Riverbed on Cloud Cover TV

Good Monday morning! Evan Marcus, esteemed caretaker of this here fine blog, recently updated our posting schedules. Since I rather enjoy writing, I volunteered for an every-other-Monday slot. Coincidentally, then, I've got something to share with you: our first interview on Cloud Cover TV.

I've known Jo Maitland, executive editor at SearchCloudComputing.com, ever since my days at Amazon Web Services. Recently I joined her at TechTarget's San Francisco studios for an in-person interview. We discussed a range of topics, covering the state of cloud security and Riverbed's broadening of its product portfolio. Also we talked about why I felt the time was right to take what I learned during my 18 months at AWS and apply that to what I see as the next major barrier to cloud computing: performance. While security still tops all surveys asking respondents what's stopping them from moving to the cloud, I'm having trouble squaring that with what I've actually seen: large enterprises in verticals handing sensitive information are already running production workloads on various clouds. And for many of these customers, once they design proper security, performance is usually the next hurdle to tackle. Moving data fast is what we do best here at Riverbed. As companies migrate their IT into the cloud, I can't imagine a better place to work.

Anyway, please enjoy the interview. And let us know what you think, we love feedback!