Verizon bails on Cloud Cover TV interview

Verizon bails on Cloud Cover TV interview

Date: May 12, 2011

In this week's episode of Cloud Cover TV, Jo Maitland wonders why Verizon's chief cloud leaders avoided TechTarget's interview requests this week at Interop.

We discuss:

  • A lack of answers from Verizon in regards to Terremark's cloud
  • Verizon's recent partnership with SAP to sell software as a cloud service
  • What IT pros think about users and the cloud
  • Why the Amazon outage is worrying users and potential adopters
  • Boeing's continued push toward the cloud using a hybrid model
  • Open source infiltration in the cloud
  • Where users are in adopting the cloud and their security fears

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