In my latest podcast I talk with Robin Johnson, CEO of FT Search. Part of Pearson’s Financial Times Group, FT Search recently launched the beta of newssift.com, a search engine geared towards the needs of those seeking to understand businesses and the environment within which they operate.

We discuss newssift, and some of the practical issues involved in delivering timely and reliable business intelligence.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Bloomberg
• Dow Jones
• Economist
• Factiva
• Financial Times
• Google News
• Interactive Data Corporation
• Lexalytics
• Media Cloud project, from Harvard’s Berkman Center
• Mergermarket Group
• Measures that Matter (server unavailable?)
• Nothing but Net (PDF)
• Nstein
• New York Times
• ReelTwo
• Sift of the Day
• Thomson Reuters
• Wall Street Journal
• Yahoo! Finance

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 28 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Wendy Mars, European Director for Data Centres & UCS at Cisco.

We discuss Cisco’s recent announcement of the Unified Computing System (UCS), which sees a company perhaps best known for network hardware move toward providing the components of a fully fledged data centre fit for the Cloud.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Cisco
• Morgan Stanley
• ThruPoint
• Unified Computing System (UCS)
• Unified Service Delivery (USD)
• VMware (and my podcast with Reza Malekzadeh)

This conversation was recorded on Friday 15 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Reza Malekzadeh, Senior Director of Products & Marketing at VMware.

We talk about virtualisation in general and VMware specifically, and explore the implications of last month’s announcement of vSphere 4; “the industry’s first operating system for building the internal Cloud.”

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 3Tera
• Appistry
• Cisco
• Citrix
• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
• EMC
• Hypervisor
• Microsoft
• NetApp
• Parallels
• VMware
• VMware Fusion
• VMware vCenter
• VMware vMotion
• VMware vSphere
• Xen

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 7 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Chander Kant, Founder and CEO of Zmanda.

We talk about Zmanda’s use of Cloud storage in their Open Source backup solution, and consider the practicality of backing up data already stored in the Cloud.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amanda Enterprise
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon S3
• JungleDisk
• Microsoft Azure
• Mobile Me
• Mozy
• MySQL
• Oracle
• Rackspace
• RAID
• Red Hat
• Sun Cloud Storage Service
• Sun Compute Cloud
• SUSE
• Symantec Veritas NetBackup
• Ubuntu
• Zmanda
• Zmanda Cloud Backup

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 6 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO and VP Cloud Computing Platforms at IBM.

We talk about IBM’s perspective on the Cloud, and discuss open standards, interoperability, and the Open Cloud Manifesto.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2 Running IBM
• Amazon Web Services
• Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
• Hadoop
• IBM Blue Cloud Initiative Advances Enterprise Cloud Computing
• IBM Cloud Computing
• IBM Hursley
• IBM Yorktown
• Lotus Live
• MapReduce
• Open Cloud Manifesto and my podcast with Reuven Cohen
• Smarter Planet Initiative
• Tivoli
• WebSphere

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 23 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast we take a look at the programme for this year’s European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), which begins on the Greek island of Crete in a few weeks’ time.

Joining me for the call were the event’s General Chair Fabio Ciravegna and Programme co-Chair Lora Aroyo. We were also joined by Alan Smeaton, one of the invited Keynote speakers, who discussed the scope of his talk on synergies between semantic technologies, video and the emerging Sensor Web.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Dublin City University
• European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2009)
• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009)
• Free University of Amsterdam
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009)
• MPEG-7
• Sensor Web
• University of Sheffield

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 30 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Juan Carlos Soto, Vice President for Cloud Computing Marketing at Sun Microsystems.

We talk about Sun’s recently disclosed vision for Cloud Computing, and discuss the timetable by which various services will become available to customers.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 3D Desktop
• Amazon Web Services
• Apache
• CommunityOne
• Michael Crandell (and my recent podcast with Michael)
• EUCALYPTUS
• Java
• Mediawiki
• MySQL
• Network.com
• Rackspace
• RightScale
• ‘Slashdotted‘
• Juan Carlos Soto
• Squid
• Sun Cloud API
• VirtualBox
• Rich Wolski (and my recent podcast with Rich)
• Zmanda

This conversation was recorded on Friday 24 April, 2009.

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Ahead of Ubuntu’s release later this week my latest podcast conversation is with Simon Wardley of the Linux distribution’s commercial sponsor, Canonical.

We discuss Ubuntu Server’s much-anticipated inclusion of the EUCALYPTUS-powered ‘Enterprise Cloud,’ consider the increasingly strong position of Amazon’s EC2 API as a de facto standard in the Cloud, and look at some of the steps still required to persuade Enterprise customers to wholeheartedly embrace Cloud Computing.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Web Services
• Canonical
• CohesiveFT
• Does IT Matter? and my podcast with Nick Carr
• EUCALYPTUS, and my podcast with Rich Wolski
• Google App Engine
• IETF
• Microsoft Azure, and my podcast with Amitabh Srivastava
• Open Cloud Manifesto, and my podcast with Reuven Cohen
• OSCon
• Oracle announces intention to buy Sun Microsystems
• Red Queen Hypothesis
• RightScale, and my podcast with Michael Crandell
• Ubuntu
• Zimki on The Register

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 21 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Eric Hillerbrand about his notions of ‘Social Commerce.’

We discuss some of the ways in which semantic technologies play a part in altering the traditional relationship between people and brands, consumers and retailers.

This conversation was recorded on Friday 17 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Bert Armijo, co-founder and Senior Vice President for Sales, Marketing & Product Management at 3Tera.

We discuss 3Tera’s AppLogic solution, consider the different roles for ‘public,’ ‘private,’ and ‘internal’ Clouds, and explore the rationale behind the company’s ambitious Service Level Agreement (SLA).

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 3Tera
• 3Tera SLA, and my coverage
• Agathon Group
• AppLogic
• Cisco
• Clearing the air on Cloud Computing [pdf] McKinsey report
• Layered Technologies
• LAMP
• Barry Lynn
• MySQL
• Peter Nickolov
• Nortel
• SilkFair
• TopSpin Communications
• Wells Fargo

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 15 April, 2009.

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