Digital Nibbles Podcast

Allyson 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 as if it were a planet that builds mass and attracts additional Services and Applications. When data is large enough, it’s virtually impossible to move. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:17 – Interview with Michael Crandell • 23:38 – Interview with Dave McCrory • 36:52 – Wrap up

With 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 if you can ever be truly be private in the cloud. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:29 – Interview with Ben Kepes • 25:08 – Interview with Deborah Salons • 43:23 – Wrap up

With 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. And how, more than ever, technology is becoming a part of you. 0:00 – Introductions and news of the week 10:47 – Interview with Amber Case, cyborg anthropologist 32:07 – Wrap up

With 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 cutting edge big data engine that helped pinpoint everything from ad buys to volunteer engagement. It’s a great test case for how technology is transforming society. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:21 – Interview with Harper Reed • 48:57 – Wrap up

Rather 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 conference. For more information, visit www.citrix.com. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 10:09: Interview with Martin Duursma • 29:04: Wrap up

In 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 Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 5:48: Interview with Daniel Burrus • 21:16: Interview with Peter Coffee • 36:07: Wrap up

This 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 – Introductions and News of the Week • 10:23 – Interview with Chris Kemp • 24:40 – Interview with JP Morgenthal • 39:28 – Wrap up

A 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, resulting in less storage traffic on a network and a performance boost for apps. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 10:31 – Interview with Paul Miller • 21:42 – Interview with Bernard Harguindeguy • 36:45 – Wrap up

Ruv 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 talk about Startup Weekend – how the process works, what role technology plays (in both the pitched companies and the collaboration of Startup Weekend), successful enterprises that came from Startup Weekends, and how people can get involved. Show timeline: • 0:00: Introduction and News of the Week • 5:09: Interview with Ben Kepes (excellent content, listen at your peril) • 19:05: Interview with Shashi Jain • 33:20: Wrap up

First 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 Red Hat, stops by to talk about integration of the entire Red Hat portfolio under the Open Hybrid Cloud umbrella. It’s not a single product, but a set of capabilities to address business problems. He also discusses the current state of IaaS and PaaS and how they will evolve in the future. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 11:59 – Interview with Johann Gevers and Chris Odom • 26:51 – Interview with Gordon Haff • 37:13 – Wrap up

First 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 recently attended CES and gives an update on hot technologies like wearables and smart devices. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:27 – Interview with Faiz Parkar • 18:58 – Interview with Michael Sheehan • 30:52 – Wrap up

In 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 with Edd Dumbill • 37:50 – Wrap up

In 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 providers to emulate Amazon-style cloud services through abstraction that sits on top of a variety of cloud platforms. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:38 – Interview with Duncan Johnston-Watt • 25:30 – Interview with Chip Childers • 41:18 – Wrap up

John 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 Kenesis, a data analytics tool which can analyze massive amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour, how that affects API proliferation, and what that means for the industry. 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week 6:04 – Interview with John Blumenthal 18:55 – Interview with Alex Williams 32:14 – Wrap up

We 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 people will be passionate about (exponential movers, two by two disruptions, four by four disruptions and intersections of technologies). Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 10:25 – Interview with Shlomo Swidler • 24:13 – Interview with Guy Bieber • 40:34 – Wrap up

First 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® processor-based Windows* tablet. 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week 5:16 – Interview with Judith Hurwitz 18:29 – Interview with Michael Sheehan 32:02 – Wrap up

We’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, where the tech market is headed, and how their mentoring program works. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 9:14: Interview with Simon Crosby • 22:29: Interview with Jason Seats • 38:45: Wrap up

Reuven’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 Phoenix Project, joins to talk about his book and applying manufacturing knowledge to high tech. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introduction and News of the Week • 9:51 – One big interview with Bart Copeland and Kevin Behr • 39:15 – Wrap up

Reuven 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 takes over to talk about the emerging technology of “backend as a service,” meaning developers can setup, use and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet and web apps. 0:00 – Introduction and News of the Week 7:48 – Interview with Rajeev Chawla 19:06 – Interview with Sravish Sridhar 31:13 – Wrap up

Randy 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/security, different set of guarantees. For more information, visit www.cloudscaling.com. • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week, Ruv’s got a new gig! • 11:15 – Interview with Randy Bias • 33:25 – Wrap up

After 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. It’s not about reducing cloud spending, but understanding it and making money from it. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 10:22: Interview with Joshua McKenty • 24:48: Interview with Mat Ellis • 37:20: Wrap up

First 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 trouble shooting across customers’ networks, the Internet and service providers – to help identify where issues are happening and resolving problems faster. More info is available at www.thousandeyes.com. 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week 9:40 – Interview with Jason Hoffman 22:25 – Interview with Mohit Lad 36:57 – Wrap up

Allyson 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 Cloud Marketing, Intel. The guests touch on everything from open source cloud computing to the composable enterprise (organizations as building blocks). Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and discussions of cloud conferences and News of the Week • 10:09: Interview with Sameer Dholakia • 21:47: Interview with Jim Blair and Lauren Sell • 38:45: Interview with Jonathan Murray and Jared Wray • 51:37: Interview with Raejeanne Skillern

In 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 Forecast highlights • 4:10: Das Kamhout joins the discussion • 23:14: Paul Miller joins the discussion • 30:27: Ben Kepes joins the discussion

Joe 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. Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 9:02: Interview with Joe Weinman • 26:44: Allyson and Reuven talk amongst themselves

We’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 affect the future of IT. For more information, visit http://event.gigaom.com/structure/. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:30 – Interview with Das Kamhout • 23:25 – Interview with Derrick Harris • 38:57 – Wrap up

Adrian 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 John Cowan (@cownet), the co-founder and CEO of 6fusion which offers a utility-metered cloud computing platform that enables organizations and IT services providers to access to a federated network of IaaS providers. The foundation of the platform is the Workload Allocation Cube (WAC), which creates a commercial standard to quantify supply and demand for compute resources. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 9:50: Interview with Adrian Cockcroft • 21:43: Interview with John Cowan • 39:04: Wrap up

Your 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 your kids early on the connectivity of the Internet. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 8:32 – Interview with Paul Miller • 19:59 – Interview with Brian Gracely • 35:21 – Wrap up

Two 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 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:17 – Interview with Ben Kepes • 24:55 – Interview with Deborah Salons • 43:10 – Wrap up

We’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 enterprise. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 10:18 – Interview with Will Young • 22:52 – Interview with Sam Charrington • 39:03 – Wrap up

We 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 test case for how technology is transforming society. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:08 – Interview with Harper Reed • 48:37 – Wrap up

We’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 User Measurement (RUM), a developer view of every user on a Website or mobile site.

Whether 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 types to jobs and managers. Interested listeners can visit www.manageup.me to sign up for the company’s private beta. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:38 – Interview with Alan Gin • 24:01 – Interview with Samar Birwadker • 40:05 – Wrap up

Davi 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 currently in beta testing mode and looking for users. Visit www.ravellosystems.com for more information. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 8:28 – Interview with Davi Ottenheimer • 23:03 – Interview with Navin Thadani • 41:06 – Wrap up

We’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.

Our 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

A 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 of the Portland Incubator Experiment stops by to talk about funding starts ups in Portland, OR and how to make better entrepreneurs and start ups. 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week 10:08 – Interview with Lorie Wigle 22:04 – Interview with Rick Turoczy 37:55 – Wrap up

With 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, environmental and economic issues surrounding data centers. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 9:10 – Interview with Winston Saunders • 22:45 – Interview with Kathrin Winkler • 41:28 – Wrap up

In 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.org. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 12:10: Interview with Risto Mikkulainen • 32:14: Wrap up

We’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 Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week • 10:02 – Interview with Jim Dempsey • 26:44 – Interview with Nic Fleming • 35:51 – Wrap up

Digital 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 interfaces – like adding acoustic dimensions to touch screens, and projecting touch screens onto any surface. For more information on the Linux Foundation, visit www.linuxfoundation.org and for more on Chris’s research visit www.chrisharrison.net. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 9:05: Interview with Jim Zemlin • 22:52: Interview with Chris Harrison • 34:43: Wrap Up

Manageability 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/.

Our 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 computing problems (again like protein folding and financial trading). Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 11:01: Interview with John Pavlus, science writer • 23:57: Interview with Jeff Martens and Matt Wallington, CPUsage • 34:30: Wrap up

In 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 integrated cloud health care platform that helps the elderly stay independent longer and safely through a virtual caregiver that is remotely monitored. Show Timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 9:04: Interview with Kian Saneii • 24:30: Interview with Diane Mueller • 37:59: Wrap Up

Do 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 discusses the airline’s innovative use of social media via Klout, Twitter, and Facebook. Show Timeline: • 0:00 – Introductions • 6:30 – Interview with Larry Rosen • 21:00 – Interview with Dennis Owen • 29:43 – Wrap up

Reuven 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 21:14 – Interview with Michael Sheehan 36:10 – Wrap Up

It’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 talks about the IT commodity market – specifically the telecom interconnection of over 400 networks globally to help info flow easily. Show timeline: • 0:00: Introductions and News of the Week • 10:10: Interview with Leslie Bradshaw • 25:26: Interview with Andreas Hipp • 39:21: Wrap up

Reuven 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 the emergence of enterprise cloud usage. Visit www.cloudops.com for more information. Show timeline: • 0:00 – Intros, News of the Week • 10:26 – Interview with J.R. Storment • 24:06 – Interview with Alistair Croll • 36:30 – Wrap up

In 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 Deborah Salons (attorney) • 1:32:45: Interview with Wendy White, Margaret Dawson, Mary Borgwing (CloudNOW) • 1:53:40: Interview with Jason Waxman (Intel) • 2:08:04: Wrap up

Joining 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.cedexis.com.

In this lively episode, Jocelyn DeGance Graham (@JocelynDG, Founder and President, CloudNOW) and Amanda McPherson (@amcpherson, Co-Founder and VP Marketing, Linux Foundation) stop by the program. Jocelyn chats about the representation of female leadership in the technology/cloud industry and Amanda focuses on what open source means in a cloud-based world and the group’s upcoming CloudOpen event.