Highlights

· Ben Silverman Background

· Experience at Denver Open Infrastructure Summit

o PTG Separation

· Free Software does not mean Free Support

· Vendors in Attendance: Significant Downsizing of Companies

· Installer Wars and Airship

· Ironic Push & MaaS Alliance

· Developers Portability and Languages

· Cross Community Compatibility

· Only Tools are OpenStack

· Final Event Thoughts

Time Stamp

0.0–0.52 Introduction
1.43–3.28 Ben’s Background
3.28–7.37 Open Infrastructure Summit Experience
* Separate of Developers and Corporations
7.37–10.38 Free Software does not come with Free Support
* Vendors are not bad
10.38–12.57 How many vendors in attendance? Less than 15
* Not seeing revenue opportunity
* Business only; not interested in giving SWAG
* Vendors still selling OpenStack; Almost no Ecosystem at this time
12.57–17.27 Installation Tools and Promotion of Airship
* AT&T adoption is driving the promotion
* Airship is not a production ready technology
* Install Kubernetes and OpenStack with HELM charts (Very Complex)
* Ironic Push at Event
17.27–22.28 Developers Portable across Project
* Adding other projects into existing projects
* OpenStack always selects 1 way to do something
22.28–26.30 Cross Community Compatibility
* CNCF Comments
* Kubernetes and OpenStack in same world
26.30–33.15 Not talking about operating/open infrastructure; just OpenStack
* Not including other projects for best solution
* Day 2 Not Considered in OpenStack
33.15 — Wrap Up
* BRING BAG LUNCH DURING EVENT

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/open-infrastructure-summit-and-community-recap-w-ben-silverman/s-2hbBn

Podcast Guest: Ben Silverman, , Chief Cloud Officer, Cincinnati Bell Technology Services.

Ben is currently the Chief Cloud Officer for the Service Provider/Telco team at Cincinnati Bell Technology Services (OnX Service Provider/Telco). He is also the co-author of the book “OpenStack for Architects” “Mastering OpenStack” and was the Technical Reviewer for “Learning OpenStack” (Packt Publishing).

When Ben is not writing books he is an active in the OpenStack Superuser Editorial Board and a technical contributor to the OpenStack Foundation Documentation Team (Architecture Guide) He also leads the Phoenix, AZ Open Infrastructure User Group. Ben is often invited to speak about cloud adoption, implementation, migration and cultural impact of the cloud at conferences, meetups, and special vendor events.

Prior to OnX, Ben was a Senior Cloud/System Architect at Mirantis, a top OpenStack distribution, where he was responsible for creating enterprise OpenStack architectures for some of the most prominent telecommunications and Fortune 100 companies worldwide.

Before joining Mirantis, Ben was the Lead Technical Architect and Engineer for the OpenStack cloud at American Express and was directly responsible for the architecture and deployment of the largest U.S. financial services cloud in production at the time. Today, this same cloud supports over 10,000 workloads.

Ben holds a degree in English communications and a Masters degree in Information Management from Arizona State University. When he’s not out evangelizing more people into the cloud lifestyle he likes to spend time with his beautiful wife and two crazy little boys in Phoenix, Arizona.

About Blacknut

Blacknut aims to fundamentally change the video game industry by creating a service where users can access a vast catalog of curated games, play without limit across all devices, and no longer have the need for dedicated hardware, all for a simple subscription.

Using the latest cloud computing technology, Blacknut digitizes video games, delivering them through the cloud directly to smart devices such as televisions, tablets, and phones or through devices like set-top boxes and dongles.

Highlights:

· Working at a Gaming Company

· Game Streaming and Experience

· Elimination of H/W Limitations for Modern Games

· Delivery of Game from Cloud vs Edge

· More than 50% of 5G traffic expected to be Gaming

· Edge/Cloud Infrastructure Requirements

· Virtualized Game Platform

· Challenges in Building the Blacknut Platform

Time Tracking

· 1 min 18 sec: Introduction of Guest

o Background on Olivier and Blacknut

· 3 min 01 sec: Gamers and Gaming Companies

· 4 min 21 sec: Game Streaming Platform Overview

o Elimination of Various H/W for Simple Gaming Access

· 5 min 48 sec: Virtual Desktops for Games?

o Processing power in the cloud and not locally

o Stream is a video stream

o Issues: Latency, Jitter, Bandwidth Issues

· 7 min 48 sec: Changes Power of Device for Gaming

o Everything can be a gaming console

o No Downloads, installs — Just Click and Play

· 12 min 10 sec: Latency and Distance for Gaming Servers

o Networks always remain a challenge for hard-core games

o 60% of Europeans playing games online (access, discovery and game options are primary concern)

o How manage backend to meet scale?

§ Either build own cloud and leverage public clouds

· 16 min 30 sec: Platform Neutral or Specific Vendor?

o Select best cloud provider by country so don’t lock in to one vendor

· 19 min 57 sec: What makes an infrastructure attractive for an edge?

o Capability, Global, and Cost

o Distribution Networks and Bandwidths

· 23 min 42 sec: Blacknut providers service (SaaS) — Is tech available outside service?

o B to C only w/ over 300 games

o Looking into additional services for B to B as well

· 25 min 30 sec: Technology Challenges

o Optimization across various clouds/edges

o Density — # of games on given infrastructure

o Distributed Storage? Game distribution AI

· 30 min 09 sec: Wrap-Up

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/olivier-avaro-on-democratizing-gaming/s-1bIMI

Podcast Guest: Olivier Avaro, Founder & CEO of Blacknut

Olivier began his career at Orange where he researched on video compression technology. Olivier has been instrumental in managing the MPEG Systems standardization group in ISO. His outstanding contribution ultimately paved the way for the MP4 file format, one of the most popular outcome of his work. Olivier then spun-off technology from Orange and co-founded Streamezzo. The company published an Open Mobile Development platform that allows to easily create Rich Mobile Applications working on all major mobile operating systems. The company was successfully acquired by Amdocs in 2010. As the new Vice President at Amdocs, Olivier initiated a number of intrapreneurial projects, out of which several new companies and business units were created. In 2014, Olivier launched his own private equity fund ‘Skyrods’ which financed a number of innovative start-ups. One of them captures his full attention today: Blacknut, a leading cloud gaming service provider created in 2016.

Joining us this week is Mark Thiele, Director Engineering Edge Computing, Ericsson and Host of IDCA Podcast.

About Ericsson

Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers, with about 40% of the world’s mobile traffic carried through our networks. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. For more than 140 years, our ideas, technology and people have changed the world: real turning points that have transformed lives, industries and society as a whole.

About IDCA Podcast
To Infinity Paradigm and Beyond — a community driven podcast series by the industry veterans that you trust. Stay for revealing interviews, expertise and education. Enjoy the light hearted conversations about life in and out of the industry. https://www.idc-a.org/idca-podcast

Highlights:

· Monopolies in IT

· Restrictions in Innovation as everyone has same Cloud tools

· Monopolies are not Good for Customers

· Edge Push from Public Clouds

· Learnings from Edge Research

· Will Edge Save us from Cloud Monopolies?

· Telcos at Edge

Time Tracking

· 0 min 12 sec: Introduction of Guest

· 3 min 12 sec: IDCA Podcast Overview

· 4 min 04 sec: Rant on Monopolistic Culture

o Running risk of Monopoly in IT

§ Small group of centralized cloud providers

o Monopolies have less interest in innovation for niche opportunities ~ not enough revenue to make it worth it for them

o Service delivery issues (e.g. SaaS vs On-Premise/Self-Managed)

o On-Premise still needs innovation

· 10 min 56 sec: Are we missing innovation?

o Jevon’s Paradox Podcast — Efficiency can be Disruptive

o All using same base components

o What happens in future when everyone is standardized on a few platforms?

o Future opportunity in On-Premise

· 15 min 33 sec: More Vendors is Better than a Few Giant Clouds

o Pushback from Clouds is they would respond unlike previous monopolies

o We forgot Microsoft is a Monopoly just not a cool company

· 18 min 18 sec: Edge Push from Public Cloud Providers

o Attempting to “Scare” the Market to Prevent Innovation?

o AWS Outpost Announcement — First time AWS talking about solution at least a year away

· 20 min 56 sec: Research on Edge via LinkedIn — What did you Learn?

o There is an Edge Vision: People need the Edge or still at start of journey?

o Large % of respondents buy into Edge marketplace that is a true opportunity

o Most thinking of Edge based on their viewpoint/need without thinking about entire opportunity for everyone: could be a legacy IT environment added on

§ Not scalable model

§ Do we have to wait for AWS to tell us how Edge works?

o Patchwork Edge — not waiting for AWS to show up; people building it now with available technology

o Railroad History of Monopoly Power — US vs Tokyo Organization

§ We ignore the costs and losses of what could have been

· 34 min 16 sec: Is Edge going to Save us from Monopoly?

· 37 min 03 sec: Can Telcos respond to Edge demand?

· 37 min 03 sec: Wrap-Up

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/mark-thiele-rants-on-it-monopolies-and-impact-of-edge

About Clear Blockchain Technologies

Clear builds blockchain-based settlement and clearing networks for global industries. Using enterprise-grade blockchain technologies and programmable smart contracts, these networks allow near-real-time settlement and automatic intelligent dispute resolution on a global scale. This reduces costs, inefficiencies and fraud, while maintaining confidentiality of contracts and trade details. Moreover, these networks enable rapid participant-driven innovation of new on-demand products, contracts, and business models, accelerating exponential growth.

Highlights:

· Patrick’s Background in Cloud Computing (Public)

· Why join Blockchain Startup?

· Practical Blockchain Applications

· Evolution Change in Commerce

· Hype of Blockchain — e.g. Crypto Currency

· Trusted Interactions — Prevent Fraud

· Meeting Market Needs for Enterprise

· SaaS Model vs Enterprise In-House Sale

Time Tracking

· 0 min 42 sec: Introduction of Guest

o Serial Startup Technologist

· 2 min 52 sec: Why Blockchain?

o New and Disruptive Technology Potential

· 4 min 54 sec: Practical Blockchain Applications

o Need to Transact with Parties don’t Trust Each Other

§ E.g. Refugees in New Country

o Telcom Blockchain Payment System b/w Carriers

§ Incredibly Manual Process

· 7 min34 sec: Commerce Transition to Peer to Peer

o Evolution Change in Commerce

o Target Processes with Existing Manual Systems

· 10 min 56 sec: Crypto Hype

· 13 min 02 sec: Does Blockchain allow Trusted Interactions?

o Identity and Authentication

o Anchor Points for Trust Relationships

o Blockchain Layers

· 17 min 50 sec: Leveraging for Existing Needs in Market

o API Layer allow Blockchain Substitution creating Enterprise Solution

· 19 min 59 sec: What Makes Enterprise Solution Different?

o Customer Owned vs SaaS

o Is Software Dead Thoughts on On-Site vs SaaS Operation

§ Proximity to Data is Challenge

· 30 min 15 sec: Wrap-Up

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/patrick-pushor-on-market-needs-for-blockchain-in-the-enterprise/s-TtqCG

About Haste

Haste is a network optimizer for video games, reducing lag, packet loss, and jitter to improve your gaming experience.

Highlights:

· Adam History in pre-CDN technologies, streaming music, and gaming lag issues

· How Solve Lag Issues over Network

· Quality of Service and Multi-Path

· Challenges w/ Cached Content and Real-Time Content

· Edge Management with Network Unpredictability

Time Tracking

· 0 min 50 sec: Introduction of Guest

o Background on Satellite Communication in Early Days Leading to CDN

o Early Streaming Music Technology Startup

o Angel Investing Period

· 8 min 8 sec: How to Fix Lag Issues?

o Early Web and Rich Media Challenges ~ Content Distribution Networks

o Haste Focused on Real-Time w/ User Generated Content that is Dynamic

o Overlay Network Architecture ~ Spend Bandwidth to Achieve Performance

· 13 min 14 sec: Quality of Service and Multi-Path

o Anticipatory Gaming — Action Timestamps

o Duplicating Traffic on 4 Separate Paths

o 3 Layers: Infrastructure, Suite of Software Defined Networking Tools, & Software on Gaming Machine Locally Installed

§ Caching Not Involved

· 21 min 24 sec: Challenges of Out-Of-Date CDNs

o Critical Issues

§ Game Software Updates (Required) — Traditional CDN

§ Active Game Play Stream — Haste Manages w/ EDGE GRAVITY by Ericsson

o Local Haste Service — Monitor Streams to Ensure Fastest Access to Various Game Servers

§ Ensure Awareness of Various Game Servers Availability

· 28 min 52 sec: How Shape Edge Infrastructure Based on Network Unpredictability

o Path Diversity is Significant

o Improve ISP Delivery of Gaming Services by Adding Haste in ISP Networks

o Dynamic Allocation of Gaming Services based on Player Location and Network Features

· 39 min 23 sec: Wrap-Up

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Podcast Guest: Adam Toll, Founder of Haste

Adam Toll is a Founder of Haste and focuses on alliances, future applications of Haste technology, and the strategic direction of the company. Adam was co-founder and COO of media startup BigChampagne which was acquired by Live Nation in 2011, and previously was a consultant in the satellite communications industry.

Highlights:

· Open Source Project Health in QA and Quality

· Escaping the Open Source Discrimination Cycle

· Money in Open Source for Sustainability

· Learning Patterns in Open Source

· Crises in Open Source for Sustaining Projects

· Open Source Foundations Need to Own Sustaining Engineering

Time Tracking

· 1 min 12 sec: Introduction of Guest

· 2 min 48 sec: QA and Quality in Open Source

o Hidden Influencers in OpenStack

o Ecosystem of Connections

o Discrimination against QA in Open Source

o Measurement of Participation by Commits Only

o OpenStack Operators & Product Managers Voices Not Heard

· 9 min 56 sec: How to Escape Current Cycle?

o Having Operators and Customers as Part of Leadership in Community

o Bring “Real-World” to Community Silos

o Turning Code into Projects

· 13 min 18 sec: Open Source Licensing

o Open Source Developers Love New Toys and then Get Bored ~ When Software is Mature and Usable

o Test for Integration not Just Expected Behavior ~ QA does this but Developers need to Engage in Exploratory Testing

· 18 min 30 sec: Learning Patterns

o Mike Kail on Defining Edge Podcast; Better to Iterate and Learn but can become repetitive

o Iteration of Developers Recursively Improve Knowledge however some don’t gain System Understanding

o Deep not Broad is a Mistake; Need to do Both

o E.g. OpenStack focusing releases on specific parts of Product

o Open Source Throws out All Lessons from Corporate Development which is a Mistake; plenty of good ideas should be used in Open Source

· 24 min 22 sec: Developers Must Adjust to What Customers Need Not What Developers Want

o If no one uses software is it significant?

o Ecosystem around Open Source Projects Provide Support Customers Need

· 27 min 45 sec: Is there a Crisis in Open Source for Sustaining Projects?

o Lots of Types of People Doing Different Jobs in Open Source but Not Enough QA or Operators Taking Part in Projects

o Need to Move Beyond Developers in Open Source

o How Get Open Source Users to Participate via Funding or Staff for Software Maintenance?

o What will Drive this to Happen? ROI

· 31 min 50 sec: How Solve this Problem?

o Foundations Need to Support Sustaining Engineering

o Profit Motive Missing from Open Source is a Challenge

o Gamification on Open Source Projects

o Bug Priority based on Customer Need not Developer Interest

· 38 min 10 sec: Wrap-Up

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/rocky-grober-on-role-discrimination-and-learning-patterns-in-open-source/s-bj6v3

About Turbonomic
Turbonomic workload automation for hybrid cloud environments delivers enterprise organizations with automation that enables on-premises and public cloud to self-manage in real-time, thereby assuring application performance while lowering cost and maintaining compliance with business policies. The platform matches workload demand to infrastructure supply, helping customers maintain a continuous state of application health.

Launched in 2009, Turbonomic is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the virtualization and cloud management space, trusted by thousands of enterprise organizations to maximize the value of their IT investments.

DiscoPosse Podcast

The DiscoPosse Podcast is designed to share personal and technology stories with great folks from all across the industry. More than just tech, you’ll find founder’s stories, technology stories, personal productivity, fitness, and much more. Recently rebranded from the original GC On-Demand which spawned from community interactions I have enjoyed through my role at Turbonomic.

Follow Eric’s podcast at https://discoposse.com/.

Highlights:

• Discoposse Podcast
• Discussion on Luke Kaines Article
• Open Source Impact on IT Ops and Purchasing
• Money Drives Operational Alignment
• Sales as Organizational Improvements

Time Stamp

• 0 min 6 sec: Introduction of Guest
• 1 min 19 sec: Discoposse Podcast
  ** History of Podcast
  ** Canada — Brewers Retail
• 6 min 07 sec: Luke Kaines Article, My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales ** Like Watching a Netflix Story Heading to an Unexpected Ending
  ** Starts with Hard Lessons Learned — how not to do things
  **** Who are you building the product for? User or Purchaser
  **** Still early in our industry on how to build a product that doesn’t require enterprise sales

** When is sales enterprise? How to define that?
** You succeed on your ability to manage relationships of warring departments at the prospect’s company; it’s not the product that you are selling

• 13 min 16 sec: Examples of Politics impacting sales
  ** RackN and Internal Champions
  ** Open Source allows customers to bypass their sales departments: dangers of this happening
  ** Tour de France of IT Operations
  ** Justify the cost of the product vs. value or the product
• 21 min 05 sec: People take things seriously when money is being spent
  ** Free consulting never gets used
  ** Open source has less perceived value since its free but it’s not really free
  ** Personal investment vs team investment in solution
  **** Disagreements add value to organizations
  **** Silos vs Cross-Silo Communications
• 31 min 08 sec: How sell product communicating value to multiple groups via internal champions
  ** Having to use software purchased already to get value
  ** Have to pay for software, even free software
  **** Even open source software has commercial support that cost money
  ** Always about building a team and communication
• 40 min 25 sec: Wrap-Up

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Podcast Guest: Eric Wright

Eric Wright is a Principal Solutions Engineer and Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, VMware vExpert, and Cisco Champion with a background in virtualization, containers, VMware, OpenStack, Business Continuity, PowerShell scripting and systems automation in many industries including financial services, health services and engineering firms. As the author behind DiscoPosse.com, a technology and virtualization blog, Eric is also a regular contributor to community driven technology groups such as the VMUG organization in Toronto, Canada.

When Eric is not working in technology, you may find him with a guitar in his hand or riding a local bike race or climbing over the obstacles on a Tough Mudder course. Eric also commits time regularly to charity bike rides and running events to help raise awareness and funding for cancer research through a number of organizations.

Joining us this week is Tricia Howard, Client Manager, Optiv for a special RANTCAST on Security.

About Optiv

Optiv Security is a security solutions integrator that enables clients to reduce risk by taking a strategic approach to cybersecurity. Align your security program to achieve specific business outcomes with our full suite of service capabilities, from strategy to technology — and everything in between.

Highlights:

· Security Rant

· Data Privacy and Rights / Data Security

· Companies and Storage/Security of Personal Data

· Data is a Currency

· Securing Systems and Data Leakage

· Password Re-Use and Lack of Re-Use Impact on Vendors / SIM Hacking

· Monopoly Power of Big Tech Companies & Gov’t Regulation

· Dark Web — What is it?

· Identity on Internet

· Perimeter Security

Time Stamp

· 0 min 32 sec: Introduction of Guest

· 1 min 20 sec: Rant on Security

o Lack of Security Awareness outside of IT

o End-User Shame vs End User Enable

· 4 min 42 sec: What should Companies do who Collect Data?

o Users should have rights to know what they are opting in for ~ Data Mining

o Facebook and Congress not understanding each other

· 8 min 05 sec: Intermixing Data Privacy and Data Security?

o Not mutually exclusive

o Build a culture around security

· 9 min 03 sec: Data Leaks from Companies with our Data

o How is data being forwarded to other companies that I am unaware is happening

o Nothing is Free ~ Data is a Currency

· 15 min 30 sec: Securing Systems and then Spreading Data all over the Internet

o Zero Trust

o Bouncers and Bartenders

o Password re-use creates issues for vendors

o SIM Card Hacking (#130 The SnapChat Thief)

· 19 min 22 sec: Journalist Video on Not using Large Corporations for Security Reasons

o Duck Duck Go (still runs on AWS)

o Gov’t Regulations?

o Dark Web — What is it? Nefarious

· 23 min 30 sec: Identity on the Internet

o Is our identity provable on the Internet?

o IoT identity and Edge

o Blog — Identity of Things from Tricia

· 26 min 43 sec: Perimeter Security

o There is no perimeter

o Security as Culture not a Toolset

· 28 min 02 sec: Wrap-Up

o Includes Westminster 2019 Discussion

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/tricia-howard-on-security-as-a-culture-not-a-toolset/s-ronI3

Podcast Guest: Tricia Howard, Client Manager, Optiv

A Native Texan now living in the magnificent New York City, Tricia Howard is an artist gone rogue who ended up in the wonderful world of technology. With a B.A. in Theatre Arts and interests ranging from Star Wars to Opera, she brings a unique and artistic perspective to her clients and the tech world. When she’s not solving business problems, you can find her singing, painting, and doing copious amounts of jigsaw puzzles.

@TriciaKicksSaaS

About FogHorn

FogHorn is a leading developer of edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications. FogHorn and Lightning are trademarks of FogHorn Systems. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Highlights:

· FogHorn Data Aggregation Technology for Devices

· Edge is Constrained

· Containers are Standard

· IoT Standard Environment

· Autonomy at the Edge

· Edge Architecture Tradeoffs

· Machine Learning

Time Stamp:

· 0 min 45 sec: Introduction of Guest

· 2 min 47 sec: Purpose of FogHorn Software

o Data aggregation from many devices

o PLC — Industrial Controller

o How is FogHorn added into a device? Containers

§ Can become a full gateway

· 7 min 58 sec: Edge is a Constrained Environment

o How make sure environment has latest code? Container Processes

o FogHorn assumes Edge devices can run Containers

§ Only issue with handheld devices (e.g. Android)

· 12 min 52 sec: What will be standard in an IoT environment?

o Sensor Protocols

o Real-Time Processing of the Data (AI, Deep Learning, etc)

§ “Edge-ification”

o Publication Layer

o GOAL — Autonomy at the Edge

· 18 min 39 sec: Are Decisions Close to Edge? Architecture Decisions?

o Process where the data is

o Move to predictive analysis

o Aggregation of Information from Multiple Devices

· 26 min 07 sec: Is Machine Learning a Component?

o Process of Edge-ification

· 30 min 41 sec: Wrap-Up

https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210/sastry-malladi-on-edge-ification-and-real-world-iot-deployments/s-jmlfH

Podcast Guest: Sastry Malladi, CTO, FogHorn

As CTO of FogHorn, Sastry is responsible for and oversees all technology and product development. Sastry is a results-driven technology executive with deep technology and management experience of over two and half decades. His areas of expertise include developing, leading and architecting various highly scalable and distributed systems, in the areas of Big Data, SOA, Micro Services Architecture, Application Servers, Java/J2EE/Web Services middleware, and cloud Computing to name a few.

Prior to joining FogHorn as CTO, Sastry was Chief Architect of StubHub, an eBay company, where he led the technology architecture transformation and also spearheaded the Big Data initiatives and data driven decisions. Sastry was also a key technology executive at eBay leading the technology re-platforming effort from its monolithic architecture to the distributed, and scalable service-oriented architecture enabling business growth. Prior to joining eBay, Sastry was co-founder and CTO of OpenGridSolutions, founding member and architect at SpikeSource, and an architect at Oracle.

Sastry frequently speaks at many technology conferences, contributes to many standards and has several patents under his belt. He holds a master’s degree from I.I.T, Kharagpur, India.

About Cloud Don
Sriram Subramanian is an independent analyst catalyzing modern enterprise IT Transformations. His primary area of coverage is how cloud computing/ container technology based services are impacting modern enterprise IT. His representative clients include vendors such as Red Hat, Microsoft, HPE, and end users in retail, fin tech and healthcare.

Service Mesh Event (18 min 45 sec)

Service Mesh Day : March 28–29, 2019
Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco

Highlights:

· Thoughts on late 2018 AWS ReInvent and KubeCon (Software vs SaaS)

· Vendor Lock-In Hype

· Service Mesh

· Edge Computing

Time-Line

· 0 min 16 sec: Introduction of Guest

· 1 min 33 sec: Impressions from AWS ReInvent and KubeCon 2018

o Software vs SaaS

· 9 min 00 sec: Services Spun up Inside Kubernetes vs Vendor Lock-in

o Over Hype of Vendor Lock-In?

· 12 min 38 sec: Service Mesh

o Why do I need Service Mesh on Kubernetes?

o Enable Cloud-Native Paradigms

o Kubernetes is not the Answer to Everything

· 20 min 35 sec: Data Center Environment and Edge Computing

o Is Kubernetes assumed for Edge?

o LF Edge Announcement Podcast

o Federation

· 30 min 21 sec: Wrap-Up