John Blumenthal (@cloudphysics), founder and CEO of CloudPhysics, stops by to talk about using data analytics to improve the safety and efficiency of your data center. Their virtual appliance scans and collects big data for analysis, leading to insights on how to structure virtualized IT. Then Alex Williams (@alexwilliams), an enterprise writer at TechCrunch, checks in from Dreamforce. He and Allyson talk about the proliferation of hackathons before moving onto the announcement of Amazon’s Kenesis, a data analytics tool which can analyze massive amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour, how that affects API proliferation, and what that means for the industry.

0:00 – Introductions and News of the Week
6:04 – Interview with John Blumenthal
18:55 – Interview with Alex Williams
32:14 – Wrap up