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Heroku CEO on why two PaaSes are better than one — no really!
Last year, Tod Nielsen jumped from Cloud Foundry to Heroku and now is in charge of explaining why Salesforce.com needs both Force.com (for internal apps) and Heroku (for customer facing apps). Over...
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Raymie Stata on why Hadoop (as a Service) isn’t just for tech heads —...
If you’re into big data, you have to catch this week’s guest, Raymie Stata, CEO of Altiscale, a startup that aims to bring Hadoop to the masses. While CTO at Yahoo Stata helped bring Hadoop to fruition...
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VMware’s top cloud guy on why — for enterprise work — price isn’t everything
This week, Bill Fathers, SVP and GM of VMware’s cloud effort, talks about where vCloud Hybrid Services fits into increasingly crowded enterprise cloud market and why the corporate cloud decision...
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IBM’s Lance Crosby: To glimpse the future of cloud, check out the banking...
Lance Crosby has a big job for a big company. He’s the former SoftLayer CEO who is now CEO and GM of the SoftLayer group within IBM. Compared to Amazon and Google, IBM, despite (or perhaps because...
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Want the latest on what’s hot in IT (and IoT) infrastructure? Listen up.
What are Twitter and Facebook doing to build the infrastructure they’ll need for their next-generation services? What sort of foundations are Amazon, Microsoft, Google designing to support the...
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A sneak peek at Structure from the people who’ll be asking the questions
With Structure fast approaching (like, on Wednesday), the trio of Gigaom writers who helped plan it decided to use the Structure Show podcast as a vehicle for sharing their excitement about the show....
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What’s up with Google and Microsoft clouds? Hear from the execs in charge
If you’re a public cloud watcher, you’ve got your eyes on Google and Microsoft, the two companies that have the resources and wherewithal to mount a serious challenge to Amazon Web Services. So it’s...
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Is the MapReduce era coming to an end? Maybe, says one of Spark’s founders
If you’re into big data, you probably know about Spark, sort of the Swiss Army knife of big data analytics in that it can handle all sorts of queries of all sorts of data types. On this week’s...
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Why you should know about DigitalOcean if you don’t already
There’s so much news this week we can barely pack it in — but we give it a try. For starters, Derrick Harris explains why so much mad money is flowing into big data — the latest example is MapR’s...
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Solomon Hykes on the tricky balance of being Docker’s benevolent dictator
Solomon Hykes, founder and CTO of Docker is the benevolent dictator of the super-heated Docker container universe. But with power comes responsibility and he knows that for Docker (writ large) to...
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Cloudera CEO breaks down Intel investment
On this week's Structure Show Tom Reilly lays out a bit more detail about the company's massive $900 million investment round and what Intel's strategic involvement will mean. Cloudera CEO breaks down...
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Enterprise cloud adoption: Amazon is big, natch, but watch out for “vSoup”
Rightscale keeps a sharp eye on business cloud usage. Kim Weins talks about some surprising findings from the company's 2014 State of the Cloud Survey. Enterprise cloud adoption: Amazon is big, natch,...
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OpenStack has wooed developers for years, now it’s time to charm users
On this week's Structure Show, OpenStack Foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce and COO Mark Collier make their case for enterprise OpenStack adoption. OpenStack has wooed developers for years,...
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Sorting through the OpenStack nuttiness
ICYMI: On this week's Structure Show, the OpenStack Foundation's Mark Collier and Jonathan Bryce take us through the Icehouse release and why we shouldn't get our knickers in a bunch re. the Solum PaaS...
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Linux trailblazer Mark Shuttleworth on why it’s OpenStack that matters now
On this week's Structure Show, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth on why we have to move on from the operating system wars to get to cloud goodness. Linux trailblazer Mark Shuttleworth on why it’s OpenStack...
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Can CenturyLink cloud compete with AWS on price? “Yes we can,” says its cloud...
The Structure Show: Andrew Higginbotham swears that CenturyLink can even beat Amazon on bandwidth price so if you thought the price wars were winding down, you have another think coming. Can...
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OpenStack must be growing up if we’re talking indemnification for goodness sake
On this week's Structure Show: Google buys Stackdriver, HP adds an OpenStack distribution called Helion; 5 killer big data technologies. OpenStack must be growing up if we’re talking indemnification...
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Fake Steve Jobs: He’s back and we’ve got him
Dan Lyons caused quite the kerfuffle when he started the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs 7 years ago. Lyons, a reporter, novelist is now working on Season 2 of HBO's Silicon Valley and he's our guest this...
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ICYMI: Why Apple and IBM make not-so-strange bedfellows
On this week's Structure Show, Dan Lyons has lots to say about how Hollywood writers research and portray Silicon Valley, and what Fake Steve Jobs would think of the new Apple-IBM alliance. ICYMI: Why...
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Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden on the latest Hadoop hubbub
Team Hortonworks now includes HP while rival Cloudera can boast of funding from Intel and In-Q-tel. Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden on the latest Hadoop hubbub originally published by Gigaom, © copyright...
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Proposition: AWS isn’t always the low-cost provider. Discuss
Brad Feld, managing director of the Foundry Group, says the public cloud landscape is changing in ways that may challenge the orthodoxy of AWS dominance. Proposition: AWS isn’t always the low-cost...
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Linode Founder Chris Aker on why you don’t want to mess with The Onion
On this week's Structure Show podcast, Linode CEO Chris Aker takes exception to the term "virtual private server" and talks about how there is life for cloud providers other than AWS. Linode Founder...
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In which we ask Aaron Levie how Box can compete with giants and what’s up...
Box must contend with Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, and now AWS Zocalo -- but Levie said the company's focus on managing content in complex business situations and across applications give it an...
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Here’s why the democratization of big data really, really should excite you....
In the not-so-distant past, if you wanted to query huge data sets, you needed authorized access to the big iron of supercomputers. The era of big data and public cloud has changed all that and hat's a...
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The trials and tribulations of the API economy
Zapier Co-Founder Bryan Helmig explains why his company wants to make it easy for users to cobble together their own personal best-of-breed app suites. And also why that is work for masochists. The...
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What in the world will HP do with Eucalyptus? The company’s cloud chief(s)...
On this week's Structure Show: Marten Mickos, Martin Fink and Bill Hilf talk about HP's acquisition of Eucalyptus and what it means to HP's OpenStack-focused clouds. What in the world will HP do with...
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Launching open-source projects is easy, keeping them running well? Not so much
On this week's Structure Show, Facebook's James Pearce and how the new TODO group can help people better maintain and manage open source software after it's released. Launching open-source projects is...
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Ericsson mind melds with Apcera, Talko takes on communications, and what’s up...
Jason Hoffman, the former Joyent CTO who's now spearheading Ericsson's cloud computing show talks about what he and Apcera are up to. In addition, the Oracle succession saga, Talko talks, and what's up...
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How Talko wielded cheap cloud services and open source tools to build its...
On this week's Structure Show, hear how Talko stood on the shoulders of AWS and Azure -- and wielded the Opus codec, WebRTC, FreeSwitch and other open-source tools to build an app that actually makes...
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While HP splits up, married entrepreneurs build something together
New and old, married and divorced -- this week's show is all about extremes. We kick off discussing HP's decision to become two companies focused on very different things, and conclude by interviewing...
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Former MongoDB CEO talks about stepping down to be a better dad — and NoSQL,...
On this week's Structure Show podcast, Jonathan Vanian and Derrick Harris break down Docker, web bugs, a Hadoop extravaganza and the latest OpenStack acquisition. They interview former MongoDB CEO, and...
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Microsoft’s big freaking servers make cloud wars even more interesting
On this week's Structure Show: Microsoft adds more powerful IaaS capabilities while Amazon makes AWS more enterprise-worthy. Microsoft’s big freaking servers make cloud wars even more interesting...
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EMC cloud really isn’t all about EMC hardware, says EMC product chief
The storage giant has some secrets up its sleeve including how its acquisition of the Andy Becholsheim-backed DSSD startup will help fire up high-performance next-gen apps. EMC cloud really isn’t all...
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Okay, we admit it. Google may be serious about cloud after all
On this week's Structure Show we talk about Google's cloud and to Google cloud marketing guy Brian Goldfarb about how Google, AWS and Microsoft clouds stack up. Okay, we admit it. Google may be serious...
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All about AWS Re:invent and oh, some Hortonworks and Microsoft news too
Yes, there was a ton o' news out of Amazon's cloud conference, but also big Hadoop news in Hortonworks IPO plans and Microsoft continues its open-sourcey ways by opening up .NET to non-Windows types....
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Do you find OSS hard to deploy? Meet ZeroToDocker
Open source software is widely available and hugely helpful. But the packaging can be dicey and deployment difficult. So say hey to Netflix' ZeroToDocker. Do you find OSS hard to deploy? Meet...
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More from Facebook on its new networking architecture
Facebook's networking guru Najam Ahmad on why the company had to go to core-and-pod from less module cluster technology. More from Facebook on its new networking architecture originally published by...
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Why CoreOS went its own way on containers
CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi talks about the rationale for his company's move into bare-bones containers, and the state of the cloud industry. Why CoreOS went its own way on containers originally published by...
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Mo’ money, mo’ data, mo’ cloud on the Structure Show
If you want an informed opinion on the state of the cloud and the relative merits of the players, Sebastian Stadil’s a good person to ask. Founder and CEO of Scalr, a multi-cloud management company,...
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It’s all Docker, containers and the cloud on the Structure Show
It’s safe to say that Docker has had a momentous year with the container-management startup gaining a lot of developer interest and scoring a lot of support from big tech companies like Amazon, Google,...
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Cheap cloud + open source = a great time for startups
While the rest of the world binges on IoT goodies from CES 2015, we thought we’d focus on (what else?) enterprise-grade infrastructure. This week’s guest, Steve Herrod was formerly CTO of VMware, and...
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On the importance of building privacy into apps and Reddit AMAs
Given the increasing need to keep private data private in a world of habitual over-sharing on social media and the burgeoning internet of things, the work Jean Yang is doing at MIT is important. Yang...
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Hilary Mason on taking big data from theory to reality
If you’re interested in assessing how and when a given data technology — deep learning, machine intelligence, natural language generation — can move from the theoretical to commercial use, Hilary...
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Don’t like your cloud vendor? Wait a second.
If your cloud provider’s lineup leaves you cold, you can jump ship. Or you could wait a minute because things could — probably will — change. There’s already been a ton of consolidation — the...
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VMware wants all those cloud workloads “marooned” in AWS
Even though VMware initially called its Amazon competitor vCloud Hybrid Services, make no mistake, it’s the company’s public cloud (now renamed vCloud Air.) And, really wants workloads that might run...
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No, you don’t need a ton of data to do deep learning
There are a couple of seemingly contradictory memes rolling around the deep learning field. One is that you need a truly epic amount of data to do interesting work. The other is that in many subject...
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Microsoft’s machine learning guru on why data matters sooooo much
Not surprisingly, Joseph Sirosh, has big ambitions for his product portfolio at Microsoft which includes Azure ML, HDInsight and other tools. Chief among them is making it easy for mere mortals to...
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Mark Cuban on net neutrality: FCC can’t protect competition
As someone who takes her cues on net neutrality from Gigaom’s resident expert Stacey Higginbotham or, failing that, John Oliver, this is hard to admit: Mark Cuban may have a point on why the proposed...
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5 reasons the FCC might be wrong about net neutrality
This week the FCC passed new rules on net neutrality, which were essentially designed to limit the ability of internet service providers (ISP) to either slow down or boost the speeds of websites. While...
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The Hadoop wars, HP cloud(s) and IBM’s big win
If you are confused about Hewlett-Packard’s cloud plan of action, this week’s guest will lay it out for you. Bill Hilf, the SVP of Helion product management, makes his second appearance on the show...
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