In this episode, John and I talk about several cloud-related conferences, employees managing their own damn desktop, the iPad as the perfect presentation machine, and CA World.
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Show Notes
- John’s new office at OpsCode, and Coté does his usual office bitching.
- John goes to Detroit for CloudCamp Detroit.
- Gluecon
- Coté rhetorically asks: when will desktop management from IT end?
- The year of John going Apple.
- The face-to-face presentation use-case for the iPad – “The new napkin,” John says, also, “the virtual booth.”
- dev/ops days programme posted – both Coté & John on panels.
- Cloud Harmony – cloud statistics to compare clouds, using Mechanical Turk.
- CA World – pretty credible on their desire to do cloud stuff – see Coté’s coverage.
- Cloud.com folks launch.
Transcript
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Disclosure: OpsCode is a client, as are other companies mentioned. CA paid for my travel and hotel to CA World.
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