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Pete Downing Principal Product Manager at Citrix Systems discusses enabling the federated cloud, their reference architecture, and Citrix Open Cloud and Cloud Bridge.

Cisco Senior Manager and Cloud Evangelist Brian Gracely discusses cloud computing trends, past and future and how a unified computing environment enables innovation faster.

Allyson Klein talks with Enomoly CTO and Co-Founder Reuven Cohen about the Enomoly* elastic computing paltform, Enomaly Spotcloud and security in the cloud with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology.

Dell* cloud computing evangelist Barton George discusses the company's scalable cloud solutions and how many enterprises approach the cloud from an evolutionary perspective.

Intel Director of Product Management for Intel Application Security & Identity Products Vikas Jain discusses the challenge of managing enterprise data security in the public cloud.

The 451 Group Director of Research of Cloudscape Sean Hackett stops by to talk about cloud computing development from 2010, where it puts us now, and how cloud computing will develop.

In the 1st episode of the Conversations in the Cloud podcast, Allyson Klein talks with Intel Director of Cloud Computing Marketing Raejeanne Skillern about the benefits of Intel® Cloud Builders.

Das Kamhout, lead technical advisor for the Open Data Center Alliance, chats about the group’s Proposal Engine Assistant Tool (PEAT), which helps guide IT managers through their cloud purchasing decisions and integrates with the ODCA’s Usage Models.

Tom Trainer, senior product marketing manager at Red Hat, stops by to talk about the company’s storage software appliance. It allows cloud and data center managers to deploy a storage file system on the hardware of their choice – no need for a certain type of array or NAS device.

Christopher MacGowan, the CTO of Piston Cloud Computing, chats about Piston Enterprise OS, the company’s cloud OS based on OpenStack*. The solution takes advantage of Intel based servers and includes security and ease of installation enhancements.

Raul Caro from FONAFE talks about the organization’s cloud computing efforts in virtualizing over 180 servers, which provide services for over 5000 users. FONAFE’s deployment won the Open Data Center Alliance’s “Conquering the Cloud” challenge.

Jay Judkowitz from Nimbula gives an update on new features of Nimbula Director, the company’s IaaS product. Since the release last fall, they’ve added persistence block storage functionality, QoS features, NAT functionality, and multi-site capability.

Marvin Wheeler, chairman of the Open Data Center Alliance, gives an update on the group’s activities including new usage models for cloud computing, proof of concept solutions from members, and an overview of the group’s June event: Forecast 2012.

Gordon Haff from Red Hat chats about cloud topics including: management of cloud workloads, challenges in solution delivery in a hybrid model, a broader adoption of open source in cloud, and his company’s work with the Open Data Center Alliance.

Dave Martin from VMware stops by to talk about virtualization and mobile devices in the data center, innovation in the enterprise hybrid cloud space, virtualizing mission-critical apps for performance and security, and monster virtual machines.

James Raquepau from Parallels talks about helping service providers deliver cloud services, including automation software, Parallels containers and hypervisor technology, and secure boot process/security monitoring infrastructure as a service (IaaS).