Great Interview today, we have Keith Perry on the show. Keith is the Owner and Managing Member of DAO Technologies LLC. DAO is a technology management and consulting organization that specializes in Free and Open Source Solutions. One of the first things that interested me about Keith is that he has an electrical engineering background – he got an BS from Drexel - which means that he’s got a handle on the full stack of the data center. Then he went into network security & virtual machines and got an MS, also from Drexel. His company focuses on integrating systems from hardware to software for large projects. As always this is a free-flowing discussion. Keith is a proponent of colocation – he’s wary of the public cloud but he’s all in favor of managed services – just don’t call it cloud. Great guy, great conversation. I don’t always get to talk with someone who consults on the front lines with end users, so it was great to get insights into the SMB space with Keith.

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