Speaking in Tech #30

Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Eddie is in Amsterdam for Structure Europe 2012. Our special guests this week are Derrick Harris - Co-chair of Structure Europe and Senior writer at GigaOm, Sam Johnston - Director of Cloud and IT Services at Equinix, Joe Baguley - CTO for VMware in EMEA andTony Lucas - Founder and SVP of Product Flexiant.

This week we discuss...

• Structure Europe 2012
• The momentum (or lack of) behind CloudStack and OpenStack
• Cloud services vs products
• C-level perception of cloud
• Open source paranoia
• Telcos are the worst providers of cloud service
• The process problem
• IT hoarders
• Data center transition and the business value automation
• Dynamic Ops and the future of vCloud Director
• Software Defined Bullshit
• Calling it a cloud doesn't make it so