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The Cloudcast

The Cloudcast

Written by: Massive Studios
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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI. Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS .

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Episodes
  • The Future of Enterprise Software?
    Feb 4 2026

    Are we ready to move into an era of wild predictions about where the future of Enterprise software is headed in 2026 and beyond?

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    CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

    CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

    SHOW NOTES

    • The SPAC-king is going to fix legacy software
    • All Enterprise software is dead
    • Microsoft and Software Survival (Stratechery)

    WHAT HAPPENS TO ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE NEXT?

    • How much do enterprises want to write their own software?
    • How much do enterprises wish they could write more software?
    • How much do enterprises not understand the economics of owning their own software?
    • How much does “big SaaS” or just “big Enterprise software” actually help because people already know it?
    • Is it possible that this new Agentic-driven software could create a type of new software community?
    • Are “open” software communities prepared for the emerging economics of AI-created software?

    FEEDBACK?

    • Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
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    27 mins
  • The Rise of Digital Sovereignty
    Feb 1 2026

    We take a listener question about digital sovereignty, tariffs and UK/EU independence from large US cloud providers, also Brian reaches out to the Melbourne, AUS listeners.

    SHOW: 998

    SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #998 Transcript

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    CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

    CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

    SHOW NOTES

    • AWS European Sovereign Cloud
    • Azure European Sovereign Services
    • Google Cloud Sovereign Cloud
    • Red Hat Digital Sovereignty
    • Broadcom Digital Sovereignty
    • Oracle Digital Sovereignty
    • Digital Sovereignty in Europe, What’s the Plan B? (IDC)
    • Digital Commons EDIC Established (2025)
    • EU AI Act
    • “Sovereign Clouds and the Digital Sovereignty Imperative: Europe's Quest for Digital Independence” (IDC #EUR149098122, December 2022)
    • The Evolution of Digital Sovereignty: Moving Beyond Data and Cloud” (Rahiel Nasir, IDC, January 13, 2023)

    THE FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY

    • What is the definition of Digital Sovereignty? What about Digital Assurance?
    • Sovereignty from who or what?
    • What laws are you attempting to comply with? How are they audited or measured?
    • Data Sovereignty - Maintaining control over how data is collected, classified, processed and stored to ensure that data regulations are met
    • Technical Sovereignty - Running workloads without dependence on a provider’s infrastructure or software, and protected from all extra-territorial interference and scrutiny.
    • Operational Sovereignty - Visibility and control over provider operations from provisioning and performance management, to monitoring of physical and digital access, to the infrastructure.
    • Assurance Sovereignty -Ability to independently verify and assure the integrity, security, and reliability of digital systems and processes including resilience of critical services.


    FEEDBACK?

    • Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
    • Twitter/X: @cloudcastpod
    • BlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.social
    • Instagram: @cloudcastpod
    • TikTok: @cloudcastpod
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    33 mins
  • AI & Cloud Trends for January 2026
    Jan 28 2026

    Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from January 2026.

    SHOW: 997

    SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #997 Transcript

    SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET

    NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

    SHOW NOTES:

    • Link to January 2026 News and Articles

    FEEDBACK?

    • Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
    • Bluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.social
    • Twitter/X: @cloudcastpod
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    48 mins
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