Nekkid Tech: Big data divas, Whitney and how to OWN the cloud
Look into my eyes, take me to the clouds above
Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery
Podcast Last week's Nekkid Tech was all about the future of tape as a storage medium and back-up software lock-ins.
This episode, Greg Knieriemen and trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi) shift a gear and chat about cloud hosting, big data, Mardi Gras and er, divas. Joining them are Dell storage evangelist Gina Minks (@gminks) and Diva of Disruptive Technologies Christina Weil (@c_weil).
This week's topics:
- Christina's corporate apartment in New Orleans
- The Cloud Connect conference, customers and expectations
- Crystal the Unicorn
- The cost of hosting with Amazon versus in-house
- Cloud bandwidth costs and constraints
- Big data failures
- Christina's Mardi Gras outfit
- Whitney Houston
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