Our Love/Hate Relationship With White Papers, Mostly Hate — Software Defined Talk #35

Summary

We discuss the evolving role of white papers, the spate of OpenStack startup acquisitions, Cisco Live, and cloud identity. Also, some robot recommendations.

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Show notes

• If you like video, see this episode’s video recording.
• White papers, a State of the Union.
• Unlimited length DMs in Twitter.
• San Diego, it’s damn perfect.
• Cloud Identity conference. In San Diego. “The Identerati.”
• Cisco Live.
• Snoop Dogg nominates himself for Twitter’s CEO.
• OpenStack buy-ups: Cisco acquires Piston, and IBM acquires Blue Box.
• Check out Matt and Coté at SolarWinds’ ThwackCamp next week!
• WeWork co-working is bumpin’! (And, the old Austin Tech Scene podcast, RIP 2010 to 2011.)

Recommendations

• Brandon: DameWare video, a movie trailer. The Age of Crytocurrency.
• Matt: Oculus Rift. I can’t stop laughing every time I open this page of robots.
• Coté: the eggs in Spain. Who’s been filling shells with piss in America and calling them eggs all my life?

Michael Cote works for Pivotal, a sponsor of The New Stack. Cisco is also a sponsor of TNS.