I first met Lew Moorman, Rackspace’s Chief strategy officer, at Rackspace’s big Cloud Event back in October. It was at this event that Rackspace, through acquisitions as well their friendly annexation of Mosso, positioned itself as a major cloud player.
I caught up with Lew during the slow time over the holidays and we chatted about his thoughts and predictions for Cloud Computing.
Lew, a self-portrait (lifted from his twitter page)
Take a listen:
>> My talk with Lew (13:18): Listen (mp3) Listen (ogg)
Some of the Topics we tackle:
- The reason cloud computing is getting all the attention it is is because it represents the paradigm shift of consuming IT as a service.
- The cloud is all about consuming your IT over the web, on the WAN as opposed to the LAN, from a centralized provider and you don’t have a concept of the assets that are being used to deliver that IT.
- How the recessionary environment is helping to speed along the adoption of the cloud.
- How Rackspace plays in all three areas of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service (storage and compute power are the cornerstones), Platform as Service (the ability to deploy code on ready-made platform) and Applications as a Service (aka SAAS).
- Is “Internal Cloud” an oxymoron?
- Which type of players are likely to be the winners in this space.
Pau for now…
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