Episode 95 Without further ado, it's time for another Infosmack, the world's best podcast about enterprise tech.

Special guest this week is Christian Reilly, principal technology architect at a large multinational and "ex-president of the public cloud", but more recently the self anointed "president of the platform cloud", as well as a blogger at The Loose Couple's Blog.

Very long show notes this week

This week we discuss:

• SNWUSA recap
• How in the hell did Greg get listed as a top cloud computing Twitter influencer?
• Analyst value in cloud computing
• Worst advice ever for end-users
• Christian Reilly's background with Public and Private Clouds
• Challenges of managing IT resources and application development in a large, multi-national company
• Speed of change
• Building clouds before there was "cloud"
• "Consumerisation" of IT
• Decoupling monolithic applications
• Mix of public and private cloud
• Reaction to Cloud Foundry announcement
• Advantage of Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Similarity to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Impact on VMware and partners
• Cloud Foundry is to PaaS as Open Stack is to IaaS
• Cloud Foundry competition
• Types of companies that could be early adopters of Cloud Foundry
• Is there an angle for Oracle with Cloud Foundry?
• Can Oracle embrace "open"?
• How does Cloud Foundry impact service providers?
• Iron Mountain getting out of the cloud and problems at Cirtas
• IT demands agility
• Tomorrow's CIO will be a service aggregator
• It's getting harder to be strategic with such a high rate of change in IT
• Cloud Foundry provides a level of flexibility and agility
• Cloud Bunny

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