Vultr

I wasn't going to do it in the Amazon AWS thingamabobby there.

Some of you had mentioned a company called Vulture, V-U-L-T-E-R.

I did look at them and they looked promising, but I need to tell you all that I ended up going with a product called B2Cloud.

Price-wise, it's a little bit less.

So we're just getting that up so that the people in the cloud can access that share.

V2Cloud, if you have used them and you got any gotchas or anything like that, let me know.

If you are upset that I did not go with Vulture, you can let me know that too.

But that's where we are with that.

You guys literally reinvented storage and are inventing a whole new category.

Sponsored by Vulture.

We were telling stories that nobody even thought were possible.

Okay, and welcome back to the Agent X podcast.

I'm your host, Kevin Cochrane, Chief Marketing Officer here at Vulture.

And we are broadcasting from San Francisco in the AI Conference, where I happen to have the pleasure of sitting down in the...

W Hotel having a literal fireside chat with a nice hot fire behind me with Jeff Denworth, the co-founder of Vast Data.

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Over 400 years later, it's still a fitting place to bet on what comes next.

So let's bring you to the Rye Exhibition Center in Amsterdam, where Vulture's CMO, Kevin Cochrane, sits down with Patrick to talk about what it takes to build for the agentic AI era.

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Platform

We jumped off a cliff, built the plane on the way down, and definitely hit the ground once or

twice.

Sponsored by Vulture.

No one's going to dictate whether MCP survives or not.

Wound up joining a startup, got bought by Google in '06, and started working in cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform in like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen.

And after that, I, I, I wound up working at a number of other cloud infrastructure companies, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Together AI.

And after all this, all this experience working in marketing and then being really on the front lines of, of the AI transformation that, that has been now underway, the, the moment that we're in now is, is one of such incredible transformation, and as I sort of thought about what I wanted to do next, I wanted to kind of start my own thing.

Um, and I think that, you know, just as, you know, most obviously like software engineering is, is already completely transformed via AI, go-to-market needs to change, you know, dramatically as well.

Yeah, Zeus, how, how does that all fit together? I know they got a long-standing relationship with AMD as well.

That re- recent Vulture deal really highlights that with the, the Helios AI racks of which, uh, A- uh, HPE's, uh, networking stuff i- is tied in there.

How much of that is Juniper technology, and how much of it is sort of legacy HP technology?

Yeah, most of that is, is Juniper technology now.

But by and large, the backdrop is supportive and robust for equities.

Stocks on the move Wednesday included Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, which climbed about 4% after the AI server maker raised its long-term revenue growth forecast for its networking business and announced a $1.2 billion deal with Vulture.

And shares of Moderna slumped more than 5% after Citigroup changed its rating on the biotech company from neutral to sell.

That's your Daybreak for Thursday the 1st of October.

Most mega cap and growth stocks ticked higher with Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet each rising more than 1%, and in turn lifting the S&P 500 Tech and Communication Services Indexes as the best performing sectors on the day.

Hewlett Packard climbed almost 2% after the AI server maker raised its long-term revenue growth forecast for its networking business and announced a $1.2 billion deal with Vultr.

Moderna slumped more than 5% after a broker downgrade for the biotech company.

Meantime, US government bond yields initially eased after expectations decreased for a Federal Reserve interest rate hike in October, but bounced back in rather choppy trade.

Oh, wow.

Now, I take this software, I put it on a $12 a month VPS from Vultr, and I just saved us a bunch of money.

And it's-

[laughs]

It has...

The version that I have right now, and I didn't tell it to do any of this, it will do over 115 unit tests based on any update that I make to make sure everything works before it deploys, and it runs locally in a testing environment that it built itself, uh, using Docker and Postgres and all this other stuff before it will deploy to the, the VPS server.

The fun part about the VPS server is I went and I said, "Make me a VPS server on vulture.com," picked the $12 a month package, and gave it my SSH key.

And when I went, when we were, when we were done building it and I had it locally running, I said, "Go secure this server, update this, update the server with the software needed to run this package, and install it, and write the manual so if I ever needed to do this on my own without you, I could do it." 25 minutes later, VPS was all set up, locked down, SSH was locked, all the security packages were updated, and the software was running, and I sent it to Brian.

So taking this back to, um, one, one thing that is, um, that is helpful looking at things from kind of a business perspective is, uh, you gotta be able to, to, in order to be a sustainable, uh, you know, ongoing concern, um, you have to have support from somewhere.

Um, In the case of things like PHPC-TV and PHPC-Social and a few other things that are run under that banner, you have folks like Vulture pitching in for hosting it in kind donations, and then you have various folks in the community being like, I will donate money to make sure that this thing continues to exist because I get value out of it that exceeds that exceeds what I'm willing to throw in, and or I want to make sure that this thing continues existing.

So it's kind of interesting seeing of, okay, when you want to make sure that a... that a project or, you know, some piece of infrastructure continues to, uh, exist as a benefit to the, uh, larger communities.

All right.