How telcos and little guys can win in the cloud: 5 tips from CenturyLink’s cloud CTO
November 30, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
When CenturyLink bought cloud startup Tier3 for $200 million earlier this month, it acquired a technology platform and a group of people that should let the telecommunications giant take full advantage of its dozens of data centers and expansive fiber network. The man heading up that effort is Jared Wray, the founder and CTO of Tier3 who’s now the CTO for cloud computing at CenturyLink, and he came on the Structure Show podcast this week to share his thoughts on evolving from being a small cloud provider into, potentially, a very large one.
Here are some highlights of our interview with Wray, centered around his thoughts on what it will take for other cloud providers to finally emerge from the shadows of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google. If you want to hear about CenturyLink’s plan for building a single cloud platform out of its Tier3, AppFog and Savvis acquisitions, or about the intricacies of selling cloud computing to enterprises, you’ll want to listen to the whole show…
1. Get out of Florida
“Seattle has become the mecca of cloud,” Wray said, noting the presence of itself (and now CenturyLink), AWS, Microsoft, Google and others. “…That’s a lot of engineering talent that understands how to build cloud, how to make it happen, what distributed computing is really about — especially for cloud resources.”…
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