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The Promise of the Cloud Cannot Be Achieved – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

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We know that The Cloud is a real thing. But of the many things called The Cloud, each of them is remarkablly different. Features, capabilities, functions are vary wildly between them. Every organization is scrambling to figure out how to use the cloud, but is the promise of the cloud simply unachievable? Does the pursuit of multi-cloud mean that organizations must ignore whatever makes a cloud special, and turn it into simply someone else’s infrastructure? The roundtable discusses in this episode. Thanks to NetApp for sponsoring this episode.

VMworld 2019 Announcements: Project Pacific

VMware made so many announcements at VMworld US 2019 that one critical one might have been overlooked: Project Pacific is a new version of vSphere that includes complete native Kubernetes integration. This has massive potential to bring a new era of application classification and cloud-like application management to the datacenter.

Gina Minks – IT Origins

In this IT Origins interview, we talk with Gina Minks. Find out how she got her start in IT, what are her most annoying buzzwords, and how IT has changed since she began her career.

On experts, influencers, and evangelists

Gina Minks of G’s View of the World writes: Sometimes the power, attention, and perks of being an expert or an evangelist can go to one’s head. I’ve been on both sides of this. When you are the go-to person on a particular topic (i.e. “expert”) — by people you don’t know, who may be […]