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Last but not least in the three podcasts I taped at the Rackspace Customer Event is my conversation with John Engates, Rackspace CTO.  Like Lanham and Jonathan, John was a very approachable and likable guy.  I checked out John’s presentation earlier in the day and then caught up with him in the afternoon to chat.

Take a listen:

>> My talk with John (20:11): Listen (mp3) Listen (ogg)

The radiant John Engates.

Some of the Topics we tackle:

• John’s definition or “characteristics” of the cloud
• The various shades of the cloud and who plays where
• Why Amazon has gone with such geeky names e.g. EC2, S3, AWS
• Making the cloud accessible so that you don’t need a comp sci degree to use it
• The Microsoft announcement and why they’re a natural fit
• The founding and evolution of Mosso
• Combining hosting elements and cloud elements (Blueprint leverages both)
• The pitfalls of the cloud, real and perceived (and what is a “server hugger”)

Pau for now…

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