Podcast: Tim Marston talks DevOps Goodness

Tim Marston was on episode two of the podcasts I’d just started about 18 months ago and he was overdue to be on another show so we’ve recorded this talking DevOps funkiness, migrating JRE workloads to cloud. Tim’s one of the honchos at Red Hat JBoss Advanced ISV Partner and ally Midvision who make some amazing products that help move JRE platforms to Cloud but also to do migration and management of JRE platforms easily and in a way that makes auditors sleep easy.

Well worth a listen and thanks to Tim for making time to do this.

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Podcasts from the Trenches

I was in Holland at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference and recorded a number of shows that have made it out via RSS but I haven’t talked about here. So as it’s the run up to Christmas today is a podcast bonanza with no less than four shows highlighted here for your aural delectation.

The first show I am bringing you here is with Tryggvi Lárusson of GreenQloud in Iceland. GreenQloud I wanted to talk to because they are 100% Green environmentally friendly. Using the thermal geological heat in the substrata of the Icelandic crust and hydroelectric power to power their datacentre. Big time Open Source user I wanted to hear from them about their startup and plans for growth.

  You can listen to this show directly by clicking this link

The second show is with a good new friend Arjan Eriks of Schuberg Philis in Holland who are a major cloud provider working with upstream verticals and customers in specific niche marketplaces (regulated and auditable cloud needs to meet Dutch and EU privacy specific workloads). A company who make revenue and who grow based entirely on their Cloud ambition. Great guy – commercial and balanced and able to paint a picture to the listener of what customers want and how to retain them.

The Red Hat Cloud Provider Programme is a great way of you being able to both stand up a business and also to attract, and to retain custom. Talk to me offline for more info.

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Podcast: Funs Kessen – building EU Clouds

Now this was a fun show to record, talking to a realworld cloud architect at one of Hollands leading new technology companies Schuberg Philis who sponsored the Cloud event we’ve been attending this week.

Funs is one of two of their architecture team tasked with helping companies in Holland in the Schuberg Philis growing portfolio of customers to get to cloud safely, navigating governance and privacy regulation and ensuring their workloads and data are successfully transitioned to cloud.

Hope you enjoy the show more to come later if I still have power and bandwidth to get them out pre my flight back to the UK.

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Hybrid Cloud Environments & SDS

My opposite number in North America Gordon Haff has put this great video together that is well worth a watch.

Software defined storage is on the up. Red Hat as an enabler of technology change is investing code, time and resources to help customers focus and realise their ambitions in every aspect of cloud architecture.

Do take a few minutes out your day to watch and if you’d like more information please get in touch or contact your regional Red Hat office.

Podcast: The Clash of the Casts

One of the biggest tech cloud podcasts with over 130 episodes is Aaron Delp’s Cloudcast show. It’s one of my defacto shows to listen to with a different demographic and different style / length to the way that I work. Aaron is a perennial part of my listening habit so to sit down and do a podcast with him was a chance I would have grabbed at. So, the clash of the casts was born and today we recorded a session.

Sitting opposite us to give us a comprehensive OSS boost and to talk Cloud was Mark Hinkle of Citrix. Mark like all of us in the community eats, lives and breathes Open Source so this podcast always had potential.

Have a listen and see what you think.

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Podcast: Antoine Coetsier – Exoscale

I am recording this week in Amsterdam at the Cloudstack Collaboration Conference and you will see various shows appear throughout this week and next that I’ve recorded while on the ground here.

Todays show is with Antoine Coetsier from Exoscale in Switzerland, a country very close to my heart. Exoscale are a Cloudstack vendor/partner but also a Red Hat partner too who are actively working with large and medium sized organisations moving to Cloud.

I recorded this show yesterday afternoon and feel somewhat like a 1940s journalist trying to get copy back to my news desk having had what I can only describe as the slowest tethered internet connection I’ve had in 10+ years or more to upload this at 1.2k/sec. Painful. Would have been quicker to send it by carrier pigeon. Technology, it seems, in 3G carrier relationships is just poor across Europe.

Come back later for more shows from the conference.

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CloudStack Conference Europe 2013

I arrived in Amsterdam yesterday evening to attend this weeks CloudStack Conference along with Red Hat colleagues from Gluster and Fedora. Met up last night with good community friends from Citrix and this mornings keynotes kick off shortly.

I’ll be recording podcasts with Robyn Bergeron, David Nally, Neils De Vos, Mark Hinkle, Sebastien Goasguen and hopefully others as well as learning more about every type of competing cloud technology in the ecosystem.

Watch out for posts and podcast content over the next 72 hours.

Podcast: Udo Seidel of Amadeus Talks Gluster/OpenStack

I was at the Gluster London Community event in London yesterday and listened to speakers there talk about Gluster and demystifying what it is and also how it has made an impact in the storage world.

One of the speakers there was Udo Seidel from Amadeus in Munich who is well known in Open Source circles and a great guy to talk tech to. We meant to record this in Edinburgh as he was also at Linuxcon but time ran out. So we reconvened and yesterday we put this ten minute podcast together for you.

Come back next week for some more great content. Remember you can subscribe to the show via iTunes on your iOS or MacOS device of choice or any platform via the RSS or my syndicated feeds.

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Linuxcon Europe Show 4: Open Daylight

So heres the thing about working with the Linux Foundation, and the reason why every year I stump up my membership fees to be part of their rollcall. They get it, they genuinely get it. Jim Zemlin, Mr Enthusiastic himself who is one of the most articulate geeks you would ever have the pleasure to meet bounds on stage or into a room like an excitable child and on Monday when he jumped on to the stage in Edinburgh this was no different.

One of the reasons for his beaming smile and positive attitude though was the fact that under his stewardship and with boundless energy and pride several projects including OVA have been added to the roster of collaborative projects under the auspices of the Linux Foundation.

Today Chris Wright who is the Director of Software-Defined Networking joined me to talk SDN goodness and how the Cloud piece interacts with the integration of OpenStack. Chris was recently promoted to Director level in Red Hat, well earnt and judging by the size of the audience here for his keynote there were obviously a lot more people out there who wanted to hear him speak than could get in the room.

To find out more about Open Daylight watch the video below and then listen to the show we recorded for you today.

 

 

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Klaus Oxdal Red Hat Nordics / Gluster Community Info

This weeks podcast is with Klaus Oxdal of Red Hat Nordics. Klaus is a good friend of mine who I’ve worked closely with for 3 1/2 years or so and he eats lives and breathes Red Hat. Much like my erstwhile American/Dutch TechGod colleague Eric Schabell he is one of the Red Hat EMEA cyclists spending a lot of time in Red Hat colours on the roads of Denmark.

Only this time he’s going one better. Klaus is part of a team cycling from Denmark to Paris, France culminating in a sprint finish to the Eiffel Tower. It’s all for a good event it’s for a Children’s Cancer Charity. It’s a mammoth distance, it’s a mammoth effort and I thought we’d tag onto the end of our conversation an invitation for people to find whatever they could afford to make a difference in treating childhood cancers. An amazing cause that deserves our support. I’ve stumped up cash as a parent of two children and I’d like to think we can help raise them some funds.

You can read more on their sponsorship page here, go visit it now !!

Gluster.org Community Workshop and London Community Day 

In the podcast I also talk about Gluster.org the upstream of Red Hat Storage having a workshop at LinuxCon Europe (where I will be attending and doing the show podcast) and speaking with the likes of my shadow and compadre from Gluster.org / Red Hat John Mark Walker pictured with me above. The day is WELL WORTH ATTENDING if you’re going to LinuxCon or even if you’re not.

The workshop starts at a very reasonable 10 a.m. This full-day, free workshop includes talks on using Gluster with OpenStack, KVM/QEMU, and how to develop apps to integrate with GlusterFS. This is a chance for developers and admins to learn first-hand what GlusterFS and related open software-defined storage projects in the Gluster Community can accomplish in cloud and virtualized environments.

• State of Gluster (John Mark Walker)
• Gluster for SysAdmins, an In-depth Look (Dustin Black)
• Gluster and OpenStack, a Case Study (Udo Seidel)
• Gluster, QEMU and KVM (Vijay Bellur)
• Developing Apps and Integrating with GlusterFS (Justin Clift)

Please join us on October 24th at the Sheraton next to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Registration for the Gluster Workshop is free, sign up today on the LinuxCon/CloudOpen sign-up page. Note: Choose the “Speaker” registration and use the code GLUSEU13 if you’re not registering / registered for the rest of the conference.

London Community Day – 29th October

In previous podcasts we’ve talked about the cancellation of the London Community Day, well it’s all back on and taking place in London in Hoxton on 29th October. Again I am attending with podcast mic in hand !

There is a stellar cast of speakers and breakouts and you can register either by meetup.com or Eventbrite.

London Community Day Agenda

14:00 – 15:00 – The State of the Gluster Community – John Mark Walker, Red Hat
15:00 – 16:00 – GlusterFS for SysAdmins – Tom Llewelyn, Red Hat
16:00 – 16:15 – Break
16:15 – 17:00 – Cloud Storage with OpenStack and GlusterFS – Udo Seidel, Amadeus
17:00 – 18:00 – Gluster for Developers – Justin Clift, Red Hat
18:00 – 18:30 – Gluster Forge Demos
18:30 – 19:30 – Happy hour! Drinks and light snacks for everyone

I will be there and I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible. Now go download the podcast. Please. I’m asking nicely.

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