IT Conversations

Ready to download some expertise? Author and hosting consultant Doug Kaye has launched IT Conversations, which offers streaming audio interviews with newsmakers in the hosting and web services sectors. Interview subjects in the service's first week included Amazon.com Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr, Ramp^Rate CEO Tony Greenberg and Phil Windley, former CIO of the state of Utah.

Last week I sat with Doug for an IT Conversation about the consolidation in the data center market in the wake of the departure of Cable & Wireless and Sprint from the US hosting market. You can listen to our discussion on the IT Conversations web site. All files are in MP3 format. "Stream them to your desktop or laptop, or download them into your MP3 player and listen to them while you drive, workout, or sit on the beach with that margarita," says Doug.

Doug is the author of Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services and has a new book on web services, Loosely Coupled. Doug also maintains several weblogs on web hosting and web services.