In this podcast Brian talks with Steve Searles, CTO of Zimcom, a public cloud service provider. Steve launched an effort to move to an all-flash datacenter a few years back and as of last year, successfully made that transition. Zimcom is also a big believer in OpenStack as a cloud management platform, they've managed to leverage OpenStack well, shuttering much of their more expensive VMware environment. They also use Cinder for block storage provisioning in OpenStack.