The Cloudcast

As the AI era emerges, the debate about the best place to live to take advantage of it for your career has started up again. Is Silicon Valley still the best place to live when a new trend starts?SHOW: 877SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #877 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Love the insights from this episode? Make sure you never miss a beat with Chatpods! Whether you're commuting, working out, or just on the go, Chatpods lets you capture and summarize key takeaways effortlessly.Save time, stay organized, and keep your thoughts at your fingertips.Download Chatpods directly from App Store or Google Play and use it to listen to this podcast today!SHOW NOTES:The case against living in the Bay area (Forrest Brazeal) Cost of living calculatorBest quality of life cities (US) Best quality of life cities (Europe)Best quality of life cities (Asia)Top 15 Wealth Creating Stocks of last 10 years (Vanguard)IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?Amazon, Microsoft, Space X , BYD, TSMC, are not in Silicon ValleyTHE PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN SILICON VALLEY DURING A BOOM?Density of ideasDensity of people that obsess over technologyWork from Office vs. Work from AnywhereLocation of customers - and physical vs. digitalAbility to make money vs. life changing moneyNon-work considerations (family, non-work activities, etc.)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Andrew Manoske (@a2d2, VP Products @Kindo)  talks about the intersection of GenAI and DevSecOps, the WhiteRabbitNeo model, and learning adversary behavior.SHOW: 876SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #876 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"SHOW SPONSOR:While data may be shaping our world, Data Citizens Dialogues is shaping the conversationFollow Data Citizens Dialogues on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcastsSHOW NOTES:Kindo (homepage)WhiteRabbitNeo (open source project)Open Source GenAI models advances support for CyberSecurity and DecSecOps teamsTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your current areas of focus.Topic 2 - You come from a security background. Every conversation we have with security teams is “attackers have more tools, more money and more time”. Is security an almost unwinnable game without a new way of thinking about the equation?Topic 3 - It seems like AI has the potential to give Security teams (or anyone in IT) more of a chance, if used properly. How are you thinking about giving teams the right security AI powers?Topic 4 - Let’s talk about WhiteRabbitNeo. “WhiteRabbitNeo is uncensored and trained to act like a modern adversary.” What does this mean in practical terms? Topic 5 - Where is the potential for the right set of AI models + Agents to make a significant impact towards better on-going security? Topic 6 - There will be lots of things aimed at being AI for Security. How would you tell someone how to sort through what is useful vs. AI-washed or not likely to be useful?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

In the Cloud Era, Netflix was held up as the lighthouse for what was possible with cloud. So who is the Netflix of the AI era, and are we learning enough about AI yet?SHOW: 875SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #875 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Love the insights from this episode? Make sure you never miss a beat with Chatpods! Whether you're commuting, working out, or just on the go, Chatpods lets you capture and summarize key takeaways effortlessly.Save time, stay organized, and keep your thoughts at your fingertips.Download Chatpods directly from App Store or Google Play and use it to listen to this podcast today!SHOW NOTES:New research shows widespread adoption of GenAINetflixOSS (homepage)WHAT DID NETFLIX DO FOR THE CLOUD ERA?Provided a face for a new style of doing workProvided validation that a new model could workEncouraged people to explore older, “bad practices”Began to define metrics of what the new world could look likeWHY DO WE NEED A NETFLIX OF THE AI ERA?Because AI can apparently do everything, but what are some specific things?What are the new ways of thinking about old problems?Has it been proven to improve teams, or mostly individuals? Do we need a Couch to 5k set of use-cases? Starting use-casesOr is AI going to be a big-bang approach?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

Sunil Mallya (@sunilmallya, Co-Founder & CTO @_FlipAI) talks about building AI models to help IT Operations teams simplify troubleshooting, incident response and pattern detection.  SHOW: 874 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #874 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"SHOW NOTES:Flip AI (homepage)Enterprise AI Agents: Bringing LLMs to Enterprise DataTopic 1 - Welcome to the show. Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about your broader view of where IT Operations is today for large companies. What are their biggest challenges, and where are their opportunities for big improvements? Topic 3 - One of the biggest challenges for IT Operations is so many systems, so many tools, so many data sources and the difficulty of coordinating (troubleshooting, incident response, pattern detection, etc.) across them. Is there a modern approach that’s emerging about how to make this better? Topic 4 - Where does the potential of AI models come into play here? It is more focused on being able to ask the system for diagnosis, or can it start getting closer to taking independent actions? Topic 5 - How do you train an AI model with so many different pieces of customer data? Topic 6 - Let’s talk about AI Agents and what they can begin to accomplish within an Enterprise.FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod