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Even though VMware initially called its Amazon competitor vCloud Hybrid Services, make no mistake, it's the company's public cloud (now renamed vCloud Air.)

And, [company]VMware[/company] really wants workloads that might run ow on [company]Amazon[/company] Web Services to come on over, says Bill Fathers, EVP and GM of cloud services for VMware.  That's a tall order. Face it, AWS has been around as, an old boss would have said "Hector was a pup" The first services launched in 2006, and vCloud Air is, what?? a old toddler of two. Fathers acknowledged vCloud Air doesn't have thousands of customers  but said that wasn't the plan. Instead VMware wants a few hundred of key companies to act as bellwethers.

But Fathers point is that a small percentage of total computing is now running on any public cloud -- he thinks it's now 5 or 10 percent up from the two to three percent he thought it was last June at Structure. Which means that there's a ton of work up for grabs.

And while AWS looks to be the enemy for VMware's cloud, the same is not true for Google -- VMware last week announced plans to offer and support four Google services including BigQuery, on vCloud Air.  This week it brought out its promised Integrated OpenStack. 

Fathers positions both the Google relationship and this week's Partner Exchange announcements. And he's clearly not backing away from a fight with the biggest of big clouds.

Bill Fathers, VMware EVP and GM cloud services

Beyond the VMware universe there was a bit of big data moving and shaking with Cloudera buying Explain.io and its self-service query modeling expertise and Datastax picking up Aurelius, the keeper of the Titan graph database. Could this be a sign of even more M&A to come? That's something we'll hear more about at Structure Data from March 18-19 in New York from the CEOs of Cloudera, Hortonworks and other data powerhouses, so book your tickets now.

Ok, the gratuitous plug is now done, it's time to listen.

VMware wants all those cloud workloads "marooned" in AWS

Rackspace's Office Hours Hangout hosts Alan Bush and Drew Cox discuss the evolution of Rackspace Cloud Servers offerings. 

The Evolution of Rackspace Cloud Servers

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As the cost of computing continues to plummet, the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically. In the future powerful computing capacity will be in billions of devices ranging from the lightbulb to the car door to new wearables. This new internet of things (IoT) will dramatically change our lives. 

Paul Brody, a Technology Strategist and the former VP of Mobile and IoT at IBM, joined us for a discussion of where the IoT is going. We discussed their white paper on why a decentralized, blockchain-based internet of things could solve the problems of the current IoT in terms of privacy, scalability, and business models.

Topics covered included:
        - What the Internet of Things and its core value proposition is
        - Why the current IoT business models are broken
        - How a decentralized IoT infrastructure would be more secure, scalable and economically feasible
        - What role the blockchain could play in a decentralized IoT
        - The three components of IBM’s ADEPT proof-of-concept


Links mentioned in this episode: 

- IBM Democracy of Devices Whitepaper: http://ibm.co/1HKIVAF
- Paul Brody IFA Talk: http://bit.ly/1aJYLOp
- IBM Empowering the Edge Report: http://ibm.co/1EiZlAF
- IBM Empowering the Edge Use Cases: http://ibm.co/1H7b0TM
- IBM & Samsung ADEPT Demo at CES: http://bit.ly/1zAXDTL

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EB75 – Paul Brody: Internet Of Things And The Democracy Of Devices

New to Cloud? Learn from the experts what a hybrid cloud really is and which cloud resources will work best for you. Speakers in this podcast include Moe Abdula, IBM VP, Cloud Foundational Services, Jesse Proudman, BlueBox Founder and CTO, and guest speaker Lauren Nelson, Forrester Research's private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud lead analyst.

What Is Hybrid Cloud and How Do You Optimize Your Cloud Environment?

Discover what exciting innovations are happening in the cloud community right now, particularly in Open Stack. Speakers in this podcast include Moe Abdula, IBM VP, Cloud Foundational Services, Jesse Proudman, BlueBox Founder and CTO, and guest speaker Lauren Nelson, Forrester Research's private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud lead analyst. 


OpenStack and the Hybrid Cloud Reality

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Identity is probably one of the most important constructs in our society. In our modern world, protecting one’s identity has become complex, as we no longer rely solely on governments to prove who we are. In addition, most identity sources can be easily compromised. Credit cards and social security numbers weren’t developed with the Internet in mind, and other identifiers such as logins and passwords aren’t well suited truly secure authentication and authorisation. 

We’re joined by Tim Pastoor, Founder of 2way.io, to discuss how we can improve control of our identities using concepts borrowed from Bitcoin. Tim walks us through how people could better manage different identities and build reputation networks using Identifi, a global address book protocol invented by Martti Malmi, one of the very first Bitcoin users. We also talk what role this system could play in the future as autonomous agents and artificial intelligence become more prevalent.

Topics we discussed include : 

- The history of identity systems and how traditional identity systems are broken
- How the invention of Blockchain technologies changed the way we think of identity
- The Identifi protocol and how it works
- How we can build reputation through Webs of Trust (WoT)
- The future of identity and how Identifi could provide ID for IoT, robots, autonomous agents and artificial intelligence
- 2Way.io and what the company is trying to achieve

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- 2Way: http://2way.io/
- Identifi protocol: http://identifi.org/
- Identifi service: http://identi.fi/

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EB109 – Tim Pastoor: Rethinking Identity As A Decentralized Web Of Trust With Identifi

Smartphone components have become a kind of Lego kit for all kinds of consumer technology. Cameras, sensors, and batteries all get mixed and matched in different permutations to create different gadgets. It might be something that enables your connected home, offers a video capture system for cops, or powers a remote video chat/treat machine for your dog (I know, we all need that). But since practically every component is now available to everyone -- and the manufacturing expertise to tie it all together as well -- it becomes very hard to distinguish via hardware alone.

Software is the key to breaking from the pack, say Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky in this post-2016 CES podcast. What Benedict and Steven saw and learned from this year’s gathering of the consumer electronics industry in this segment of the a16z Podcast.

a16z Podcast: Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners

Experienced angel investors, Ron Conway, Founder of Angel Investors LP, and Mike Maples, Founder of Maples Investments, provide a rare look into the ins and outs of angel investing. Conway and Maples discuss how angel investors assess opportunities, provide assistance to entrepreneurs and transition start-ups to larger venture investments or exit. In addition, Conway and Maples provide advice to entrepreneurs about finding one's passion and developing that passion into new ventures, including insight into how much money to raise and how to manage that money after it is in the bank.

Ron Conway, Mike Maples Jr. - Angel Investing Revealed

Today we cover Part 2 of Hardware Investing with Avidan Ross of Root Ventures.  In this segment we address:

- Examples of Trojan Horse hardware businesses that Avidan has invested in
- Many view hardware as very capital intensive, more difficult to commercialize and thus, too risky in an already very risky asset class.  What's your response to this and why do you think that now a good time to be investing in hardware?
- There are clearly some advantages that software companies have over hardware companies. Can you talk about the distinct advantages that hardware-centric startups have over that of software?... including the business models, revenue streams, stickiness
- Are there certain hardware business models (ex. razor/razor-blade) that you target and do you think it's possible we will see more SaaS-like, subscription-based models with hardware products in the future?
- How is your approach to dealflow and connecting with founders or potential founds different, considering the areas you're investing in?
- Any other thoughts on hardware or core science that you'd like to touch on for the listeners before we wrap things up?

Ep80: Hardware Investing, Part 2 (Avidan Ross)

In this episode, Carlos was joined by Alistair Shepherd, Founder of Saberr (http://www.saberr.com/), a Seedcamp portfolio company. Saberr, is a people analytics company that helps organisations make better decisions about their people. The marketing industry was transformed when it started using data to drive decision-making and Saberr believe people functions are at the same inflection point.

In his chat with Carlos, Alistair talks about the reasons startups can succeed and fail, and how important it is to build a team that works well together. Using a shared value set and making sure the team is 'even', ensuring that you can map out the performance of a team with each new hire, in advance. The two discuss what builds good working relationships, and how to define and manage diversity and culture in the team.

Alistair Shepherd of Saberr on Hiring, Firing, and Building the Perfect Team

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ talks with people from augmented reality companies at Augmented World Expo 2016 in Santa Clara, CA.
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TWiT Live Specials 289: Augmented World Expo 2016

In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, we talk with Jonathan Bachrach, a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Department at UC Berkeley, and co-founder of Otherlab, a research-driven lab and incubator that sits at the intersection between software and machines.

Jonathan Bachrach on the Hardware-Software Interface

My guest is Bernhard Petermeier, founder of CargoSoul, community leader of Technology Pioneers at World Economic Forum from Geneva, Switzerland. CargoSoul was active in the technology development towards the holodeck concept we know from Star Trek.

#003 - From scientist to entrepreneur for holodeck technology, evaluating startups, with Bernhard Petermeier of World Economic Forum, Switzerland

I’ve interviewed Michael Stausholm, founder and CEO Sproutworld, a company based in Denmark. His company is a green tech company with a very successfully working business model which is rare in the field of sustainability.&nbsp;He is behind the startup with the world’s only plantable pencil and other green consumer products.&nbsp; Sprout has a remarkable client-base such as Disney, Bacardi, Bank of America, WWF, Marriott, Coca Cola. Sprout has offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Boston in the US and sells more than 450.000 pencils a month to over 60 countries.  Michael Stausholm has been an expert and consultant in sustainability for the past 16 years. Before founding his company, for 15 years he worked in Asia with sustainable production within the textile industry, advising clients such as Walmart and Nike.  I reached out to Michael after reading about their story in a flight catalogue and his case is an example that a product does not have to be technically complex with many features and functions to find success on the market. In this episode, which is infused with Michael’s enthusiasm for sustainability we uncover many topics, on how to make a company successful in greentech, which success factors are transferable to other industries too.

#004 - How one green company could beat the odds with a magical pencil and double each year, with Michael Stausholm of Sproutworld, Denmark

My guest is Federico Bürsgens, one of three founders and currently Managing Director of Finances, Hardware &amp; Software at GNA-Biosolutions. He is one of many who was born for entrepreneurship as he started his entrepreneurial career in high-school.  He did his undergraduate studies of physics in Germany, at University of Münster and at Universities of Würzburg, followed by Master’s in Physics in the USA, at University of Texas at Austin. Afterwards, Federico moved back to Germany where he did his PhD work in physics at Center for Nanoscience at University of Munich or LMU in 2008. He is author/co-author of 16 scientific papers on detection technology.  I met Federico during my PhD studies in Munich and I got to know him as an energetic person who could later transfer his energy into building up a company in one of the toughest fields to choose, that is the heavily regulated biomedical field. In this episode we uncover what it means to found such a company, working over multiple years until the imminent market launch.

#005 - The tough journey of building a biotech company, with Federico Bürsgens of GNA-Biosolutions, Germany

A new wearable aims to help people who feel socially awkward interpret emotions.

A Mood Ring for Your Wrist

The U.S. Patent Office ruled in favor of the Broad Institute in an early case over rights to the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR.

CRISPR Patent Battles, a Super-Sized Space Launch, and the Rise of Commuter Drones

New battery technology could make our devices safer, and help squeeze more power out of the grid.

Building Better Batteries for Electronics Great and Small

For as long as I’ve known him, Brady Forrest has been at the very epicenter of whatever the West Coast alpha geeks think is going to be the next big thing. I met him around 2008 when he was running the brilliant ETech conference for O’Reilly Media - which incidentally, was one of the first public tech talks that I ever gave. Since then he cofounded Ignite, a talk series which has been held thousands of times around the world - as well as Highway1, a hardware accelerator which has helped launch over 58 hardware startups.

Between Worlds

Brady Forrest on talking short, manufacturing smart and the art of the hardware startup

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