The VMware Cloud Explained, Software Defined Talk Podcast #009

Sep 6th, 2014 11:07am by Michael Coté

Coming fresh off of VMworld, Matt and Coté (mostly Matt!) discuss VMware’s cloud stack, vRealize, along with the new OpenStack API-as-Distro they announced. Brandon covers discuss some of the new, crowd-sourcing business models in industry analyst land and how they’re trying to plug holes in the analyst model. And, as always: recommendations for the week. We also have a bonus episode this week on Compuware being acquired by Thoma Bravo, if you want to putter around in the “fountain of youth stack.”

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Show notes

If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.
We were listed in DevOps Weekly, which is a great weekly round-up of stuff in the DevOps world that you should check out.
Sorting out the VMware cloud portfolio – I listed a round-up of news in my newsletter last week.
451 Reports on VMworld: a 451 report on VMware’s hybrid cloud scheme, and 451’s VMware networking overview.
vRealize portfolio diagram
Matt Ray’s VMworld presentation (currently not available, but sounds cool)
Lydia’s VMworld day one note, “bi-modal IT,” developers are kinda important, etc.
Can’t have nice things in automation
VMware OpenStack API thingy
VCE
“Google Enterprise” is now “Google Work”
The rise of the crowd sourced analyst.
Wisegate: Closed Community of professionals doing round tables (Exclusive Club)
Trust Radius: Yelp for Enterprise Software
Peerlyst: Linkedin for Security Professionals
Spiceworks community
Marketshare and feature breadth as a two by two matrix

Recommendations

Brandon: hear how a song gets made on the Song Exploder podcast.
Matt: Wool series, by Hugh Howey.
Coté: Dropbox upgraded to 1 TB of space, so check that out. What I don’t recommend is dragging all your photos over then and having 5 days of uploads queued up.

Michael Coté is an industry analyst with 451 Research and co-host of The New Stack Analysts.

Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books "Changing Mindsets," "Monolithic Transformation" and "The Business Bottleneck" cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451...