Video: Michael Crandell, CEO of Rightscale

The cloud ecosystem is changing, and Michael Crandell, CEO of cloud management platform Rightscale, talks with GigaOM Pro about the challenges and opportunities that is creating.

Cloud computing no longer needs its own introduction, but the use cases and implementation are still being defined. In the video below, I chatted with Michael Crandell, CEO of Rightscale, a cloud management platform, about the changing ecosystem that's occurring in the cloud world as software as a service (SaaS) providers morph into platform as a service (PaaS) providers and several big providers forgo offering an infrastructure as a service (Iaas) in favor of a PaaS. We also discussed the challenge of moving data into the cloud and moving applications from one cloud to another. The conversation began with a discussion of Rightscale's business and ended up focusing on security and compliance.

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