ownCloud CTO and co-founder Frank Karlitschek sat down at CloudOpen in Dusseldorf to talk about hown ownCloud lets companies offer their employees a "DropBox-like" experience while retaining control of where data is stored and how it is accessed. It's a hybrid approach to cloud storage that's can be important in a world where jurisdictional concerns can be a major CIO headache.

Red Hat's Joe Fernandes talks about all the technologies and products that come together in OpenShift Enterprise v3, the upcoming version of Red Hat's platform-as-a-service. These include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Project Atomic, Linux Control Groups, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Software-defined compute has been around for a while. Software-defined storage is newer but it's gaining visibility and market presence too. Software-defined networking is next in line. Red Hat's Dave Neary talks about what it is and why it's important for delivering capabilities such as VOIP and for replacing expensive single-function boxes.

Simon talks recent US software patent case decisions and why they're so significant as well as the recent UK government decision about open document formats. Who are the winners and the losers?

OpenShift Origin v4 has a variety of new features including native .Net applications support and Puppet-based High-Availability deployments. There's also a new Accelerators program to mentor community members who want to speak about and run events related to OpenShift Origin.

James Kirkland, Chief Architect for Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, discusses the material economic impact that the "industrial Internet of Things" can bring to many businesses. In particular, James discusses a number of the specific scenarios in which transportation companies, such as railroads, are looking to IoT in order to dramatically improve their operations. James caps off this discussion with a look at IoT security.

James Urquhart is the Director of Product, Cloud Management at Dell. James always has lots of insightful commentary on how applications and management are changing in response to cloud and other trends.

Red Hat's Gordon Haff and Elen Newlands talk security and privacy from the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, the implications of privacy for IoT, whether Google could get into the home security business, and the mess that is security standards in cloud and elsewhere.

In the first episode of a new Cloudy Chat feature, I sit down for a free-wheeling discussion with one of my Red Hat colleagues. Today, my co-host is Ellen Newlands who is the product manager for identity management at Red Hat. We start with self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles and move onto the Internet-of-Things against a background of security and privacy implications in all of this.

Based on the popular ownCloud open source file sync and share community project, ownCloud was founded in 2011 to give corporate IT greater control of their data � combining greater flexibility, openness and extensibility with on premise servers and storage. In this podcast their CTO and co-founder discusses how this project and product helps companies and individuals choose where their data is hosted.