The Cloudcast
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The Cloudcast
The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI. Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computi...
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Cloud and AI Predictions for 2026
Aaron and Brian make some bold predictions for the 2026 Cloud and AI markets, as well as reviewing the biggest issues going into 2026.
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The Craziest Year (so far) comes to a close
A lot changed in the world of Cloud and AI this year. And then it changed some more, and some more, and so more. The only constant was change.
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2025 State of AI in Review
Aaron and Brian review the Year in AI, hand out AI awards, and discuss the biggest AI trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well.<...
How AGI will change Everything, Everywhere
If an AGI falls in the woods and nobody can define it, did it actually fall? This week we make an exact prediction of when AGI will happen, and the 10...
2025 State of Cloud in Review
Aaron and Brian review the Year in Cloud, hand out Cloud awards, and discuss the biggest cloud trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made...
Will there be a market for expert AI agents?
How difficult will it be to train and build an AI Agent that has expertise in a given domain? Will it happen in the next year, or 3 years or 10 years?...
How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure
Dan McConnell (Senior VP Product Management at @HitachiVantara) talks about how Enterprise infrastructure is having to evolve to keep up with the data...
The Future of PaaS
The PaaS of the future probably doesn't look anything like the PaaS of the past. AI should help bring in an era where we can abstract much more than j...
AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025
Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2025.
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Things to be Thankful for
As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about.
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Time Series for AI
Evan Kaplan (@EvanKaplan, CEO @InfluxDB) talks about Physical AI and the evolving and emerging technologies required to bring AI to physical locations...
After NVIDIA's Latest Earnings
Once again NVIDIA had a record earnings quarter (Q3FY26), but the strength of their on-going success will be dependent on many factors that may or may...
Shadow AI
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Rohan Sathe (@rssathe, CEO @NightfallAI) discusses the rise of Shadow AI, where employees unknowingly leak sensitive corporate data th...
Rational and Irrational AI numbers
Is the current level of AI funding and investment rational or irrational? Is it possible that it’s both at the same time? Let’s look at some numbers a...
2025 State of APIs
James Higginbotham (@launchany) discusses the evolution of API usage across developers, modern applications and APIs.
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All the new AI stuff all at once
In the history of technology era changes, things tend to change slowly at first, and then quickly all at once. We’ve now reached the beginning of the...
AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025
Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2025.
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Is Amazon the new Cisco?
Patterns in technology tend to eventually repeat themselves (or at least rhyme), and Amazon is beginning to repeat some of the patterns of Cisco from...
AI Data Analytics
Soham Mazumdar, CEO @WisdomAI_inc, discusses how organizations can break free from the "drowning in data but starving for insights" paradox that plagu...
Does Your AI Project Need Help?
Why are 95% of AI projects struggling to create positive ROI, according to a recent MIT study? Do businesses need help getting those first few AI proj...
The Intersection of Cybersecurity and AI
Monzy Merza (@monzymerza, CEO/Founder @Crogl) talks about build a next-generation Enterprise SOC by leveraging AI to stay ahead of Cybersecurity threa...
Something's Gotta Give
What happens when the biggest technology trend is built on economics that don't make any sense when viewed end-to-end? Eventually, some aspect has to...
Agentic AI Coding & Predictive Software Quality
Animesh Koratana (@akoratana, Founder of @playerzero_ai) discusses how agentic AI is transforming software quality assurance through predictive code s...
The 5-10-85 Reality of Enterprise AI
Three years since the launch of ChatGPT, what does the landscape of Enterprise AI look like today? What’s working, what’s struggling and what’s still...
Using AI Reasoning to Prevent AI Scams
Alan Lefort (CEO, @StrongestLayer) discusses how LLM-powered reasoning is transforming phishing security from reactive pattern-matching to predictive...
Will Cloud Providers start acquiring SaaS?
As cloud matures, could the hyperscale cloud providers start looking to acquire SaaS providers to build out a bundled application portfolio? Or are th...
AI & Cloud Trends for September 2025
Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2025.
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The AI Awkward Years
Between the bold predictions, VC economics, and rising usage-patterns are stories of limited ROIs, undefined use-cases and associated job losses. AI i...
AI Agents for Unstructured Data
Stephan Donze (@sdonze CEO @AODocs), discusses the enterprise unstructured data crisis, where 80% of business data remains untapped due to legacy syst...
Two Obseervations about Smart People and AI
How is it possible that smart people both love and hate AI? Does it matter how smart you are, or just how you interact with AI?
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The Return of Bare Metal?
Todd Robinson, Founder and President of OpenMetal.io, discusses the resurgence of bare metal infrastructure driven by AI workloads, digital sovereignt...
Exploring Oracle Cloud's Evolution
How did Oracle Cloud (with OpenAI) suddenly command the news cycle, with a chance to potentially overtake much larger clouds in a few years? Let’s exp...
Kubernetes-native Continuous Testing
Ole Lensmar (@olensmar, Founder/CTO at @TestKube_io) discusses how Kubernetes-native testing platforms are designed to address limitations in traditio...
Where is the Android of AI?
Apple’s iPhone had the Android ecosystem, but where is the Android of AI going to come from to challenge the OpenAI/NVIDIA duopoly? Let’s explore the...
AI & Cloud Trends for August 2025
Brian Gracely (@bgracely) Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from Aug...
Every Week Feels like an AI Gartner Hype Cycle
From extreme ups to startling downs, every week can feel like the peak of expectations and the trough of disillusionment for AI.
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The Modernization of FinOps
Amit Kinha - Field CTO @DoITInt | FinOps Foundation Board Member discusses how the relationship between technology and financial accountability has ev...
Transitioning from the Cloud era to the AI era
As we begin to transition from the Cloud era to the AI era, what types of changes can we expect to see happen in the market, within our businesses, an...
Looking back on Industry Market Leaders
After a very long roadtrip, let’s explore the lessons we can learn from some of the greatest business models in tech and how or if they apply to the A...
Kubernetes in the Era of GPUs
Haseeb Budhani (@haseebbudhani, CEO @rafaysystemsinc) discusses the evolution from traditional DevOps to platform engineering and what "Enterprise Rea...