Speaking in Tech #17 - Yahoo has a new Mayer

Sarah and Eddie are out this week so we are joined by Christina Weil, District Director at Centre Technologies

• Catching up with Christina and New Orleans

Yahoo shocks everyone, lands Google’s Marissa Mayer as CEO

• Mayer brings strong product experience
• One of the most visible personalities at Google
• Yahoo all of a sudden becomes interesting

GigaOm: EMC and VMware to spin off CloudFoundry?

• Does VMware and EMC have to spin off CloudFoundry to be competitive with with Google, Amazon and Microsoft?
• A new identity for cloud computing?
• Greenplum could be part of spin-off

Dell Acquires Quest

• Greenplum and Quest overlap and compete directly against eachother

Post-Katrina disaster recovery in New Orleans

• The IT culture has changed - and so have the data centers in New Orleans

Google Nexus 7 Arriving

• In the voice game, Google Now beats Apple Siri
• Siri doesn’t know the Cajun names
• Tablet is probably not the most practical for voice recognition
• Christina gives up her iPad