While the rest of the world binges on IoT goodies from CES 2015, we thought we’d focus on (what else?) enterprise-grade infrastructure. This week’s guest, Steve Herrod was formerly CTO of VMware, and so knows a little something, something about that topic. Now he’s managing director of General Catalyst where he’s looking for the next VMwares of the world.
Listen to his take on the wild world of cybersecurity where it’s pretty clear that the battle has to move beyond fighting yesterday’s threats; why the Hortonworks IPO is so closely watched; and how today’s startups have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to available, inexpensive infrastructure. With Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and other players offering credits to woo startups, a young company can get up to $100K ($120K in IBM’s case) of plumbing for free. Let me reiterate: Free.
That’s a huge opportunity — although skeptics may point to parallels between cut-price cloud and crack cocaine, but I digress.
In our segment, Derrick Harris talks about how artificial intelligence is finding its way into the chip modules that will control our connected cars and other things, and we hash out the sticky matter of cloud closures and other topics.
Have a listen to the first Structure show of 2015 and let us be the gazillionth to say Happy New Year!
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Hosts: Barb Darrow and Derrick Harris.
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