Special guests Matt MacNaughton, Founder of CultureJam, Brett Piatt, Director of Technical Alliance at Rackspace, and Scott Bils, Co-Founder & CMO at Conformity.  Highlights include definition of Cloud Computing & Utility Computing, Apple, and Larry Ellison’s rant.

0:01:41   Amanda Asks guests to define Cloud Computing

0:02:29 Scott defines utility computing

0:05:31 Matt talks about his experience with Rackspace

0:07:27  Scott’s definition of Cloud Computing

0:10:43   Amanda asks Scott to suggest how larger enterprises start to approach the purchase of Cloud based management solutions?

0:11:45 Amanda asks Brett when customers think they need the cloud what do you say back?

0:14:11 The shift of music labels moving more to the cloud, who are the major players and what will they do?

0:15:10 Matt on Apple’s Acquisition of Lala

0:17:18 Brett on Cloud music

0:18:30 Is this the year of music in the cloud? What is the take on Conformity’s side?

0:19:30 Mark Laughlin Group:

0:19:46 Issue #1 What is Apple Building?

0:22:43 Issue #2 Is salesforce.com the very first billion dollar cloud computing company?

0:24:56 Issue #3 Transportability and the Cloud.  Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz hoping to speed enterprise adoption of cloud computing launched Makara.

0:33:40 Issue #4 Are data center providers the real winners in this cloud meme? Data center builders have been called the arms builder to the clouds.

0:40:27 Issue #5 Oracle CEO’s Larry Ellison rant – cloud is far far far fashion. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.

0:43:00 NEWS

0:43:13 Item #1 3tera acquired by CA.

0:47:47   Item #2 Get your storage out of the cloud?

0:51:40  Item #3 How much are cloud providers making?  Best way to measure it revenue per server or per customer?  What is the measurement?

1:00:21  Parting thoughts from Matt, Scott, and Brett

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