Whole Food/Amazon IT infrastructure expert argues that enterprise IT teams should stop buying products from big vendors and build their own solutions using open source technologies.
Why It's Time to Kiss Your Vendors Goodbye
At Interop ITX in May, Peyton Maynard-Koran, senior director of worldwide infrastructure at Whole Foods/Amazon, said enterprise IT teams need to break their habit of buying packaged solutions from big vendors and turn to commodity hardware and open source in order to drive innovation. Catch some of his provocative keynote in this video.
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