November 18, 2014

Speaking in Tech #136 - The Frost

34 minutes

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Sarah and Eddie are out while Greg is holed up in Paris with special guests Mark Twomey, aka Storagezilla, Technical Director at EMC and Francois Zimmerman, HDS Chief Technologist in EMEA.

This week we discuss...

OpenStack Storage, it's open but is it neutral? (2:30)

What isn't Software-defined? (5:10)

OpenStack as a vSphere alternative (7:10)

How OpenStack adoption is ramping up (11:10)

Talking candidly about AWS (13:50)

The frost that kills off some tech vendors (16:30)

Competing with 11 million servers (19:50)

OpenStack not displacing core IT (24:30)

VMware in a defensive position (26:35)

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