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Data Center Buildouts for AI Aug 14, 2024

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Scott Jarnagin (Founder/CEO of Caddis Cloud Solutions (Caddis Cloud Solutions)) talks about the challenges of building modern data centers to handle the growing demands of AI.
SHOW: 847
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Caddis Cloud Solutions (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Caddis Cloud, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.
Topic 2 - Let’s begin by looking at the bigger picture intersection of today’s data centers and the growing demand for AI capabilities. How much of a change will current data centers have to go through to be able to support AI at any sort of scale?
Topic 3 - How are cloud providers, hosting companies and enterprises evolving to meet the increased demands driven by AI and other high-intensity computing processes?
Topic 4 - How would you typically advise an enterprise to think about matching the AI needs to the current and future capabilities of the market? How do they make sure their AI plans aren’t going to get sidetracked with the wrong datacenter/cloud choice?
Topic 5 - Are there elements of government development/involvement for datacenter expansion that companies should be aware of as they make future plans around AI?
Topic 6 - How frameworks does Caddis Cloud typically use to help guide companies that are looking at near-term and long-term data center plans
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5 Storylines that will shape Cloud and AI in 2H 2024 Aug 11, 2024

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They may not be major stories, but these 5 headlines will play an important role in how AI and the Cloud evolve in the 2H of 2024.

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VCs are looking to get out (Business Insider)
Microsoft earnings (31%), Google earnings (29%), Amazon earnings (19%) - QtoQ earnings for the hyperscalers

THE ECONOMY WILL BE THE STORY OF 2H 2024 DUE TO THE US ELECTIONS

BUT WILL ANY OF THESE OTHER STORIES GET THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE?

Are VCs going to be out on AI startups?
Will tech antitrust discussions become prominent in the US elections?
When will we start seeing all the early-2024 AI demos turn into reality?
How much are the hyperscale cloud earnings boosted by AI spend vs. usage?
Will any alternatives to VMware start to show progress in displacing the virtualization leader?

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Cloud News of the Month - July 2024 Aug 07, 2024

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Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2024.

SHOW: 845

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LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR JULY 2024 CLOUD NEWS

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues
Trend 1 - What do you tend to do (at work, or outside work) when things seem overly bad in lots of areas?
Trend 2 - Are people starting to feel like AI is more sizzle (hype) than steak (reality)?
Trend 3 - As you’re looking at 2HCY24 now, with all the things that happened in July, are you expecting anything new/different than you thought a couple months ago?
Trend 4 - Are we likely to be in “wait and see” mode for the rest of the year, with all the political uncertainty?

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Technology and Politics Collide Aug 04, 2024

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For many years, Silicon Valley was considered to be somewhat apolitical. But the last decade has changed the relationship with governments. What’s causing the changes?

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TECHNOLOGY IS A CRITICAL DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

VCs are becoming more visible and vocal in their political agendas
Billionaires have the wealth, power and influence of nation states
European and APAC tech policy are more defined than US

DOES GROWTH ALLOW YOU TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY OR ACCOUNTABILITY?

Has there been an “unwritten” agreement between WashDC and Silicon Valley?
Crypto is not just another technology
Issues: Antitrust, Taxes, Future of AI, etc.

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The Evolution of Data Platforms Jul 31, 2024

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Jeff Denworth, (@JeffDenworth, Co-Founder of @VAST_Data) talks about building data platforms for new AI application demands.
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VAST Data (homepage)
Understanding AI IO performance (whitepaper)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into VAST Data, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.
Topic 2 - As we talk about datacenter or cloud architectures, right now GPUs are king. This is causing a complete rethinking of data center architectures. But what is this doing to the storage side of the equation?
Topic 3 - To a certain extent (in the context of AI), GPUs are this massive change from CPUs in that cost almost isn’t considered because of the great fear of falling behind in AI model building/usage. But storage has always been a performance+price discussion. Does that discussion still exist when companies must choose all-flash storage to keep up with GPU IO demands?
Topic 4 - We’ve obviously seen a lot of new innovation around GenAI models over the last couple years, but what have you seen from Enterprise companies in terms of real adoption, AI use-cases, etc?
Topic 5 - How are you finding Enterprise companies balancing the current requirements around infrastructure modernization (maybe driven by new VMware licensing, etc.) with AI demands?
Topic 6 - Do you find that data platform teams are having to make many adjustments to their environments or skills, especially since all-flash technology has been around for at least a decade?
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Forgetting the Fundamentals of High Availability Jul 28, 2024

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If this past week’s Crowdstrike outage taught us anything, it’s that we seem to have forgotten the basics of how to run highly available environments. But what other critical skills are deteriorating?

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WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Systems are more interconnected and more critical
Companies under-staff critical operations
Developers are the new kingmakers, but where are all the kings?

PEOPLE DON’T IGNORE STABLE FOUNDATIONS, THEY FORGET ABOUT THEM

Not enough people have home labs, or go after certifications
The industry highlights the content creators, instead of the builders/fixers
There might be an opportunity to restart a focus on foundational skills

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Enabling Voice AI in Applications Jul 24, 2024

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Scott Stephenson (@deepgramscott, CEO of @deepgram) talks about building Voice AI into your applications.
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Deepgram (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Deepgram and Voice AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.
Topic 2 - Let’s start by stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. Many of us have interacted with voice technologies, from Siri to Alexa to various call-center “agents”. From a maturity perspective, where are we in terms of voice-centric interactions with computing systems?
Topic 3 - When businesses think about including computer-aided voice-centric interactions to their applications, what’s the typical thought process for where it makes sense to the business, how it represents their brand, etc.?

Topic 4 - How does Deepgram bring Voice AI to applications? What do developers have to think about when adding Voice AI to an existing application, or to think about building a voice-centric application from the start?
Topic 5 - What are some of the most common use-cases when Voice AI adds new value to the application? What areas are starting to push the edges of possible?
Topic 6 - How do companies usually go about collecting user-feedback about the voice-centric interactions?
Topic 7 - If you look forward a year or two, where do you see Voice AI types of technologies evolving?
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Overcoming the Hurdles of Deploying Platforms Jul 21, 2024

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Modern applications require modern platforms and team collaboration to deliver velocity, stability and security. So how do we overcome the hurdles to making platform adoption work?

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WHY DO PLATFORMS MAKE SENSE FOR MODERN APPLICATIONS?

Reduce the cognitive load on application teams
Deliver self-service capabilities where it makes sense
Deliver consistent services across teams, with efficient operations
Reduce costs, reduce snowflakes, etc.

WHAT ARE THE PLATFORM HURDLES, AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM?

The jump from initial projects to scalable delivery across apps and teams
Application teams wanting snowflake environments
Buying and budgeting centers not aligning to platform delivery
Getting application team buy-in to platform services
Getting cross-functional team alignment and coordination
Balancing stability and pace of innovation

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The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag Jul 17, 2024

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2024 has been evolving very quickly for Cloud and AI. So as we get to the mid-year point, we stop and answer many of your mailbag questions.

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MAILBAG QUESTIONS:
Topic 1 - At this stage of the GenAI era, obviously the “picks and shovels” are winning (e.g. NVIDIA). But beyond that, are there obvious winners and losers, or areas that look more promising?
Topic 2 - In the near-term or long-term, do you think there will be big differentiation in the LLM models, or do they eventually commoditized?
Topic 3 - There is some talk that Amazon (&/or) AWS are behind in GenAI, but obviously they are ahead with cloud. Do you think GenAI offerings will be enough to get companies to move clouds, or will it just be another cloud workload and companies already use multiple clouds?
Topic 4 - Do you have any thoughts about how GenAI (or any AI) will impact IT architectural thinking over the next couple of years?
Topic 5 - Do you think the recent rounds of layoffs, or slow downs in hiring, will have a big impact on IT organizations?
Topic 6 - What happens if GenAI doesn’t turn out to be as successful as so many people are forecasting? What happens to all the other potential technology innovations while that plays out?
Topic 7 - If you were advising someone on a tech career choice in 2024, what type of guidance would you give someone?
Topic 8 - DevOps had a long run as “the IT cultural change” for a while. Do you see any of the other tech/culture trends starting to get more popular (FinOps, Platform Engineering, MLOps, etc.)?
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Is there a Market for Private Cloud AI? Jul 14, 2024

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Since the GenAI era took off, most of the discussion has been about AI in the public cloud. But is there a market for AI in the Private Cloud as well?

SHOW: 838

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DATA GRAVITY AND BUSINESS CONCERNS ABOUT GEN AI

Most large companies keep their data on-premises
Companies are concerned about mixing their data with public LLMs
Companies are unsure about hallucinations and their quality of their offerings

WHAT WILL THE ENTERPRISE MEASURE FOR GEN AI SUCCESS?

Some GenAI projects will measure replacement activities (e.g. chatbots for call centers)
The enterprise hasn’t established a baseline for acceptable incorrect information yet
Enterprises may use the public cloud GPUs to train or tune private models
Enterprises will large the consumer market in usage of GenAI - need to identify use-cases

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