vSoup A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal #36

No guests. Yes, Seriously, no guests. Just the three of us. Naked. Imagine that, or wait, perhaps not. Anyway, here it is – Enjoy it if you got that mental image out of your head. If not, things might just get a bit weird. Topics: VMworld – Observations from people who were not present Hands-on Meth-Labs? Did Eric Sloof visit? Obligatory vSphere 5.5 and new features discussion Frozen Custard, really? vCloud Director unofficial news (Since official-ish) Should  SDDC really be called vSoup? (We vote yes, surprisingly enough) The Phoenix Project Nick Weaver and Automation – Project Zombie Cloudy talk Cloud Standards Customer Council everything else standardizes why not cloud? OpenStack usage APIs for fun, ?????, and profit Halo Marketing – why stick with the same brand?