Telugu Bytes

In the fourth and the first episode since the beta launch, we thank the audience for their support and clarify couple of questions/concerns from the audience.

• iPhone 6 Release

• • Coming Tuesday the rumour mill is ripe that Apple is going to release their next version of iPhone and iWatch

  • Dhruv discusses some of the features which Apple is rumored to release in this release.

• iCloud Celebrity Photo Hack

• • Last week, an infamous celebrity photo hack has been the point of discussion by both mainstream media and technology circles

  • Ravi offers some insights into what multifactor authentication is and why that would have prevented this hack.

  • Dhruv offers some other alternatives like 1Password which would eliminate the need of remembering the passwords.

  • Dhruv goes over some basic precautions you can take to prevent this happening to you (in case you become famous ;-)

Links discussed in the show:

• Celebrity photo hack, an overview and how can you prevent them from happening to your photos: http://gigaom.com/2014/09/07/prevent-icloud-hack/

• Multi factor authentication Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication

• The American Life podcast founder starts a new startup:  Hear Startup http://hearstartup.com/https://twitter.com/podcaststartup

• Saavn, the Spotify for Indian music that Ravi has great things to say about.
• Owning vs. Streaming music - What do we prefer? Where are we heading?

• What is virtualization? How does this relate to cloud computing?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of virtualization?
• A brief history of virtualization
• Major players in server virtualization - ESX, Hyper-V, RHEV and Xen
• An intro to storage virtualization and network virtualization
• Top three providers of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Downsides of cloud
• Future of cloud

In this episode, Ravi and Dhruv discuss the buzzword-ridden and often confusing term 'Cloud Computing'.

• What is cloud? Why is everybody talking about it?
• Watch this guy explain "Cloud CDs" and what happens to them when it rains.
• Isn't my home computer good enough? How about a server? Why do I need cloud?
• Is the cloud model good or bad for small consumers?
• What is the difference between public cloud and private cloud?
• What is IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service), PaaS (platform-aaS), SaaS (software)?
• Why did Everpix, running on AWS, go out of business? 

Next week, we'll talk about virtualization, different cloud providers and the future.

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In the first episode, Dhruv and Ravi kick things off by introducing themselves and talk about podcasting - their favorite podcasts and why they started this one. The discussion turns to Kickstarter, LeBron's move to Cleveland and American sports in general.

Links from the podcast:

• Telugu Tharanga, a podcast we found.
• Kickstarter, a site that lets you raise money for your products
• Hanselminutes, a podcast that we love.
• LeBron's move to his old team, Cleveland Cavaliers.

You can find us on Twitter at @gummadi and @dhruvtv.

Q. What is the theme music that plays at the beginning and the end of the podcast?

A. It is Krish Ashok’s awesome Game of Thrones (Kuthu Remix), published under a Creative Commons license.