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• 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 challenges of AI. SHOW: 983SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #983 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSORS:[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for freeSHOW NOTES:Hitachi Ventara (website)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.Topic 2 - How is AI changing the way enterprises need to think about infrastructure?Topic 3 - What makes AI workloads so different from traditional workloads? How is AI exposing the limitations of broken cloud environments?Topic 4 - Where are organizations feeling the most pressure? What are the biggest misconceptions enterprises have about preparing for AI?Topic 5 - What problems come from managing separate systems? What is the biggest driving factor toward unified data platforms?Topic 6 - How is Hitachi Vantara helping customers handle the growing infrastructure demands created by AI?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

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• 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 just infrastructure to align technology and business. SHOW: 982SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #982 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.SHOW NOTESVercel v0Building Web Apps with just English and AI (Acquired podcast, Feb 2025)Vercel on The Cloudcast (2024)Vercel on The Cloudcast (2021)8 tools to build your own PaaS (2025)IS PAAS READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP? Where could PaaS evolve to now?Can new PaaS services abstract the developer, and just focus on business logic and business ideas? What languages or design patterns would be mandated? (web only, mobile only, web + mobile? )Can we template “best practices” enough to be reliable?Can we template compliances needed to handle financial transactions, customer data, etc.?Can troubleshooting become an automated service?Where was PaaS in the past? (Heroku, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes)Language specificCloud specificAbstracting the infrastructure and securityFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

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• 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.SHOW: 981SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #981 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SPONSORS:[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for freeSHOW NOTES:Link to November 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

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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. SHOW: 980SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #980 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcastSHOW NOTESTHINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:Thankful for healthHappy Birthday to ChatGPTThe feature on an iPhone that remembers the code sent in an SMS messageRole playing, brain storming, scenario planning on ChatGPT/GeminiTools like Vercel that let non-programmers use AI to build apps (the future of PaaS)Tools like NotebookLM making complex stuff like LLM training, RAG patterns,  True competition in the cloud market as differentiation emergesThe beginnings of alternatives to NVIDIA in the AI HW Acceleration marketThe evolution of wearables like fitness trackers, or AirPods (better sound quality, noise cancelling, language translation, etc.) FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

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• Time Series for Physical AI

  Evan Kaplan (@EvanKaplan, CEO @InfluxDB) talks about Physical AI and the evolving and emerging technologies required to bring AI to physical locations and activities. SHOW: 979SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #979 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSORS:[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcast[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for freeSHOW NOTES:InfluxData homepageEvan on The Cloudcast #394SpaceNews article on Time Series and AI in SpaceTime Series is critical to Physical AITopic 1 - Welcome back to the show, Evan. Give everyone a brief introduction.Topic 2 - We last spoke in 2019, and our goal with that show was to give everyone an introduction to time series databases. There’s a link in the show notes for those who want to go back and get a refresher. But, if folks aren’t up to speed, give everyone a quick definition of time series and its impacts in recent yearsTopic 3 - First, we need to discuss Physical AI. What is Physical AI, and how is it different from, say, GenAI or Agentic AI? It seems that AI in the mainstream equates LLMs with AI, but that isn’t correct. We are talking about deterministic AI, not probabilistic solutions. Can you explain to everyone the difference and why it matters?Topic 4 - Why is the concept of time series so crucial to Physical AI? Additionally, you provided a great analogy comparing time series data collection to low-resolution and high-resolution images. Can you explain to everyone why this is so important?Topic 5 - Let’s talk about some use cases. How and where does this intersection of Physical AI and time series impact organizations the most? Is this specific to certain industries (robotics, aerospace, IoT, etc.) or specific collection mechanisms (telemetry, sensor data, etc.)Topic 6 - Are we shifting with AI to a state that is less reactive and more proactive with an active intelligence?Topic 7 - What kind of demands do real-time, modern workflows and data streaming place on the infrastructure? When I think of time series, I think of real-time data, which means ultra-low latency and processing near the source, among other things. FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

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