Infosmack tackles VMware's Cloud Foundry
Rabbits about the Cloud Bunny
Posted in Cloud, 20th April 2011 15:31 GMT
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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.
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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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