Using Pizza To Understand The Cloud

It’s a tech evangelist’s worst nightmare. I was forced to explain something complex to a non-technical audience who would rather be doing almost anything else. I found myself in front of a sales force while they were in a vacation mood — possibly involving alcohol. We reward our sales overachievers with a vacation. It’s mostly focused on celebrating their success, but with some light company business thrown in. I was the speaker for a late afternoon session, on the topic of the cloud — and the next item on the agenda was the bar.