CLC Podcast: CloudTalk - Simple Backup Service

Eric Raisters on the CLC Security team joins Jonathan Townsend to talk all things security on the cloud and how the cloud handles new security measures, how CSPs develop their protocols, the merging of Security processes with DevOps culture and what role the customer plays in developing and maintaining security in a cloud-based environment.

This podcast episode features Jessica Weber and Jonathan Townsend from the CLC Content Team based in STL talking to Jon Tait and Joe Pritzel of the Backup Team about Simple Backup Service, its key features, capabilities, service details, and other functionality-based elements.

On this Cloud Talk episode, the Content Team at CenturyLink Cloud talks about the team's roles and responsibilities within the CLC organization. The team works with a diverse range of platform teams to generate, edit, and curate documentation for internal and external consumption, education, and communication. The Content Team operates on a wide array to help product and platform teams, partners, contributing authors, and stakeholders so they can all have their work represented as accurately and effectively as possible. This podcast discusses the importance of continued attention to detail around documentation processes and details what goes on day-to-day within the content engine at CenturyLink Cloud.

On this CenturyLink Cloud Podcast Principal Data Scientist, Ryan Kirk who’s based in the CenturyLink Cloud offices in Bellevue, Washington joins us to chat about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Capacity Planning. Ryan sheds some light on what he as his team are currently working on and what products, programs, and ideas are currently in use. Ryan also shares information on projects, pieces of content, and conferences he is planning on working on and attending in the near future. The bulk of the conversation revolves around things in development as they relate to Capacity Planning. Additionally, the podcast shifts towards exploring new, innovative ideas and emphasizes CenturyLink Cloud’s commitment to cultivating and fostering thought leadership in the industry. One of Ryan’s key insights is the Analytics as a Service products and ideas surrounding that concept with real life applications in real-time. The conversation also covers Data-based paradoxes such as Simpson’s Paradox, Anonymity Paradox, the Spotlight Paradox and many of the associated trends that take place with regards to data analysis and cultivation.

Jon Townsend (Content Team) and Christine Parr (Relational DB Product Owner) talk about Relational Database while focusing on a. Our team is responsible for building out the database as a service product with a focus on relational database engines like: MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle. The team released its first database engine in late January of this year (2016), which is a MySQL-compatible Relational DB product.

Jon Townsend (Content Team) and Christine Parr (Relational DB Product Owner) talk about Relational Database while focusing on a. Our team is responsible for building out the database as a service product with a focus on relational database engines like: MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle. The team released its first database engine in late January of this year (2016), which is a MySQL-compatible Relational DB product.

We had a chance to sit down with Principal Engineer, Bob Stolzberg, who spoke about all things Ecosystem. One of Bob's main functions within the CenturyLink Cloud organizations is to work with other third party companies and vendors better known as 'partners' to integrate their technology with the platform at CenturyLink Cloud via automation to ultimately bring those technologies into the Marketplace. Companies like Microsoft, Dynatrace, and Vormetric are prime examples of partners that have integrated and certified their technologies with the platform at CenturyLink Cloud. Check out the Ecosystem Program Partner Resource Guide (https://www.ctl.io/knowledge-base/ecosystem-partners/partner-integration-resources/ecosystem-program-resources/) to learn more about technical integration via third party technology with CenturyLink Cloud takes place by leveraging one of our automation methods (templates, bluprints, APIs, and add-ons). For companies seeking to integrate their products and services with CenturyLink Cloud, check out the or the CenturyLink Marketplace Provider Program Guide (https://www.ctl.io/knowledge-base/ecosystem-partners/partner-integration-resources/centurylink-cloud-ecosystem-program-guide/), which outlines the process expectations for information on any requisite certification requirements and qualifying considerations. Learn more! Listen to the podcast featuring Bob Stolzberg to learn more about partner events, user groups, evangelism campaigns, community-based initiatives, and much more! Be sure to visit the Marketplace Provider Program (https://www.ctl.io/marketplace/program/) online! To express interest in joining the program, prospective partners can visit the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace Provider Program web page or send email to [email protected].

What is Docker Swarm and Docker Compose? Find out today by listening to Docker's Product Manager explain these new projects.

Docker is not the only Linux Container manager available. Recently, CoreOS launched their own project named Rocket which has some architecturally different approaches to managing containers. This week, we interview the brain behind Rocket to ask what is Rocket and why they built it.

Deis is a Platform as a Service that uses Docker and so it makes Docker application development very easy to use and very familiar if you know something like Heroku. It is very similar to a Heroku-like system. This week we brought Deis' founder back on the show to tell us about what's new including the latest changes to the public-facing APIs and future-proofing work they have finished.