229: The CloudPod Guide to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Container Chaos

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are taking a look at Magic Quadrant, Gemini AI, and GraalOS – along with all the latest news from OCI, Google, AWS, and Azure. 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• The CloudPod wonders if Anthropic’s Santa Clause will bring us everything we want in an AI Bot.
• The Cloud Pod recommends protection to achieve Safer
• Google rides the gemini rocket to AI JPB
• The only Copilot I need Azure, is Booze
• GraalOS, or what we now call ‘the noise our CFO makes when he receives the Oracle audit bills’
• The hosts of the Cloud pod would like to understand how to properly pronounce GraalOS
• Is Oracle even on the magic quadrant for cloud?
• RedHat Puts lipstick on the pig and calls it OpenStack

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General News this Week:

00:56 Red Hat rebrands OpenStack Platform for building and managing private clouds 

• • Red Hat is rebranding the Red Hat OpenStack Platform, which will now be known as Red Hat OpenStack services on OpenShift. You know, because let’s add containers. What could go wrong? 
  • We didn’t know anyone was still trying to openstack at this point – did you? 

• “By integrating Kubernetes with OpenStack, organizations see improved resource management and scalability, greater flexibility across the hybrid cloud, simplified development and DevOps practices and more,” said Sean Cohen, director of product management in Red Hat’s Hybrid Platforms organizations.
• Per Holger, Mueller openstack has gotten a lot of popularity in the Telecommunications industry where they use it to build private clouds to run their networks… *adds to the list of don’t work there… telecommunications companies*

02:32 Justin – “I mean, OpenShift is just like Convox. It’s a platform on top of Kubernetes and a fancy developer portal. And so then you get, now you add to that OpenStack.”

AWS

03:51  Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon

• Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic. The agreement is part of a collaboration to develop the most reliable and high-performing foundation models in the industry.  
• As part of the agreement, AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, providing our team with access to leading compute infrastructure in the form of AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips,