In my latest podcast I talk with Russ Daniels, VP and CTO for Cloud Services Strategy at Hewlett-Packard. We discuss HP’s far-reaching Cloud Computing activities, and consider some of the ways in which embracing the Cloud brings change to an established IT company such as HP.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
• EDS
• GoGrid’s API
• Mark Hurd
• IDC
• Moore’s Law
• Shane Robison
• Sun’s API

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 18 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Rich Wolski, Director of the EUCALYPTUS Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

EUCALYPTUS is an open source research project with features broadly comparable to those of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and we discuss the project’s genesis, current use, and likely future as it becomes increasingly well known.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• DARPA
• Department of Energy (DoE)
• EC2
• GoGrid Open API
• Internet 2
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• SETI@Home
• Ubuntu
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• Werner Vogels
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
• Rich Wolski

This conversation was recorded on Friday 13 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with two of Appistry‘s co-founders; Chief Architect Michael Groner and Chief Strategist Bob Lozano. We discuss definitions of Cloud Computing, and explore some of the wider issues that Appistry sets out to address with their products and approach.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Appistry
• BigTable
• EC2
• Federal Express (FedEx)
• GeoEye
• GoGrid
• Google App Engine
• Hadoop
• Rackspace
• Salesforce
• SimpleDB
• Skytap
• Werner Vogels

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 4 March, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Michael Crandell, CEO and Founder of RightScale. We discuss the Santa Barbara (California) based company, its place in the Cloud Computing stack above infrastructure providers such as Amazon, GoGrid and Rackspace, and consider the ways in which it is evolving as these companies upon which it is dependent develop ever-richer sets of features.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Animoto
• Citrix Online
• Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
• Cloud Trends 2009
• eFax.com
• Elastichosts
• Eli Lilly
• Eucalyptus
• Flexiscale
• Force.com
• GoGrid
• Google App Engine
• Microsoft Azure
• Rackspace
• RightScale, and the corporate blog
• ‘RightScale’s New Education Program Promotes Research and Innovation Through Cloud Computing‘ Press Release
• Starcut

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 5 March, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Armando Fox and Dave Patterson, two of the RAD Lab team behind the recently released Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing.

The Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (RAD Lab) at the University of California, Berkeley – sponsored by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Sun – is well connected to the companies and research shaping the Cloud Computing space, and their report is intended to offer a coherent view of the opportunities being created now and in the future.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
• Larry Ellison on Cloud Computing (as reported by the Wall Street Journal
• Google App Engine
• James Hamilton’s paper on Cloud Computing costs (PDF)
• Microsoft Azure
• The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley
• Richard Stallman on Cloud Computing (as reported by The Guardian)
• Washington Post analysis of Hillary Clinton’s travel, powered by Amazon

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 17 February, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Nick Carr, author of The Big Switch. We talk about Nick’s book, the paperback edition of which has just been published, and explore the notions of ‘Cloud Computing’ that lie at its heart. Moving beyond the book itself, we then consider the effect that the current economic situation is having upon companies and individuals as they move toward the Cloud.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon
• Amazon Web Services
• The Atlantic
• The Big Switch
• Nick Carr
• Nick Carr’s ‘Is Google Making us Stupid?‘ in The Atlantic
• Does IT Matter?
• James Evans’ ‘Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship‘ in Science, Nick Carr’s blogged response, and my blogged thoughts
• Google
• Google Apps
• Google App Engine
• Harvard Business Review
• Hewlett Packard
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Microsoft Azure
• Moore’s Law
• Salesforce
• Salesforce Force.com
• Science
• Sun Microsystems
• Sun Grid

This conversation was recorded on Friday 30 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Jeff Hardy, Vice President of Business Operations at SmarterTools. We talk about SmarterTools and discuss a process of due diligence that the company pursued late in 2008 whilst seeking a Cloud hosting provider to support their latest product.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• Cloud Computing – Challenges, Benefits and the Future blog post
• Mike Culver, Amazon
• EF Data Corp.
• Google App Engine
• Honeywell
• Parallels Hosting Summit
• PubCon
• Rackspace
• Salesforce
• Seeing Through the Fog – The Current State of Cloud Computing from an Independent Development Perspective presentation (PDF)
• SmarterTools, Inc.
• SmarterTrack

This conversation was recorded on Friday 23 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Sinclair Schuller, CEO of SaaS company Apprenda. We talk about Apprenda and the rationale behind the company’s recent launch of a ‘platform’ to make developing and deploying SaaS applications more straightforward.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2
• Apprenda
• Microsoft Azure
• SaaSGrid

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 22 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Daniel Tunkelang, co-founder and Chief Scientist of enterprise search company, Endeca. We talk about Endeca and then delve into some of the issues raised in a presentation that Daniel gave at Google’s New York offices earlier this year, exploring the lessons that search on the open Web might learn from the approaches that Endeca and others are taking inside the enterprise.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Alta Vista
• American Express
• Apache
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• ACM SIGIR
• Autonomy
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Cover Flow
• Dublin Core
• Endeca
• FAST
• Google
• Google Search Appliance
• Hakia
• Home Depot
• Intel
• IBM
• Lucene
• MIT
• Microsoft
• Powerset
• ‘Reconsidering Relevance,’ slides from Daniel’s Google Tech Talk presentation on Slideshare
• Starbucks
• Daniel Tunkelang
• Walmart
• Yahoo!
• Yahoo! BOSS

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 20 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Duane Jackson, CEO of UK-based KashFlow. We talk about some of the issues involved in building and growing a Software as a Service (SaaS) application such as Kashflow.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• FreshBooks
• Getting Paid
• KashFlow
• PayPal
• Rackspace
• Sage
• SAP

This conversation was recorded on Friday 16 January, 2009.

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