It's another Print Geeks assemble episode! PaperCutters Kieron and Jamie are joined by regular and print industry veteran, PaperCutter Lucas, and making her Print Geeks debut is Rebecca Ballantyne, from our Customer Experience team. And we're talking about the cloud again. Specifically, we dive into everything you need to know about printing and the cloud: Why is the cloud a hot topic in the print industry? What is cloud printing? What is cloud print management? Why are businesses moving their printing to the cloud? All those questions and more are answered in this all-star panel.
Episode timestamps:
- Intro 0:13
- "Printees" not customers 3:19
- What's the deal with printing and the cloud? 4:08
- Cloud printing vs cloud print management 4:56
- The "print pyramid": infrastructure, enablement, and management 6:37
- What "printees" mean when they say cloud 10:14
- Who says "cloud" anyway? 12:46
- What printing problems? 14:09
- Printing from cloud storage 16:33
- Back to the print pyramid! 17:29
- Private, public, and hybrid cloud 18:29
- Hardware lease agreements and the cloud 20:59
- What's a "server" anyway? 21:53
- Why are we talking about the cloud like it's 2009? 24:43
- Print: the "last bastion" of the cloud 26:12
- How cloud-hosted print software works... 31:14
- Think "printing problems" before thinking cloud 33:54
- Summary 36:45
- Outro 40:31
