Special guests Damon Young, VP of Sales at Morph Labs and Sam Ramji, VP of Strategy at Sonoa Systems.  Highlights include How secure is the cloud?, the definition of Cloud Computing, and the Cloud & Geopolitics.

0:01:24    Amanda asks How secure is the cloud?

0:01:52  Damon and Sam discuss security of the Cloud.

0:05:55 Damon talks about Morp Labs

0:11:10 Damon on Open Standards

0:11:39 Sam on Open Standards (references O’Reilly’s Small Pieces Loosely Joined)

0:16:59 Amanda asks Damon and Sam to define Cloud Computing.

0:17:11 Sam has just become contributing editor at Ubiquity his upcoming article is “Cloud Computing is More than Hype”

0:18:52  Damon goes back to standing doc from the National Institute of Standards and Technology

0:23:30 Mark Laughlin Group:

0:23:45 Issue #1 Respect my Security! The Cloud Security Alliance was created. Will Standard Efforts Make the Cloud More Secure?

0:34:05 Issue #2 – Cloud Computing or Clown Computing? Techcrunch’s Top Ten Digital M&A Deals For 2010. Will purchase of Brightcove legitimize Microsoft?

0:44:27  Issue #3 The Cloud and GeoPolitics.

0:54:30 Saleforce.com introduced Chatter

0:59:04 Issue #4 At RSA Conference Microsoft’s Scott Charney announced U-Prove technology

1:05:53  Issue #5  Intel’s Cloud in a Chip.  Why would you want this?  Why is this a good thing?

1:09:53 Show wrap up

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