Our guest on the podcast this week is James Staten, Global Head of Vertical Market Development, Strategy & Planning at Equinix.

We discuss what serverless computing means for OpenStack private clouds. It is time to recognize that hybrid is here for a long time and we will be mixing public clouds with private clouds in the long run. We also look at Red Hat’s recent deal with AWS for OpenShift. This is another example of coopetition with AWS, which has sought out many more partnerships lately. Vendors are finding more opportunities to partner with AWS to prevent themselves from losing customers.