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 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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