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Cloud
On this episode we interview Mat Ellis
(@matellis),
CEO of Cloudability
and talk about how Cloudability can help companies manage their cloud spend.
We talk about:
- How Mat got started with Cloudability
- How much cloud spend they are currently
managing
- What types of things are moving to the
cloud
- What newbies to the cloud should look
out for
- How Cloudability helps manage cloud
spend
- The services that they offer and their
associated costs
- The future role of "The IT Department"
- and much more...
We
would like to thank Dr. Marky
Roden of the PSC
Group for standing in for
Julian on this show.
The show runs 25:51.
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Today we interviewed Lynda.com author Jess
Stratton. Jess has been a member of the IBM Collaboration Solutions Community
for over decade. She has spoken at Lotusphere and other industry events.
Jess now works for the online learning company Lynda.com
where she helps author video training for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office
and other products and technologies.
Rather than listing out all of the super cool things Jess talks about we
suggest that you just push play and start listening. Jess does recommend
that you "Like" the Lynda.com Facebook Fan Page where you can
find out about the latest tutorials and promotions.
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On this episode we interviewed IBM's Paul
Brunet, Vice President ISVs, startups and academic relations, IBM about
the recent release of the IBM
2012 Tech Trends Report. During
the interview we talked about:
- Paul's role at IBM
- What exactly does the Tech Trends Report
covers
- What surprised Paul in the report
- The growing skill gaps in technology
- What IBM Is doing to help shrink the
skills gap
- Paul's advice for developers and IT
admins that are trying to keep up with all of the changes in IT
- Social Business and Collaboration. Did
the report uncover anything interesting in those areas?
- and much more...
On
the recording you will hear the show be identified as episode 172 when
in actuality it's really 173. The show runs for 28:08 minutes.
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In Episode 140 we sat down with Urban
Airship CEO Scott Kveton.
For those of you not familiar with Urban Airship here is what they do:
"Urban Airship powers the world's
most successful mobile apps. Providing breakthrough technology, Urban Airship
makes mobile marketing far more engaging, effective, and efficient. Top
brands depend on Urban Airship's innovative platform to reach and engage
target audiences and increase app revenue streams through push notification,
rich messaging, in-app purchase, subscriptions and user engagement tracking."
In the show we talk about:
- Something near and dear to us all -
"bacon" and specifically Scott's bacn.com
project.
- How Urban Airship got started.
- What exactly Urban Airship sells.
- Why building apps that customers want
and need is important. Just don't build apps because they are technically
cool.
- The difference between mobile advertising
services and Urban Airships "Platform-as-a-Service" or "PAS".
- Why a developer would use Urban Airship's
PAS rather than adding push notifications themselves.
- How geolocation ties into push.
- How Urban Airship makes money and how
customers are making money using their products and services.
- The number of push notifications served
as of August 2011.
- Scott's involvement with the Portland
Incubator Experiment. Listen
to Episode 138 of Taking Notes
to learn more about the Portland Incubator Experiment with Rick Turcozy.
- A
blog post Scott wrote talking
about boots trapping a startup company.
- What's next for Urban Airship.
- and much more...
This show runs about 28 minutes. On Episode 141 we will be interviewing
IBM's Ed Brill about Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and more.
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Julian and Bruce sat down with Justin Hill
(CTO) and and Jon Schultz (President) of Prominic.
What we did we talk about? Well, all things "cloud" including:
- To the "cloud" - Prominic
has been in the cloud business a long time. Why is everybody looking at
the cloud to host their mail, apps and other servers?
- What are some of the things that people
need to consider when thinking about a move to cloud services?
- What are some best practices for Notes/Domino
in the cloud? Hybrid, managed replicas, etc.
- The types of apps, services people are
moving to Prominics cloud?
- Who shouldn't consider a 3rd
party hosting service
- Crystal Ball - predictions for the cloud.
- and much more...
This
episode was brought to you by the letter "C" and your local weather
station. The show runs 32:57. Enjoy.
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