Guests: just Aaron and Brian
Our Favorite Things from 2011:
- Amazed that anybody listens to the show - growing listener base
- Show accomplished it’s goal of introducing us to really interesting people
- All the different ways to do Networking for Virtualization
- “The next desktop”
- VMware licensing strategy
- Why people think cloud is all or nothing. Cloud will follow same adoption curve as virtualization
- Actual Private Clouds (beyond Bechtel, Cisco CITEIS, Zynga, etc.)
- Actual Hybrid Cloud implementations
- Enterprise PaaS
- Microsoft’s Cloud plans - Azure Customers
- Is a Cloud a big leap from a co-lo?
- Conversations that don’t start with definitions, when will we have standards and not have to start every conversation with what everything means
- “The feature” that drives adoption of clouds, is it price? elasticity? DR as a Service? Legacy application replacement?
- Enterprise PaaS - Will it Happen?
- Microsoft’s Cloud plans - Huge opportunity, or missed opportunity
- Cloud Laws and Regulations
- How to managed shared environments (multi-tenant or multi-app)
- Cloud Management - VMware, Chef/Puppet, OpenStack
- How far ahead is AWS?
- Big Data 101
- How organizations are changing (success stories)
- Developers that are using the new PaaS platforms
- The evolution of Mobile applications for business
- Business Partners/VAR’s/Distributors and their evolving role in 2012
- Real World applications that will drive cloud adoption (not a PaaS, SaaS, or ITaaS discussion, but what are the apps? ERP? LOB’s?)
- Will M&O drive private cloud adoption in 2012?
- New Guest Hosts - Shows involving end-users (not just vendors)
- Short-form shorts (new companies)
- More whiteboard videos
- Brian’s Cloud-Computing course on Udemy
- Aaron’s new blog & Cisco Live Session
