Silverlinings' Lunch Ladies Elizabeth Coyne and Diana Goovaerts serve up an overview of this week's news from the cloud world in Episode 11. This week we talk about the MxD facility in Chicago, private 5G, underground data centers and how On the Border Mexican Grill restaurants are using the cloud to serve up burritos and margaritas.
We are also excited to announce the opening of Silverlinings Cloud Innovation Awards. Enter here by October 27, 2023.
Here's a handy guide to the chat:
00:05 Introduction
00:33 Liz serves up some appetizer news for the week, this time relating to a deal between On the Border Mexican Grill and SOCI. Mmmmm burritos!
01:13 Liz gets into the meat of this week's episode, recounting her visit to MxD in Chicago and her impression of different demos from Google Cloud, AT&T, EY and others she saw there.
05:10 Liz and Diana discuss how access to connectivity could impact manufacturers' ability to tap into cloud innovations.
07:45 Liz highlights some of the challenges to digital transformation that were discussed at the MxD event.
10:03: Liz hands off to Diana to shine a spotlight on some of the coolest Silverlinings stories from the week, including Microsoft's rumored foray into AI chips and underground data centers.
13:14 Lunch ran long so we skip dessert and head straight into some announcements. TLDR version is that you should totally enter our new Cloud Innovation Awards before the submission window closes on October 27!
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