cloud automization and control planes, in a cordial conversation with Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder and CEO of Cloudsoft Corporation, and also with Phillip Hyde, CEO and founder at InContinuum Software, and Scott Hartzel, Director of Product Management at Cloudsoft. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qyUS5RaT4Xo Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/cloudsoft-incontinuum-set-controller-fully-fungible-cloud/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, host Alex Williams, along with co-host Benjamin Ball welcomed Matt Curry, Director of Cloud Engineering at Allstate, to discuss the eminent insurance company’s journey into continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development using Pivotal Cloud Foundry. And, returning to the show was Bridget Kromhout, a principal technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GcleEH5kEw Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/allstates-devops-honeymoon-pivotal-going-strong-one-year-later/

Tech metaphors don't get much easier to relate to than describing heavy traffic and outages on the Internet by comparing it to the bane of everyday travel: gridlock. In this 77th edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast you’ll hear Teridion founder Elad Rave explain that their solution to the Internet’s infinite rush hour, using virtual machines and the cloud, is “elegantly simple.” The New Stack’s Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson were also joined by Kris Lahiri, VP Operations and Chief Security Officer at Egnyte, provider of Adaptive Enterprise File Services for sharing content stored on-premises or in the cloud. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/egnyte-partners-teridion-combat-cloud-congestion-customers/

From programming languages and frameworks, to components with bridge functionality, “there is so much innovation happening,” according to Sanjay Patil, senior director of industry standards and open source at SAP, who spoke with The New Stack’s Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TH0NTvZu8pQ Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-building-platform-continuous-innovation-cloud-foundry/

From Node.js Interactive in Portland, this one’s a frisky discussion that endeavored to focus on the symbiosis of Node.js and Docker. It succeeds not only to inform but also to entertain. The New Stack founder Alex Williams roamed the aisles with microphone à la Phil Donohue while TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson moderated the panel: Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent Jacob Groundwater, Product Research Team, New Relic Matt Hernandez, Product Manager with Modulus Peter Elger Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at NearForm Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZa3_bNYZE Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-perfect-storm-node-js-docker/

If containers were originally supposed to be more secure than VMs because they would replace them, how secure will they be now that it appears containers and VMs must co-exist? The New Stack talks with security experts from Docker, Red Hat, Apcera, Intel and CoreOS to find out! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQAi1r1qWM Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-year-ahead-container-security-and-the-reality-of-virtual-machine-coexistence/

It was a grey drizzly day in December, and the schedulers were maximizing throughput, totally. The New Stack founder Alex Williams, his forehead nuzzled into his trademark fedora in an effort to escape the harsh florescent lights, slipped quickly through the glass doors of the Hilton, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of staticky dust from the light-rail-inlaid streets of Portland, Oregon entering along with him. Along a mossy path beside a still-affordable southeast craftsman home of deceptive square footage, a neighborhood cat sashays past a streaming HD camera toward a bowl of artisan chow. A macabre grin passed across Williams’ face. “Portnodia,” he thought, to himself at first; later he would do so out loud. But now, in a silent and ceremonious sort of way, he unveiled a comically oversized podcasting microphone and presented it to the group, meeting each in turn with his piercing journalistic stare. With a brush of his mouse finger he powered-up some solid-state storage and hit the “record” button, so as to capture this episode of The New Stack Analysts. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8N_uGTVXO Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-code-gui-keep-node-weird-portland/

Is Node.js doomed to failure in the enterprise, or is it perfect just the way it is? This is one of the false dichotomies which The New Stack was privileged to help dispel at Node.js Interactive during a short stack with a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Founder Alex Williams, and Managing Editor Joab Jackson. An excellent group of participants with a depth of experience in both programming and consulting cut through a stack of pertinent topics, including semantic versioning, the re-unification with io.js, and tooling for collaboration, more of which is needed, everyone agreed, in order for for the enterprise to fully embrace Node.js: Dan Shaw, CTO and Co-Founder of NodeSource Ashley Williams, Developer Community and Content Manager at npm, Inc. Matteo Collina, Software Architect at NearForm Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BCvcRwqazEI Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-node-js-tooling-enterprise-please/

Day two of the Tectonic 2015 Summit kicked off with a short stack and a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Managing Editor Joab Jackson, with support from The New Stack’s Technical Editor & Producer Benjamin Ball and contributor Lawrence Hecht. The panel: Gabriel Monroy, CTO at Engine Yard and the creator of Deis Matthew Brender, Developer Advocate, Software Defined Infrastructure team at Intel Corporation Alex Polvi, Founder and CEO at CoreOS, Inc. At the outset, Polvi promised, as a reward for those attending so early, that the panel would make things “as controversial as we possibly can,” the likelihood of which was increased by the numerous topics — container security, the enterprise adoption curve, DevOps as a job description, how to compete with AWS, the prospective lock-in with Kubernetes and which open source projects it will make redundant — served up in the electric atmosphere during this breezy session. Any and all controversy that was to be had has been captured for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-controverial-short-stack-tectonic-summit/

Call it another overwhelming indication of the power and potential of open source. DigitalOcean's Social Media Manager Daniel Zaltsman said that Hacktoberfest 2015, the month-long event encouraging people to contribute to GitHub-hosted open source projects, "was way more successful than we expected." "It's kind of crazy to look at the numbers," from this year to compared to last year, Zaltzman said. Although the much of the big data is still wriggling, Zaltsman reeled in a few statistics for The New Stack founder Alex Williams and managing editor Joab Jackson during this edition of The New Stack Analysts. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZeDK5E38c Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-digitalocean-hacktoberfest/

Talk about a fantastic meeting of the minds – in this installment of The New Stack Analysts, host Alex Williams is joined by Ilan Rabinovitch, Director of Technical Community at Datadog, and John Mathon, who shares his thoughts on open source and enterprise software on his CloudRamblings blog, and was most recently VP of Product Strategy at WSO2. Recorded at KubeCon, this show makes for great listening just to hear Mathon, who started TIBCO Software and is also the inventor of publish–subscribe, engage Rabinovitch in discussing the features of DataDog’s hosted monitoring platform. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdQjHw3BNF8 Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/datadog-kubecon-infrastructure/

In San Francisco did KubeCon at the stately Palace Hotel convene. And in the closing hours there, The New Stack founder Alex Willams teamed with conference organizer Patrick Reilley, as well as Martin Klaus and Grant Shipley of Red Hat, to record this edition of The New Stack Analysts. The group discussed the diversity of schedulers, the standardization choices facing enterprises, and also Red Hat’s recent achievements with OpenShift, which had just seen its 3.1 release. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpsObsJHNI Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-talking-openshift-schedulers-kubecon-2015/

Are speed and agility at hopelessly irresolvable odds with safe and compliant development? In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Derek Collison, Founder & CEO at Apcera, said that his team is working to allow developers and DevOps to go at speed, on a trusted platform system that brings together security and compliance. Also joining The New Stack’s Alex Williams for this insightful discussion, which was recorded at Kubecon 2015, was Janakiram MSV, who is an analyst and advisor at Janakiram & Associates, and is also a contributor to The New Stack. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PJCLTtRKc2w Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-derek-collison-building-apceras-trusted-cloud-platform/

On the eve of DockerConEU 2015, a collection of intrepid souls seeking community and adventure convened at a Mediterranean gastrobar nestled in Les Corts along Barcelona’s Avinguda Diagonal. On that night at Metric Market, in the multifunction basement space called “The Bunker,” which is dominated by a beautiful sofa, The New Stack founder Alex Williams and our friends at Container Solutions hosted this eclectic group for a “champagne podcast,” perhaps the first of its kind ever in the vast, silicon sweep of digital history. As you listen, perhaps after refreshing your own secondarily fermented and chilled beverage, imagine this crowd, if you will, to be code slam poets riffing metaphoric on the zoology of distributed infrastructure, or grizzled prospectors huddled bent-kneed around a promising lode of microservices interconnectivity, and enjoy. Captured in all of its Catalonian splendor, the podcast features Container Solutions’ CTO Pini Reznik and Chief Scientist Adrien Mouat, as well as Casey Bisson, Product Manager at Joyent, and Mark Coleman, the CEO of Implicit Explicit, the company who, along with Container Solutions, runs the Software Circus conference. Also contributing were numerous attendees who each revealed what brought them to DockerCon in Spain, and who shared their stories with each other, and with us, for this installment of The New Stack Analysts. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-p_DT4wkt4 Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-66-champagne-podcast-wishes-dockercon-dreams/

DockerConEU 2015 in Barcelona, Spain kicked off with a podcast session hosted by The New Stack’s Alex Williams, recorded live for this edition of The New Stack Analysts. This time, waffles — not short stacks — were on the menu, but no one was heard to complain, because Barcelona. Neither did the early-morning panel waffle as it touched on new technologies, container security and monitoring, and the rapid adoption of Docker and Kubernetes, even helping to define the abstract notion of “microservices,” and the result was a brisk and forward-looking discussion that captured the enthusiasm at the beginning of the conference. Joining in the discussion were: Chenxi Wang, Chief Strategy Officer at Twistlock Jérôme Petazzoni, senior engineer at Docker Fintan Ryan, analyst at RedMonk Kit Merker, Product Manager at Google Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/maK6MM2Rdnw Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-65-kicking-off-dockercon-eu-2015/