Digital Nibbles Podcast
60 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy Digital Nibbles? We’re providing listeners with bites (or is that bytes?) of technology info. We’ll be diving into cloud computing and data center topics our audience is curious about like big data, dev ops, mobile enterprise apps, and storage. We're live every other week - join us at our Website to ask questions and participate in the discussion!
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Cloud Orchestration and Data Gravity – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 60
June 19, 2014 18:34 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBAllyson and Reuven are finally reunited this week for a new episode with a couple of great guests. First up, Michael Crandell (@michaelcrandell), the CEO of RightScale stops by to talk about cloud management in the cloud environment and bridging services (servers/network/storage) to run applications. He also weighs in on the PaaS vs. IaaS debate. Then Dave McCrory (@mccrory), the CTO of Basho, discusses distributed database technology and also the concept of Data Gravity – thinking about data...
Best of DNP: The Connected Future and Privacy – Digital Nibbles episode 59
June 06, 2014 22:58 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBWith Allyson on sabbatical and Ruv on the road, we’re pulling a couple of our “best of” episodes from the archive. This week we’re re-posting an episode with two former guests of the show. First up, Ben Kepes (@benkepes), a cloud thought leader, stops by to cover the growth of enterprise cloud, the Cloud 2020 Summit he’s currently organizing, and what “The Internet of Things” means for the future. Then Deborah Salons (@dsalons), an attorney specializing in regulation and privacy, weighs in on...
Best of DNP: Interacting with Technology – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 58
May 21, 2014 20:39 - 33 minutes - 31 MBWith Allyson on sabbatical and Ruv on the road, we’re pulling a couple of our “best of” episodes from the archive. This week we’re re-posting an episode with Amber Case: Have you ever thought about your tablet as a cave painting? Facebook as a virtual reality? The distribution of parchment writing as the very first Internet? This week’s Digital Nibbles is a wide-ranging discussion with cyborg anthropologist Amber Case (@caseorganic) touching on technology trends and how they relate to society...
Best of DNP: Using Big Data to Engage Voters – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 57
May 06, 2014 17:34 - 50 minutes - 45.7 MBWith Allyson on sabbatical and Ruv on the road, we’re pulling a couple of our “best of” episodes from the archive. This week we’re re-posting Harper Reed (@harper), the CTO of Obama for America, who stopped by the show in March 2013 to talk about big data and utilizing technology (smartphones, Websites, social media) to engage voters. He and his team received tremendous credit for helping win the election through use of scalable cloud infrastructure (Amazon Web Services*) combined with a cutt...
Technology Innovation and Design Thinking – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 56
April 23, 2014 20:51 - 27.3 MBRather than our normal two guests, we’ve got a little bit of a longer (and fascinating) interview with Martin Duursma (@MartinDuursma), the VP of Citrix Labs and CTO Office Chair. He joins us to talk about innovation at Citrix and how listeners can apply Design Thinking to their ideas (be it a product iteration or a brand new idea). He also discusses upcoming trends – more seamless use of technology/technology that adapts to user needs – and give an update on Citrix’s upcoming Synergy confere...
Forecasting Technology Trends and Creating Customer Value – DNP episode 55
April 16, 2014 18:22 - 34.3 MBIn this week’s episode Daniel Burrus (@DanielBurrus), author and CEO of Burrus Research, stops b to talk about predicting technology trends and the drivers accelerating them, including Moore’s Law as it applies to processing power, bandwidth and storage. He also touches on a new model of “everything as a service.” Then Peter Coffee (@PeterCoffee), VP for strategic research at Salesforce.com, chats about creating customer value and a few responsibilities for enterprises in the future. Show Ti...
OpenStack for Private Clouds and the IaaS/PaaS Debate – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 54
March 28, 2014 20:36 - 37.3 MBThis week’s first Guest is Chris Kemp (@kemp), the founder of Nebula and NASA’s first CTO. He’s here to talk about OpenStack, which he co-developed, and his company’s piece of hardware that can turn servers into their own private cloud, helping enterprises efficiently run their infrastructure. Then JP Morgenthal (@jpmorgenthal), the director of the Cloud Computing Practice at Perficient, chats about the blurring of IaaS and PaaS and where Perficient fits in. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introduct...
Cloud Metrics and Software-Defined Storage – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 53
March 28, 2014 20:22 - 35 MBA couple of excellent conversations this week on cloud performance metrics and software-defined storage. First up, returning guest Paul Miller (@paulmiller), an analyst with Cloud of Data, chats about transparency and conflict of interest in the consulting market, as well as cloud benchmarks and what they mean for enterprise workloads. Then Bernard Harguindeguy (@atlantisilio), the CEO of Atlantis Computing, discusses optimizing virtual machines (VMs) and how they interact with storage, resul...
Cloud Computing Maturity and the Startup Process – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 52
February 28, 2014 01:34 - 31.3 MBRuv is in India this week, so Allyson is hosting the program solo. Unfortunately for listener ear drums, we had audio issues with Ben Kepes (@benkepes), a cloud computing thought leader and our first guest. He chats about the WhatsApp acquisition, Box and Dropbox moving toward IPO, what cloud computing companies will be interesting in 2014, and where software-defined networking is moving in the future. Then Shashi Jain (@skjain2), Corporate Innovation Lead at UP Global, joins the program to t...
A New Decentralized System for Digital Transactions – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 51
February 11, 2014 17:01 - 35.1 MBFirst up this week, we have CEO Johann Gevers (@johanngevers) and CTO Chris Odom of Monetas. Based on the Open-Transactions project, Monetas is aiming to be the world’s first decentralized system for financial and legal transactions – a digital contracting platform. They’ve seen interest for a variety of different uses/industries including: money remittance, cell phone providers, banks, consumer applications, and virtual worlds. Then returning guest Gordon Haff (@ghaff), a cloud evangelist at...
Enterprise Cloud Strategy – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 50
February 01, 2014 21:35 - 29.2 MBFirst up this week, Faiz Parkar (@_CloudNinja), a Product Marketing Director from Canopy, stops by to talk about cloud computing and helping enterprises map out a cloud strategy. He sees a growing concern around cloud transparency – enterprises want to know what technologies are at play in their public cloud instance that address security, performance, and compliance issues. Then frequent guest Michael Sheehan (@HighTechDad) chats about his new gig as a staff reporter for IntelFreePress. He r...
PaaS and Data Analytics Maturity – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 49
January 15, 2014 20:34 - 35.2 MBIn our first episode of 2014, Krish Subramanian (@krishnan), Director of OpenShift Strategy for Red Hat, stops by to talk about the company’s OpenShift platform and the rise of Platform as a Service (PaaS). Then Edd Dumbill (@edd), Founding Chair of O’Reilly Strata and VP of Strategy at Silicon Valley Data Science, chats about big data and where innovations are happening. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 11:20 – Interview with Krish Subramanian • 23:52 – Interview...
It’s All About the Apps – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 48
December 27, 2013 22:33 - 38.6 MBIn our last episode of 2013, Duncan Johnston-Watt (@duncanjw), the founder and CEO of Cloudsoft and Chip Childers (@chipchilders), the VP of product strategy at CumuLogic stop by to talk about their respective companies and cloud computing in 2014. Cloudsoft is bringing business to the cloud – their Application Management Platform orchestrates services, platforms and infrastructures to ensure they directly meet the needs of applications, dynamically and in real time. CumuLogic allows service ...
Finding Value in Big Data – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 47
December 03, 2013 02:20 - 30.2 MBJohn Blumenthal (@cloudphysics), founder and CEO of CloudPhysics, stops by to talk about using data analytics to improve the safety and efficiency of your data center. Their virtual appliance scans and collects big data for analysis, leading to insights on how to structure virtualized IT. Then Alex Williams (@alexwilliams), an enterprise writer at TechCrunch, checks in from Dreamforce. He and Allyson talk about the proliferation of hackathons before moving onto the announcement of Amazon’s Ke...
Architecting the Cloud and Predicting Future Technology – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 46
November 19, 2013 20:12 - 37.8 MBWe have a couple of visionaries on the show this week. First up, Shlomo Swidler (CEO, Orchestratus, @ShlomoSwidler) stops by to talk about his work in cloud computing. He’s been at the forefront of the industry since launching the first large-scale public cloud in Amazon Web Services in 1998. He and Reuven discuss cloud architecting, app migration and development maturity. Then Guy Bieber (Chief Futurist, Citrix, @gbieber2) chats about future technology and the process of predicting what peop...
Making Data Meaningful – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 45
October 30, 2013 18:57 - 30.2 MBFirst up in this week’s show, Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz), president and CEO or Hurwitz and Associates, stops by to talk about her book line: Cloud Computing for Dummies, Hybrid Cloud for Dummies and the new Big Data for Dummies. She talks about finding the value in the data so users can make more meaningful business decisions. Then Michael Sheehan (@hightechdad), joins to talk about the latest gadgets he’s been testing and reviewing, including: Personalized health devices, ios7, and an Intel®...
Accelerating Tech Start Ups – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 44
October 11, 2013 22:03 - 36.8 MBWe’ve got a couple of interiewees talking tech start ups this week. First, Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby), co-founder and CTO of Bromium, stops by the show to talk about security on mobile devices, specifically using virtualization technology to create a micro-VM for each task a user performs on an untrusted network or document. For more information, visit www.bromium.com. Then Jason Seats (@seats), a managing director at Techstars, joins to talk about their boot camp for technology start-ups, w...
The Changing Role of IT in the Enterprise – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 43
September 23, 2013 22:57 - 37 MBReuven’s hosting solo again, as Allyson is out with a cold. He breaks with tradition and brings on this week’s guests together for a wide-ranging discussion on the role of IT in the enterprise. Bart Copeland (@bart_copeland), CEO and president of ActiveState, talks about private Platform as a Service – bringing PaaS behind the firewall and offering enterprises control and management over their platform. Kevin Behr (@kevinbehr), founder and president of Assemblage Pointe and a co-author of Pho...
Cloud Bursting and Backend as a Service for App Management – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 42
September 08, 2013 02:44 - 29.5 MBReuven is hosting solo this week, as Allyson is in San Francisco at the Intel® AtomTM processor C-2000 series launch. He guides listeners through a couple of fascinating interviews – first up is Rajeev Chawla, the CEO and Co-Founder of CloudVelocity, and second is Sravish Sridhar, Founder and CEO of Kinvey. Rajeev chats about viewing the public cloud as a seamless extension of your data center, taking existing workloads and running them in the cloud without having to re-architect. Sravish tak...
The Key to Enterprise Clouds? Open Source. – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 41
September 01, 2013 01:03 - 31.3 MBRandy Bias, the co-founder and CEO of Cloudscaling, is our guest this week. Cloud scaling is a provider of Infrastructure as a service, for enterprises who want to connect their OpenStack* deployments to Amazon Web Services * or Google Compute Engine*. He believes we’re close to broad adoption for clouds, and that we’ll start to see different flavors of clouds (HPC cloud, enterprise virtualized cloud, elastic cloud, etc.) each with specific types of hardware, network architecture, performance...
Services for Public and Private Cloud – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 40
August 16, 2013 02:47 - 34.9 MBAfter a short hiatus, DNP is back on the air with an episode all about rapidly-growing start ups in the private and public cloud space. First up, Joshua McKenty (@jmckenty), co-founder and CTO of Piston Cloud Computing (and one of the co-founders of OpenStack) stops by to talk about innovating on top of the OpenStack APIs for customers including major banks and governments. Then Mat Ellis (@MatEllis), founder and CEO of Cloudability, discusses how to give control and insight into cloud costs....
Integrating Compute/Storage and Cloud App Resiliency – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 39
July 10, 2013 21:26 - 34.9 MBFirst up in this week’s Digital Nibbles is Jason Hoffman (@jasonh), the CTO and Founder of Joyent, who talks about Joyent’s new product offering, Joyent Manta, which combines compute and storage (i.e. natively running compute instances directly on the object store where the objects lie). More info is available at www.joynet.com. Then Mohit Lad (@mohitlad), the CEO and co-founder of Thousand Eyes, stops by to talk about the company, which just came out of stealth phase. Thousand Eye provides ...
Live from GigaOM’s Structure Conference – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 38
July 03, 2013 18:36 - 64.6 MBAllyson and Reuven are live from the patio of GigaOM’s Structure event with a great lineup: Sameer Dholakia (@spdholakia), Group VP & GM - Cloud Platforms, Citrix; Jim Blair (@OpenStack), Principal Infrastructure Software Developer, OpenStack and Lauren Sell (@laurensell) Director of Marketing, OpenStack; Jonathan Murray (@Adamalthus), EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Warner Music Group and Jared Wray (@jaredwray ), Founder and CTO, Tier 3; and Raejeanne Skillern (@RaejeanneS ), Director of Cl...
Live from Forecast 2013 – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 37
July 01, 2013 18:20 - 47.2 MBIn this archive of a live episode, Allyson and Reuven chat with Das Kamhout (Intel, @dkamhout), Paul Miller (Cloud of Data, @PaulMiller), and Ben Kepes (Diversity Ltd., @benkepes). The group was live on stage at the Open Data Center Alliance’s Forecast 2013 event, and discussed the conference as well as the industry’s most pressing cloud computing topics like VM interop, software-defined data centers, and Infrastructure as a Service. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introduction and discussing Forecas...
Quantitative Factors Driving Cloud Adoption – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 36
June 28, 2013 23:08 - 34.9 MBJoe Weinman (@joeweinman), SVP of Cloud Services and Strategy at Telx, stops by to talk about how companies can achieve competitive differentiation through cloud computing in terms of operational excellence, product leadership, and customer intimacy. Our second guest, Ben Kepes (@benkepes), had challenges getting connected, so Allyson and Reuven wrap up the episode chatting about privacy and scrutiny in the world of cloud and big data, as well as a couple of upcoming cloud conferences. Timel...
Requirements and Strategy for Cloud Computing – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 35
June 07, 2013 23:03 - 36.5 MBWe’ve got an event preview this week on Digital Nibbles. First up, Das Kamhout (@dkamhout), IT Principal Engineer at Intel, stops by to talk about the Open Data Center Alliance’s upcoming Forecast event (June 17-18) and his role moderating the ODCA University sessions on cloud requirements. Then Derrick Harris (@derrickharris), a senior writer at GigaOM, joins us to talk about GigaOM’s Structure event (June 19-20), which focuses on the companies that are powering Web experience and how they a...
The Future of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 34
May 24, 2013 22:12 - 37.6 MBAdrian Cockcroft (@adrianco), director of architecture for cloud systems at Netflix, joins us from the Google I/O conference and chats about his Google Glasses and also an interesting announcement on charging by the minute for Google’s IaaS platform. He also discusses how Netflix built their massive cloud architecture, how they test the Netflix cloud, and the recently launched $100,000 prize from Netflix for developers who can improve on the company’s open source tools. Our second guest is Jo...
Your Data Has Value – Digital Nibbles Podcast Episode 33
May 11, 2013 00:07 - 33.3 MBYour Data Has Value – Digital Nibbles Podcast Episode 33 We’ve got a loose theme running through our guests this week. First up, Paul Miller (@paulmiller), an analyst at Cloud of Data talks cloud privacy and why your personal data might have more value than you think (like making purchase data portable and taking it from Amazon to Barnes & Noble). Then Brian Gracely (@bgracely), VP of Solutions Marketing at Virtustream, chats about how his passion project and how important it is to educate y...
The Connected Future and Privacy – Digital Nibbles episode 32
April 30, 2013 00:40 - 40.6 MBTwo former guests of the show are back this week to talk about a couple of interesting cloud topics. First up, Ben Kepes (@benkepes), a cloud thought leader, stops by to cover the growth of enterprise cloud, the Cloud 2020 Summit he’s currently organizing, and what “The Internet of Things” means for the future. Then Deborah Salons (@dsalons), an attorney specializing in regulation and privacy, weighs in on if you can ever be truly be private in the cloud. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introduction...
Analytics for eCommerce and PaaS for the Enterprise – DNP episode 31
April 06, 2013 23:58 - 37.2 MBWe’ve got two great interviews this week, focusing on some emerging technologies. First, Will Young (@zapposlabs), the director of Zappos Labs, stops by to talk about the customer experience and using analytics and social media to find new ways for customers to shop and interact. Then Sam Charrington (@samcharrington), the principal of CloudPulse Strategies (and co-founder of Cloudcamp with Ruv), joins DNP to break down IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and to discuss where PaaS is heading in the enterpri...
Using Big Data to Engage Voters – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 30
March 29, 2013 16:58 - 45.5 MBWe have a very special interview this week – Harper Reed (@harper), CTO of the Obama for America campaign, stops by to talk about big data and utilizing technology (smartphones, Websites, social media) to engage voters. He and his team have received tremendous credit for helping win the election through use of scalable cloud infrastructure (Amazon Web Services*) combined with a cutting edge big data engine that helped pinpoint everything from ad buys to volunteer engagement. It’s a great tes...
Cloud Workloads – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 29
March 11, 2013 04:34 - 36.3 MBWe’re 100% cloud computing-focused this week. First Gordon Haff (@ghaff), cloud evangelist from Red Hat stops by to talk about the rise of Platform as a Service (PaaS) especially in the enterprise space. Then Tom Lounibos (@lounibos), CEO of SOASTA, discusses three products: 1. CloudTest, a test automation suite for mobile developers to test their app and associated workload, 2. TouchTest, an environment for mobile developers to test apps on hundreds of different permutations, and 3. Real Use...
Disaster Avoidance – DNP episode 28
March 02, 2013 00:15 - 39.1 MBWhether you’re trying to avoid app downtime or getting stuck in the wrong job, we’ve got you covered on Digital Nibbles this week. First up, Alan Gin (@alan_gin), president and CEO of ZeroNines discusses his company and products – their intent is to keep apps always available and prevent rolling disasters. For more info, visit www.zeronines.com. Then Samar Birwadker, founder and CEO of ManageUp, stops by to talk about creating a method for better hiring in the workplace – matching personality...
Putting Security First – DNP episode 27
February 14, 2013 00:34 - 38.8 MBDavi Ottenheimer (senior director of trust, EMC) kicks off this week’s episode with a wide-ranging discussion on computer security and trust – everything from security in the cloud to the weaponization of cyber attacks to active defense. To learn more about Davi and connect with him, visit http://www.flyingpenguin.com. Our second interview is with Navin Thadani (SVP, Ravello Systems; @navinthadani), who stops by to talk about using the public cloud to develop and test applications. Ravello is...
What’s Hot in Technology – DNP episode 26
January 31, 2013 20:01 - 35.7 MBWe’ve got a couple of interviews on emerging technology this week. First, Jilliene Helman the CEO of RealtyMogul talks about moving real estate investing into the cloud. RealtyMogul is a marketplace for accredited investors to pool money online and buy shares of pre-vetted investment properties. Then Michael Sheehan (@hightechdad), one of our favorite recurring guests, gives his thoughts on new tech gadgets - health monitors, high-tech cars, and home automation.
Wearable Computing – DNP episode 25
January 29, 2013 18:18 - 37.7 MBOur favorite cyborg anthropologist, Amber Case, stops by to talk to talk about her new book, “An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology,” as well as a couple of emerging technology trends like wearable technology that allows for self analysis. For more information, visit www.cyborganthropology.com. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:51 – Interview with Amber Case • 39:50 – Wrap Up
Do Well by Doing Good – DNP episode 24
December 19, 2012 18:56 - 35.8 MBA couple of fascinating interviews this week on Digital Nibbles. First up is Lorie Wigle (@lwigle), general manager in the Eco-Technology Program Office at Intel. She focuses on the intersection of sustainability and technology – looking at both the direct footprint of computing (how can we make everything from cell phones to datacenters more efficient) as well how technologies can be applied to address challenges (like food safety or energy data). Then Rick Turoczy (@piepdx), general manager...
Data Center Efficiency and Sustainability – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 23
December 02, 2012 04:19 - 38.8 MBWith the concerns surrounding data center power usage growing, we invited Winston Saunders, director of data center power initiatives from Intel (@WinstonOnEnergy) and Kathrin Winkler, vice president and chief sustainability officer from EMC (@KathrinRWinkler) to stop by and talk. They discuss issues on how to make servers and data centers more efficient (innovations in water cooling and biogas electricity generation), then move into a fascinating discussion on the intersection of social, en...
Can Machines Think? – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 22
November 19, 2012 16:50 - 30.9 MBIn this Halloween episode, Risto Miikkulainen, a Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, at the University of Texas at Austin stops by to discuss his work in building machines that are intelligent. He discusses winning the 2K BotPrize for realistic bot game play in Unreal Tournament 2004, what advances in cognitive artificial intelligence means for gaming and training environments, and where we might be going in the future. For more information (including videos), visit www.botprize.o...
The Growth of Data in a Digital Era – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 21
October 31, 2012 20:45 - 33.9 MBWe’ve got a couple of fascinating conversations on DNP this week. First, Jim Dempsey, VP of Public Policy for the Center for Democracy and Technology stops by to talk about Internet policy issues – things like consumer and health privacy as well as government surveillance. Are your emails protected correspondence? Then Nic Fleming, a journalist who wrote an article on self tracking for New Scientist discusses the rise of consumers using various points of data to optimize themselves. Show Tim...
Accelerating Innovation with Disruptive Technologies – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 20
October 09, 2012 18:20 - 32.8 MBDigital Nibbles is on the road this week as Reuven checks in from Rio de Janeiro and Allyson hits the town in San Francisco at Oracle OpenWorld. Their first guest this week is Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. He’s talks about the evolution of Linux in new technologies, and the advantages of developing technology through collaboration. Chris Harrison, a PhD candidate from Carnegie Mellon University also stops by the program to discuss his work in developing advanced user...
Looking at Cloud (and Management) as a Complex Adaptive System – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 19
September 30, 2012 18:28 - 28.6 MBManageability has been called the toughest problem to solve in the data center. What happens when you have to extend that to also managing your cloud? James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy at enStratus, stops by to discuss the problem of managing a massively interconnected system when different agents have their own rules for interacting with a system and apps can have effects on other apps multiple steps down the chain. For more information, James blogs at: http://gigaom.com/author/jurquhart/.
Making Computers More Powerful – Digital Nibbles episode 18
September 18, 2012 23:27 - 33.6 MBOur first guest today, John Pavlus, outlines the P vs. NP mathematical problem and how it relates to computer programming and the approach to computer programming and decision making. Most data we would like a computer to analyze (things like protein folding and financial trading) are NP problems with a range of possible answers vs. P problems (checklists). Our second guests, Jeff Martens and Matt Wallington from CPUsage, take your idle computer power and use it to work on high throughput com...
A Unified Theory of Cloud – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 17
August 30, 2012 00:05 - 36.5 MBIn a cloud environment we can’t care about Linux vs. Windows – that’s the opinion of one of this week’s guests, Diane Mueller (@XBRLspy). She’s a cloud evangelist from ActiveState who wrote a unified theory of cloud and believes you should be able to run any language, on any cloud, on any stack. The other guest this week, Kian Saneii (@independa), is the CEO of a company at the convergence of wireless technology, environmental sensors, and cloud computing. His company, Independa, is an integr...
The Connected Lifestyle – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 16
August 14, 2012 22:47 - 28.1 MBDo you check your phone obsessively? Are you tethered to your Facebook timeline? Can’t step away from your video game console? You may be suffering from iDisorder, a term characterized by our first guest this week, Dr. Larry Rosen (professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills; @DrLarryRosen). He’s here to talk about his book and how technology is affecting our behavior and mental state. Our second guest this week is Dennis Owen (VP of Marketing, Cathay Pacific; @DennisOwen) who d...
Streaming Cloud Storage – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 15
July 30, 2012 03:41 - 34 MBReuven is out sick this week (we’re sure he’ll make a comeback for the next episode), so Allyson is hosting solo. She’s joined by Tony Gauda (@tonygauda), CEO and co-founder of Bitcasa as well as frequent guest Michael Sheehan (@hightechdad). Tony’s talking storing data in the cloud and streaming to your mobile devices in real time (similar to Spotify or Netflix) while Michael updates us on the latest technology gadgets and innovations. 0:00 – Introductions 5:10 – Interview with Tony Gauda 2...
Data Visualization and Capacity Exchange – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 14
July 17, 2012 22:42 - 37.6 MBIt’s a multi-continent show this week as Reuven and guest Leslie Bradshaw (President, COO and Co-Founder, JESS3) are in North America while Allyson and guest Andreas Hipp (CEO and Co-Founder, Epsilon) are in Europe. Leslie is here to talk about data visualization – taking all the massive amounts of data we encounter on a daily basis and distilling it into something more engaging and exciting – while cautioning against the rise of the infographic. After a bit of technical difficulty, Andreas t...
Cloud Operations – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 13
July 10, 2012 19:22 - 34.2 MBReuven is solo this week and he’s joined by J.R. Storment (chief customer officer, Cloudability, @stormental) and Alistair Croll (cloud guru, @acroll). J.R. talks about the benefits of the cloud (building and expanding quickly) and addressing the subsequent sticker shock – Cloudability serves as an economic tracking system for the cloud. Visit www.cloudability.com for more information. Alistair talks about CloudOps and the independent research arm that’s looking into cloud performance and th...
Digital Nibbles Live from Forecast 2012 – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 12
June 19, 2012 21:12 - 120 MBIn this episode from the Open Data Center Alliance’s Forecast 2012, Allyson and Reuven chat for three hours with an exciting lineup of cloud experts on a variety of cloud topics including regulation, management, standards, and security. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions, discussion of Forecast, News of the Week • 6:40: Interview with Matt Lowth (NAB) • 29:08: Interview with George Reese (enStratus) • 49:52: Interview with Marvin Wheeler (Chairman of the ODCA) • 1:17:50: Interview with Deb...
Challenges and Opportunities for the Cloud - Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 11
June 10, 2012 21:10 - 36.9 MBJoining Allyson and Reuven in this Digital Nibbles are Julien Coulon (Co-Founder, Cedexis) and Lynn Sutherland (COO, Canadian Cloud Council) and Pano Xinos (VP, Quebec, Canadian Cloud Council). Julien talks about taking a federated approach to Web performance management of the cloud while Lynn and Pano give an update on the cloud in Canada and the driving forces behind adoption. For more info on the Canadian Cloud Council visit www.canadiancloudcouncil.ca and for more on Cedexis visit www.ced...