Special guests Tony Greenberg, Founder of RampRate and Jason Droege, VP of Product at TASER International.  Highlights include Tony’s slides The Sourcing Advisor’s view, the Taser Axon, and the Cloud across international borders.

0:01:28 Introduction Tony Greenberg

0:01:53  Introduction of Jason

0:6:06  Tony’s Slides on The Sourcing Advisor’s View

Sourcing Advisor’s View

0:0 8:38 Tony on Cloud still living on servers

0:10:48  Jason on moving Taser from weapons only company to full service provider

0:14:18  Evidence.com to store data but app to make data more useful

0:18:16  Jason on Taser’s System

0:19:13  Jason on Taser Axon

0:21:51  Audience Question for Jason: Does Taser have a way to stop Officers from tampering with video?

0:23:21 Jason on privacy mode for Axon device

0:24:14  Jason, how can Police Departments get the device?

0:24:45  Tony, could you have helped Jason with his Cloud deployment?

0:27:13  Tony’s comment to Jason:  What you built isn’t really a Cloud?

0:29:02  Taser is the 1^st company that has implemented a service in the Cloud

0:3030 Hybridizing – 50% on cloud & 50% keep on own servers

0:31:36  Tony on customer service & the Cloud

0:34:55  Mark Laughlin Group

0:35:10  Issue #1  Expanding the Cloud – Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.    What does this mean?  Is this a significant step forward for Cloud pricing?  Is there a market demand?

0:38:59  Issue #2  Appistry publically introduced CloudIQ Storage at the Cloud Connect Conference in Santa Clara, CA.  CloudIQ Storage will be used with Apache Hadoop.  We will start seeing more Cloud offerings like Appistry’s?

0:45:01  Issue #3 McAfee  is targeting Saas providers with new cloud secure program – McAfee Cloud Secure Program. Is security a question for a standards body like the secure cloud alliance?   or more fit for a private entity like McAfee?

0:49:34  Issue #4 Does size matter? Sören Bleikertz demystified Amazon EC2.

0:57:25   News

0:57:32   Item #1  IBM Gunning for Amazon

1:00:51  Item #2  Dan Elron, Managing Partner of Technology Strategy at Accenture talked about cloud computing and national sovereignty?  Does the cloud threaten borders?

1:07:46  Partings word

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