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Cisco CTO takes on ‘cloudscaling’ upstart in ferocious fireside chat [video]

At VentureBeat’s cloud-focused conference today, we got a real treat: a fascinating fireside chat with two titans of enterprise IT, Lew Tucker and Randy Bias.

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Tucker is Cisco’s CTO and vice president of cloud computing, and Bias is the CTO and co-founder of Cloudscaling, a startup with OpenStack-powered products for elastic scaling.

In their talk, the two men debated the two types of cloud infrastructure that have emerged as cloud migration strategies for the enterprise: virtualization clouds versus elastic infrastructure clouds. A virtualization cloud means built-in support for older, deeply integrated legacy applications, while elastic clouds are defined by newer web services.

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What are the strengths of each, and which solution is right for which scenarios? Watch the talk to find out.

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