Gordon McKenna on Microsoft Inspire 2021 cloud themes
Microsoft offered partners a wealth of Azure-related updates at Inspire 2021. To help us get our bearings on them all, we invited Gordon McKenna, a veteran Microsoft MVP and CTO for public cloud at Ensono, for a conversation. Gordon shared his perspective on both the hybrid scenarios that his clients frequently care about and some of the forward-looking goals that Microsoft has set with new Azure and Azure-adjacent product and service updates. Show Notes: 2:15 - Experiences as an MVP 3:30 - Microsoft's hybrid cloud updates and how they will help customers 10:30 - Converging services around public cloud 12:00 - Updates from Microsoft on Azure Kubernetes Service 16:00 - The explosion in cloud data projects and new migration scenarios for partners 20:30 - How to evaluate Microsoft's priorities, including in Teams 23:15 - The Windows 365 opportunity alongside WVD, AVD, and Citrix