Rackspace Office Hours Live Stream

Life and technology are full of challenges, and challenges are meant to be overcome. Racker Eric Johnson joins us this week to share his take on challenges, and how we can overcome challenges we encounter with new technology.

What does digital actually mean? What does a digitally mature business look like? What is the point of all this, why is it so important? Our Chief Digital Technologist Mike Bainbridge spends a lot of time thinking about these important questions. He'll join us on Office Hours this week to discuss Digital Transformation, and how the cloud plays such an important role in digital transformation.

Office Hours is back for the New Year, and we're kicking it off with Rackspace CTO John Engates reviewing his 2017 Cloud Predictions. This is an annual tradition on our show - and this year we've got some great predictions to cover.

Information Security: A Year in Review

Rackspace supports AWS. And we do it well. On this episode of Rackspace Office Hours, our [Fanatical Support for AWS](https://www.rackspace.com/managed-aws?utm_medium=community&utm_source=office_hours&utm_campaign=aws&utm_content=ep174) General Manager, **Jeff Cotten**, and VP, Product & Engineering, Fanatical Support for AWS, **Erik Carlin** join us to discuss all of the big changes we saw with AWS in 2016, and what's to come in 2017.

It's been a big year for both Microsoft and Rackspace. Two of our favorite Microsoft-focused Rackers, Jeff DeVerter and Kent Kingery join us live in the studio to chat about the year that was, and what to expect in 2017.

ZAG Interactive is dedicated to treating people well?; Rackspace helps them do it.

Our annual reminder that the holidays are coming, and for many sites that means increased web traffic. Drew and Alan provide some tips for meeting that demand.

What should you be thinking about now to protect your data — and your customers — from hackers this holiday season? Our Rackspace Managed Security and Ecommerce Experts join our weekly podcast to discuss what you can do to secure your website ahead of holiday ecommerce traffic.

Microsoft MVP Todd Klindt joins us to recap the latest from last week's Microsoft Ignite Conference. What's new? What do you need to change? Todd joins us to share his insights.

What happens when the #1 open source software vendor and the #1 operator of OpenStack clouds comes together? You get Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Red Hat — a Red Hat OpenStack platform and Rackspace Fanatical Support. On this week's Office hours, join Rackspace and Red Hat OpenStack experts as they discuss the joint partnership and how we are offering choice, ease of consumption, innovation, and enterprise support together.

We sat down for a preview of the [Microsoft Ignite](https://ignite.microsoft.com/) conference with Jeff DeVerter, the Chief Technologist for Microsoft Private Cloud here at Rackspace. Jeff covered all the ways Ignite attendees can engage with Rackspace to make the most of our expertise in Azure, Microsoft Private Cloud, SharePoint, Office and Security.

Join us as we discuss the many ways customers can get answers using our self-service channels.

What's the latest news from VMworld? Our Rackers spent the week at VMworld, and are back to share the latest and greatest from the VMware conference.

Drew and our guest host Eric Johnson discuss serverless architecture on AWS.

A few weeks ago we looked at fleet management from the perspective of how our processes impact customers. Now we're taking a deeper look at Fleet Management with the folks who run much of our cloud infrastructure.

Setting yourself up for success from the very start. We're going to walk through the server build with an eye toward the implications and value in every decision.

Fleet Management keeps the fluidity of the cloud under control. It's the work behind the scenes that allows for the on-demand availability of secure and reliable resources. At Rackspace, our public cloud has grown in size, features and underpinnings over the years and this week we are going to interview two of the people that work to facilitate that progress to uncover the value they bring our Public Cloud customers as well as their lessons learned that can be applied to those undertaking their own fleet management challenges.

Rackspace experts discuss the architectural requirements behind our 10X guarantee for high-traffic events.

We've just launched version 12.2 of Rackspace Private Cloud, and we've got a lot to talk about, with our OpenStack experts, including support for Liberty version of OpenStack, a technical preview of Load Balancing as a Service and security hardening.