Kash Iftikhar, VP of IaaS, for Oracle's Public Cloud Services business, talks cloud and data center strategy in an interview at Oracle OpenWorld 2017 in San Francisco.

Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of Vapor IO, joins us to talk about edge computing and why he thinks there will soon be small data centers everywhere. Vapor recently partnered with Crown Castle, the largest wireless tower company in the US, to launch a service that provides data center colocation space at wireless towers and a host of other consulting services and technologies for companies building out this ultra-distributed next-generation computing network.

Ravi Pendekanti, who is currently senior VP for server solutions product management and marketing at Dell EMC, and who previously spent many years in senior product and marketing roles at Sun Microsystems, SGI, Juniper, and Oracle, says the next generation of technologies, such as self-driving cars and the Internet of Things, as well as commoditization of data center network hardware driven by software-defined networking, will drive that next wave of growth in the server market.

The Data Center Podcast featuring Bill Stein, CEO of Digital Realty Trust

VMware VP John Gilmartin joins us on the latest episode of The Data Center Podcast.

We interview Mesosphere co-founder and CEO Florian Leibert about his company being named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and about the role Mesosphere and its Data Center Operating System fit in the vision of an interconnected future, where cars drive themselves and where data from every device is collected and put to use.

Equinix's Peter Ferris not only witnessed the birth of the internet data center business, he was one of the key players in its early days. In this inaugural Data Center Podcast by Data Center Knowledge Ferris tells us about those early days, when Netscape and Playboy used the same data center, and about Equinix's role in the internet infrastructure today, which of course is now referred to as the Cloud.